By Emmanuel Neretse
Echos d'Afrique
April 18, 2022
Boris Johnson and Paul Kagame
On Thursday, April 14, 2022, all the major Western media broadcast the news that the United Kingdom and Rwanda had signed an agreement
according to which all asylum seekers in Great Britain who arrived in that
country illegally would henceforth be expelled and deported to Rwanda.
Reactions have been numerous around the world. Albeit in the United Kingdom itself, where the opposition
parties have criticized this agreement or in the NGOs, which have also
denounced it. Even the UNHCR, responsible for the protection of refugees
throughout the world, a mandate it holds as a United Nations body, has
denounced it.
Beyond the legal and
humanitarian considerations raised by these bodies, it is also necessary to
underline and point out the underbelly of this deal as far as Paul Kagame and
his clique in power in Kigali but also Boris Johnson and his conservative
government are concerned. That’s the
purpose of this article.
Tip of the iceberg
The agreement with Rwanda,
which will be financed by the United Kingdom to the tune of 120 million pounds
(144 million euros), provides for the migrants - whose nationalities and
conditions of arrival are not specified - to be "integrated into
communities across the country," according to the statement issued by
Kigali.
The share and calculations of
each of the thieves
1. The British Boris
Johnson, known as BoJo
According to analysts and
specialists in the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson's invention is intended at
creating a diversion. Indeed, he is caught up in scandals, the latest of which
is the one that exposes the festivities that he organized in full lockdown and
in violation of the measures that he himself had enacted against Covid 19. He
fears that, after lawsuits and fines, these scandals will eventually bring down
his government.
The other point of his
calculation is that while the Conservative leader had promised to control
immigration, one of the key issues in the Brexit campaign, the number of
illegal immigrants crossing the Channel has tripled in the last year. Desperate
to regain popularity and appeal to his voters, Boris Johnson and his government
have been seeking for months to conclude agreements with third countries where
to send migrants while waiting to process their cases. According to British
media reports, London had already tried to make this idea work through two
failed agreements with Albania and Ghana.
When he justifies his deal
with Kagame by claiming that Rwanda is currently one of the few
"safest" countries in the world where order and security prevail, the
most stable in Africa..., one would like to ask him why he did not ask North
Korea to conclude this agreement with him. According to his criteria, Kim Jong
Un's country is obviously "safer" than Kagame's Rwanda. There, too,
order and the cult of personality reign, and there is no opposition and
therefore no demonstrations, just as in Rwanda.
2. The underbelly of
the "Rwandan" Paul Kagame
Always well advised by his
former masters who were leaders of the superpowers and now officially "his
advisors", Paul Kagame was keen, before the announcement and signing of
this controversial agreement, to annihilate in advance the embarrassing
questions that would inevitably be raised by this agreement. He then toured
some capitals to clear the way before the announcement of the agreement. He first visited Zambia, a southern African
country that hosts many Rwandan refugees. From there, he wanted to send a
message to other countries in the region that host Rwandan refugees but had not
fully complied with his order to implement the 2017 cessation clause (Malawi,
South Africa, and his recent colony Mozambique), not to lift a finger and
especially not to declare that Rwandans were also refugees in large numbers.
Having succeeded in getting
people to admit that the 250,000 Rwandan refugees in the DRC were not human
beings and therefore not people to be protected or even mentioned in the
humanitarian framework, it was left with the case of Congo Brazzaville. Congo Brazzaville
implemented Kagame's injunctions regarding the cessation clause to the letter
and decreed that since 2017, any Rwandan refugee in Congo-Brazzaville would
lose their refugee status. The two countries then pushed these ex-refugees to
return to Rwanda. But only a small number did so. More than 8,500 remained,
grouped in camps, and duly registered, but without papers, neither as refugees
nor as residents. Paul Kagame's trip was therefore intended to ensure that this
case would not be put on the balance sheet when evaluating and criticizing the
agreement he was going to sign with Boris Johnson to host as a subcontractor,
the deported asylum seekers from the UK.
Having outlined these
preliminaries to the BoJo-Kagame agreement, let us now look at the Rwandan
dictator's calculation and the expected gains from this "state"
trafficking of human beings.
- In the short term
In the short term, Paul Kagame
is counting on this agreement to silence the increasingly resounding voices of
the powers that created him and have kept him in power for 28 years. The case
of Paul Rusesabagina, the Hutu hero who saved the lives of thousands of Tutsis
in 1994, but who later became an opponent of Paul Kagame's dictatorship, is
stirring up public opinion in the United States and Kagame's lobbies are
finding it difficult to defend their client. Indeed, Paul Rusesabagina was
kidnapped during his trip from the United States with a stopover in Dubai, by
Paul Kagame and brought back to Kigali in a private jet chartered by Kigali. He
was sentenced to 25 years in prison without having been regularly tried because
he did not attend the tragi-comic masquerade that was this trial.
Now that a so-called
"democratic" power like the United Kingdom is touting the governance,
justice, and respect for human rights in Paul Kagame's Rwanda to justify its
choice of country to relocate its asylum seekers, the cries for Paul
Rusesabagina's release will be unheard.
In the UK itself, Paul Kagame
has begun to reap the benefits of this agreement. Johnston Busingye, who was
appointed ambassador to London several months ago but whose accreditation was
pending because he was accused of human rights violations when he was Minister
of Justice, has just been accredited as Rwanda's ambassador to the UK.
Finally, the Commonwealth
summit to be held in Kigali in June 2022 is almost a foregone conclusion.
Indeed, it remained uncertain because several organizations and even member
countries of the Commonwealth raised the question that Rwanda, which does not
respect the fundamental principles of the Commonwealth, should rather be
suspended than host its summit. Now that the agreement is signed, Boris Johnson
as Prime Minister will even invite Queen Elizabeth II herself to go to Kigali
to open the summit as Sovereign of these Commonwealth member countries.
Knowing that many Rwandans ask
for political asylum in Great Britain every day, the agreement does not specify
what Boris Johnson and Paul Kagame have reserved for them. But everything
suggests that from now on these Rwandans, who are fleeing Paul Kagame's
dictatorship and oppression, will simply be sent back to Rwanda on the sly
because they cannot be among those whom BoJo intends to sell to Kagame under
this iniquitous agreement.
- In the medium term
In addition to the 144 million
euros that Kagame will pocket directly after the implementation of the terms of
the agreement, it should be noted that this agreement stipulates that the
returnees from the United Kingdom will not be accommodated in camps in Rwanda
but will have individual housing throughout the country. By this clause, Paul
Kagame and his clique will gain doubly because in addition to the millions
pocketed at the outset and on which the Rwandan people and their so-called
representatives but, lackeys of Kagame (the members of parliament) will have no
right of review, in fact, these "relocated" people will stay in
houses or hotels belonging to Kagame and his clique in power. These houses and
hotels have remained desperately empty for years because they are so expensive
and out of reach for a simple Rwandan citizen and even for an average tourist.
Thus, as the duration of the agreement is not specified and therefore
indefinite, Paul Kagame and his clique are assured in the medium term to make profitable
their luxury buildings built to impress the world but were going bankrupt due
to the lack of customers. And all this will be paid for by the United Kingdom.
- In the long term
It is this point that makes
chills run up and down the spine when one discovers the long-term project of
Paul Kagame and his clique that took over Rwanda in 1994.
Studies commissioned by Paul
Kagame's creators and conducted by sociologists, psychologists, and other
ethnologists, have concluded that within 50 years (half a century), a regime
can transform the nature and identity of a people over whom it rules. In the
case of Rwanda, they estimated that if the regime of Paul Kagame's clique
succeeded in bringing to Rwanda immigrants who understood nothing about the
culture and history of Rwanda but granted them rights and privileges superior
to those of native Rwandans, in less than 50 years, the identity of the Rwandan
as a Tutsi, a Hutu, a Twa, and his history and culture would be relegated to
oblivion. But they added that it would be necessary to work in parallel to
erase this culture and this history especially by silencing the elites and the
opinion leaders who could ensure their safeguard. For illustration, they show
him that at present the citizens of North America who matter are descendants of
Irish, Italian, German, or Dutch immigrants...and that the natives (Redskins or
"Indians" of America) who have not been genocided, remain
second-class citizens and even pariahs on the lands of their ancestors. This is
the long-term calculation that Kagame is making on the advice of his masters
and creators.
The agreement between Boris
Johnson and Paul Kagame of April 14, 2022, is, therefore, part of this
long-term project that could be described as "genocidal".
In conclusion, we draw the attention of the ordinary Rwandan, of the African, and of all people who love peace and freedom and who are not interested, that this world has been ruled since 1990 by predators without faith or law, but that in their enterprise of domination, they make use of the inveterate criminals whom they have placed at the head of certain countries. The former people need the latter to serve as their cover and the latter people need the former to continue to enjoy impunity for their crimes. The case of Boris Johnson and Paul Kagame with the agreement of April 14, 2022, constitutes a textbook case study.
Source: Echos d’Afrique
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