Letters: A Closer Look at Kagame's Rwanda
The real cause of ethnic violence or pogroms is the monopolization of
power and the reluctance to relinquish or share it with other groups.
April 10, 2014 3:15 p.m. ET
President Paul Kagame is a fine soldier who saved the Tutsis from
extermination in 1994 in Rwanda. But in his analysis of the genocide
("Building a Future After Rwanda's Genocide," op-ed, April 7), he
glosses over some pertinent historical facts and his own appalling
human-rights record.
It is somewhat naive to think that the threat of genocide can be
eliminated by abolishing ethnic identity and distinctions. The real
cause of ethnic violence or pogroms is the monopolization of power and
the reluctance to relinquish or share it with other groups. Nearly all
civil wars in post-colonial Africa were started by politically
excluded or marginalized groups. Rebel leaders, like Mr. Kagame, head
straight to the capital because that's where power resides. Ethnicity
has nothing to do with it.
Worse, Mr. Kagame's nebulous policy against "divisiveness" has been
used to silence and jail dissidents and political rivals. Freedom of
expression does not exist in Rwanda; nor does freedom of the media.
All key state institutions are controlled by Kagame's Rwanda Patriotic
Front (RPF). There is no democracy: Mr. Kagame has won two Stalinist
elections (2003 and 2013) with more than 90% of the vote. Critics of
Mr. Kagame are routinely hounded, vilified, jailed and even
assassinated.
Worse still, Mr. Kagame has sponsored and financed three Tutsi-led
invasions into the Democratic Republic of Congo that have caused the
deaths of some 6.4 million Congolese.
The real tragedy of Rwanda is that Mr. Kagame is so consumed by the
1994 genocide that, in his attempt to prevent another one, he is
creating the very conditions that led to it.
George Ayittey,
President
Free Africa Foundation
Washington
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