Real Rwandan genocide & brainwashing of the Western mind
Published time: April 11, 2014 10:04
Rwandan women hold candles during a night vigil and prayer for
genocide victims at the Amahoro stadium in Kigali, Rwanda, on April 7,
2014. (AFP Photo / Simon Maina)
Every year in the first week of April Western media venues are flooded
with stories that begin with statements about the anniversary of the
Rwandan genocide, "where at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate
Hutus died at the hands of Hutu extremists."
Such stories recount the official narrative about the 'Genocide in
Rwanda', a narrative that has five or six key elements that have been
almost canonized and are repeated robotically by Western
English-speaking news consumers from all walks of life, economic
classes, and political leanings.
1. At least 800,000 people killed;
2. Mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus;
3. Slaughtered with machetes (and picks, hoes, adzes, other crude tools);
4. It was meaningless tribal savagery;
5. Committed by Hutu extremists;
6. In 100 days of genocide;
7. We (Westerners) were 'bystanders' and did nothing.
These jingoistic phrases have been systematically cemented into the
minds of Westerners through more than 20 years of insidious Western
media propaganda, including the printed word, radio programs, still
photographs, video and film, and they are generally reproduced ad
nauseum by emergent 'social' media.
There is little truth to the official narrative.
'Tutsis as victims, Hutus as oppressors?'
Twenty years after the pivotal events of 1994, it is time that Western
media 'news' consumers – scholars, peace workers, academics, clergy,
politicians, humanitarian aid workers, everyone – took responsibility
for their own participation in the 'Rwanda Genocide' hysteria or, as
it is, industry.
Let's set the stage for the so-called '100 days of Genocide' that
purportedly began April 6, 1994, and purportedly ended July 15, 1994,
in Rwanda. We can offer some critical facts that anyone who wants to
mourn and sob about life and death in Rwanda ought to understand
before they open their mouths and display sheer ignorance.
To begin with, 'Hutu' and 'Tutsi' are socio-economic and
socio-political categories: these are not 'tribes'. Most of the
'Rwanda Genocide' narrative is mythology relying on simplifications,
stereotypes and reductionisms about Hutus and Tutsis as tribal
savages. This stuff is right out of Tarzan movies.
Prior to the imperial occupation that began after 1890, 'Tutsi' kings
ruled Ruanda-Urundi. 'Tutsi' cattle herders comprised some 20 percent
of the population, ruling over the 80 percent 'Hutu' majority with
egregious violence. First the Germans (to 1916) then the Belgians (to
1960) ruled 'their' colony by nurturing a 'Tutsi' power structure to
exploit the 'Hutu' masses. The 'Tutsi' comprador class served the
colonial occupation, where brutality, slavery and terrorism were used
to keep the 'Hutu' masses in the fields. A 'Tutsi' could lose all his
cattle and descend into the ranks of the peasant 'Hutu'
agriculturalists and, though far less likely, a 'Hutu' could gain
cattle and join the Tutsi elites. The colonial fathers issued ID
cards, measured noses and cranial dimensions, and duly clarified who
be 'Hutu' and who be 'Tutsi'. There was, of course, much money to be
made.
A Rwandan woman carries a Swiss family's baby 09 April 1994 at Butare
on the Rwanda-Burundi border where numerous foreigners were fleeing
the civil clashes in Rwanda. (AFP Photo / Pascal Guyot)
Witnessing the global 'Third World' independence (sic) movements of
the 1950s, and supported by the Belgian Catholic priests, the 'Hutus'
in Rwanda overthrew the 'Tutsi' monarchy in the 'revolution' of
1959-1960. Some people died, some people fled, some people stayed, and
the next 30 years saw majority 'Hutu' rule, with Rwanda under constant
attack by elite 'Tutsi' guerrillas.
Noting the winds of change, Belgium quickly swapped their support to
the Hutu majority, established a comprador class of 'Hutu' elites, and
protected their interests. There was, of course, much money to be
made. Thousands of elite 'Tutsis' connected to the former power
structure fled to Uganda, Tanzania, Europe and North America.
At the height of the Cold War, the elite 'Tutsi' refugees (sic)
influenced the Non-Aligned Movement – newly-independent (sic) states
like Brazil, India, Malaysia, etc. – screaming bloody murder and "We
are the victims of imperial aggression!" all the while. This is the
falsified history of 'Tutsis' as 'victims' inculcated by the arrogant
elite 'Tutsi' rulers. These facts are key to the official narrative:
Tutsis as victims, Hutus as oppressors.
Like any monarchy, the 'Tutsi' elites believe(d) they are God's Chosen
People, the Jews of Africa, the natural-born rulers over millions of
Hutu (and Tutsi) peasants.
Adopted by the Non-Aligned Movement – funded, armed, trained outside
Rwanda – the elite 'Tutsi' guerrillas attacked Rwanda throughout the
1960s and early 1970s, sowing the most egregious terrorism, usually
under cover of night. Every time the 'Tutsi' guerrillas attacked
Rwanda – whether from outside during the 1960s or from inside during
the 1990s – the in-country French-speaking 'Tutsis' suffered
reprisals. The 'Tutsis as victims' narrative continued to expand, and
while the Hutus were blamed for atrocities, usually retaliatory, the
'Tutsi' were coddled and protected.
Guerrilla incursions involved bombings of cafes, nightclubs, bars,
restaurants and buses. The very real suffering of the French-speaking
'Tutsi' people inside Rwanda – those who 'stayed behind' – was written
off by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF, a 'Tutsi' political party
created in 1987 by the Tutsi refugee diaspora in Uganda, now the
ruling party in Rwanda) as collateral damage. The English-speaking
Ugandans, the elite 'Tutsi' refugees (sic), who had Ugandan
citizenship and high posts in the Ugandan military, defined them as
Hutu collaborators. The RPF didn't care whether they lived or died.
The foreign element
Enter, by coup d'etat, the Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana, who
ruled Rwanda from 1973 to April 6, 1994, backed by France.
Historically, France was to Africa what the United States was to Latin
America. Britain and Portugal controlled a few protectorates, Belgium
plundered the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, but Francophone power in Africa
was vast, deeply entrenched and militarily brutal.
Habyarimana ran a one-party dictatorship, but French-speaking Tutsis
who stayed behind were able to achieve some economic status, though
they were kept in check, given their small numbers. Of course, this
wasn't good enough for the elite 'Tutsis' outside Rwanda. The United
States, Canada, Britain and Israel wanted more of the African pie, and
Paul Kagame was the man to get it for them.
Rwandan refugees walk on the Byumba road as they flee from Kigali on
May 11, 1994. (AFP Photo)
English-speaking 'Tutsis' who grew up in Uganda – Paul Kagame, James
Kabarebe, Fred Rwigyema, Patrick Karegeya, Laurent Nkundabatware, and
thousands of others – were the soldiers of Yoweri Museveni's guerrilla
army. They committed massive atrocities in Uganda, (1980-1985), where
absolute terrorism was used to remove a socialist government run by an
ungrateful African. The victims in Uganda were also blamed for
genocide, turning the truth upside-down. This is how Museveni and
Kagame – his director of military intelligence – brought Uganda back
in line with the geopolitical dictates of the West: aka disaster
capitalism. There was, of course, a lot of money to be made.
They burned entire villages. The RPF deceived peasants into coming to
meetings only to obliterate them coldly. The RPF even created
crematoriums to 'disappear' the skeletons and skulls, until they
realized the efficacy of the model of the Jewish Holocaust death camp
memorials: pile up shoes, clothing, skeletons and skulls; create an
industry whose currency is the moral outrage and psychological terror
of 'genocide'. And please do not be confused: nothing is more
terrifying to the Western psyche. (Of course, the same 'device' was
created and used by the Museveni terror apparatus in the Lowero
Triangle of Uganda, but it was preceded by Cambodia, where Pol Pot was
the preeminent demon of the day, and the carpet-bombing, napalm
strikes, or terror operations like Project Phoenix are dismissed.)
Media war
The New York Times led the charge into Rwanda, and the Western media
continued to beat the 'Tutsis as victims' drum roll. There was, after
all, a lot of money to be made. Wall Street vultures began drooling.
Military and intelligence operatives like David Kimche (Israel) and
Roger Winter (USA) jockeyed for position – organizing logistics,
maintaining supply chains, arranging weapons shipments – to support
'our' man Kagame and our proxy guerrilla army, the RPF. The Washington
Post, Boston Globe, CNN, the Observer all described the RPF guerrillas
as a highly 'disciplined' army: if any woman was raped or civilian
massacred, it was an accident, a rogue soldier, and said soldier would
be duly punished (of course, they never were).
Paul Kagame put into practice what his teachers, the military
strategists at the US Army Command and Staff College, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas (USA), taught him: psychological operations and
how to overthrow a country.
As the English-speaking 'Tutsis' marched into Rwanda they conscripted
and lured 'Tutsi' youth to the 'freedom' cause. These were young
French-speaking Tutsis who were also subjected to Kagame's ruthless
modus operandi: many of them were tortured, killed, disappeared, but
many survived the initiation into the RPF. Kagame and his elite
Ugandan comrades didn't trust Tutsis who had stayed behind, and they
clearly sacrificed the French-speaking Tutsis of Rwanda for the cause
of absolute military power.
While the power of the Rwandan Patriotic Army grew day by day,
supplied from Uganda, funded by World Bank loans to Museveni, the
Habyarimana government was attacked on all fronts, shackled with debt,
weapons blockades, demonized by the international press, the
humanitarians (sic) and world opinion.
Instead of punishing the invading 'Tutsi' Ugandan forces, led by
Kagame, the world punished the Habyarimana regime: political
pluralism, multiparty elections, peace accords assuring power-sharing
for the RPF: no diplomatic or political sacrifice was enough.
Meanwhile, Kagame and the RPF grew in strength and numbers, better
equipped, better trained, striking under cover of night like
cockroaches – Inyenzi – the term that Tutsi guerrillas of the 1960s
proudly self-identified with.
Meanwhile, next door in Burundi, the elite 'Tutsi'-dominated regime
committed a genocide in 1972: some 200,000 to 300,000 mostly Hutu
people were raped, tortured, and massacred, while hundreds of
thousands more fled to neighboring countries, including Rwanda. The
preeminent Africa scholar Rene Lemarchand describes this as a genocide
'denied and forgotten'.
Just as Museveni had infiltrated, massacred and terrorized Uganda
(1980-1985), the RPF infiltrated soldiers disguised as civilians into
Hutu villages, Hutu political parties, even into Hutu youth groups
organized to defend Rwanda from the invading terrorist guerrillas.
While the RPF used the airwaves to terrorize the people, scapegoat and
stereotype enemies real and perceived, and whip up fear of 'Hutu
power' – the same kinds of nasty propaganda, often sexualized, used by
the Kagame regime to demonize its detractors from the West even today
– we only even hear about 'Hutu power' hate radio.
April 6, 1994, President Habyarimana, his chief of staff, the
president of Burundi, the French pilots – all murdered over Kigali in
the surface-to-air missile attack on the presidential jet. Here is
another pivotal world event that should be commemorated and
remembered: the RPF assassination of two presidents.
The Western media soon began describing this terrorist action as 'a
mysterious plane crash' and, using the now-entrenched upside-down
narrative that defined 'Tutsis' the victims and 'Hutus' as killers,
the double-presidential assassinations were blamed on Hutu
'extremists'.
The United States blocked every attempt to investigate the 'plane
crash' and the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR)
suppressed any evidence that emerged, even removing officials who
touched the truth too closely. Kagame, all the while was crying
crocodile tears, screaming "We are the victims of genocide,"
confronting the West with its blatant 'moral failure' to abide the
slogan 'never again'.
Real Hutu extremists
What is a Hutu extremist? According to the official mythology, a 'Hutu
extremist' is a Hutu who ruthlessly and coldly set out to wipe every
Tutsi off the face of the earth. In reality, a Hutu 'extremist' was
any Hutu who saw total war coming at the hands of their erstwhile
elite Tutsi oppressors. A Hutu 'extremist' was someone who understood
only too well that the elite 'Tutsis' invading from Uganda, the elite
'Tutsis' massacring thousands of people, the elite 'Tutsis' (read RPF)
infiltrating of social, economic, military and political institutions
in Rwanda, the elite 'Tutsi' Inyenzi bombings of public places and
their assassinations of countless political figures and pesky Rwandan
journalists, or the elite 'Tutsis' slaughtering of thousands of
innocent Hutu men, women and children and wiping entire Hutu villages
off the map, that these were very real certainties that Hutu's had a
right and necessity to defend themselves against.
What is a Hutu 'moderate'? Any Hutu who believed that the RPF offered
a democratic alternative to one-party dictatorship, that Paul Kagame
was sincere in his proclamations of political pluralism, freedom and
brotherhood. These were empty promises.
The genocide of the majority Hutu people, launched October 1, 1990,
proceeded unabated during the RPF march to power in Rwanda, and it was
even more clearly executed during the RPF hunting and slaughtering of
hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children – mostly
Hutus – in the Congo. These were organized campaigns of genocide, with
intent to rape, murder and disappear Hutu people because they were
Hutu people, and the perpetrators were the elite 'Tutsis' from Uganda.
No such planning or organization of genocidal intent has been proven
against the Hutu government of Juvenal Habyarimana - which, in any
case, was decapitated on April 6, 1994 - or against the Interim Hutu
government that briefly held sway after April 6, 1994, and the judges
at the ICTR have found as such. There were indeed hundreds of
thousands of French-speaking Tutsis raped, brutalized and massacred in
what amount to very real acts of genocide in Rwanda, and these
occurred over the now sacred '100 days of genocide'. But there were
also hundreds of thousands of Hutus killed, and far more Hutu than
Tutsi.
Hutu lands were cleared of their owners, taken by foreign 'Tutsi' who
flooded in on the heels of the RPF. And by the way, practically
everyone in Rwanda owns a machete; there were massive imports in
January of 1994, by a British citizen; purchases of machetes occurred
using World Bank funds, for agricultural use, not for an evil genocide
conspiracy. Anyway, the RPF routinely killed people with machetes, to
save on bullets, and disguise the perpetrators.
And today, terror reigns silently in Rwanda.
Facts don't seem to matter however, because Western hysteria has been
whipped up by the media, the Pentagon, the intelligence sector, and by
the Kagame regime. The Western psyche has been indoctrinated to
believe exactly what Kagame and his benefactors want us to believe. We
stood by, we did nothing, we should have stopped 'the genocide'.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
There was a coup d'etat in Rwanda. The victors, the oppressors, the
killers have been applauded, shielded, and/or hidden from the eyes of
the world. A proxy army of elite 'Tutsis' murdered with abandon in
Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo, where they are still murdering
with abandon.
The real coup d'etat has been the brainwashing of the Western mind and
psyche, transforming rational discerning individuals into hysterical
self-congratulatory humanitarians (sic), unable to separate truth from
lie, and certain of their conclusions, no matter how erroneous. Just
show them a machete, or a skull, or a weeping 'Tutsi' 'survivor' of
'genocide' and you can count on their compliance in commemorating the
anniversary of 'Genocide' in Rwanda, and bowing at the feet of Paul
Kagame. There is, of course, much money to be made.
Keith Harmon Snow, for RT
Keith Harmon Snow is a war correspondent and photographer who has
worked in 16 African countries, including conflict areas in Congo,
Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda and Sudan. A former genocide and war crimes
investigator for Genocide Watch, Survivor's Rights International and
the United Nations, who has worked at the International Criminal
Tribunal on Rwanda, testified at numerous US immigration asylum
hearings for Rwandan and Congolese refugees and testified at the
Audiencia Nacionale in Madrid, Spain, in support of the war crimes,
crimes against humanity and genocide indictments issued against the
top 40 Rwandan Patriotic Front officers. He is persona non grata in
Rwanda and Ethiopia.
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