Fw: *DHR* Rwanda, Uganda tell U.N. envoys peace in Congo is not their problem

On Tuesday, 8 October 2013, 16:58, Jean Bosco Sibomana <sibomanaxyz999@gmail.com> wrote:

 

Rwanda, Uganda tell U.N. envoys peace in Congo is not their problem

(They said) it was really up to (Congolese President Joseph) Kabila to resolve those issues. The international community could still help, but it wasn't the responsibility of Rwanda and it wasn't the responsibility of Uganda," Lyall Grant told reporters.

Mon Oct 7, 2013 8:29pm EDT

* Security Council envoys meet Rwandan, Ugandan presidents

* Envoys told M23 rebels a 'symptom, not cause' of Congo's problems

* Rwanda not happy about U.S. blocking military aid

By Michelle Nichols

KIGALI/KAMPALA, Oct 7 (Reuters) - The presidents of Rwanda and Uganda told U.N. Security Council envoys on Monday that their countries were not responsible for bringing peace to neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile east, which has long been mired in conflict and is bristling with armed groups.

Envoys from the 15-member council met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame in Kigali and then President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala after spending two days in Congo visiting the United Nations' largest peacekeeping operation.

Millions of people have been killed by violence, disease and hunger since the 1990s as rebel groups have fought for control of eastern Congo's rich deposits of gold, diamonds, copper, cobalt and uranium.

Britain's U.N. Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant said both Kagame and Museveni described an 18-month rebellion by the M23 guerrilla group as just a symptom and not a cause of Congo's problems, which were much more deep-seated in issues such as a lack of governance.

"They felt that Kabila had made a lot of mistakes and that he didn't have control of his own troops and that was the fundamental issue - not anything else about cross-border interference," he said.

U.N. experts have accused Rwanda of supporting M23, which is led by ethnic Tutus, a charge that Kigali has rejected. The roots of the rebellion in the region lie in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, where Hutu troops killed 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

Some Security Council envoys described Kagame as defensive during the meeting. He told them that Rwanda, where Tutsis and Hutus have reconciled after the genocide, should not be lectured on what was needed to bring peace to eastern Congo.

"It's going to be the people and the countries in the region who determine whether or not there is peace," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power told reporters after the meeting with Kagame.

"The armed groups need to be eliminated and every country in the region needs to use whatever leverage it has to get rid of those groups," said Power. "That's the only hope the people in the region have."

'WE ARE NOT HAPPY'

During a visit by the ambassadors to the eastern Congolese city of Goma on Sunday, U.N. officials said while M23 had captured global headlines, just as great a threat was posed by the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and the Islamist group Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).

M23 has accused the Congolese army of receiving military support from the FDLR, an accusation Kinshasa rejects.

Civil society leaders in North Kivu, where Goma is the capital, told the council envoys that the Congolese government controlled only about 25 percent of the province, while the rest was in the hands of dozens of armed groups.

African leaders signed a U.N.-mediated regional accord in February aimed at ending two decades of conflict in eastern Congo. Rwanda and Uganda both said they were committed to implementing the pact, U.N. diplomats said.

Museveni said he had to deploy more troops on the Ugandan border with Congo because of the threat posed by the ADF. The Ugandan government says the ADF is allied to elements of Somalia's al Shabaab movement, an al Qaeda-linked group.

Congolese forces, with the help of a new U.N. Intervention Brigade that has a mandate to neutralize armed groups, successfully pushed M23 fighters away from Goma - a city of one million people - in August. The military defeat forced M23 to return to peace talks being brokered by the Ugandan government.

During the meeting with Museveni, Lyall Grant said envoys were told "that there was a real chance of reaching agreement in the next few days," but diplomats were wary of that prediction because there were still outstanding issues to be resolved.

The United Nations said on Saturday that a third of child soldiers who had escaped from M23 were lured from Rwanda with promises of cash, jobs and education.

The United States, which has called on Rwanda to drop its support for the M23 rebels, stepped up pressure on Kigali last week by moving to block military aid over the recruitment of M23 child soldiers in its territory. [ID:ID:nL1N0HT24L]

"I don't expect you to hear me say that we are happy, we are not," said Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo. "Rwanda does not tolerate children being enrolled in any way near armed groups, not in our own army, and that's Rwanda's position."

"Our belief is that once this crisis (in Congo) is resolved, once we get rid of these armed groups then there will be no longer the issue of child soldiers," she told reporters. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols; editing by Christopher Wilson)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/08/congo-democratic-uganda-rwanda-idUSL1N0HX24320131008?feedType=RSS&feedName=basicMaterialsSector

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Fw: *DHR* Re : IKIGANIRO cya TITO KAYIJAMAHE radio Itahuka

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Gabriel,

Iki kiganiro cya Ndengera nanjye nagikurikiye. Nubwo habayemo ibibazo bya technique byatumye Ndengera ava kuri téléphone, ntawabura kugira icyo kuvuga ku minota nka 60 yavuze.

1) Ni byo koko ntiyavuze abayobozi yaganiriye nabo, sinzi niba ari ibanga ariko habuzemo ikintu nakwita umucyo.

2) Ndengera yibanze ku bintu bya dialogue, ndetse mbere yabaye nk'urwanyije abigaragambije, uretse ko umunyamakuru yamubwiye ko bari bfite uburenganzira, nawe akabikosora akavuga ko nawe ko umuntu abishatse yakwigaragambya.

3) Yavuze ikintu cyuko hashyirwaho système politique nshya avec les institutions fortes. Ukumva adashaka gutunga agatoki Paul Kagame nk'umuntu ubuza ibintu ko bijya mu buryo. Kuri we ngo ikibazo ni système FPR. 

Aha umunyamakuru yakunze kumubaza abo yahuye nabo imbaraga politiki baba bafite ku buryo ibyo baganiriye byahinduka.

Icyo mbitekerezaho.

Ni byiza ko Ndengera yaganira n'abo badahuje ibitekerezo ariko mu mvugo ubona hari ibintu yirengagiza.

Ese buriya bariya bigaragambya hari uwamubwiye ko banze ibiganiro? 

Tugiye mu Rwanda bariya banyeshuli bafunzwe ntibari bavuye gushaka ibiganiro kwa 1er ministre, abashofeli se? Ese ko bo Sena yabatumiye kuganira basohoka polisi ikaza kubafata? Ndengera iyo arebye abona arusha iki abo banyeshuli n'abashofeli?

Ku by'imfungwa bya politiki ngo bamubwiye uko bo babona ibintu. Yemeranywa nabo ko umunyapolitiki atagombye kuvuga ibibonetse byose no kubivugira ahobonetse hose!!! Biratangaje.

Gusa ku bya Mme Ingabire, Kagame yatanze igisubizo avuye Toronto : n'umunyabyaha kandi Kagame afite ibimenyetso Pays Bas zamuhaye zerzkana ko akorana na FDLR. 

Ikibazo cya Kagame n'inkotanyi s'uko bataganira, s'uko abanyapolitiki badashaka kuvugana nabo. Ikibazo nuko Kagame n'abo akoresha bafite indimi 2, urwo bakoresha bareshya abantu cyane cyane mu bari mu mahanga, n'urwo bakoresha mu gihugu bashyiraho abemeye kujyayo, igitugu, igitutu, n'amananiza.

Ndengera azakomeze aganire ntazibagirwe ko imvugo y'inkotanyi atariyo ngiro. Urugero rworoshye n'amasezerano y'Arusha yo muri 1993. 

Kubaratira amashuli ntacyo bibabwiye kuko bo batayize kandi bakaba bategeka, n'abana babo ayo mashuli bakaba bamaze kuyiga

Felix

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Objet : *DHR* Re : IKIGANIRO cya TITO KAYIJAMAHE radio Itahuka

 

Thanks,

Ikiganiro cyawe nagikurikiye. Cyarangiye ariko utagihari, ku buryo ibibazo abantu babajije wazashaka umwanya ugasubira kuri radio ukabisubiza.

Hari uwakubajije ati ese wavuganye nande mu bategetsi bari i Toronto? Hari n'uwabajije impamvu initiative uyifata ku bwawe, utisunga abandi bashaka amahindura, dore ko uvuga ko warambiwe.

Jye nzakurikira ubutaha usubiza ibyo bibazo. Ku bwanjye ikizima nakuyemo ni uko igihe abandi bose barwanya ubutegetsi bahitamo guhangana nayo ntihagire uvugana n'ubutegetsi, hakwiye kubaho abandi bafite channels zanyurwamo ngo bibaye ngombwa imishyikirano ikaba haboneke uwafata initiative.

Ikibazo nakubaza ni iki: Ko mbere yawe hari undi wagerageje kwegera leta ngo yumve icyo itekereza, akagaruka hanze uretse ko atabonye ahari uko aganiriza abari muri opposition hanze (uwo ni Sylvere Uwibajije), waba waramuvugishije ngo wumve we aho yagarukiye abe ari ho uhera? Cyangwa ukomereza kuri contacts wari wagiranye na nyakwigendera Inyumba Aloyiziya n'abo bagendanaga? Abategetsi se mwabonanye i Toronto bumva dialogue ishobotse yakorwa ite?

Reka ndangize nkubirira ko ushobora gutegwa umutego ngo ibyo bitekerezo byawe taha mu Rwanda uhabwe urubuga ubishyire mu bikorwa. Undi babibwiye ni Dr David Himbara kandi ngo byari bikurikiye presentation Himbara yakoze mu nama yarimo Kagame n'abazungu, maze bamutumaho (ngo bwari ubwa kabiri agiye gukorana na Kagame) ngo Kagame amwizeza ko amananiza yamushyizeho mbere atazongera kuyagarura. Himbara ngo yaragiye barakora ariko ngo byarangiye nabi cyane (ibi ni Himbara ubyandika muri cya cyongereza cye cyiza cyane). Nawe rero uzabimenye. Nta guarantees bazaguha ko environment yaba nziza ngo ushyire ibitekerezo byawe mu bikorwa.

Kagame ubwe ni untrustworthy kandi nta wundi waguha guarantees z'uko wakora. System uvuga ya FPR ntayo iyo Kagame atatanze amabwiriza.

Gira weekend nziza

Gabriel

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Fw: [uRwanda_rwacu] INKINGI Y'AMAHORO, KUWA MBERE, TARIKI YA 7 UKWAKIRA 2013

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Subject: [uRwanda_rwacu] INKINGI Y'AMAHORO, KUWA MBERE, TARIKI YA 7 UKWAKIRA 2013

 

Kuri uyu wa mbere, tariki ya 7 Ukwakira 2013, Dr. Pierre Claver Nkinamubanzi, Umuyobozi w'Urugaga rw'Abanyarwanda baba muri Canada, azatuganirira ku ngingo ikurikira:

"Imyigaragambyo yo kwamagana ibibi bya Leta ya Paul Kagame i Toronto muri Canada".

 

Ni kuwa mbere, tariki ya 7 Ukwakira 2013:

 

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INKINGI Y'AMAHORO, KUWA MBERE, TARIKI YA 7 UKWAKIRA 2013

Kuri uyu wa mbere, tariki ya 7 Ukwakira 2013, Dr. Pierre Claver Nkinamubanzi, Umuyobozi w'Urugaga rw'Abanyarwanda baba muri Canada, azatuganirira ku ngingo ikurikira:

"Imyigaragambyo yo kwamagana ibibi bya Leta ya Paul Kagame i Toronto muri Canada".

 

Ni kuwa mbere, tariki ya 7 Ukwakira 2013:

 

·        saa mbiri za nimugoroba (8:00pm) i Washington DC, Montreal, Ottawa na Toronto.

 

Kuwa kabiri, tariki ya 8 Ukwakira  2013:

 

·        saa sita z'ijoro (0:00am) i Dakar, Monrovia, Freetown na Abidjan.

·        saa saba z'ijoro (1:00am) i Londoni, Abuja, Yaounde, Brazzaville, na Bangui.

·        saa munani z'ijoro (2:00am) i Paris, Bruxelles, Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Amsterdam, Madrid, Kigali, Bujumbura, Goma, Bukavu, Pretoria, Lusaka, Lilongwe, Harare, Maputo, na Johannesburg;

·        saa cyenda z'ijoro (3:00am) i Kampala, Nairobi, Mombasa, Arusha, Mwanza na Dar-Es-Salam.

·        saa kumi n'imwe n'igice zo mu rukerera (5:30am) i New Delhi mu Buhindi.

·        saa yine zo mu gitondo (10:00am) i Sydney muri Australia.

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Death of Maj Gen Rwigyema

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(Right)The coffin of the late Maj Gen. Fred Gisa Rwigyema at the home of his widow Janet Rwigyema in Kigali. Rwigyema who was killed on October 2, 1990, just one day after his army the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) invaded Rwanda, was given a heroes burial at the heroes corner in Remera, a Kigali suburb, (Left) An illustration of the first chairman and commander-in-chief of the Rwanda Patraa. PHOTO BY LAURA MULENGA. 

By FAUSTIN MUGABE

Posted  Saturday, October 5  2013 at  01:00

IN SUMMARY

Leader. Maj Gen Fred Rwigyema, the man who led the Rwandan refugees on their journey back home on October 1, 1990 was, in many ways, like the Biblical Moses who led the Israelites from exile in Egypt. Both men fought for and defended their people while in exile and both never reached home alive. Both men stood at the hill, saw home and there they died. In this third part of our series on the Rwanda Invasion, we trace circumstances surrounding his death in the first days of the war.

Kampala

Mysterious and death seems synonymous with the generals. Is it accidental or coincidental? In Europe, the death of Napoleon the Great and Adolf Hitler have remained inexplicable to this day. John Garang and Samora Machel are African great generals whose deaths remains mystical to the world. Here at home, the deaths of Maj Gen David Oyite Ojok, Maj Gen James Kazini, etc remain a mystery.

So is the death of the first chairman and commander-in-chief of the Rwanda Patriotic Front/Army (RPF/A) Maj Gen Fred Rwigyema in the second day of the Rwanda invasion on October 2, 1990.
On that day, the RPA encountered heavy fire and Rwigyema was sending a radio message for reinforcement when a sniper shot him dead, was the RPF statement issued to the press in Kampala a month after his death. His death was kept a secret for a month for fear that the fighters would lose morale and desert the war.

There had been an earlier version – apparently extracted from RPF fighters captured by Rwanda army and broadcast on government radio in Kigali – that Rwigyema died when he stepped on a landmine. However, in mid-October, the Kigali radio disputed that version and insisted that Rwigyema was killed by the government forces. This was after the Forces Armee Rwandaise (FAR) the government forces had taken more RPA prisoners of war (POW), four of whose pictures were published in the media in Kigali and later Kampala.

The POWs claimed that they were picked from Kabale District of Uganda and had been abducted and forced into the RPF ranks when the war started. Thus it was the Kigali radio that broke news of Rwigyema's death before the press in Uganda on November 5, 1990. It is believed though that senior Uganda military and government officials got the sad news on October 5 after the first fighters deserted the war and returned to Kampala and reported the incident to a major general friend of late Rwigyema and others.

The other popular theory is that Rwigyema was assassinated by his deputy Maj Peter Baingana (a doctor) in the company of Maj Chris Bunyenyezi over the command of the RPF and shortly Rwigyema's aide de camp; Capt Kaitare commanded the execution of the two in vengeance.

However, this sounds like another conspiracy theory. Because, on October 8, Maj Baingana, Maj Sam Kanyemera Kaka, Lt Godfrey Byegyeka and Capt Kaitare met journalists at Kagitumba border. A freelance journalist, Cathy Watson, had an exclusive interview with Baingana for the BBC radio and her story was also published by the Weekly Topic newspaper in Uganda.

According to her story, when asked about Rwigyema's whereabouts, the four RPF fighters told her that he was somewhere on the front-line. Maj Baingana was last photographed on October 14 by the Weekly Topic, inspecting a captured Armoured-Vehicle at Gabiro 49km from Kigali and 65km from Kagitumba post.

In war, propaganda is as vital as the weaponry. After the killing of two Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) fighters Martin Mwesiga and Wunku Mpima in Mbale in January 1973 by the Uganda Army as their leader Museveni narrowly escaped, he was wrongly accused by his detractors of having killed his fighters. Museveni was, however, exonorated by the truth revealed in the 1980 committee and the 1988 Commission of Inquiry into the violation of human rights in Uganda since 1966.

So how did Baingana and Bunyenyezi die? The RPF/A said the two died on October 23, 1990 as they travelled to Nyagatare from Gabiro to reinforce the fighters at the frontline. In a war theatre, anything can happen. It can be accidental even deliberate. For instance, during the Luweero war tempers would flare and bubble.

On page 146, in 'Sowing The Mustard Seed', President Yoweri Museveni wrote of a bitter row amongst the NRA fighters: "Distrust had arisen out of contradictions and disagreements over operations, but the main problem had been caused by the execution of a boy called Shaban Kashanku for going to Kampala without permission. The trial had not followed the proper procedures involving all the people concerned, and had therefore caused a lot of fear and suspicion within rank and file. Some commanders were afraid to go out for operations for fear that they would be 'shot in the back'".

It is not clear how many were 'shot in the back' during the NRA bush war. So why could Baingana and Bunyenyezi die in an ambush on the same day, same spot only separated by hours? Were they 'shot in the back' or did they die from a booby trap? The two majors died shortly after Major Paul Kagame had been recalled to Rwanda from a military course in USA which he abandoned to take charge of the war.

On October 15, the RPF had accepted a ceasefire. Faced with the death of Rwigyema, superior enemy aerial fire and international pressure exerted on Uganda, RPF needed breathing space to reorganise, analysts say. From the front-line, on October 31, Kagame joined Pasteur Bizimungu on the delegation in the first RPF-Kigali government ceasefire meeting held in Mbarara Town in south western Uganda.

Zaire's [now Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)] ambassador to Uganda, Nzapa Kengo represented President Mubutu Seseko who was the initiator of the peace talks. Earlier on October 26, 1990 President Museveni, Buyoya of Burundi, Mubutu of Zaire and Habyarimana of Rwanda had met in 
Gbadolite, Zaire to off-set the cease-fire talks between the RPF and the Kigali government.

When Ugandan journalist Ogen Kevin Aliro interviewed the RPF chairman Col Alex Kanyarengwe in presence of RPF High-Command chairman, Major Paul Kagame in late June 1991 inside Rwanda and asked him what mistakes RPF/A had made during the war, Kanyarengwe answered: "I cannot say we made any serious errors. Rather we met bad luck at the very beginning. We lost our charismatic chairman, Maj Gen Fred Rwigyema and his two deputies. That affected us."

Analysts contend that psychologically, if the two had indeed murdered their commander, they would have been seen as enemies of the RPF/A and as such, RPF/A would not mention their names as Kanyarengwe did in the interview with the Weekly Topic of July 5, 1991.

Rwigyema's death has created a web of intrigue yet to be resolved now 23 years ago. Was he killed by the FAR sniper or was he 'shot in the back?' After the war, Rwigyema was given a befitting burial as a hero at Remera Heroes cemetery in Kigali.

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