Monday, February 20, 2023

Paul Kagame: a major threat, and in very short-term, to peace in Africa

 Paul Kagame: a major threat, and in very short-term, to peace in Africa


By Emmanuel Neretse
Echos d’Afrique
Brussels, Belgium
February 10, 2023


How Paul Kagame's theory of using his right to intervene wherever "Rwandophones" are threatened in the world is not only absurd but above all dangerous.

"Rwandophones"? A semantic clarification:

Lately when Paul Kagame speaks of "Rwandophones", he really means Tutsis only and not all speakers of Kinyarwanda. This is to try to get out of the contradiction raised by his decree announcing that the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa ethnic groups do not exist in Rwanda or elsewhere, and at the same time to continue to say that he is on a crusade to defend the interests of the Tutsis everywhere in the region as he has been singing since 1990-94 when he conquered Rwanda. His advisors have therefore convinced him to change the designation and to speak of "Rwandophones" instead of "Tutsis". But, by doing so, he makes the mission he has set himself, namely "to defend Rwandophones everywhere in the world", more ridiculous and even more dangerous as we shall see.

It is therefore necessary to read and understand in the term "Rwandophones" coming from the mouth or the pen of Kagame, the "Tutsis".

Comparisons:

To show the absurdity and the harmfulness of this diabolical mission of Kagame to defend the "Rwandophones", we are going to show how this is not possible by going through all the continents and by showing where this principle would lead!

-In the Middle East

It is as if Saudi Arabia would justify its military intervention in Yemen by saying that it is going there to defend the threatened "Arabic-speaking" minority, even though all Yemenis speak Arabic and are therefore Arabic-speaking. Ridiculous.

-In Europe

It is as if the Netherlands would intervene in the North of Belgium under the pretext of going there to defend the threatened "Dutch-speaking" minority, even though all the inhabitants of the North of Belgium are Dutch-speaking. Ridiculous.

-In Africa

It is as if Kenya would intervene militarily in Northern Tanzania under the pretext of defending the threatened "Swahili-speaking" minority, even though the inhabitants of Northern Tanzania are all Swahili-speaking. Ridiculous.

-In Latin America

It is as if Colombia invaded Venezuela under the pretext of defending the threatened "Spanish-speaking" minority, even though all Venezuelans are Spanish-speaking. Ridiculous.

-In Asia

It is as if one of the two Koreas invaded the other under the pretext of going there to defend the "Korean-speaking" minority, even though all the inhabitants of the two Koreas speak Korean and are therefore Korean-speaking. Ridiculous.

Although this pretext for invading other countries is ridiculous and even laughable throughout the world, as we have just shown schematically, Paul Kagame, the spoiled child of the West, continues to use and abuse it without anyone daring to contradict him or prevent him from doing so.

On his record, we will briefly note his threats and sometimes their execution with impunity.

Threats and execution in neighboring countries:

-Tanzania

About ten years ago, Tanzania, one of the states that sponsored Kagame in his conquest of Rwanda, wanted to regularize the situation of foreigners living in that country. And among them, some Rwandan Tutsis had been living there for decades without being registered as refugees and without having wanted to acquire nationality. And when Tanzania ordered their expulsion to Rwanda, Paul Kagame threatened to intervene militarily, if necessary, under the pretext of defending them because, according to him, they were being persecuted because they were Tutsis.

-Uganda

Even Uganda, his first homeland, where he was a military officer before his commander-in-chief Museveni placed him at the head of Rwanda in 1994, does not escape his threats and even retaliatory measures when a Tutsi is worried even by the justice system in Uganda.

Less than three years ago, Paul Kagame closed all of Rwanda's borders with Uganda and ordered his army to shoot anyone (Rwandan or Ugandan) trying to enter or leave his country. Dozens of people were killed. The reason for this was to protest the dismissal of some senior members of the Ugandan army, police, and security services. These were in fact Rwandan Tutsis whom Kagame had allowed to stay in Uganda in order to infiltrate these services. And when Uganda began to dismantle this network, Paul Kagame brandished "persecution of the Tutsis" and reacted as we have just seen. To defuse the crisis, it took the intervention of Museveni's son, his declared successor, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has since proclaimed that Kagame, as a Tutsi, is his uncle and that with him they must dominate the other peoples of the region.

-Burundi

 

Burundi is considered the weakest link in the chain and where Kagame only dreams of establishing his order. Indeed, Paul Kagame considers that the Burundians are "Rwandophones" and that as such he has the right to intervene militarily at any time to impose his order there, that is, the Tutsi hegemony.

No matter how much we explain to him that Burundi has already resolved the ethnic question (Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa), he still does not want to admit it and continues his attempts at destabilization since 1993-94 when he assassinated or masterminded the assassination of two Burundian presidents within six months: Melchior Ndadaye in October 1993 and Cyprien Ntaryamira in April 1994. His last attempt of a military putsch was in May 2015 and even though it failed, he has not abandoned the project of going to "defend the Rwandophones" of Burundi. He is harboring home-based rebellions like Red Tabara and others.

-DRC

Kagame’s favorite field of maneuver to "defend the Rwandophones" is obviously the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Since the end of 2021, he has been on his Nth exercise and it seems to be succeeding because under the same pretext of "defending the Rwandophones", he has just conquered territories larger than his tiny and overpopulated Rwanda. However, the "Rwandophones" he brandishes (a few Congolese Tutsis led by Rwandan Tutsis, his army), remain a minority in North Kivu while the Hutu and other Bantu populations, the true Rwandophones, that he is supposed to come and liberate, flee his M23 like the plague.

But alas! this macabre game of Paul Kagame is not denounced by any international authority. On the contrary, it is supported and encouraged underhandedly.

Risk of armed interventions in all countries inhabited or having welcomed Rwandans:

Since his conquest of Rwanda in 1994, Paul Kagame, surely on the advice of his Anglo-Saxon creators and masters to which has been added the France of Sarkozy and Macron, has been conducting a foreign policy that allows him to intervene whenever he wants in certain African states.

Some African states have always welcomed Tutsis and still have them among their populations. Other states that have welcomed Hutu refugees since 1994 have seen Tutsis sent by Kagame settle there as "businessmen, new landowners, security agents, linked by marriage to nationals, etc."; but all with the mission to monitor and if necessary, to make life hard for Hutu refugees in these countries.

Having thus constituted a visible Tutsi community in these countries, Paul Kagame can at any time evoke his "right to go and protect the Rwandophones" by invading or by carrying out military actions there. These countries are, but to varying degrees, Kenya, Congo-Brazza, Central African Republic, Gabon, Nigeria, Benin, Zambia, Malawi, South Africa, and Mozambique.

The result would be (or surely will be) conflagration and chaos on the entire continent caused by one man: Paul Kagame.

How can we avert this risk of misfortune, which would come on top of the other disasters (natural or man-made) that have hit the black continent?

The answer to this question is simple and obvious. But alas! those who must provide it remain insensitive and mute.

Indeed, it is sufficient that the powers that guarantee impunity and untouchability to the Tutsi dictator Paul Kagame tell him that "enough is enough" and that he must no longer use the Tutsi community, which is wrongly considered as superior to others and created to dominate them, destabilize countries and soon the entire black continent.

Who would dare to tell him this and whom he would likely listen to and comply?
And what can do the African states and their peoples threatened by this fantasy of Kagame aimed at invading them under the pretext of "defending the Rwandophones" of their countries?

That is the question!