Bwana Olivier Nduhungirehe,
Pour vous rafraîchir la mémoire, j'envoie un article qui parle de ce
rapport d'enquête des Nations-Unies. Quand je lis vos commentaires,
sachant que vous êtes par dessus le marché un fonctionnaire des
Nations-Unies, je me pose de sérieuses questions sur votre niveau de
conscience et sens des responsabilités.
La qualité universelle d'un bon politicien, c'est qu'il a cette
capacité de se mettre dans la peau des autres pour sentir leur
douleur. Quand vous reniez la mort de tant de vos frères et soeurs
hutus, qu'avez-vous dans la tête???
Sibomana Jean Bosco.
Bombshell UN report leaked: 'Crimes of genocide' against Hutus in Congo
The striking conclusion of a new draft UN report is that violence
perpetrated by Rwandan President Paul Kagame's and Congolese President
Laurent Kabila's forces against Hutus could constitute 'crimes of
genocide.'
By Jason Stearns, Guest blogger / August 26, 2010

Rwandan troops marched through the village of Pinga in eastern Congo,
during a joint Congolese-Rwandan operation to hunt down Hutu extremist
rebels in February of 2009.
Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters
Over a year after its completion, the UN mapping report has finally
been leaked to the press. The report was mandated by the UN to
investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Congo
between 1993 and 2003 in the hope that there could be accountability
for the violence. To date, almost nothing has been done to bring those
responsible to justice.
The report is huge, spanning 545 pages, and deals with war crimes
committed by the security forces of
Angola, Mobutu's Zaire, Uganda, Chad, Laurent Kabila's government,
Joseph Kabila's government,
Zimbabwe, the ex-FAR and Interahamwe (and later the FDLR), the Mai-Mai
and the many other rebel groups. I will speak at length about the
massacres carried out by these forces in later postings. Here, I will
speak about the most controversial claim: the massacres carried out by
the Rwandan army (RPA) together with the AFDL rebellion (led by
Laurent Kabila) against the Hutu refugees in 1996-1997.
The striking conclusion is that the crimes committed by the RPA/AFDL
against Hutu refugee and Congolese Hutu could constitute a crime of
genocide. This will be a bombshell for
Paul Kagame's government, which prides itself of having brought an end
to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi and have built their reputation
and their appeal to donors on their promotion of post-genocide
reconciliation. This report will rock the internet for months and
years to come, its political improtance is hard to overstate.
A few words of caution. The report was not based on the same high
standards of a judicial investigation, it was intended to provide a
broad mapping of he most serious human rights abuses between 1993 and
2003.
Indeed, the report says that an international court will have to be
the final arbiter whether the RPA/AFDL did commit acts of genocide.
Verbatim: "The systematic and widespread attacks described in this
report, which targeted very large numbers of Rwandan Hutu refugees and
members of the Hutu civilian population, resulting in their death,
reveal a number of damning elements that, if they were proven before a
competent court, could be classified as crimes of genocide."
Nonetheless, it was their mandate to documents crimes of genocide, and
they were rigorous: In total, the team gathered evidence on 600
incidents of violence (not just on the genocide allegations). Their
standard was two independent sources for each incident. They
interviewed 1,280 witnesses and gathered 1,500 documents. Many of the
reports of killings of Congolese and Rwandan Hutu civilians were
corroborated by eyewitnesses. While we always knew that there had been
large massacres of Hutu refugees in the Congo, this is the first
rigorous investigation, and the first time an international body has
thrown its weight behind charges of genocide.
On to the conclusion of the report:
Paragraph 512. The systematic attacks [...] resulted in a very large
number of victims, probably tens of thousands of members of the Hutu
ethnic group, all nationalities combined. In the vast majority of
cases reported, it was not a question of people killed unintentionally
in the course of combat, but people targeted primarily by AFDL/APR/FAB
[Burundian army] forces and executed in their hundreds, often with
edged weapons. The majority of the victims were children, women,
elderly people and the sick, who posed no threat to the attacking
forces. Numerous serious attacks on the physical or pyschological
integrity of members of the group were also committed, with a very
high number of Hutus shot, raped, burnt or beaten. Very large numbers
of victims were forced to flee and travel long distances to escape
their pursuers, who were trying to kill them. The hunt lasted for
months, resulting in the deaths of an unknown number of people
subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading living conditions, without
access to food or medication. On several occasions, the humanitarian
aid intended for them was deliberately blocked, in particular in
Orientale Province, depriving them of assistance essential to their survival.
Paragraph 513. At the time of the incidents covered by this report,
the Hutu population in Zaire, including refugees from Rwanda,
constituted an ethnic group as defined in the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Moreover, as shown
previously, the intention to destroy a group in part is sufficient to
be classified as a crime of genocide. Finally, the courts have also
confirmed that the destruction of a group can be limited to a
particular geographical area. It is therefore possible to assert that,
even if only a part of the Hutu population in Zaire was targeted and
destroyed, it could nonetheless constitute a crime of genocide, if
this was the intention of the perpetrators. Finally, several incidents
listed also seem to confirm that the numerous attacks were targeted at
members of the Hutu ethnic group as such. Although, at certain times,
the aggressors said they were looking for the criminals responsible
for the genocide committed against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, the
majority of the incidents reported indicate that the Hutus were
targeted as such, with no discrimination between them. The numerous
attacks against the Hutus in Zaire, who were not part of the refugees,
seem to confirm that it was all Hutus, as such, who were targeted. The
crimes committed in particular in
Rutshuru (30 October 1996) and Mugogo (18 November 1996), in
North Kivu, highlight the specific targeting of the Hutus, since
people who were able to persuade the aggressors that they belonged to
another ethnic group were released just before the massacres. The
systematic use of barriers by the AFDL/APR/FAB, particularly in
South Kivu, enabled them to identify people of Hutu origin by their
name or village of origin and thus to eliminate them. Hundreds of
people of Hutu origin are thus thought to have been arrested at a
barrier erected in November 1996 in Ngwenda, in the Rutshuru
territory, and subsequently executed by being beaten with sticks in a
place called Kabaraza. In South Kivu, AFDL/APR/FAB soldiers erected
numerous barriers on the Ruzizi plain to stop Rwandan and Burundian
refugees who had been dispersed after their camps had been dismantled.
http://www.google.ca/gwt/x?gl=CA&source=s&u=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/Africa-Monitor/2010/0826/Bombshell-UN-report-leaked-Crimes-of-genocide-against-Hutus-in-Congo&hl=en-CA&ei=V3d2U-TwGsjrmQeiooD4Dg&wsc=vb
*DHR* Re: [Rudahunga] Itanganzo: Misse du 17/05/2014 pour tous les
victimes des genocides rwandais
Olivier Nduhungirehe oliviernduhungirehe@yahoo.fr
[Democracy_Human_Rights] – 16:22
à democracy_human_rights, rwanda-l, imbona-nkubone
Bwana
Ignace Rudahunga,
Uragira
uti : « Ese buriya uwavuga ko
loni yohereje akanama kayo gukora iperereza kuri kiriya kibazo,ako
kanama kagashyira ahagaragara raporo bakunze kwita mapping yaba
abeshye? »
Iki kibazo ubajije aha ntabwo
gisubiza ibibazo nari nabajije Padiri Thomas Nahimana. Kuba Mapping
Report yarabayeho, ibyo ntawe ubihakana. Twese turabizi. Ndagirango
aha ariko nkwibutse ko Nahimana we yari yanditse ngo « Jenoside
yakorewe Abahutu iri mu nzira zo kwemezwa na LONI ».
Iyo umuntu yanditse atya,
aba ashatse kutubwira ko au sein des Nations Unies, hari procédure
judiciaire ou administrative yatangiye, igamije kwemeza iyo jenoside.
Or, nakubwira
ko iyo procédure nta yihari. Uribuka ko na Mapping Report itigeze
yemeza ko muri Congo habaye jenoside yakorewe abahutu, ahubwo yo
yavuze ko ibyaha byabaye
muri Kongo, biramutse bitangiwe ibimenyetso n'inkiko zabugenewe,
bishobora kwitwa jenoside.
Or, non seulement twese tuzi
ko urwo rukiko nta rwigeze rushyirwaho, mais surtout tuzi ko yaba Umunyamabanga
Mukuru w'Umuryango w'Abibumbye, yaba Conseil de Sécurité, nta n'umwe wigeze aha
agaciro iriya Mapping Report. Iyi rapport dore imaze imyaka hafi ine
(4) mu kabati, ndetse na nyirayo Navi Pillay, urangije mandat ye nka
Haut Commissaire aux Droits de l'Homme, akaba atarigeze yinsista kuri
iyo ngingo.
Umuntu rero akaba yakwibaza
aho Padiri Nahimana yavanye ko « Jenoside yakorewe Abahutu iri mu
nzira zo kwemezwa na LONI » ! Dore rwose ni iyi nteruro navugaga ko
idahuye n'ukuri.
Umugoroba mwiza.
Olivier NDUHUNGIREHE
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