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Tuesday, 17 June 2014

[RwandaLibre] The Current US Consul General in South Africa Named New Ambassador to Rwanda

 

US Announces New Ambassador to Rwanda

AllAfrica.com - 10 hours ago

The United States announced a new ambassador to Rwanda Monday night.
Erica J. Barks-Ruggles, a career diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service,
has been appointed to the position.

She will be replacing current ambassador Donald W. Koran, who has held
the post since Aug. 8, 2011. According to the United States
government, Barks-Ruggles is currently the Consul General of the
United States in South Africa, a post she has held since August 2011.

Prior to her position in Cape Town, Barks-Ruggles was deputy to the
United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations in
Washington, D.C.

She has also served in several human rights and political-economic
policy positions in the U.S. State Department since joining in 1991.

Barks-Ruggles speaks and reads French and Norwegian. She is married to
another member of the foreign service.

Her appointment still needs to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

http://www.google.ca/gwt/x?gl=CA&hl=en-CA&u=http://allafrica.com/stories/201406171223.html&source=s&q=US+Announces+New+Ambassador+to+Rwanda

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[RwandaLibre] New York Times - 9 hours ago: Why Are Rwandans Disappearing?

 

Why Are Rwandans Disappearing?

New York Times - 9 hours ago

[...] and based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Traveling to
Congo on business or to visit relatives could be enough to cause a
person to fall under suspicion, according to anecdotes in the report.
The State Department expressed concern and urged a return to "due
process of law." But President Paul Kagame remained defiant
, saying at a recent state function: "We will continue to arrest more
suspects and if possible shoot in broad daylight those who intend to
destabilize our country."

Photo
Credit Edel Rodriguez

To observers with years of experience in the country, Mr. Kagame's
stance is no surprise. American censure, on the other hand, comes as a
breath of fresh air.

The "genocide guilt card" has been played expertly from Mr. Kagame on
down. Nearly $800 million flows into Rwandan government coffers every
year from foreign donors still haunted by images of discarded machetes
released after the genocide of half a million people 20 years ago. Mr.
Kagame continues to be regularly celebrated at American universities
and black-tie events in Aspen and Davos, where he is presented as a
visionary committed to radical economic modernity.

To be fair, some progress has been made. Rwanda's gross domestic
product has grown since 2001 at an estimated annual rate of 7 percent.
Literacy rates have soared, while fertility rates have plummeted.
Alone in the Great Lakes region of Africa, the country has a national
health care policy that provides coverage for less than $100 per
person per year. Once a dusty, garbage-strewn city, Kigali is now a
bustling metropolis with soaring glass buildings separated by vast
stretches of manicured grass.

But as the report by Human Rights Watch makes clear, something
unsettling is happening beneath this shiny surface.

In January, the BBC reported that Mr. Kagame's former intelligence
chief Patrick Karegeya, who had fled to South Africa and was advising
intelligence officials there, was found strangled in Johannesburg. The
brazen murder led to the expulsion of three Rwandan diplomats from
South Africa. Mr. Kagame officially denied involvement, but the BBC
reported that he remarked soon afterward at a prayer meeting, "You
can't betray Rwanda and not get punished for it."

Among foreign aid workers, the level of fear is so high that no one
dares to talk about the government in public. "We call it the 24/20
rule," a health expert said in an interview in Kigali in April. "You
say something wrong and you get 24 hours to leave the country with 20
kilos worth of stuff." The political activist Paul Rusesabagina, who
saved the lives of at least 1,200 people during the genocide,
providing the inspiration for the film "Hotel Rwanda," said in a phone
interview: "It's like this government is swallowing people who
disagree."

In the 20 years since the genocide, Mr. Kagame and the governing
Rwandan Patriotic Front have built an excellent public relations
machinery portraying the ruling Tutsi elite as the "good guys" who put
an end to the genocide and the faceless Hutu masses as the "bad guys"
who did the bulk of the killing. But research conducted by numerous
respected scholars, among them Timothy Longman at Boston University
and Brian Endless at the University of Chicago, shows that Rwandans of
all ethnicities were caught up in the violence. Human rights groups
have found that the R.P.F. killed many Rwandans before, during and
after the 1994 genocide.

Many Rwanda scholars share the conviction that the R.P.F.'s
disinformation campaign predates the genocide, and that its first
public relations coup came on the night of April 6, 1994, when the
plane carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down over
Kigali, triggering the massacre.

At the time, suspicion fell on the R.P.F. The former chief of the
Rwandan Army under Mr. Kagame, Kayumba Nyamwasa, who is currently in
exile in South Africa, said in a telephone interview that Mr. Kagame's
order to shoot down the plane was "an open secret" known to "everyone
who was in the army at the time." In the space of 90 days, however,
that assumption was replaced with a conspiracy theory laying the blame
with Hutu extremists determined to get the genocide underway.

The result is that the distortion has become the truth. Only the
French, who had their own troubled history of interference in Rwanda,
have formally accused Mr. Kagame of shooting down Mr. Habyarimana's
plane. Americans, both in government and in the reception lines at
events where Mr. Kagame speaks, have been keen to support a government
that claims to represent the victims of the genocide, without
realizing that no alternative narrative has been allowed to emerge,
creating a vacuum in which Rwandan citizens are now demonstrably at
risk.

"A few unidentified individuals have been released" since the Human
Rights Watch report, said Carina Tertsakian, a researcher for the
rights organization. But for any genuine change to occur in a
dictatorship as entrenched as Rwanda's has proved to be, donors will
have to apply strong and sustained pressure. The United States alone
provides over $200 million in bilateral aid a year. It should make
every penny conditional on receiving an accounting of every person who
has been detained, apprehended or otherwise disappeared, and insist on
confirmation by local and international monitoring groups. Until that
happens, Rwandans just don't know who may be next.

Lara Santoro is a novelist who worked as a journalist in Rwanda from
1996 to 2004.

Susan Thomson is a professor of peace and conflict studies at Colgate
University and the author of "Whispering Truth to Power: Everyday
Resistance to Reconciliation in Postgenocide Rwanda."

A version of this op-ed appears in print on June 18, 2014, in The
International New York Times.

http://www.google.ca/gwt/x?gl=CA&hl=en-CA&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/18/opinion/why-are-rwandans-disappearing.html&source=s&q=rwanda

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[RwandaLibre] Radio Okapi - 2 hours ago: Nord-Kivu: la Monusco préoccupée par les exactions des FDLR

 

Nord-Kivu: la Monusco préoccupée par les exactions des FDLR

Radio Okapi - 2 hours ago

Parmi les violations des droits de l'homme enregistrés, la Monusco
parle notamment des arrestations arbitraires, vols des récoltes,
menaces de mort, incendie des villages et des tortures physiques.

Les responsables de ces actes identifiées comme des FDLR/Foca sont
pourtant favorables au processus de paix, déplore Ray Virigilio.

<< Si on déclare s'engager dans un processus de paix, dans une
transformation de ses activités militaires vers des activités civiles,
il faut arrêter les exactions. Ca, ça nous inquiète. Ca va depuis, à
des arrestations, même des menaces proférées contre le chef de poste à
Buleusa, des arrestations de gens à Buleusa, des vols de récoltes dans
le Lubero >>, a déclaré Ray Virigilio.

Les exactions des FDLR/Foca sur les civils n'ont jamais cessé depuis
qu'ils ont pris cet engagement, a ajouté le chef de bureau de la
Monusco, qui demande à une cessation immédiate de ces actes.

<< Je pense qu'il faut être très clair, il faut demander aux FDLR de
stopper ça immédiatement. Parce que, ça met en danger tout le
processus >>, a-t-il souligné.

De son côté, la société civile de Luofu, qui confirme les faits,
demande au gouvernement ainsi qu'à la Monusco de tout mettre en oeuvre
pour faire cesser ces exactions des FDLR/Foca contre les populations
civiles.

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[RwandaLibre] Thought if the day: English language is a discrimination tool in England

 

An English person may be irritated  by  your non-English native accent if you contact them on phone. They may  cut you  off while you are trying to talk to them in your own words. Most black and minority ethnic communities in England are unemployed as the result  of not  being able to speak  English as native English people.  Despite their qualifications, most England minorities take any job available that the while community don't want.  An English person will take a job with salaries matching their degrees and qualifications. Now, I understand why Scottish people are fighting for independence. They want to get rid of the problem of the Scottish  accent which irritates English people.
 

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[RwandaLibre] Re: [fondationbanyarwanda] Re: *DHR* Re:(Zac: les allies?) Kwicisha bugufi ntawe byishe

 

Gasana rusisisbiranya
Ntabwo ari njye ugomba kwerekana ko ibyo uvuga ari byo. Ibyo byose ni wowe wabyivugiye. Ariko njye ndakubwira ko ubeshya nk'uko ubisanganywe! Niba wemeza ko wakorewe interrogatoires buri cyumweru, ni wowe ugomba kubyerekana ntabwo ari njye. Njye icyo nzi ni uko wakorewe interrogatoire imwe rukumbi mu Ruhengeri, biturutse kuri iriya numero wari ufite ho abonnement washakaga ko ijya no muri Bibliothèque. Kuko bayisanze muri Bibliothèque ntabwo ari muri courrier yawe! Wari watubwiye ko ngo courrier yawe bayisomye, yasomwe nande kandi wanatubwiye ko yakugeze ho izanywe na Yves Cadiou! None se Cadiou yarayitanze barayisoma ntiyakugera ho? Njye nzi ko yavuye muri Bibliothèque, ubwo hari n'ibindi bari barakubonye ho biyemeza kukubaza nko kwahuranya imipaka ubutaretsa, biyemeza kukubaza ibyo ari byo. Ikindi kandi kujya muri Uganda ntibyagombaga passeport, ikimenyane cyari gihagije!  Cg bakubazaga passeport ko wari usanzwe uzwi hakurya y'umupaka w'Ubugande bari kuyikubariza iki? Kujya muri Zaïre ho byari laisser-passer gusa yatangwaga kuri perefegitura. Iyo ubeshya uzajye uvuga ibintu bifatika cg utange gihamya!
Ikintangaza ni ukuntu uvuga ngo buri cyumweru wari ufite interrogatoire, cyereka niba ushyira mo aho wajyaga kuzerera hose gusabiriza amapommes muri za salons z'i Kigali! Uribwira se ko muri SCR nta kandi kazi bari bafite usibye ako kwakira Gasana buri cyumweru?!! Kuko iyo biba ibyo bari kugufunga aho kujya uza buri cyumweru! Harahagazwe!



2014-06-17 0:26 GMT+02:00 Anastase Gasana gasana31@gmail.com [Democracy_Human_Rights] <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr>:
 

Shema,
1. Icyana cya Zigiranyirazo cyanze gutanga 1/10 mw'ikipe ya Mukungwa sport kikanabyangisha abalimu bose bo muri UNR Nyakinama uretse Nahimana Ferdinda wari Perezida wa Mukungwa sport na Mugesera Leon wari umutoni wa Z uwo uvuga. Icyana cya Z kitajyaga gutanga services a la collectivite kuri prefecture(sinigeze njyayo ushidikanya azabaze umwarimu wese wihigishaga icyo gihe).
2. Sinitabye kwa Rwirahira gusa wari maneko mu Ruhengeli, nitabye no kwa Thomasi Munyaneza wari Directeur des Renseignements exterieurs muri SCR i Kigali. Documents za interrogatoires zirahari haba mu Ruhengeli haba no muri SCR i Kigali. Ibyo rero wandika ngo ndabeshya ni wowe ubeshya ari wowe. Abasomyi bazabaze Ambasaderi Thomasi Munyaneza ko ibyo nanditse muri posting nsubiza Agnes ko byabayeho.
3. Ko nta passeport nagiraga(icyo gihe nta n'uwatungaga passeport mu rugo) najyaga gukubita imodoka ikiboko nkuko ubivuga nkambuka imipaka nte njya hehe ko nundi wese usoma ibyo wanditse uzi iby'icyo gihe abona neza ko ubeshya!
(Gasana Anastase, umuyobozi wa PRM/MRP-ABASANGIZI, ishyaka rigamije gusangiza abanyarwnda bose ibyiza by'igihugu ntawe uhejejwe inyuma y'urugi).


2014-06-16 17:51 GMT-04:00 SHEMA shimamungu@gmail.com [Democracy_Human_Rights] <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr>:

 

Zac
Ntabwo byabaye ibyo gusa Uwo mu maneko bamuhaye mutation yo kumuhana ngo ko yakoze mu jisho icyana cya Z. Naho ibyo avuga ngo bya interrogatoire ya buri cyumweru arabeshya (n'iya buri kwezi nta yabaye ho). Ahubwo Gasana ntiyari akigisha yatangaga photocopies mu banyeshuri ahasigaye umuhungu agafata imodoka akayiha umuriro akahuranya imipaka agiye mu nama z'inkotanyi!!! Icyo atakoze se ni igiki? Urumva Rwirahira (maneko wo mu Ruhengeri) yaramuhaye interrogatoire nta kintu gifatika afite!!



2014-06-16 23:36 GMT+02:00 Zac Biampa zac.biampa@yahoo.fr [Democracy_Human_Rights] <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr>:

 

Gasana aravuga "1993 cyangwa 1983?"Ibyaribyo byose kuba Gasana Anastase yarakoranaga n'umwanzi witeguraga gutera u Rwanda,hakaba harafashwe ibimenyetso bibyemeza ( kwandikiranana Kimenyi, no gukwirakwiza ikinyamakuru cye  Impuruza, nkkoabyigamba,aho kugira ngo izo nzego zabitahuye zimukatire urumukwiye, ahubwo akagororerwa kugirwa Conseiller muli Mouvement avec rang et privileges de Secretaire general du Ministere, ntacyamubuza ubu kwishongora kuri izonzego azinenga... Pour une fois je reconnais sa logique dans le raisonnement.
Genda Rwanda waragowe koko!
Le Lundi 16 juin 2014 16h42, "Anastase Gasana gasana31@gmail.com [Democracy_Human_Rights]" <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr> a écrit :


 


Agnes,
Wabonye uyu Gerard ibyo yifuza ko byagomba kumbaho igihe nabonaga courrier ya Kimenyi muri 1993 et non comme il l'insimue intentionnellement abeshya ngo ni muri 1990 kandi abifite imbereye muri posting nari maze kukwandikira ko ari mu 1993. Toujours de mauvaise foi ces gens la. Incroyable mais vrai.(Gasana Anastase)



2014-06-16 16:17 GMT-04:00 Gerard rusteid@yahoo.fr [Democracy_Human_Rights] <Democracy_Human_Rights@yahoogroupes.fr>:
 
ubundi igihe bamufatana IMPURUZA ya KIMENYI muri 90 bagombaga kumuhana by'intangarugero! uwamukingiye ikibaba niduhura vuba aha nzamubaza niba uwasubiza amateka inyuma ariko les connaissances zikaba iziki gihe niba atamuheza muri mabuso!

kagame niwe wamubonye akamutuka kuri nyina kugirango ave mu bandi... niba atabyibuka twamwibutsa da!!!


Le Lundi 16 juin 2014 20h33, "Michel Niyibizi niyimike@yahoo.fr [fondationbanyarwanda]" <fondationbanyarwanda@yahoogroupes.fr> a écrit :


 
Ariko rwose wa mugani w'Abanyarwanda ngo utazi ubwenge ashima ubwe, cyangwa uw'Abaromani uvuga ngo "stulti se laudant", ni ukuri kwambaye ubusa! Koko Gasana Anastase agatinyuka agatuka kariya kageni Nyakwigendera Perezida Habyarimana, akamwandagaza, akiyibagiza amahano yakoreye Igihugu, Abanyarwanda muri rusange, ariko by'umwihariko Abahutu, abo yakoranaga nabo mu Ishyaka, abo yakoranaga nabo muri guverinoma, inshuti n'abavandimwe!
Nareke kwanduranya ibigwi bye birazwi! Niba abantu baremeye gukorana nawe mu gushaka umuti w'ibibazo byugarije Igihugu, dore ko ntawe uhejwe, ntagirengo amabi yakoze yaribagiranye!
Ni agahinda kavanze n'umujinya atera abamuzi bose! Byaba byiza agiye abanza gutekereza neza ibyo agiye kuvuga kuko iyo anyereye yibutsa amarorerwa ye!

Harahagazwe!








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Monday, 16 June 2014

[RwandaLibre] Human Rights Watch (French) - 4 hours ago: Rwanda: Lettre au ministre de la Justice concernant l'«évaluation...

 

Rwanda: Lettre au ministre de la Justice concernant l'<<évaluation...

Human Rights Watch (French) - 4 hours ago

Human Rights Watch n'a jamais tenté de << blanchir [sanitise] et / ou
légitimer >> les FDLR et nous ...>> par le ministère de la Justice du
travail de Human Rights Watch sur le Rwanda , qui a d'abord été portée
à notre connaissance par un article publié dans The New Times le 2
juin 2014, avant de nous être ensuite transmise le 3 juin, à moi-même
et à notre chercheur sur le Rwanda, dans un document similaire pour
l'essentiel.

Human Rights Watch tient à exprimer sa profonde préoccupation au sujet
des déformations flagrantes de notre travail par le ministère, ainsi
que par les remarques désobligeantes et infondées contre notre
personnel, diffusées à la presse rwandaise. Cette lettre répond aux
allégations les plus graves, sollicite une rétractation de ces
accusations dénuées de tout fondement, et réaffirme notre engagement à
travailler de façon constructive avec le gouvernement rwandais.

Accusations de parti pris politique et de collaboration avec les FDLR

Human Rights Watch rejette catégoriquement toute accusation de
collaboration avec les Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda
(FDLR) ou de parti pris politique. Human Rights Watch n'a jamais tenté
de << blanchir [sanitise] et / ou légitimer >> les FDLR et nous n'avons
jamais été leur << porte-parole de campagne
>>. L'ensemble du travail de Human Rights Watch sur la région des
Grands Lacs, disponible publiquement, montre que ces allégations sont
dénuées de tout fondement.

Parmi les membres des FDLR figurent des individus ayant participé au
génocide au Rwanda en 1994, et d'autres qui ont commis et continuent
de commettre des violations atroces des droits humains dans l'est de
la République démocratique du Congo. Comme le gouvernement rwandais le
sait, Human Rights Watch a documenté et dénoncé les exactions des FDLR
dans des rapports et des communiqués de presse détaillés,[1]
appelé à plusieurs reprises à ce que les responsables soient traduits
en justice, et a témoigné devant les tribunaux au sujet de leurs
crimes.

Human Rights Watch travaille pour faire respecter les droits de tous
les Rwandais, tels qu'ils sont inscrits dans le droit rwandais et
international. Certains des cas que nous avons étudiés au Rwanda
récemment impliquent des personnes accusées d'être des membres ou des
collaborateurs des FDLR. Le fait que Human Rights Watch ait rendu
compte de leur détention illégale ou de leur disparition ne signifie
pas que nous soyons leurs partisans ni favorables à leurs points de
vue. Les gens ne perdent pas leurs droits humains fondamentaux, même
si leurs opinions sont odieuses ou s'ils sont des criminels, et Human
Rights Watch défend les droits humains universels de toute personne,
partout dans le monde.

Loin de se livrer à ce que le ministère de la Justice qualifie de <<
campagne de propagande délibérée, soutenue et politiquement motivée
contre le gouvernement du Rwanda >>, Human Rights Watch n'a pas de
motivation politique et ne fait pas de propagande contre le
gouvernement rwandais ni contre tout autre gouvernement. Notre rôle
est de mener des enquêtes et de dénoncer les violations des droits
humains, et de chercher des moyens légaux de mettre un terme à ces
violations, quelle que soit l'identité des responsables ou des
victimes.

Human Rights Watch travaille sur le Rwanda depuis plus de 20 ans et
nous avons documenté en détail le génocide de 1994 et les événements
qui y ont conduit, en particulier dans << Aucun témoin ne doit survivre
: Le génocide au Rwanda >>, un ouvrage de 800 pages publié
conjointement en 1999 par Human Rights Watch et la Fédération
internationale des ligues des droits de l'homme (FIDH). Le personnel
de Human Rights Watch a également témoigné devant le Tribunal pénal
international pour le Rwanda sur les crimes commis pendant le
génocide.

[2]

Nous sommes donc sensibles au contexte des événements au Rwanda.
Toutefois, les droits humains que Human Rights Watch défend sont
universels. Nous avons la responsabilité d'appliquer la même
méthodologie et la même objectivité rigoureuses dans tous les pays où
nous travaillons, afin d'assurer équité, équilibre et cohérence.

Nous estimons que les allégations mal informées du ministère de la
Justice en ce qui concerne le présumé soutien des FDLR par Human
Rights Watch et notre supposée partialité politique sont à la fois
infondées et désobligeantes. Nous demandons donc au ministère de
retirer publiquement ces allégations.

Allégations désobligeantes à l'encontre du personnel de Human Rights Watch

Pour la même raison, nous réfutons les commentaires personnalisés et
désobligeants du ministère sur les chercheurs actuels et passés de
Human Rights Watch, et vous demandons de les retirer également. Nos
chercheurs travaillant dans et sur le Rwanda respectent les normes
exigeantes et la méthodologie de l'organisation. Nous nous portons
garants de leur travail et de leur intégrité personnelle, que les
commentaires du ministère ont mise en doute. Les tentatives visant à
personnaliser les désaccords entre Human Rights Watch et le
gouvernement rwandais de cette manière ne dissuaderont pas Human
Rights Watch de poursuivre son travail.

Informations inexactes

Nous tenons à attirer votre attention sur certaines inexactitudes et
des éléments factuels contenus dans les commentaires du ministère,
dans l'esprit de notre protocole d'entente.

En ce qui concerne les cas individuels de disparitions, de détentions
illégales et d'autres violations des droits humains, nous maintenons
les conclusions de nos recherches, et nous nous tenons à votre entière
disposition pour aborder avec vous personnellement toute question que
vous pourriez avoir à ce sujet.

L'<< évaluation >> du ministère dénature certaines de nos déclarations
sur l'affaire de Joël Mutabazi. Human Rights Watch n'a pas affirmé que
Mutabazi ait été torturé et contraint à avouer des crimes après son
retour forcé de l'Ouganda en octobre 2013. Les seules références à la
torture dans les publications de Human Rights Watch sur cette affaire
se rapportent à la période où Mutabazi se trouvait en détention
militaire au Rwanda en 2010. Cependant, nous avons exprimé des
préoccupations au sujet de son bien-être en novembre 2013, étant donné
le refus de la police rwandaise à ce stade de divulguer le lieu où il
se trouvait. Nous maintenons que l'enlèvement de Mutabazi et son
retour forcé de l'Ouganda au Rwanda étaient illégaux et constituaient
une violation grave des droits humains ; de fait, les autorités
ougandaises ont confirmé que l'enlèvement et le retour forcé n'avaient
pas respecté les procédures légales établies.

En ce qui concerne l'allégation du ministère selon laquelle des
membres des FDLR ont été invités à << informer immédiatement HRW s'ils
étaient soupçonnés et / ou arrêtés >> et qu'un commandant des FDLR a
fourni l'adresse électronique d'un membre du personnel de Human Rights
Watch, nous n'avons pas connaissance de cette information ni ne
disposons de confirmation indépendante. Cependant, il n'est pas rare
pour les groupes de toutes sortes - dont certains, comme les FDLR qui
se sont rendus responsables de nombreux crimes - de posséder des
coordonnées d'organisations internationales, et il est facile pour
quiconque de les obtenir. Le fait que certains membres des FDLR aient
pu avoir une adresse e-mail de Human Rights Watch ou demandé à leurs
membres de contacter notre organisation ne démontre pas un soutien de
celle-ci pour les FDLR, pas plus que si les membres des FDLR
possédaient les coordonnées de représentants du gouvernement ou d'une
organisation humanitaire, par exemple.

Enfin, en ce qui concerne l'allégation selon laquelle notre chercheur
a été << aidé et facilité par un certain Bahame Innocent >> lors
d'enquêtes sur des événements à Rubavu, aucun membre de notre
personnel n'a connaissance d'avoir rencontré quelqu'un de ce nom. Nous
vous serions reconnaissants si vous pouviez nous renseigner sur
l'identité de cette personne et la raison de l'association de son nom
avec le nôtre.

Respect par Human Rights Watch du protocole d'accord

Comme expliqué dans notre correspondance et lors de nos réunions
récentes avec votre ministère, nous estimons avoir respecté nos
engagements contenus dans le protocole d'accord, et avoir entrepris un
dialogue avec votre ministère en toute bonne foi. En effet, depuis de
nombreuses années, les chercheurs successifs de Human Rights Watch au
Rwanda ont toujours recherché le dialogue avec le ministère de la
Justice et d'autres représentants du gouvernement. Comme le ministère
l'a reconnu, notre chercheur vous a présenté des informations sur un
certain nombre d'affaires, à la fois par écrit et en personne, et a
cherché à obtenir votre réponse avant la publication des documents de
Human Rights Watch - en particulier récemment, au sujet des
disparitions décrites dans notre communiqué de presse du 16 mai. Nous
avons explicitement fait référence dans ce communiqué à vos réponses
ainsi qu'à celles d'autres autorités rwandaises.

Les communiqués de presse, de par leur nature, sont rédigés et publiés
dans des délais brefs, car ils répondent généralement à des situations
d'urgence, et il est donc inapproprié de les retarder pendant de
longues périodes dans l'attente d'une réponse. Les disparitions sont
particulièrement urgentes, étant donné que la vie et la sécurité des
personnes concernées peuvent être en danger.

L'objectif global de notre protocole d'accord est de << travailler
conjointement et solidairement afin de parvenir à une large protection
des droits humains au Rwanda>>. En dépit de nos désaccords récents,
nous respectons toujours l'esprit de cet accord et sommes sincèrement
engagés à travailler aux côtés du ministère de la Justice pour
protéger et promouvoir les droits humains au Rwanda.

Nous avons donc l'intention de maintenir un dialogue ouvert. Pour
notre part, nous restons attachés à partager les informations et
discuter des préoccupations de droits humains avec vous et d'autres
représentants du gouvernement rwandais.

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur le Ministre, l'expression de de ma haute
considération.

Daniel Bekele

Directeur exécutif, division Afrique
[1] Voir, par exemple, le rapport de Human Rights Watch << 'Vous serez
punis': Attaques contre les civils dans l'est du Congo >>,
http://www.hrw.org/fr/reports/2009/12/13/vous-serez-punis-0, et notre
dernier rapport, paru le 10 juin 2014, << République démocratique du
Congo : Mettre fin à l'impunité pour les violences sexuelles >>,
http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2014/06/10/republique-democratique-du-congo-mettre-fin-limpunite-pour-les-violences-sexuelles.

[2] Pour marquer le 20ème anniversaire du génocide rwandais, Human
Rights Watch a publié un document d'information, << La justice après le
génocide : 20 ans plus tard >>,
http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2014/03/28/rwanda-la-justice-apres-le-genocide-20-ans-plus-tard.
Pour consulter d'autres publications de Human Rights Watch relatives
au génocide rwandais, veuillez suivre le lien :
https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2014/04/04/documents-relatifs-au-genocide

http://www.google.ca/gwt/x?gl=CA&hl=en-CA&u=http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2014/06/12/rwanda-lettre-au-ministre-de-la-justice-concernant-l-evaluation-du-travail-de-human-&source=s&q=fdlr

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[RwandaLibre] Human Rights Watch - 4 days ago: Letter to Rwandan Justice Minister on the Assessment of Human Rights Watch's Work

 

Letter to Rwandan Justice Minister on the "Assessment" of Human Rights
Watch's Work

Human Rights Watch - 4 days ago
JUNE 12, 2014


Dear Minister,

I write in response to the ministry of justice's "assessment" of Human
Rights Watch's work in Rwanda, which was first made known to us
through publication in The New Times on June 2, 2014, and was then
conveyed to me and to our Rwanda researcher on June 3 in a
substantially similar document.

Human Rights Watch is deeply concerned by the ministry's gross
misrepresentations of our work and the disparaging and unfounded
comments against our staff, aired to the Rwandan press. This letter
answers the most serious contentions raised, seeks a withdrawal of
these misinformed accusations, and reiterates our commitment to
working constructively with the Rwandan government.

Accusations of political bias and collaboration with FDLR

Human Rights Watch categorically rejects all accusations of
collaboration with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda
(Forces démocratiques de libération du Rwanda, FDLR) or of political
bias. Human Rights Watch has never attempted to "sanitise and/or
legitimize" the FDLR, nor have we ever been their "campaign
mouthpiece." The public record of Human Rights Watch's work on the
Great Lakes region shows that these allegations are entirely baseless.

The FDLR includes people who participated in the genocide in Rwanda in
1994 and others who have committed, and continue to commit, horrific
human rights abuses in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. As the
Rwandan government is aware, Human Rights Watch has documented and
denounced the FDLR's abuses in detailed reports and press releases,[1]
repeatedly called for those responsible to be brought to justice, and
testified in court about their crimes.

Human Rights Watch works to uphold the rights of all Rwandans, as
enshrined in Rwandan and international law. Some of the cases we have
researched in Rwanda recently involve people accused of being members
or collaborators of the FDLR. The fact that Human Rights Watch
reported on their unlawful detention or disappearance does not mean
that we are partisan or sympathetic to their views. People do not lose
their basic human rights even if their views are abhorrent or they are
criminals, and Human Rights Watch stands up for the universal human
rights of all people, all over the world.

Far from engaging in what the ministry of justice terms a "deliberate,
sustained and politically motivated propaganda campaign against the
Government of Rwanda," Human Rights Watch has no political motivation
and does not conduct propaganda against the Rwandan government or any
other government. Our role is to research and expose human rights
abuses and seek lawful ways of bringing these abuses to an end,
regardless of the identity of the perpetrators or the victims.

Human Rights Watch has worked on Rwanda for more than 20 years, and we
have documented in great detail the 1994 genocide and the events that
led up to it, particularly in "Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide
in Rwanda," a 800-page book on the genocide published by Human Rights
Watch and the International Federation of Human Rights in 1999. Human
Rights Watch staff also testified about crimes committed during the
genocide before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.[2]

We are therefore sensitive to the context of events in Rwanda.
However, the rights Human Rights Watch promotes are universal. We have
a responsibility to apply the same rigorous methodology and
objectivity in all the countries where we work in order to ensure
fairness, balance, and consistency.

We believe that the ministry of justice's ill-informed allegations
regarding Human Rights Watch's support of the FDLR and political bias
are unfounded and derogatory. We therefore ask the ministry to
publicly retract them.

Disparaging allegations against Human Rights Watch staff

For the same reason, we object to the ministry's disparaging,
personalized comments about Human Rights Watch's current and former
researchers and ask you to retract these too. Our researchers working
in and on Rwanda uphold the organization's high standards and
methodology. We stand by their work and their personal integrity,
which the ministry's comments have impugned. Attempts to personalize
disagreements between Human Rights Watch and the Rwandan government in
this way will not deter Human Rights Watch from pursuing its work.

Inaccurate information

We wish to draw your attention to some inaccuracies and factual points
in the ministry's comments, in the spirit of our Memorandum of
Understanding.

With regard to the individual cases of disappearances, unlawful
detentions, and other human rights abuses, we stand by our findings
and are prepared to discuss with you personally any questions you may
have.

The ministry's "assessment" misrepresents some of our statements on
the case of Joel Mutabazi. Human Rights Watch did not assert that
Mutabazi was tortured and forced to confess to crimes following his
forcible return from Uganda in October 2013. The only references to
torture in Human Rights Watch publications on this case relate to the
period of Mutabazi's detention in military custody in Rwanda in 2010.
However, we expressed concern about his well-being in November 2013,
given the police's refusal at that stage to disclose his whereabouts.
We maintain that Mutabazi's abduction and forcible return from Uganda
to Rwanda was illegal and constituted a serious human rights
violation; indeed, Ugandan authorities confirmed that the abduction
and forcible return had not followed established legal procedures.

With respect to the ministry's allegation that FDLR members were
instructed to "immediately inform HRW should they be suspected and/or
arrested" and that an FDLR commander supplied the email address of a
Human Rights Watch staff member, we have no knowledge or independent
verification of this. However, it is not uncommon for groups of all
kinds – including some like the FDLR who have been responsible for
numerous crimes – to have contact details of international
organizations, and it is easy for anyone to obtain these. The fact
that some FDLR members might have had a Human Rights Watch email
address or asked their members to contact Human Rights Watch does not
demonstrate support from Human Rights Watch to the FDLR any more than
if FDLR members were to have contact information of government
officials or of a humanitarian organization, for example.

Finally, with respect to the allegation that our researcher was
"assisted and facilitated by one Bahame Innocent" when investigating
events in Rubavu, none of our staff has any record of meeting anyone
by that name. We would appreciate it if you could inform us who this
individual is and why his name is associated with us.

Human Rights Watch's observance of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

As explained in recent correspondence and meetings with your ministry,
we believe we have upheld our commitments in the MoU and have engaged
in a dialogue with your ministry in good faith. Indeed, over many
years, successive Human Rights Watch researchers in Rwanda have always
sought out dialogue with the ministry of justice and other government
officials. As the ministry has acknowledged, our researcher presented
information to you on a number of cases, both in writing and in
person, and sought your response before the publication of Human
Rights Watch documents – including, most recently, on the
disappearances described in our press release of May 16. We referred
to your and other officials' responses explicitly in that press
release.

Press releases, by their nature, are produced and published quickly,
because they are usually responses to urgent situations, and it is
therefore inappropriate to delay them for long periods while we wait
for a response. Disappearances are particularly urgent as people's
lives and safety may be at risk.

The overall aim of our MoU is "to work jointly and severally to
achieve broad protection of human rights in Rwanda." Despite our
recent disagreements, we still abide by the spirit of this agreement
and are sincerely committed to working alongside the ministry of
justice to protect and promote human rights in Rwanda.

We therefore intend to maintain an open dialogue. For our part, we
remain committed to sharing information and discussing human rights
concerns with you and other government officials in Rwanda.

Yours sincerely,

Daniel Bekele

Executive Director, Africa Division

[1] See, for example, Human Rights Watch report "'You Will be
Punished': Attacks on Civilians in Eastern Congo",
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2009/12/13/you-will-be-punished, and our
latest report of June 10, 2014, "Democratic Republic of Congo: Ending
Impunity for Sexual Violence", http://www.hrw.org/node/126204.

[2] To mark the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, Human Rights
Watch published a briefing paper, "Justice After Genocide: 20 Years
On", http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/03/28/rwanda-justice-after-genocide-20-years.
For other Human Rights Watch publications relating to the Rwandan
genocide, please see https://www.hrw.org/node/124219.

http://www.google.ca/gwt/x?gl=CA&wsc=yh&source=s&u=http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/06/12/letter-rwandan-justice-minister-assessment-human-rights-watchs-work&hl=en-CA&ei=QlifU8KjOI6ssgf_sICQDg

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