Rwanda: Kizito Mihigo is a political prisoner
By Sixbert Musangamfura
Secretary General
FDU - MN - INKUBIRI
Lyon, 05th March 2015
Our political organisation, FDU - National Movement -
INKUBIRI has followed with concern the political trial of genocide survivors,
namely the Rwandan musician artist Kizito Mihigo, the journalist Cassien
Ntamuhanga, Jean Paul Dukuzumuremyi and student Agnes Niyibizi. On 27 February
2015, the Kigali High Court found three of them guilty of forming a criminal
group and conspiracy to murder President Paul Kagame or other dignitaries. They
were handed sentences of 10, 25 and 30 years in prison.
This kangaroo trial was initiated after the artist, a
genocide survivor, revealed a very artistic and popular music-video entitled
“Igisobanuro cy'urupfu”, which translates “the meaning of death”, advocating
the non discrimination of our dead and the memory of victims of both genocide
against Tutsi and crimes against humanity against Hutu. This song irritated
deniers of crimes against humanity committed against Hutu population by some
leaders of the ruling RPF.
The hefty sentences came in a spree of suspicious
deaths of people in Rwanda: the mystery of dead bodies from Rwanda found
floating in the Rweru lake in 2014 is
still calling for investigations; Dr. Emmanuel Gasakure, from the University
medical hospital and former personal doctor for President Paul Kagame was executed
by a policeman in police custody on 25 February 2015; the prominent businessman
Assinapol Rwigara lost his life in a suspicious tragic road accident on 05
February 2015, etc.
These extra-judicial killings and sentences that are
obviously politically motivated are unacceptable and must be condemned in the
strongest terms.
FDU - National Movement - INKUBIRI expresses its keen
sympathy for all political prisoners in Rwanda, for the families and victims of
politically motivated assassinations and for all those suffering from the iron
fist of the current dictatorship.
posted by Mamadou Kouyate @ 8:48 PM
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