tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280439726267304339.post1271190663397487887..comments2024-03-23T13:44:34.209-04:00Comments on Hungry for Truth, Peace and Justice: Rwanda’s Genocide: 15 Years LaterMamadou Kouyatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12546930674131851662noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280439726267304339.post-88139249236166805112009-04-21T12:15:00.000-04:002009-04-21T12:15:00.000-04:00The Rwandan economy as a whole is sinking instead ...The Rwandan economy as a whole is sinking instead of booming. <br /><br />To get a better appreciation of how bad Rwandans are doing economically, please read the latest report, entitled “Rwanda Today: When Foreign Aid Hurts More Than It Helps”.<br /><br />This is an economic analysis of the situation in Rwanda today prepared by the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation in collaboration with Emmanuel Hakizimana, Ph.D., Université du Québec à Montréal and Brian Endless, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago. <br /><br />Here some of the key findings:<br /> <br />1) Members of one minority tribe (the Tutsis) have seven times more representation in the government, per-capita, than members of the majority tribe (the Hutus).<br />2) In a discriminatory measure, the government recently banned the use of the French language in teaching and administration, despite the fact that the vast majority of Rwandans speak French in addition to Kinyarwanda. French has been used for decades as the language of commerce, education and law in Rwanda. French speaking Rwandans now find their entire careers and livelihoods at risk. <br />3) Rwanda has gone from being a “low-inequality” country in the 1980’s to being in the world’s bottom 15% in terms of inequality today. <br />4) One-third of Rwanda’s population now suffers from nutritional deficiencies, and life expectancy is among the 20 lowest in the world at only 44 years. <br />5) Wealth and power are concentrated in the cities, the government’s stronghold, leaving 92% of the poor in underrepresented rural areas. <br />The full report is available in English at the following link:<br />http://www.hrrfoundation.org/files/file/RwandaTodayForeignAid.pdfNNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8280439726267304339.post-12415258173722959212009-04-21T12:13:00.000-04:002009-04-21T12:13:00.000-04:00Mr. Abramowitz:
What a shame!
How could you su...Mr. Abramowitz:<br /> <br />What a shame!<br /> <br />How could you support the heavyweight criminal the world has ever hosted? How could you dare write “Paul Kagame is one of the world’s most interesting political leaders”? Do you see any difference between Hitler and Paul Kagame? No big difference at all. The only difference is that Kagame is recidivist and for that I have all proofs he’s the mastermind, the Rwandan genocide brain.<br /> <br />Do you remember when I called you about this issue, and you told me you don’t know, you’ve been told that Kagame is good man and African and Rwandan leader? Quite on the contrary, you praise him! How could Americans praise Bin Laden and Jews the Nazi Fuhrer? I am very not only disappointed but also upset. You should not shame the Holocaust survivors. <br /><br />Those who support criminal Kagame should be strongly condemned so that they do not repeat it again. Those who shame you by their attempts to legalize Paul Kagame and the RPF criminals’ crimes should be treated as criminals too. For this I assume what I am saying. Please go through my blog and you will understand that you’re doings are to be condemned.<br /> <br />I’ve come to believe that the feeling of being betrayed, being abandoned and shame for it underlies much of the anger and violence among the Rwandan genocide survivors. Either you’re doing it because of narcissism; either you’ve been told to so accomplishing somebody’s wish. <br />I’m more worried about the Rwandese terrorist and genocidaire sympathizers in Europe and America, and especially when it’s about those whose parents and relatives got mass-slaughtered by the German Nazis. I do think that at one hand praising and worshiping Kagame and his RPF criminal organization and spreading up lies about the 1994 tragic events is now a war crime. <br /><br />I do know RPF criminals helped by Tony Blair and Bill Clinton engage ritual behavior and set-in-stone beliefs as a way to seize “control” of Rwanda. Did you know Paul Kagame killed more than 8,5 millions of Rwandan and Congolese people? In these circumstances, you are no longer shame based but rather become somebody with healthy, reality based self-esteem. This healing has nothing to do with politics or any actions that any person can take - unless we can offer lots of therapy for the fascist element of those who support the present Rwandan fascism led by the criminal our planet has ever seen. <br />Instead of pledging extra support to prosecute war criminals and genocidaires you support their impunity. <br /><br />Shame on you. <br /><br />I look forward to hearing back from you.JCNnoreply@blogger.com