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[RwandaLibre] Rwanda: Gen Nyamwasa hits at Museveni’s pro-Kagame view

 


Gen Nyamwasa hits at Museveni's pro-Kagame view

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Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a Rwandan dissident and survivor of three assassination attempts in South Africa, has accused President Museveni of abetting authoritarianism in Rwanda.

In an interview, Nyamwasa describes Rwanda as an authoritarian regime that is persecuting the opposition at home and killing those in exile.

He said much as President Museveni doesn't handle Ugandan opposition politicians with brutish force the way President Paul Kagame does, the Ugandan leader preaches mayhem in Rwanda.

"Dr Kizza Besigye stayed in exile in South Africa for five years and when he returned to Uganda, the FDC branch in South Africa is still operational and the government of Uganda does not call them terrorists. President Museveni has not killed Col Kizza Besigye and Gen Mugisha Muntu, his [former] minister and army commander respectively. He has not killed Olara Otunnu, who was previously accused of calling for negotiations with [LRA's] Joseph Kony," he said.

Nyamwasa added: "Compare with President Kagame - incarceration of President Pasteur Bizimungu and the jubilation about the assassination of Col Patrick Karegeya."

Nyamwasa also pointed out that in more tolerant Uganda, the family of the late Col John Ogole, a former UNLA senior officer, has been promised assistance by the government to repatriate his body from London for a decent burial in his Lango home.

"Isn't it strange that one exudes kindness and empathy at home and preaches mayhem in the neighbourhood!" he said of Museveni.

Recently, President Museveni praised Rwanda as being stronger, politically, socially, militarily and economically. However, Nyamwasa seeks to remind President Museveni that during the Kisangani clashes between Ugandan and Rwandan armed forces in 1999 and 2000, the Ugandan leader described Kagame as treacherous, and later in a letter to Clare Short (British minister), categorised him as politically bankrupt.

Gen Nyamwasa was instrumental in the Kagame-led Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), which came to power in 1994, ending genocide in that country.


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[RwandaLibre] Rwanda: Afurika y’Epfo mu kwimurira Kayumba mu kindi gihugu, umubano w’ibihugu byombi ukazuka

 


Afurika y'Epfo mu kwimurira Kayumba mu kindi gihugu, umubano w'ibihugu byombi ukazuka


Yanditswe kuya 3-07-2014 - Saa 09:53' na IGIHE

Nyuma y'igihe kitari gito u Rwanda n'Afurika y'Epfo birebana ay'ingwe, biravugwa ko hari gushakwa uko umubano hagati y'ibi bihugu byombi wakongera kubyuka ; gusa ngo Afurika y'Epfo ifite gahunda yo kubanza gushakira Kayumba Nyamwasa urwanya Leta y'u Rwanda igihugu yazoherezwamo.

Ubwo umubano w'u Rwanda na Afurika y'Epfo watangiraga kuzamo agatotsi, U Rwanda rwakunze gushinja Afurika y'Epfo gucumbikira abarurwanya ndetse no kwemerera aba bagategura ndetse bagashyira mu bikorwa ibijyanye no guhungabanya umutekano w'igihugu cy'u Rwanda. Iki gihugu nacyo cyashyize mu majwi u Rwanda ko ruvogera ubusugire bwacyo.

Ibirego by'u Rwanda byari bishingiye ku kuba Afurika y'Epfo yarahaye Kayumba Nyamwasa na Patrick Karegeye ubuhungiro, bukeye bashinga ishyaka rya RNC ryiyemereye ku mugaragaro ko rirwanya Leta y'u Rwanda. Iri shyaka ryaje gutangira gukora ibikorwa bihungabanya umutekano w'igihugu, ibi bikemezwa n'abagiye bafatirwa muri ibi bikorwa, aho bagiye bagaragaza ko ari umutwe wa RNC ufatanije na FDLR wabatumaga.

Ibikorwa by'aba bagabo byaje kwamaganwa na Leta ya Afurika y'Epfo mu itangazo ryashyizwe ahagaragara rivuga ko bitemewe ko abahawe ubuhungiro bakora (ku butaka bwa Afurika y'Epfo) ibikorwa bya politiki birwanya igihugu bahunze mu gihe Kayumba Nyamwasa na Patrick Karegeya bari bitezweho kwiberaho bucece nk'izindi mpunzi zose.

Iri tangazo ryasohowe n'urwego rwa Afurika y'Epfo rushinzwe ububanyi n'amahangaryagiraga riti "Ni inshingano zanjye kukubwira ko hashingiwe ku itegeko rya Afurika y'Epfo rigenga impunzi numero 130 ryo mu 1998 rivuga ko impunzi zibujijwe gukora ibikorwa bya politiki birwanya igihugu kinyamuryango cya Afurika Yunze Ubumwe, by'umwihariko kuri mwe, mubujijwe gukora ibikorwa bya politiki birwanya Guverinoma y'u Rwanda".

Perezida Jacob Zuma na Perezida Paul Kagame

Kuva ubwo Kayumba Nyamwasa yagabwagaho igitero cy'abashakaga kumwica, Leta ya Afurika y'Epfo yatangiye gushyira mu majwi u Rwanda ivuga ko ari yo yashatse kwica uyu mugabo wigeze ku Umugaba Mukuru w'Ingabo z'u Rwanda, bikitwa ko ari ukuvogera busugire bw'igihugu cyabo ; gusa ibi leta y'u Rwanda yakomeje kubihakana.

Mu minsi ishize bamwe mu badipolomate b'ibihugu byombi barahambirijwe, bituma zimwe muri serivisi zitangwa zihagarara, nk'aho kuri ubu kubona viza muri Ambasade y'iki gihugu mu Rwanda bitagishoboka.

Byari biteganijwe ko Perezida Paul Kagame na Jacob Zuma wa Afurika y'Epfo bahurira mu nama y'Ubumwe bw'Afurika I Malabo muri Guinea Equatorial, bakaganira uko aya makimbirane yahoshwa nk'uko The East African yabitangaje.

Mu kiganiro aherutse kugirana n'abanyamakuru, Minisitiri w'Ububanyi n'Amahanga w'u Rwanda, Louise Mushikiwabo yavuze ko ku mpande zombi hari ubushake bwo gukemura ikibazo kiri hagati y'ibi bihugu byombi.

Yagize ati "[…] ariko hari ingufu zirimo gukoreshwa ngo aya makimbirane ahoshwe, nyuma hashyirweho abandi badipolomate, ubu nibwo buryo bushoboka."

Uhagarariye Afurika y'Epfo mu Rwanda George Nkosinati Twala yemeje aya makuru ariko yirinda kugira byinshi asobanura.

Ku bijyanye n'ibiganiro hagati y'abakuru b'ibihugu byombi, Ambasaderi Nkosinati yagize ati "Habayeho ibiganiro hagati y'ibi bihugu bibiri, ariko sinzi neza niba hari ibiganiro byagombaga kubera muri iyi nama hagati y'abakuru b'ibi bihugu, cyakoze baramutse bahuye, bagombaga kuganira kuri iki kibazo kandi kigakemurwa."

George Nkosinati na we avuga ko icyiza gihari ari uko ibi bihugu byombi birimo gushaka uko birangiza ikibazo.

Hari amakuru avuga ko abayobozi b'ibihugu mu karere bakomeje kugerageza guhuza ibi bihugu nyuma y' aho umwuka mubi ukomeje kwiyongera. Leta y'u Rwanda yakomeje kuvuga ko Afurika y'Epfo igomba guhagarika ibikorwa byo gufasha abanzi barwo, cyane cyane Kayumba Nyamwasa n'abandi bayoboke bo mu ishyaka rya RNC, umutwe u Rwanda ruvuga ko ushaka guhirika ubutegetsi bwemewe n'amategeko ukoresheje imvururu.

Aya makuru akavuga ko "Afurika Epfo irimo gushaka uko yakwimurira Kayumba Nyamwasa n'abandi bantu bake b'abanzi b'u Rwanda mu kindi gihugu."

Ngo haba hari igihugu cyo ku mugabane w'u Burayi n'ikindi cyo mu birwa bya Caraibes byaba byaremeye guha ubuhungiro Kayumba Nyamwasa. Ngo mu gihe azaba yimurwa azajyana n'umuryango we, kandi bikorwe mu ibanga rikomeye.

Igikomeje guteza urujijo ndetse kigafatwa nko kutita ku bibazo kwa Afurika y'Epfo ni uko tariki ya 22 Kamena 2014, urubyiruko rwo mu ishyaka rya RNC ruba muri Afurika y'Epfo rwakoresheje inama y'ishyaka mu Mujyi wa Cape Town.

Muri iyi nama, byagaragaye ko urubyiruko rwa RNC rwari rwambaye mu buryo bwa kinyeshyamba, ndetse bamwe muri bo bahabwa amapeti ya gisirikare, bafungura ishyirahamwe ryitwa "Intaganzwa", bavuga ko iri shyaka rigiye kurenga imbibi za Afurika y'Epfo rijye no mu bindi bihugu, umugambi wabo akaba ari ukuvanaho mu gihe gito kiri imbere Leta iriho mu Rwanda.

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[RwandaLibre] SADC-CIRGL : Le Rwanda doit donner l’amnistie aux FDLR !

 


Réunion des experts de la SADC et de la CIRGL en Angola : Le Rwanda doit donner l'amnistie aux FDLR !
Luanda - Les experts de défense et sécurité et des ministères des Relations Extérieures de la Communauté de Développement de l'Afrique Australe (SADC) et de la Conférence internationale sur la région des Grands Lacs (CIRGL) se sont réunis, mardi, dans la capitale angolaise, pour évaluer la situation en République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) et soumettre des propositions à la pacification de la région orientale de ce pays.
 
Le chef d'état-major des Forces armées angolaises (FAA), le général Sachipengo Nunda, a expliqué que le but était de préparer une réunion des ministres de la CIRGL et la SADC visant à harmoniser les efforts pour contribuer à la pacification complète de l'Est de la République Démocratique du Congo (RDC). Le responsable militaire a dit que les participants avaient été informés sur les développements en cours dans la région des Grands Lacs afin de matérialiser la résolution issue du sommet de Chefs d'État et de gouvernement de l'Union Africaine.
 
"Tout converge vers le même point qui est d'appuyer la RDC à poursuivre l'effort de pacification et encourager les éléments de la FDRL de continuer à se rendre, évitant ainsi la continuité du conflit dans la région", a-t-il souligné. Il a également déclaré qu'on devrait encourager le Rwanda à rapatrier les éléments du groupe armé M-23 vers la RDC, afin de dissiper les suspicions entre les deux pays qui s'accusent de soutenir des forces rebelles, ou ne pas faire le nécessaire pour éviter les attaques contre les pays voisins partant de leurs territoires.
 
Selon lui, le Rwanda pense que la RDC soutient la FDRL ou ne déploie pas suffisamment d'efforts pour éliminer cette force et, d'autre part, la RDC pense que le voisin ne fait pas assez pour le rapatriement des éléments du M-23. Geraldo Nunda Sachipengo a souligné qu'il était prévu que le Rwanda établisse une amnistie pour permettre le retour des rebelles sans grande méfiance, à l'exception de ceux qui ont commis des crimes graves contre l'humanité.
 
Source : portalangop.co.ao

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[RwandaLibre] La revendication de l'identité juive par des intellectuels Tutsis: une supercherie lucrative

 

3 Juillet 2014 La revendication de l'identité juive par des intellectuels Tutsis: une supercherie lucrative

Extrait de: Noël Ndanyuzwe, 2014, La guerre mondiale africaine, la conspiration anglo-américaine pour un génocide au Rwanda. Enquête dans les archives secrètes de l'armée ougandaise. Éditions Sources du Nil.

1.6. Revendication de l'identité juive et d’une grande région unifiée[1].

La revendication de l’identité juive par les Tutsis peut paraître comme une large fumisterie, mais l’idée adossée à la théorie migratoire hamito-couchitique[2] est surtout tactique en ce qui concerne la formation d’un empire nilotique le long du fleuve Nil. Elle n’a surtout rien à voir avec l’histoire des Falashas (Beta Israël), ces juifs éthiopiens descendants de la Reine de Saba dont une partie (14324 individus) fut évacuée en 1991 vers Israël par un pont aérien « l’Opération Salomon ». La revendication de l’identité juive ne vise pas le retour vers la Terre Promise mais la recolonisation des (Lire la suite...)

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[RwandaLibre] World Politics Review - 12 hours ago: Robust Peacekeeping, Diplomacy Put Peace in Reach in Eastern DRC

 

Robust Peacekeeping, Diplomacy Put Peace in Reach in Eastern DRC

World Politics Review - 12 hours ago
By Laura Seay, July 2, 2014

The Democratic Republic of Congo has changed. Five years ago, the
country's eastern provinces were entering a second decade of
low-intensity violence marked by the proliferation of armed groups
perpetrating atrocities that had enveloped the region since the
collapse of the Zairian state in 1996-1997. The ineffective, grossly
undersized United Nations peacekeeping mission struggled to keep track
of the chaos around it, and diplomatic efforts to address the conflict
had little impact. The national army, known as the Armed Forces of the
Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC), was useless at best and actively
harmed the population at worst. When rebels from Gen. Laurent Nkunda's
militia, the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP),
advanced on Goma in late 2008, FARDC forces broke ranks and terrorized
the city's population for days, raping countless women and girls,
looting private property and destroying homes and businesses. Many
observers at the time suggested that the FARDC was responsible for as
many or more human rights violations as the rest of the DRC's armed
groups combined. [...]

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[RwandaLibre] RFI - 21 hours ago: Rwanda: Paul Kagame «dégoûté» par le traitement réservé aux FDLR

 

Rwanda: Paul Kagame «dégoûté» par le traitement réservé aux FDLR

RFI - 21 hours ago

Le président Paul Kagame a donné mardi sa première conférence de
presse depuis le début de l'année, à l'occasion de la fête de
l'indépendance du pays. Un exercice auquel, d'habitude, il se prête
plus régulièrement. De nombreux sujets ont été abordés, parmi lesquels
celui du désarmement des FDLR et des incidents frontaliers avec la
RDC.

Parmi les sujets abordés par le chef de l'Etat rwandais, certains
intéressent particulièrement les ministres des Etats membres de la
SADC et de la CIRGL, réunis à Luanda jusqu'à ce mercredi. Notamment
désarmement des FDLR et des incidents frontaliers avec la RDC.

Le président rwandais s'est dit « dégouté » par la manière dont les
FDLR sont traités. Paul Kagame répondait à une question concernant le
transport jusqu'à Kinshasa, par l'ONU, du président par intérim des
FDLR. Victor Biyringiro n'a pas continué sa route mais le reste de sa
délégation s'est rendue à Rome pour rencontrer l'équipe des envoyés
spéciaux pour les Grands Lacs et des représentants du gouvernement
congolais sous l'égide de la communauté religieuse Sant'Egidio. Avec
pour objectif de trouver les voies et moyens d'accélérer leur
désarmement. La réunion avait déclenché l'ire du Rwanda.

« Le monde est cynique d'honorer ceux qui ont commis le génocide au
Rwanda », a déploré le chef de l'Etat rwandais alors qu'on lui assure,
a-t-il expliqué, que la question FDLR va être réglée. Il balaie du
revers de la main l'argument comme quoi les FDLR sont aujourd'hui les
fils et les filles de ceux accusés de génocide. «Ce qui est un
problème clair et simple a été transformé en un problème énorme. Et je
crois que c'est fait exprès par certains », a encore insinué le
président Kagame.

Egalement interrogé également sur les incidents frontaliers, le chef
de l'Etat rwandais a dit ne pas savoir sur quoi l'équipe du mécanisme
de vérification conjointe s'était basée pour faire son rapport. Un
rapport qui ne confirmait pas la version rwandaise des faits. «Si vous
êtes sur le terrain et que vous voyez certains faits et qu'après,
quand vous partez, les faits changent, ça dit quelque chose», explique
Paul Kagame ajoutant que les problèmes entre le Rwanda et le Congo
sont toujours très politisés. Kinshasa accusait Kigali d'avoir exécuté
cinq ressortissants congolais dont un militaire. «Les problèmes entre
le Rwanda et le Congo finissent toujours par se résoudre», a affirmé
le président rwandais.

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Wednesday, 2 July 2014

[RwandaLibre] Inter Press Service - 7 hours ago: A Third Term for DR Congo President Expected to Wreak Social Havoc

 

A Third Term for DR Congo President Expected to Wreak Social Havoc

Inter Press Service - 7 hours ago
By Badylon Kawanda Bakiman


Rose Fungulana, a 53-year-old farmer, fears that if DRC President
Joseph Kabila is allowed to serve a third term of office, there will
be a rebellion that will increase the risk of sexual assault against
women. Courtesy: Badylon Kawanda Bakiman

KIKWIT, DR Congo, Jul 2 2014 (IPS) - Proposals to review the
Democratic Republic of Congo's constitution to permit President Joseph
Kabila to seek a third term of office, if accepted, will only plunge
the Congolese further into poverty and insecurity, experts warn.

"More than 60 percent of Congolese live on less than one dollar a day.
Our compatriots are struggling to access our natural resources. DRC
risks [looting] of stores as it was in 1991 in Mobutu [Sese Seko's
reign]," Raymond Kitako, a civil society leader in DRC, told IPS.
Mobutu ruled the country for 31 years in a reign that was synonymous
with corruption. In 1991 people looted stores and shops as the economy
plunged.

Mobutu was overthrown in 1997 by current President Joseph Kabila's
father, Laurent Kabila, who was assassinated in 2001. Joseph Kabila
replaced his father as head of state and was later elected president
in 2006 and 2011.

"If this decision is applied, it places the country at risk for a
serious political crisis," Kitako added.

Article 70 of the constitution specifies that the presidential mandate
of five years is only renewable once. And article 220 of the
constitution specifically states there should be no review of the
constitution when it comes to the presidential mandate. However, the
ruling coalition Presidential Majority was said to be discussing the
possibility of reviewing the limits placed on the term of office.

"If the presidential [term] is reviewed, the DRC will register a step
backwards of 60 years. We don't like it," said Vital Kamerhe, Joseph
Kabila's main political opponent and chairman of the opposition Union
for Congolese Nation, during a meeting with journalists.

Raymond Kitako, a civil society leader in DRC, said if DRC President
Joseph Kabila is allowed to serve a third term of office, it would
result in a serious political crisis. Courtesy: Badylon Kawanda
Bakiman.

For Kamerhe, "Burundi's example where members of parliament refused to
review the constitution [after being asked to do so] by President
Pierre Nkurunziza must be a lesson to the presidential majority in
DRC."

Ernest Malonda, a member of the opposition Union for Democracy and
Social Progress, told IPS that if the president was allowed to seek a
third term of office, "DRC will lose its national unity. Congolese
will not circulate freely. Bandits called 'Kuluna' will become very
numerous and the people will suffer."

"Where have you seen a country at war receive economic investors?"
asked Germaine Tangolo, an economist.

Many here remember the rebellion of 1997 where more than six million
Congolese died when Laurent Kabila overthrew Mobutu. And they don't
want to relive it.

"The war will start and as a consequence so will sexual violence and
gender-based violence as people look for natural resources," feared
Rose Fungulana, a 53-year-old farmer.

She said that in the 1997 war, her 23-year-old sister was raped by
Mobutu's soldiers in eastern DRC.

A 2013 report published by Ministry of Gender, however, shows sexual
violence remains very high in the country, as "29,354 cases of sexual
violence and gender-based violence were registered in seven provinces
of DRC from 2011 to 2013."

Fungulana worries that women will be even more at risk should there be
a rebellion against the president serving a third term of office.

Jean Claude Katenda, president of the African Association for Human
Rights in DRC, told IPS that the "people will contest the results and
people will die [protesting against it]. It's dangerous for the
democracy. Corruption will circulate."

However, Luzanga Shamandevu, spokesman of presidential majority,
denied this would happen and said that they would accept the outcome
if the constitution was reviewed.

However, some are willing to take their chances with a changed constitution.

"I don't understand why political opposition and Presidential Majority
are divided! Let us see what the country will become if the Congolese
constitution is reviewed," Simon Kapalay, a teacher at Kikwit, in the
southwest of DRC, told IPS.

http://www.google.ca/gwt/x?gl=CA&hl=en-CA&u=http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/07/poverty-and-gender-violence-will-escalate-if-dr-congo-constitutional-revision-allows-president-to-serve-third-term/&source=s&q=A+Third+Term+for+DR+Congo+President+Expected+to+Wreak+Social+Havoc

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