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Saturday, 7 June 2014

[RwandaLibre] Radio Okapi - 2 hours ago: Nouvelle reddition des FDLR ce samedi à Kigogo au Sud-Kivu.

 

Désarmement des FDLR: Kinshasa apprécie le soutien de la

Radio Okapi - 2 hours ago

<< Le gouvernement de la RDC qui apprécie à sa juste valeur le soutien
logistique apporté par la Monusco à cette opération reconnaît en outre
l'importance et l'apport de la SADC dont une mission politique et
militaire séjourne depuis hier au Nord-Kivu >>, a déclaré Lambert
Mende.

Au sujet de ce soutien de la mission onusienne, le représentant
spécial adjoint de Ban Ki-moon en charge des opérations à l'Est de la
RDC, Abdallah Wafy, a récemment indiqué que la Monusco avait mobilisé
des centaines d'hommes pour sécuriser les sites de désarmement, de
triage ainsi que les itinéraires de convoi. Ces dispositions avaient
été prises pour que les éléments démobilisés ne soient pas attaqués
par d'autres forces de troupes armées, a expliqué le responsable
onusien.

Le porte-parole du gouvernement congolais s'est dit << impressionné >>
par les armes rendues par les rebelles rwandais.

<< En inspectant le stock d'armes et de calibres qui avait été remis
par la première compagnie des FDLR, des armes qui ont été confiées par
nous à la Monusco à Kanyabayonga, je me suis personnellement rendu
compte que ce stock dépassait de très loin le ratio habituel d'une
compagnie normale même dans une force armé régulière. Nous avons vu
des armes qui nous ont fortement impressionné >>, a-t-il indiqué.

Lambert Mende a précisé qu'il s'agissait d'un désarmement volontaire
qui est en cours. Il a expliqué que le gouvernement avait choisi une
base militaire loin de la frontière pour mener les opérations
d'identification de ces rebelles.

Nouvelle reddition des FDLR

Quatre-vingt-quatre combattants FDLR et deux cent vingt-trois de leurs
dépendants se sont rendus ce samedi à Kigogo au Sud-Kivu.

Ils ont rejoint le camp de regroupement érigé par la Monusco dans
cette localité du territoire de Mwenga. La reddition a eu lieu en
présence du représentant du chef de bureau de la Monusco au Sud-Kivu
et du représentant du commandant de la 10ème région militaire.

Selon les sources sur place, les armes de ces combattants sont encore
entre les mains de leur commandement. Elles seront remises le lundi
prochain au cours d'une cérémonie officielle.

Le 30 mai dernier, une centaine de combattants FDLR se sont rendus
dans la localité de Kateku en présence de plusieurs personnalités de
la communauté internationale et nationale invitées par les
organisateurs de cette cérémonie de reddition.

Selon le gouverneur du Nord-Kivu, Julien Paluku, ce sont au total 1
400 rebelles rwandais qui seront concernés par ce processus de
reddition.

Le 4 juin, le chef de la Monusco a lancé un dernier appel aux FDLR
pour déposer les armes au risque d'y être contraint par les forces de
la Monusco et l'armée congolaise.

<< C'est la dernière chance maintenant de régler la reddition
pacifiquement, de donner un peu de temps encore pour la reddition
totale des FDLR. Un peu de temps, ça se compte en jours, ça ne se
compte pas en semaines, ça doit être rapide >>, a-t-il fait savoir.

Les rebelles rwandais des FDLR sont présents dans l'Est de la RDC
depuis deux décennies. Ils sont accusés de nombreuses exactions contre
les populations civiles.

Au début de cette année, ces combattants ont annoncé avoir mis fin à
leur lutte armée depuis le 30 décembre 2013.

Ils souhaitent que la communauté internationale obtienne du
gouvernement rwandais la tenue d'un dialogue inter rwandais inclusif
et sincère. Kigali a toujours refusé de discuter avec ces combattants.

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[RwandaLibre] The East African - 1 hour ago: Rwanda's New Embassies: 'a deeper shift in the country's diplomatic relations'

 

Rwanda moves to make new friends

The East African - 1 hour ago
By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The EastAfrican
Posted Saturday, June 7 2014 at 15:26

IN SUMMARY
The new embassies will be located in Lusaka, Luanda, Brazzaville, Abu
Dhabi and Jerusalem.
The Foreign Minister said opening the embassies is for strategic
reasons, mainly related to trade and investment.
Analysts say the shift in diplomacy by Kigali could signal a deeper
shift in the country's diplomatic relations.

Rwanda will open new embassies in Africa, Israel and the United Arab
Emirates, in an attempt to reposition itself strategically amid
renewed tensions with some of its neighbours.

Kigali has icy relations with Tanzania and DR Congo, and is still at
loggerheads with its former old ally South Africa.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo told parliament last
week that Rwanda has finalised plans to open five new embassies to
strengthen bilateral ties with various countries. The new embassies
will be located in Lusaka, Luanda, Brazzaville, Abu Dhabi and
Jerusalem.

Ms Mushikiwabo, who was presenting the ministry's budget for the
2014/15 financial year, said Kigali had made new and important
partners. The ministry intends to spend at least $5.2m in the 2014/15
fiscal year on opening and supporting the new embassies.

Despite the expansion plans, Ms Mushikiwabo said her ministry was
short of funds to run the ever growing number foreign diplomatic
missions. The government has budgeted over $27.8 million for the next
financial year but the draft budget framework has only allocated $23.6
million to the activities of the Foreign Affairs Ministry.

"Rwanda seeks to expand its diplomacy by opening up embassies in our
new bilateral partners on the continent and beyond. Southern Africa is
considered a very strategic area for us and that is why we are opening
up new embassies in Lusaka and Luanda," Ms Mushikiwabo said.

The minister said opening the embassies is for strategic reasons,
mainly related to trade and investment, but members of the opposition
were quick to observe that the expansion is nothing but a plan by
Kigali to continue harassing Rwandan refugees and politicians in
exile.

Dr Theogene Rudasingwa, a member of the Rwanda National Congress
(RNC), one of the leading exiled opposition groups said Rwanda's shift
in diplomatic interest across the continent is a move by Kigali to
hound its enemies and refugees who are reluctant to return home.

However, analysts say the shift in diplomacy by Kigali could signal a
deeper shift in the country's diplomatic relations. Rwanda announced
in May that it would open an embassy in Angola, signalling a possible
shift from Pretoria to Luanda as the country's strategic focal point
in Southern Africa. The national carrier RwandAir has also launched
weekly flights to Luanda.

Kigali's close ties with Luanda came after relations between Rwanda
and South Africa deteriorated at the beginning of the year over the
alleged violation of South African sovereignty by agents working for
Rwanda.

In March this year, South Africa expelled three Rwandan diplomats
after an attack on the residence of exiled former Rwandan army chief
of staff Lt Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa's residence. Rwanda retaliated by
expelling six South African diplomats with immediate effect.

Last month, President Paul Kagame skipped the swearing-in of President
Jacob Zuma, which was attended by many regional leaders.

On the other hand, the opening of an embassy in Lusaka is suspected to
be yet another move by Kigali to limit its contact with Dar es Salaam.

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[RwandaLibre] Discours de Kagame à Nyabihu

 

Voici le fameux discours de Kagame à Nyabihu où il parle de tirer et
tuer les gens en plein jour. Il dure 83 minutes. Pour ceux qui l'ont
regardé, pourriez-vous nous dire à quelle minute il a prononcé ces
menaces?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ZzPF70pcQ

President Kagame addresses residents of Nyabihu District- Western
Province, 5 June 2014
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Paul Kagame
06/06/2014
Regarder la vidéo
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[RwandaLibre] The East African - 30 minutes ago: FDLR surrender a hopeful sign

 

FDLR surrender a hopeful sign

The East African - 30 minutes ago.
Posted Saturday, June 7 2014 at 11:51


In Summary
The group was scheduled to start surrendering in batches to the
government of Congo from May 30 in North and South Kivu, but
conflicting reports over whether the group is actually laying down its
arms have dampened hopes for a major diplomatic and security
breakthrough in the region.

Reports that the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda are
seriously considering laying down their arms after 20 years should be
welcomed by all those who value peace in the region.

There is no doubt that the FDLR, a remnant of the Interahamwe militias
accused of carrying out the 1994 Rwanda genocide, has been a major
threat to peace and security in the Great Lakes region.

However, efforts by the International Conference on the Great Lakes
Region Secretariat to make the militia lay down their arms and
reintegrate into the Rwandan society have been met with disappointing
scepticism. Such scepticism could only drive the group further
underground at a time when the rebels themselves have realised that
they are fighting a futile war that will never address their
grievances.

The group was scheduled to start surrendering in batches to the
government of Congo from May 30 in North and South Kivu, but
conflicting reports over whether the group is actually laying down its
arms have dampened hopes for a major diplomatic and security
breakthrough in the region.

Kigali believes that it is a ploy by the besieged outfit to
reorganise, while some Western diplomats believe that it could be an
attempt by Congolese President Joseph Kabila to deflect attention from
his alleged intention to go for an illegal third term after 2016.

Even the UN mission in Congo, Monusco, has described the number of
soldiers laying down arms in the first phase of the surrender as
"insignificant" and called for the top ranking officers to also come
forward. A local civil society group said it was a "publicity stunt"
to avoid being hunted down by UN forces after the expiry of their
ultimatum to FDLR.

These concerns may be justified because past events have shown that
FDLR and Kinshasa are joined at the hip. Yet, that should not be a
justification for shooting down genuine attempts to bring peace to
eastern Congo and the Great Lakes region in general.

Besides being a source of constant military and diplomatic conflict
between Congo and Rwanda, FDLR is now the cause of strained relations
between Rwanda and Tanzania after President Jakaya Kikwete advised
Kigali to initiate peace talks with the rebels.

As with the now vanquished M23, the total absence of FDLR from eastern
Congo would be for the good of all the countries concerned. Congo will
have no excuse to accuse Rwanda of incursion into its territory under
the guise of hunting rebels and it will be forced to confront its own
governance challenges.

Let the parties concerned seize this opportunity to solve the FDLR
problem once for all for the sake of peace in the Great Lakes region.

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[RwandaLibre] Rwanda: Kagame nta burenganzira afite bwo kwica umunyarwanda uwo ariwe wese - Boniface Twagirimana

 

Ishyaka FDU-Inkingi rirakebura Perezida Kagame rimwibutsa ko n'ubwo ari umukuru w'igihugu adafite uburenganzira bwo kwica umunyarwanda uwo ariwe wese ngo ni uko acyekwaho ibyaha! 
Birababaje kubona umukuru w'igihugu afata discour akigisha abaturage ko uretse no kubashimuta bagiye gutera intambwe yindi yo kujya bahita babarasa ku mugaragaro! 
Ubuse Perezida Kagame ntazi ko akwiye kuba uwa mbere mu kwigisha abaturage ko amategeko akwiye kubahirizwa? 
Ubuse Kagame ko njya numva hari abamukekaho ibyaha ngo yaba yarakoze, bisobanuye ko bimuhama, ko nawe akwiye kwicwa nk'umunyabyaha, hagendewe k'ugukeka gusa? 
None se bigenze gutya amategeko yaba amaze iki?
Umutekano nibyo ugomba kubungwabungwa, ariko ntukwiye kubungwabungwa abantu bahutazwa; bitagenze gutya ntaho twaba dutandukaniye n'abo koko baba bawuhungabanya!
Kurikira icyo tuvuga ku butumwa Polo Kagame "umukuru w'igihugu" yatangiye uyu munsi kuwa kane mu karere ka Nyabihu:

Ni uguhera k'umunota wa 12 n'amasogonda 55.
 

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Friday, 6 June 2014

[RwandaLibre] #BringBackOur16000Citizens from Ngororero – Rwanda

 


Rwandan president at Nyabihu where he declared that his forces is going to be killing in daylight country's enemies.

Rwandan president at Nyabihu where he declared that his forces is going to be killing in daylight country's enemies.

#BringBackOur16000Citizens from Ngororero – Rwanda

On June 2nd, James Musoni, Rwandan Interior Minister, acknowledged officially that there were 16,000 citizens unaccounted for in the area of Ngororero. The fear that they might be among the many people who have disappeared in the operations undertaken by the government's security forces from early this year seem strongly founded.

Last year President Paul Kagame announced challenging events to occur this year. It was at the occasion of the graduation of police officers in Ruhengeri towards the end of December. He declared that there would have plenty of difficulties. But he added that he believed in the efficiency of his security forces. They would overcome the huddles as they did in the past, he concluded.

The next thing we heard was the assassination in South Africa of former Rwandan Chief of External Intelligence Colonel Patrick Karegeya. Kagame did not deny that he had been involved but he was surprised instead that his government was not somehow behind that criminal act against a country's "enemy." The statement was made during a prayer meeting in Kigali in January.

On January 7th, the commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the genocide is launched in Kigali and internationally. Across the country, in Addis Ababa, New York, etc we see the Rwandan government pressurising Rwandans and the world to remember its Tutsi, though we know through Davenport and Stam that the number of Hutu killed in 1994 were higher than the one of Tutsi victims. Adding insult to injury, Hutu people who died aren't mentioned anywhere. Even referring to their death appears to be sanctioned as a crime.

In February starts the kidnapping of political opponents living in Uganda. With the complicity of Museveni's security forces, several members of PS-Imberakuri political party are rounded up by Kagame's DMI and taken back and imprisoned in Rwanda.

In the meantime, Singer Mihigo Kizito is kidnapped and imprisoned for calling to genuine reconciliation among Rwandans. Several journalists are as well rounded up and jailed. Numerous disappearances of civilians are reported in the Northern Province. Political parties, human rights organisations and even US government denounce them.

On June 2nd, the minister of interior surprises everyone when he makes them understand that in fact it was not a limited number of disappearances that should be deplored, but around 16,000 people. The information is published on the pro-government outletigite.com. Two years ago, it was 26,000 prisoners that the Rwandan government through Imvaho, a state newspaper, announced that could not be traced.

It is true that millions of innocent lives have fallen in the hands of Kagame's agents since October 1st, 1990 when his rebels invaded Rwanda from Uganda the first time. As an anecdote, on April 26th 1994, eyewitnesses reported that Kagame himself had killed 600 innocent civilians at the market of Mukarange, using a machine gun mounted on a jeep.

If almost 24 years after October 1990, Kagame is continuing to decimate civilians in the Great Lakes region without impunity, it is because he is on a mission for the Anglo-Saxons who control international institutions such as UN and the Security Council.

Today they are pressurizing President Joseph Kabila of DRC to leave power because they want total control over the country. It does not matter whoever replaces him. Surprisingly they are blind about Kagame's persistent atrocities against civilians both in Rwanda and DRC.

US working closely with UK have totally backed the rise into power of Kagame, Museveni and Kabila, respectively in Rwanda, Uganda and DRC. If these presidents are still around despite their numerous indescribable crimes including genocides against populations in the region, it is due to their sponsors.

It is therefore time for the victims to realize clearly in their minds who is killing them. Kagame, Museveni and Kabila, – and probably whoever else might replace these if care is not taken -, are merely instruments.
The master-minders killing our people are those holding those instruments, oiling and equipping them. Namely these are US and UK with their allies in the plundering of Congolese resources and others from the region.

Imagine for a moment if, since October 1st, 1990, US and UK had and others for once stood on the side of the real victims in the Great Lakes region and not on that of the perpetrators of atrocities, they could've saved millions of lives.

If supposedly for almost 10 billion $ for 20 years they pumped in Rwanda there have been 10 millions of casualty in the entire region, this would mean that they helped Kagame to kill populations in the Great Lakes at the cost of $1,000 per victim. By extension, if the Rwandan president does not value much his victims, at least his masters go as far as the mentioned amount.

Further reaading:
 – What really happened in Rwanda?http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/what-really-happened-in-rwanda-3432/
Gaspard Musabyimana – Rwanda/Ngororero: 16,000 personnes disparueshttp://www.musabyimana.net/lire/article/rwandangororero-16ooo personnes-disparues/index.html

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[RwandaLibre] NPR (blog) - 38 minutes ago: Clinton Aides Mulled Fallout Of Calling Rwanda Killing 'Genocide'

 

Clinton Aides Mulled Fallout Of Calling Rwanda Killing 'Genocide'

NPR (blog) - 38 minutes ago
by SCOTT NEUMAN
June 06, 2014 5:13 PM ET


Dozens of Hutu tribe refugees walk south of Kigali, in April 1994, to
flee the heavy fighting there between Hutus and Tutsis about a month
before an internal White House email on the possible consequences of
calling the killing in the conflict a genocide.
Jean-March Bouju/AP

President Bill Clinton's administration wondered what the legal
consequences would be if the White House acknowledged that genocide
was occurring in Rwanda in 1994, according to newly public documents.

In a May 26, 1994, email from legal adviser Alan Kreczko to Donald
Steinberg, who handled the Africa portfolio in Clinton's National
Security Council, Kreczko wrote:

"Concluding that genocide has occurred/is occurring in Rwanda does not
create a legal obligation to take particular action to stop it."

Kreczko went on to write that while human rights groups had argued the
contrary, "We would not agree."

"Of course, making such a determination will increase political
pressure to do something about it," he added.

As The Associated Press notes: "The Clinton administration was slow to
react to the mass killings and went to great lengths to avoid calling
the massacre of hundreds of thousands of Tutsi and moderate Hutu
'genocide.' Clinton would later call the U.S. inaction among his
biggest regrets."

In another document made public on Friday, in a practice session for
his 1996 State of the Union speech, the former president railed
against Republicans who he said wanted to shut down the Department of
Commerce because its head, Ron Brown, was black.

"The reason they want to get rid of the Commerce Department is they
are foaming at the mouth that Ron Brown is better than all of those
Republican corporate executives who got those cheeky jobs because they
gave big money to Republican presidential candidates," Clinton told
aides.

"And here is this black guy who is a better secretary of commerce than
anybody since Herbert Hoover, which he was a success at," Clinton
said.

Brown was killed later that year in a plane crash in Croatia.

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Withdrawal/Redaction Sheet·
Clinton Library

SUBJECTffiTLE

Rwanda: May 13 Security Council Infonnals (5 pages)

Grossman, Marc to ltoh, William H. re: Discussion Paper for the.
Deputies Committee on Peacekeeping Options in Rwanda (I page)

Rwanda Options Paper (9 pages)

From Donald Steinberg re: Doug Jehl [partial] (l page)

Security Council Approves Phased UNAMIR Expansion (8 pages)

Rwanda Troop Contributor Meeting and Action Request (3 pages)

Peacekeeping Perspectives, 940512, No. 10 (19 pages)

UN Planning for Rwanda Operation (3 pages)

UN Reacts to PDD-25 (4 pages)

Steinberg, Donald K. to Rice, Susan E. et. al. re: Rwanda TPs (3
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UNCLASSIFIED

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Donald K. Steinberg

FROM: Alan J. Kreczko

(KRECZKO)

SUBJECT: .Genocid

Don,

( STEINBERG )

Concluding that genocide has occurred/is occurring in Rwanda

does not create a legal obligation to take particular action

to stop it. (Human rights groups have argued to the

r contrary, saying failure to act makes one legally

responsible as an accomplice. We would not agree.) Of

course, making such a determination will incrase political

pressure to do something aboutit

Sorry to miss the noon target.

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