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Below
is a letter addressed to Reverend Monseigneur Robert G. Amey, Pastor of St.
Mary’s Catholic Church, Rockville, MD, by the Government of the Republic
of Rwanda operating from Exile (GREX).
The
letter raises concerns of the Rwandan people opposed to a tyrannical regime and
a mafia system put in place by Paul Kagame and his Rwandan Patriotic Front
(RPF) regime, especially because Cardinal Antoine Kambanda and Bishop
Anaclet Mwumvaneza are touring the US.
Indeed,
Cardinal Antoine Kambanda, the current Archbishop of the Archdiocese
of Kigali, Rwanda, is scheduled to celebrate a special Mass for the Rwandan
community the DC, Maryland, Virginia (DMV) area on Sunday, September 3, 2023, at
Saint Mary's Catholic Church, 520 Veirs Mill Road, Rockville, MD 20852,
at 1:30PM.
Bishop
Anaclet Mwumvaneza, the current Bishop of Nyundo Diocese, Rwanda, also
celebrated a special Mass for the same community, last Friday, August 25, 2023,
at Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Church, 8428 Opossumtown Pike,
Frederick, MD 21702, at 7:00PM.
RWANDAN PEOPLE’S GOVERNMENT IN EXILE
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
E-mail : minaffet@gouvrwandaexil.org
Tél. +1 413-977-2455
Ref. 027/MINAFFET/23
August 28, 2023
RE:
*VISIT OF CARDINAL ANTOINE KAMBANDA & BISHOP ANACLET
MWUMVANEZA.
*RAISING CONCERNS OF RWANDAN PEOPLE OPPOSED TO A TYRANNICAL
REGIME AND A MAFIA SYSTEM PUT IN PLACE BY PAUL KAGAME AND HIS RWANDAN PATRIOTIC
FRONT-INKOTANYI (RPF-INKOTANYI) REGIME.
Dear Reverend Father
Keith Boisvert,
1. We,
the Government of the Republic of Rwanda operating from Exile (GREX), are
writing this letter not only to present our sincerest greetings to you and to
the faith community of Saint Katharine Drexel Parish but also to bring to your
attention and denounce the silence of the Rwandan Catholic Church and of its
authorities led by Cardinal Antoine Kambanda and Bishop Anaclet Mwumvaneza who
are currently visiting Saint Katharine Drexel Parish, in the face of killings,
injustices, abuses, and harassment committed by current regime in Kigali
against Rwandans. The most telling example, especially because it is still
going on even now as we write this letter, is the illegal destructions - because
it is not accompanied by any expropriation prescribed by the law - of the
houses of the inhabitants of the Diocese of Nyundo where the Most Reverend
Anaclet Mwumvaneza is the bishop
and resides. In fact, the current illegal
destruction of houses of inhabitants of Mahoko market in the Nyundo Diocese is
a copy paste of the illegal destruction of the houses of the inhabitants that
happened in Kigali City, precisely in Kangondo and Bannyahe neighborhoods in
the Archdiocese of Kigali where Cardinal Antoine Kambanda is the archbishop and resides. In both cases,
the two leaders of the Rwandan
Catholic Church remain(ed) silent,
and do nothing to defend the
vulnerable Rwandans, let alone their Catholic
Christians. Instead of pleading
for their followers, Churches in Rwanda - including the Rwandan Catholic Church
- demand offerings and tithes to build cathedrals or other
types of church buildings; but even worse, in collusion with the
political authorities, they force their followers to give monetary
contributions to the Rwandan
Patriotic Front-Inkotanyi (RPF- Inkotanyi), the ruling party of the president
Paul Kagame.
2. We
also seize this opportunity to inform you that, due to the persisting closure
and monopolization of the political space by the RPF-Inkotanyi’s regime in Rwanda, since February 20, 2017, there
exists a Government of the Republic of Rwanda operating from Exile (GREX). This Government represents not only Rwandans who still live in exile but also those who are
in Rwanda and cannot express themselves freely.
3. The
Government of the Republic of Rwanda operating from Exile (GREX) is widely supported by internal and external Rwandan
opinion and it is listened to by most Rwandans
because they find themselves in its ideals of peace, national harmony
and a policy of peace and good understanding with neighboring
countries.
4. The
Government of the Republic of Rwanda in Exile (GREX) is headed by His
Excellency, President Padiri Thomas Nahimana, Prime Minister Mrs. Marine
Uwimana, and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Mr. Innocent
Niringiyimana, with twenty (20) Ministers living in various countries, on
different continents.
5. It
is to be noted that the Government of the Republic of Rwanda operating from
Exile (GREX) was created on February
20th, 2017 in the aftermath of the
facts that, on November 23, 2016 and January 23, 2017, our leader, Padiri
Thomas Nahimana, and his team were unjustly
denied entry to Rwanda by the tyrant President Paul Kagame and his RPF-Inkotanyi's
regime, which prevented him from participating in the 2017 Rwandan presidential
election.
6. Rwanda
is led by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) which is in fact a small group of
criminals who usurped power by force and who maintain themselves in power using arms and intimidation of citizens. Even
though theoretically there is a so-called multi-party system in Rwanda, any
Rwandan who has not taken an oath of loyalty to the RPF-Inkotanyi is considered
not only an enemy of the country but also a criminal as established by the
loyalty oath which is available at the following links:
< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZpGDEvwbm0
> ,
< https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54801979
>.
7. Furthermore,
the current regime in Rwanda carries out a clear policy to ensure that those who dare to denounce its violation
of human rights and its oppression, do not benefit from peace or stability on
the one hand and are prevented from fleeing the country on the other hand. It is to be mentioned that even those who manage to
flee the country, the RPF-Inkotanyi regime in Rwanda, through false
accusations, has continuously used the Rwandan genocide of 1994 as a tool to
prosecute, repress even kill Rwandan opponents in exile. To carry out such
harassments and killings, the regime of Kigali spends foreign aid which is
supposed to help Rwandans inside the country.
8. It is indeed a reality that the Rwandan genocide
has been used as a weapon by the RPF- Inkotanyi regime in Rwanda to prosecute
Rwandans of Hutu and Tutsi ethnicity who dare to show their disagreement with
the way it mistreats Rwandans of Hutu ethnicity, claiming false allegations.
Such practices have been confirmed by the leader of IBUKA, a non-governmental
organization whose "mission is to
preserve the memory of the genocide and to defend the rights and interests of
survivors", in particular in his speech available at the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIlGmCrzClM.
9. It should be noted that, since October 1996, the
RPF-Inkotanyi regime, under the pretext of chasing against Hutu genocidaires, invaded the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), where it not only killed Rwandan Hutu
refugees and Congolese but also plundered the natural resources of the DR Congo (wood, coffee, and minerals). We
deplore more than 10 million deaths caused
by the invasion of Rwanda
in the DRC. For this reason, His Excellency, President Félix Antoine
Tshisekedi has recently sworn to end the current bloody leadership in Rwanda as
heard in the following video available at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWnOBK60RJA
10. We assume that
you are aware of the situation of insecurity and
massacres of innocent people that has prevailed in eastern Democratic
Republic of Congo for more than 25 years and of its link to the RPF-Inkotanyi
regime in Rwanda.
11. These killings perpetrated by the leaders of the
RPF-Inkotanyi on in the DRC are not
different from the killings committed by the RPF-Inkotanyi against the Rwandan
people who resided in Rwanda before the war unleashed on October 1, 1990, by RPF rebels with the military, logistical, diplomatic, and financial support of
neighboring Uganda.
12. The most recent example among many murders of
the RPF-Inkotanyi regime is the murder of John Williams NTWALI, a freelance journalist who was
killed on January 17, 2023,
in Kigali; the RPF regime falsely
qualified this murder as a road accident.
13. On this occasion of the visit of two great personalities of the Rwandan clergy,
it is important to bring to your attention, the murder of
Kizito MIHIGO, a Tutsi Catholic Christian, famous singer of gospel music and
survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. His murder took place on February 17,
2020, just some days after his arrest by the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB).
To conceal this murder, Mrs. Marie-Michelle Umuhoza, the then spokesperson of
RIB, declared that Kizito Mihigo committed suicide by hanging himself with
sheets in his detention cell, a statement which was far from the truth.
According to the report of Dieudonné Niyonsenga alias Cyuma Hassan, one of the
independent journalists who saw his mortal remains, Kizito Mihigo had wounds in
the face and his eyes had been removed.
14. In retaliation for such a reporting, journalist Cyuma Hassan is currently
languishing in Kigali maximum security prison where he is undergoing unheard-of torture. Many
other Rwandans who dared to point out the violation of human
rights by President Paul Kagame and his RPF-Inkotanyi regime were killed or
disappeared both in Rwanda and abroad, such as in Belgium and Mozambique, and
so far, no justice has been rendered. There are also many more Rwandans still
languishing in Rwandan prisons on false charges.
15. The Catholic Church has done or said nothing to
speak up against those killings, and the oppression faced by many Rwandans. In
Fact, Cardinal Antoine Kambanda, the current
Archbishop of Kigali, publicly said that President Paul Kagame was a blessing,
a gift that God gave not only to Rwanda but also to the African
Continent, and yet millions of people in Rwanda and in the Democratic Republic
of Congo (DRC) have been killed, thousands of
women and girls raped under the orders and control of President Paul Kagame.
16. The Government of the Republic of Rwanda in
exile (GREX) was formed, among other things, to denounce these barbaric
killings which have characterized President Paul Kagame, since his entry into
the Ugandan army which trained him, and his RPF-Inkotanyi regime. These
killings and so many other human rights abuses have been ignored for so long.
GREX is also concerned with the welfare of all Rwandans wherever they are.
17. Recently, revelations were made regarding the
true nature of the current RPF- Intotanyi’s leadership in Rwanda, which is a “Killing Machine” as the Senior
Presidential Advisor on security, and former Minister of Defense, General James
Kabarebe revealed and explained it on November 3rd, 2022, in his own words,
when he addressed university students, as
evidenced by this video on
the following
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onhwYDlzuek
18. General Kabarebe explained very well that
General Paul Kagame, then Commander in Chief of Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA)
which later became Rwanda Defense Force (RDF), told them that he wanted them to
be trained to become a true “Killing
Machine” so that they would not leave anything breathing wherever they
passed since the invasion of Rwanda by the RPF through a razzia war. General Kabarebe even
concluded that such a command given by General Paul Kagame was taken as a law and taught to the young
generations of RDF, adding that the latter are trained to be better Killing machines than the Kabarebe’s
generation.
19. We, the Government of the Republic of Rwanda in Exile (GREX), are concerned by the fact that a government that sets itself
the objective of forming an army that kills its own citizens, gets endorsed by the Rwandan Catholic Church headed by Cardinal Antoine Kambanda who is currently
visiting your faith community. Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Parish faith
community loves peace, believes in core values of fundamental freedom, and
respects human life; therefore, we encourage you to dissociate yourself from
those who condone injustices and killings against their followers.
20. Therefore, the Government of the Republic of
Rwanda in Exile (GREX) appeals to Churches in the United States of America in
general and to the faith community of Saint Katharine Drexel Catholic Parish in
particular, to join us and His
Excellency, Felix Antoine Tshisekedi, the President of the Democratic
Republic of Congo, who has sworn to
put an end to the misdeeds of the terrorist group ruling
Rwanda under the leadership of Paul Kagame, whom the Ugandan people had rightly
nicknamed, « Pilato » when he was in the high functions in the Ugandan army.
This nickname was given to him because of his cruelty towards the Ugandan people and yet Cardinal Kambanda considers him as a « gift » given to Rwandans
and to Africa! This group of criminals currently ruling Rwanda has disturbed
not only the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, but also the entire Great
Lakes region of Africa.
21. Finally, it is appropriate to draw your
attention to the fact that the Government of the Republic of Rwanda in Exile
(GREX) has received credible evidence that President Paul Kagame died more than
two (2) years ago. Since then, the RPF-Inkotanyi, which has been the only party
in power in Rwanda since July 1994, has violated the Rwandan Constitution by
refusing not only to announce the death of the elected president but also and above all
by resorting to the use of a mask to create a lookalike of Paul Kagame who does not
dare to show himself in front of the Rwandan people but is presented to
foreigners.
22. This means that the current political leaders in
Rwanda are just usurpers of power and not legitimate elected representatives
representing the Rwandan people.
23. We would like to conclude
by asking you to join the Government of the Republic of Rwanda in Exile (GREX) to speak up
against injustice and abuses of all kinds committed against the Rwandan people,
not only inside Rwanda, but also outside Rwanda.
24. We also advise you to ask your country, the
United States of America, to stop all negotiations with the current
illegitimate political regime of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)-Inkotanyi based in Kigali. There is no doubt that
your country knows the truth; it has stopped from receiving on its territory
the false President Paul Kagame because
the real one died a long time ago.
For
the Government of the Republic of Rwanda in Exile (GREX).
The Minister of Foreign Affairs
/s/
Prudence Kantengwa
Maître Prudence Kantengwa
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