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[amakurunamateka.com] Burundi: Spate of Arbitrary Arrests, Torture | Human Rights Watch

 

(Nairobi) – Burundian intelligence officials, police, and youth from the ruling party have arbitrarily arrested and ill-treated scores of suspected opponents. Officials accuse many of the mostly young men arrested of trying to leave the country and planning to join an armed rebellion.

Human Rights Watch documented more than 148 cases between April and July 2015 in four provinces and in the capital, Bujumbura, involving intelligence officials, police, and members of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) youth league, known as Imbonerakure ("those who see far" in Kirundi). Most of these cases occurred in June and July. Many of those arrested were beaten, tortured, or otherwise ill-treated.

Imbonerakure (members of the ruling party youth league) attacked this 35-year-old former member of their party on July 2, 2015, tied his arms behind his back, beat him with sticks and tried to strangle him.

Imbonerakure (members of the ruling party youth league) attacked this 35-year-old former member of their party on July 2, 2015, tied his arms behind his back, beat him with sticks and tried to strangle him.

 
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Human Rights Watch interviewed more than 80 victims, lawyers, human rights activists, judicial officials, and other sources in these four provinces and in Bujumbura. Human Rights Watch is also investigating reports of similar cases in other provinces. The total number of cases across the country is likely much higher. To protect the security of victims and witnesses, Human Rights Watch is not making public the locations of some of the incidents.

"The Imbonerakure have no legal right to arrest anyone, yet they have been stopping people arbitrarily, beating them, and handing them over to the intelligence services, who have tortured some of them," said Daniel Bekele, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "The Burundian government should publicly order all Imbonerakure to stop arresting people and ensure that Imbonerakure and intelligence officials responsible for ill-treatment and torture are brought to justice."

Since demonstrations against President Pierre Nkurunziza's bid for a third term began in April and were brutally suppressed by the police, international attention has largely focused on human rights abuses in the capital. However, numerous abuses have also been taking place across Burundi's provinces, away from the media spotlight. The government's closure of Burundi's main private radio stations – one of the few sources of information on events outside the capital – has meant that many of these abuses have gone unreported.

More than 140,000 Burundians have fled the country since March, seeking refuge in neighboring Rwanda, Tanzania, or the Democratic Republic of Congo. 

There have been persistent rumors that some Burundians have been forming an armed opposition movement in exile. On July 10, there was an attack by an unidentified armed group that allegedly crossed from Rwanda into Kayanza province, in northern Burundi. Authorities arrested more than 200 people who they claim were part of this group, some of whom are on trial. These events occurred against the backdrop of local and parliamentary elections on June 29 and presidential elections on July 21.

Victims in several provinces told Human Rights Watch that Imbonerakure arrested and beat them, sometimes in the presence of intelligence officials. They described being hit with sticks and clubs, forced to roll in muddy pits, and punched in the face. Imbonerakure often handed those they arrested directly to intelligence officials, who transferred them to offices of the national intelligence service (Service national de renseignement, SNR).

Once there, former detainees said SNR agents and policemen beat them with electric cables to force them to admit to trumped-up charges, such as planning to join an armed rebellion in Rwanda. Others were hit with gun butts and heavy wooden rods. In some cases, SNR agents forced them to undress and engage in humiliating and painful exercises, such as hopping like a frog and walking like a duck, or making them crawl on their elbows in gravel.

One man told Human Rights Watch that SNR agents forced him and other detainees to stand on their heads while they beat them. A senior SNR official in the province gave orders to his driver and police to beat the detainees. SNR agents said to the detainees: "You imbeciles! You are mad at only 10 years [the period Nkurunziza has been in power] whereas you governed for more than 30 years [presumably referring to Burundi's long period of Tutsi-dominated rule]." 

A justice official privately confirmed to Human Rights Watch that some members of the SNR tortured detainees. Human Rights Watch tried repeatedly to contact Telesphore Bigirimana, the spokesman for the SNR, but was unable to reach him.

When contacted by telephone, Pascal Nyabenda, president of the CNDD-FDD at the national level, refused to talk to Human Rights Watch.

Denis Karera, the national president of the Imbonerakure, told Human Rights Watch in a meeting that he was not aware of all the allegations against individual Imbonerakure. He said some people committed offenses then tried to blame them on Imbonerakure. He said: "I'm against all violence. Whether it's an Imbonerakureor not, I can't tolerate it. They should be tried and punished in accordance with the law. An Imbonerakure has no privilege over other citizens. Nobody is above the law. If an Imbonerakure is doing something illegal, he should be punished."

Judicial officials, lawyers and human rights activists told Human Rights Watch that SNR and ruling party officials heavily influenced judicial decisions or overruled decisions by prosecutors and others. Cases involving opposition party members were often allocated to judicial officials sympathetic to the ruling party.

A senior justice official said that in some cases, ruling party members controlled the fate of detainees and gave orders to the police to fabricate accusations against certain people. Some prosecutors collaborated with intelligence agents to determine what charges to file against individuals arrested by the SNR or by Imbonerakure and whether to keep them in detention.

One high-level justice official told Human Rights Watch: "The justice system is not independent. Judicial authorities can't act independently according to their conscience. We can release someone, then we get a call immediately and [CNDD-FDD] party members give an order. When Imbonerakure arrest people, we watch powerlessly. We can't do anything about it."

The United Nations and the African Union (AU) should consider deploying observers to monitor how the justice system handles cases of alleged opponents and to report on violations of judicial procedures, Human Rights Watch said. They should also monitor and report on government or ruling party interference in the justice system. This could be one of the functions of the new team of AU human rights observers being deployed to Burundi.

The UN special rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, and the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, should urgently visit Burundi and investigate recent abuses, Human Rights Watch said.

"The Burundian intelligence services behave as if they are completely unaccountable," Bekele said. "Those in power have politicized the justice system, turning it into a weapon against the opposition. The authorities should release detainees against whom there is no evidence of criminal activity, and ensure that the judiciary can function independently and that human rights violations can be investigated without fear."

For further information and accounts by those interviewed, please see below.

Attacks by Imbonerakure


Human Rights Watch interviews with victims, witnesses, judicial officials, lawyers, ruling party members, human rights activists, and other sources in several provinces indicate close collaboration between SNR agents and some Imbonerakure, as well as some local government officials.

On June 27, two days before local and parliamentary elections, a 40-year-old man had a run-in with six Imbonerakure who were his neighbors:

They asked me: "How are you going to vote?" I said: "I'm going to do as you do." They said: "Since Rwasa [leader of the FNL opposition party] has pulled out, who are you going to vote for?" I said: "I'm going to vote for the eagle [the symbol of the ruling party]." They said: "Say this out loud." I did, because I wanted to leave.

That night, at around 2 a.m., the same Imbonerakure came and took the man away.

They took me to a place where people fetch water; it's a muddy place. They put me in the mud. They said: "Lie on your stomach and roll in the mud so we can soak the jacket of Rwasa." They know I am a member of Rwasa's party. When they saw I was totally wet, they said: "Get up! Go home! When we find out you didn't [vote] for Nkurunziza, you'll see what will happen."

On June 30, the man was chatting with friends when he saw an Imbonerakure approach.

He kicked a bucket and said: "It's on!" He was with a group of around 30. There were five of us. When I was on the ground, they really hit me. They had sticks as thick as a man's wrist. They said: "Let him die! Let him die! Let him join Rwasa!" When I was almost dead – it was impossible to even breathe – I pretended to be dead. They touched me and said: "It's finished for him." They picked me up and threw me in a house. They thought I was dead.  

The man was seriously injured. Twelve days later, he said he was still finding it hard to breathe because they beat him so severely in the ribs. Two of the Imbonerakure who assaulted him were arrested, but rather than ensuring they were brought to justice, a local government official proposed to "reconcile" the two sides. The victim refused to participate.

Imbonerakure (members of the ruling party youth league) beat this 23-year-old man unconscious on June 30, 2015, after he tried to intervene to help others who were being beaten.

Imbonerakure (members of the ruling party youth league) beat this 23-year-old man unconscious on June 30, 2015, after he tried to intervene to help others who were being beaten.

 
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On July 5, at around 11:30 p.m., a group of Imbonerakure tried to lure a 32-year-old man from his house. When they were unsuccessful, they approached a member of his family and told him: "We heard [he] is in a party which refused to vote for the president. Call him. We are going to give him some advice." The man's relative convinced him to go outside and talk to the Imbonerakure. The man said:

They asked me why I hadn't voted [in elections on June 29]. I said I was sick. They said: "We know your games. You are against the third term. You didn't want to vote for the president. We are going to kill you." There was a pit nearby that was a meter and a half deep. The head Imbonerakure gave the order to the others to fetch water to fill it. Then they made me lie down in it. Two Imbonerakure were on either side of the pit. They spared my head, but hit me with sticks all over my body. They said: "Your child gets free health care, but you don't want to vote for the government."

They took me out of the pit and said: "Here you were in the water. We didn't hit you very well. Lie down here. We are going to beat you. You don't have the right to complain about this to the administration." I counted 100 blows with sticks. The rest, I couldn't count because I was almost unconscious.

On June 26, a 29-year-old aid worker said he was waiting near the border with Rwanda to help a family leave Burundi. A man he did not know approached and told him to sit on the ground. Suddenly four policemen and four Imbonerakuresurrounded him. They took his money, phone, and documents.

They told me that my passport shows clearly I often go to Rwanda, and I should tell them why I made all these visits. I told them I went to visit members of my family. They said: "Maybe you are going for the rebellion that is now taking shape in Rwanda." The head Imbonerakurecalled the local head of the SNR in front of me. He told him he'd just apprehended a rebel. I told them I did humanitarian work but they didn't accept this.

SNR agents arrested him and the family he had been waiting for, and drove them to the SNR compound. On their way there, they picked up three young men who had also been arrested trying to flee. The man watched as police working with the SNR beat the three young men with electric cables and military belts and told them to admit they knew the aid worker:

After they beat them, they locked us all up in a small room, including the mother and baby in the family. We stayed there for two days. We were then brought to the judicial police. During this time, I never saw a judge, or a prosecutor, or an OPJ [judicial police officer]. I found several people from different provinces there who had spent more time than I had [in detention] who had never seen a judge. I paid a police officer so I could use his phone and I called a lawyer. The lawyer talked to the prosecutor who said he didn't find any charges against us and he considers us free. When the lawyer told this to the head of the judicial police, he said: "The head of the Documentation [a term commonly used to refer to the SNR] has the last word."

The man was released after 14 days.

On June 26, a group of Imbonerakure arrested a 25-year-old unemployed man and four other young men who were attempting to cross into Rwanda. The leader of the Imbonerakure told the others: "We need to call the intelligence police because they [those they had captured] are numerous." He called an SNR official and said: "I just arrested some youth who wanted to cross the border to participate in the rebellion." SNR officials came and picked them up. The man said:

The SNR handcuffed us. They wanted us to confess we were rebels who were against Pierre Nkurunziza. [The SNR official] said: "You must freely accept this. We know you are rebels who are going to attack our country and its institutions." Each question was accompanied by lashes, kicks, and punches to terrorize us. Twice we were interrogated by this official and each time we were beaten. They also asked us to collaborate with the SNR in order to be freed.

After two days at the SNR, he was transferred to the judicial police. A judicial police officer (officier de police judiciaire, OPJ) told him he could help release him "if you accept the fact you went to participate in a rebellion. If you accept this, the fault can be reduced." The man was released on July 10, after SNR agents extorted about $250 from detainees to drive them to their home province.

Victims told Human Rights Watch that some local government officials collaborated with Imbonerakure during attacks.

On June 30, an 18-year-old student was told by an Imbonerakure who lived in her area that someone wanted to talk to her. A local government official who is also an Imbonerakure then arrived and assaulted her: 

I saw the vehicle of the [official] pull up. I saw [four Imbonerakure] get out of the vehicle. They greeted the Imbonerakure who was with me. [The official] came toward me. When I was getting up to greet him, he said: "Get on your knees, you imbecile," and spat in my face. He started to slap me. Two Imbonerakure said they would get some wood to make a pole to beat me. [The official] said: "Beat this imbecile who is tarnishing our country." When they brought the sticks, [the Imbonerakure] beat me on the arm. I was wearing a sweater with a zipper. [The official] unzipped it. He pulled hard on my breast. He said: "We're going to rip off your breast and you won't be able to feed your children." They said that they were going to shove a stick in my vagina.

They lifted up the back of my top and hit me on the back with sticks. While they were doing this, [the official] said: "These imbeciles who continue to stain our country! Where did the 60 votes come from [presumably in reference to those who voted for opposition parties in elections the previous day]? The victory is ours. We are going to govern you like we want for the next five years." They said that if someone saw me coming back [to the nearby town], I would be beaten, even killed. They said I was lucky: "If this had been before the elections, you would have been killed and nobody would have found your grave."

Abuses by Intelligence Agents
Numerous people who had been held in SNR custody described serious ill-treatment there. More than a dozen victims in various parts of the country said that intelligence agents beat or tortured them. Several were subjected to humiliating and strenuous exercises, beatings with electric cables, and other ill-treatment to force them to confess to false accusations. Some said the provincial heads of some SNR offices pressured them to confess to joining an armed rebellion.

A 30-year-old teacher said a senior SNR official in his province arrested him on April 28, accusing him and three others of preparing a demonstration against Nkurunziza's bid for a third term in a small town outside Bujumbura. The SNR official forced them to undress and perform exercises in a courtyard:

[The SNR official] said: "Take them to Golgotha [the hill on which Jesus was crucified]." At the Documentation, they beat us with police clubs and the butts of their guns. They made us put our heads on the ground in the gravel. They then ground our heads into the gravel and beat our ankles. When we were tired, they made us crawl on the ground on our elbows. When we were lying on our backs on the ground, they stood on our chests and stomachs. [The SNR official] gave the orders. It was like a military training. The bodyguard [of the SNR official] and his driver beat us. The driver said: "You, you imbeciles, you governed for more than 30 years."

The teacher and three other detainees were eventually transferred to police custody, but were not allowed to seek medical treatment for their injuries because, they were told, there weren't enough police to accompany them. The teacher was released on May 4. He has since occasionally seen the SNR agent who interrogated him. On two occasions, the SNR agent accused him of having guns, forming a rebellion, and distributing opposition leaflets. He warned the teacher: "Try to hand out those leaflets again, and I'll slit your wrists."

A 53-year-old businessman said four men approached him on June 25, forced him into a car and took him to the local SNR office. SNR agents accused him of organizing night patrols in the capital and of teaching youth how to handle weapons and grenades:

When I denied everything, they hit me with an iron bar on my rear end and on my feet. While they hit me, they continued to ask the same questions and I continued to deny it. They brought an iron sheet with nails pointing up. They made me stand on the nails. When they saw I would reveal practically nothing, they left and brought a small, 5-liter jug, which would usually contain oil. The jug was full of sand. They attached it to my testicles and made me stand up. They said I should stand up until I confessed. After I stood for around 40 minutes, I realized I couldn't take it any longer.

They said: "Confess immediately, otherwise you'll have to stand on the nails." They took me to the sheet with the nails – the jug was still suspended from me – and I stood for a short time on my heels [so that the nails wouldn't hurt the soles of his feet], then I fell on the ground. They brought a 1-liter jug of acid. They said: "This time, you have to confess." They poured the acid on the ground. They told me to take my clothes off and sit in it. I refused. They forced me to sit down. It felt like fire. I tried to get up, but couldn't. I fell and lost consciousness. I woke up locked in a cell.

The man said SNR agents questioned and beat him again and attached the jug of sand to his testicles a second time. He said he escaped from SNR custody on July 1.

Violations of Detainee Rights 
Many detainees were held unlawfully by the police for prolonged periods, Human Rights Watch found. The Burundian Code of Criminal Procedure specifies that detainees should not remain in police detention for more than seven days. They should then be brought before a prosecutor who will decide whether to release them or transfer them to a prison. The period of police detention can be extended for a maximum of a further seven days, on the authorization of a prosecutor. 

International law requires bringing detainees before a judicial officer or equivalent – which would not include prosecutors – "promptly" to review the legality and necessity of the detention. Detainees should also be informed "promptly" – within a few days – of any charges against them. 

When detainees arrive at the police station, an OPJ should take a statement. Detainees have the right to have a copy of their statement and to have access to a lawyer. However, lawyers, judicial officials, and former detainees told Human Rights Watch these provisions were regularly flouted.

In Kirundo province, Human Rights Watch visited 24 detainees in police custody. Most had been arrested by Imbonerakure between June 22 and July 16; all but two had been attempting to flee the country. By July 16, only four had been seen by a judicial police officer. Ten were released on July 22 and fourteen on July 23, according to a local human rights activist.

Witnesses said that on July 12, in Muyinga province, Imbonerakure and police arrested an opposition supporter after weapons and ammunition allegedly belonging to him were found at his home. The same day, Imbonerakureand police arrested 34 other people with suspected ties to Amizero y'Abarundi, an opposition party coalition which includes a wing of the National Liberation Forces (Forces nationales de libération) led by Agathon Rwasa and a wing of the Union for National Progress (Union pour le progrès national) led by Charles Nditije. The Imbonerakure accused the people arrested of security-related offenses and of participating in armed groups. A justice official with knowledge of the case said the arrests had no basis and were politically motivated.

A magistrate in Muyinga refused to allow a lawyer access to detainees multiple times. He kept telling the lawyer to wait and said to him: "You want to support the rebels? You are supporting those who attacked the country."

A Broken Justice System
Human Rights Watch spoke with dozens of victims of arbitrary arrests in five provinces. In most cases, judicial procedures were entirely disregarded.

Imbonerakure, despite having no legal powers of arrest, arrested people fleeing the country. Detainees then spent days or weeks in police or intelligence custody. When some were eventually questioned, judicial police officers did not always take down their statement. None of the detainees who spoke to Human Rights Watch received a copy of their statement. Some victims were denied access to a lawyer. Judicial officials told Human Rights Watch privately that ruling party members and SNR officials interfered in sensitive cases, especially those involving people fleeing to Rwanda.

Imbonerakure carrying long wooden staffs arrested four men on June 9 near the border with Rwanda, in Kirundo province. A well-known local Imbonerakure leader arrived and called the provincial head of the SNR. One of those arrested said:

[The Imbonerakure leader] accused us of joining a rebellion that would eventually come back and attack the country. He called the head of the SNR in the province and told him: "Come get these little boys that I just arrested."

SNR agents beat the men, then transferred them to the judicial police, but they were not seen by an OPJ as the law requires. The police commissioner spoke with them a week later and told them to wait another week for the investigation. The four men waited in police detention for three weeks, without any evidence being produced against them.

Human Rights Watch spoke with 24 other young men who had been in detention at the same time. An OPJ had interviewed only four of them. On July 1 the provincial head of the SNR came to the police detention facility and told the police there to release the man quoted above.

Human Rights Watch attempted to meet the prosecutor of Kirundo to discuss this and other cases, but he would not meet without the authorization of the external relations minister.

Human Rights Watch met the prosecutor of Ngozi, Daphrose Buganyira, to discuss concerns about cases in Ngozi. She told Human Rights Watch that the judicial system in Ngozi had no interest in detaining people unjustly. She said her staff carried out daily inspections of the police detention facility in the town of Ngozi and would order the release of any detainees held unlawfully. When asked about detainees who waited for days or weeks before seeing a magistrate, she said, "There are cases that don't come to us." She also contended that some people don't tell the truth.

With regard to arrests by Imbonerakure, she said: "Nobody has the right to arrest people. There are competent people for that. If a case [offense] has been committed, and there isn't someone in charge of security nearby, one should call the competent service." She said she worked independently and there was no interference from the ruling party.

Other senior justice officials, however, told of unlawful practices and political pressure that they were unable to prevent. 

A high-ranking justice official who spoke anonymously for fear of reprisals said: "The Imbonerakure arrest people and take them to the police after beating them and injuring them seriously. Instead of taking them to the hospital, the police imprison them because of political pressure."

A justice official in a different province said: "Sometimes we hear that the head of the SNR here tortures people. When we ask him, he denies it, but we have proof." In late April, the official had dealt with the cases of several men who were tortured at the SNR. They had been made to stand on their heads with their feet in the air.

The same official complained of interference by the SNR in judicial decisions, especially relating to people accused of trying to join an alleged rebellion in Rwanda. "When we try to approach [the detainees] for questioning, [the SNR] say: 'Why are you trying to protect them?' When I ask my superiors if I can create a case file, they say, 'leave it alone.' Sometimes it seems (the SNR) controls everything."

Another high-level justice official said:

I'm not free to make a decision. Most people are arrested arbitrarily. One day, they accused people from the opposition of trying to hold a meeting. After listening to them, I decided to release them, but I was given an order to re-arrest them. [A senior national level official] said this. The system we are in… they don't give reasons. If I decide against what [senior officials] say, without a doubt, something bad will happen to me later.

I can do nothing in the face of violation, yet I have the task of doing something about human rights violations.

Killings in Mutakura, Bujumbura 
Abuses have taken place in Bujumbura both in the lead-up to and throughout the election period, with repeated clashes between the police and opponents of Nkurunziza's bid for a third term. 

Throughout June and July, there were numerous violent altercations in some neighborhoods of Bujumbura, often at night. It is unclear whether protesters or police initiated the violence.

One of the most serious incidents was on the morning of July 1, when police entered the Mutakura neighborhood to scatter protesters. After the police dispersed the crowd with gunfire and demonstrators had fled, residents described hearing a grenade detonate. It is unclear who threw it.

It has been difficult to ascertain the exact sequence of the events that followed because many residents fled the area when shots broke out, and others hid. The account below is based on Human Rights Watch interviews with some of the survivors, witnesses, and other local residents.  

About 15 police entered a house on 8th Avenue, where the grenade hit, and accused the occupants of throwing a grenade at them. A 26-year-old witness said:

They didn't knock. They forced open the door. They came in to look for "the enemy," that's what they said. They found three of us in the house: me, the domestic worker, and my nephew. They started to hit me, saying: "This is the Tutsi dog who just threw a grenade at me." They hit me all over. I have injuries where they hit me with the gun barrel.

The witness said the police searched his house for weapons and didn't find any. The police forced him and other young men out of their homes onto the main avenue. Outside his family compound, they beat him again:

A policeman came and kicked me in the stomach. Another came from behind and kicked me. I lost my balance and fell. When they were beating me, another policeman came and said: "Do you see how you are playing with him? That's the one who threw the grenade. This Tutsi dog can throw another grenade." [Another policeman] came to hit me in the face but another policeman held him back. He picked me up. He said: "Don't kill him." He told me: "Don't run, or they'll shoot you."

The police then entered another compound on 8th Avenue. When they were inside, shots rang out and an exchange of gunfire ensued. A witness also said he heard a grenade go off at this time. During this exchange of gunfire, a policeman was killed.

Then, as the police were marching the first man, his nephew, and domestic worker to the main road, a police officer fired at the nephew, injuring his hand:

The domestic worker tried to explain to the police officer that [my nephew] was a student and that he knows nothing. The policeman then shot [our domestic worker] in the stomach. I looked back and he had his hands in the air. The same policeman who shot him the first time then killed him. He had worked for us for 10 years.           

At least five people were killed in Mutakura on July 1, Human Rights Watch found. A sixth died later from his injuries. Four were shot inside a compound where a member of the opposition party Movement for Solidarity and Democracy (Mouvement pour la solidarité et la démocratie, MSD), who was an organizer of the protests, lived. The protest organizer said he believed the police were looking for him at the time of the raid. He said that two students who were killed, Frank and Fleury Hakizimana, had not participated in demonstrations. Their father, Pantaléon Hakizimana, a money changer, was also killed. All three were shot in the head.

The police deputy spokesman, Pierre Nkurikiye, told Iwacu newspaper on July 6 that six civilians were killed during a police search in Mutakura. He was quoted as saying: "People could have been hit by stray bullets during the operation to pursue a group of assailants who attacked the police, killing one and injuring four others." Nkurikiye said some people among the group who attacked the police were killed and the police seized weapons and ammunition.


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[amakurunamateka.com] Rwanda: Itotezwa rya Rwigara ryatangiye mu 2007

 


(New York) - Rwandan judicial and police authorities should account promptly for the whereabouts of Assinapol Rwigara, a prominent businessman, and should assure due process rights to arrested generals Frank Rusagara and Sam Kanyemera, Human Rights Watch said today.

Police say they sought Rwigara in relation to an accident that took the lives of three workers at a construction site that he owned, and they say that they arrested the two generals for interfering with Rwigara's arrest.

"Rwanda has adopted laws to protect the rights of accused persons," said Alison Des Forges, senior adviser to Human Rights Watch's Africa division. "Now is time for Rwandan authorities to make them work to defend the rights of these three people."

Rwigara, an early supporter of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the dominant party in Rwanda, has been missing since July 27 when he was forcibly taken from a graveside funeral by police officers. Scores of people present at the funeral witnessed Rwigara driven away from the gravesite immediately after police officers surrounded him. Police acknowledged that they sought to arrest him but say that Rwigara managed to escape and is still being sought.

Rusagara, an officer in the Rwandan Defense Force, was arrested on August 1, according to The New Times, a newspaper close to the government. Although police authorities reportedly said they had not yet determined the exact charges against him, they did say his arrest resulted from Rusagara's efforts to impede Rwigara's arrest.

Rwandan law provides that detained persons must be brought before a magistrate within 72 hours of their detention.

"If Rwigara and Rusagara are still in police hands, they must be brought before a magistrate, as Rwandan law provides," said Des Forges. "If police say they don't have these men, they must explain what has happened to them."

On August 11, police detained General Sam Kanyemera, known as "Kaka," who headed the general staff of the Rwandan army until his retirement in 1998 and who is currently a member of the Rwandan parliament. Speaking in a radio interview on August 13, the president of the parliament said he and parliamentary officers agreed to lift Kanyemera's parliamentary immunity. The parliamentary president said Kanyemera was going to be charged with the crime of having helped someone escape arrest.

A police spokesman announced that Kanyemera will be brought to trial August 17 on charges of "attempt to sabotage police operations."

Police began pursuing Rwigara following a July 12 accident that killed three workers and injured three others at a construction site owned by one of his businesses. In connection with this case, judicial authorities have seized family property, including an automobile, and frozen bank accounts, including those of enterprises of which Rwigara was only one of several owners. According to a family member, Rwigara paid compensation to families of the workers soon after the accident.

"Speculation on the reasons for these detentions is rife in Kigali, running from the deaths of the workmen, to commercial rivalries, to coup plotting," said Des Forges. "Regardless of the context, accused persons have rights under Rwandan law and Rwandan judicial authorities have the duty to see that they are respected."



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SITES PORNOGRAPHIQUES : VOILÀ CE QUE RECHERCHENT LES FEMMES

SITES PORNOGRAPHIQUES : VOILÀ CE QUE RECHERCHENT LES FEMMES

Les sites pornographiques ne sont pas réservés aux hommes. Au contraire, une enquête mondiale montre qu'aujourd'hui un visiteur sur quatre est une femme. Elle révèle aussi leurs principales recherches...
Les femmes seraient-elles de plus en plus coquines... ou de plus en plus libérées ? Selon une enquêtemondiale menée par les sites de pornographie en ligne Pornhub et Redtube, un visiteur sur quatre serait aujourd'hui de sexe féminin. Que viennent-elles chercher sur ces sites ? Leurs trois premières requêtes sont "lesbienne", "plan à trois" et "éjaculation féminine". Elles sont aussi dix fois plus nombreuses que les hommes à rechercher du contenu sur le cunnilingus.

Leurs visites durent plus longtemps que celles des hommes

Autres bonnes nouvelles pour les créateurs de ces sites, les femmes sont de bonnes consommatrices. Au niveau mondial, leurs visites durent en moyenne 48 secondes de plus que les hommes, soit 10 minutes et 10 secondes contre 9 minutes 22. En France, précisément, les femmes y restent 10 minutes et 4 secondes, contre 9 minutes et 21 secondes pour leurs homologues masculins.

64% des femmes ont entre 18 et 34 ans

Par pays, la France reste encore sur une cible davantage masculine avec 76% d'hommes pour 24% de femmes qui se connectent à des sites pornographiques. A l'inverse, c'est au Philippines et au Brésil que les femmes s'y connectent le plus avec 35% de femmes pour 65% d'hommes. Les niveaux les plus faibles sont enregistrés en Allemagne et au Japon avec 17% de femmes pour 83% d'hommes. La moyenne d'âge enregistrée est très jeune : 36% ont entre 18 et 24 ans et 28% entre 25 et 34 ans.



[amakurunamateka.com] Gen. Karake's arrest: Another crack in the Kagame regime

 


Gen. Karake's arrest: Another crack in the Kagame regime

Claude Gatebuke and Kambale Musavuli

2015-08-06, Issue 738

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The tide is beginning to turn toward justice. Despite receiving enormous political, diplomatic and economic support from Western governments, Kagame and his Rwandan Patriotic Front-led government have been subjected to increasing scrutiny and pressure for past and current crimes committed on the African continent.

The British arrest of Rwanda's spy chief on an international warrant issued by Spain is a long awaited and necessary development toward ending impunity for Rwandan government officials accused of war crimes.

The arrest on June 20, 2015, of Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, Rwanda's director general of National Intelligence and Security Services, also highlights a contrast in foreign policies: Spain's unbiased pursuit of justice against Rwandans accused of war crimes and the United States' history of shielding current Rwandan government officials accused of war crimes from prosecution. 

The international arrest warrant on which the British courts acted dates back to 2008 when Spanish judge Fernando Andreu Merelles, acting under the principle of universal jurisdiction, indicted 40 Rwandan military officers on several counts of genocide, human rights abuses and terrorism during the 1990s. Gen. Karake was one of those 40 officials indicted. 

The indictment also names eight Spanish citizens who died or disappeared during the 1990s in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and alleges that Karake specifically ordered the killing of three Spanish nationals. The victims in these massacres number millions, with the vast majority being Rwandan Hutu refugees and Congolese citizens.

Predictably, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo responded with outrage and wholesale denial of the charges against Karake. President Kagame is a master at presenting a picture of Rwanda being under attack by the West, while at the same time Rwanda enjoys Western aid and support at American taxpayers' expense. 

Among African leaders, few have better connections with the West and benefit more from judicial protection than Kagame. The US Department of State, then led by Secretary Hillary Clinton, requested a privilege for Kagame that even former President Bill Clinton was unable to obtain as president. The privilege was immunity from a US civil lawsuit on the basis of Kagame occupying the presidency. 

American presidents do not have such immunity because of a precedent set in Clinton v. Jones, a contentious 1997 case that established that a sitting president of the United States has no immunity from civil litigation against the president for acts done before taking office and unrelated to the office. 

The tide is beginning to turn toward justice. Despite receiving enormous political, diplomatic and economic support from Western governments, Kagame and his Rwandan Patriotic Front-led government, over the last five years, have been subjected to increasing scrutiny and pressure for past and current crimes committed on the African continent. 

It appears that with the passing of each year, governments and institutions in the West, along with international bodies, have sought to hold the Kagame regime and its members accountable for the mass crimes and human rights violations they have committed in Rwanda and Congo. Most recently notable was the U.S.-led effort to withhold financial assistance from the Rwandan government in 2012 because of its support of the militia group M23 in the Congo. 

The M23 was committing crimes against humanity, destabilizing the Congo and displacing hundreds of thousands of Congolese civilians. The US and a number of European countries withheld tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer aid to the Rwandan government and eventually pressured Kagame to cease his support of the militia group.

The Karake arrest in June provides a view into the crimes that have been committed by the post-genocide regime in Rwanda and the region. A series of reports and studies have been published since the 1994 genocide that clearly document the mass atrocities and crimes against humanity committed by the Kagame regime. Among these reports is the 1994 Gersony report, which documents the following: 

• U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees' mission leader Robert Gersony reportedly estimated that 'during the months from April to August the RPF had killed between 25,000 and 45,000 persons, between 5,000 and 10,000 persons each month from April through July and 5,000 for the month of August,' according to a 1999 Human Rights Watch report.

• Large-scale indiscriminate killings of men, women, children, including the sick and the elderly, were consistently reported. The reported violence includes: '-- Mass killings at meetings. Local residents, including entire families, were called to community meetings, invited to receive information about 'peace,' 'security' or 'food distribution' issues. Once a crowd had assembled, it was assaulted through sudden sustained gunfire; or locked in buildings into which hand-grenades were thrown; systematically killed with manual instruments; or killed in large numbers by other means.' 

The arrest also is a stark reminder of atrocities such as the Kibeho massacres of an estimated 10,000 innocent civilians. 

Other reports with similar findings include the 1997 Garreton report, which revealed the massacres by the RPF's military wing, also known as the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), in the Congo, and the 2010 UN Mapping Exercise Report, which claimed that if tried in a competent court the RPA could be charged with crimes of genocide in the Congo. The recent BBC documentary titled The Untold Story encapsulates in film many of the crimes documented in hundreds of pages of reports since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. 

In spite of the abundance of documentation and evidence of the massive crimes committed under the leadership of Paul Kagame, he and his co-conspirators have been able to avoid accountability. Due to the powerful relationships that Kagame has cultivated with influential individuals and institutions in the West, these reports have been blocked, ignored or left to gather dust. 

Kagame has benefited tremendously from diplomatic and political cover from both the United States and the United Kingdom. Such benefits include continued aid to the Kagame regime despite mounting evidence of horrific human rights violations, suggestion for immunity from civil lawsuit liability, and strengthened business and economic relationships, as well as opportunities to serve on major international bodies, including the U.N. Security Council. 

The Karake case will certainly take many months to go through the legal process in the UK. Karake has been granted bail ahead of a full extradition hearing in October. He was ordered to relinquish his passport and other travel documents and is allowed travel only within the London Metropolitan area. 

Because former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is one of Karake's closest peers and defenders and is a paid adviser to Kagame's government, to no one's surprise, none other than Blair's wife, Cherie Blair, is on Karake's defense team. Some of Kagame's sponsors in the West appear willing to stick with him no matter how much evidence is accumulated against him and his officials. 

However, the masses of peace-loving and justice-seeking people in Africa and the West will certainly continue the push to hold the West's 'friendly tyrant' accountable until justice is delivered for his millions of victims.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously noted that the arc of history is long but it bends toward justice. We are witnessing the arc of history bend toward justice for the victims of Kagame and his post-genocide regime.

* Claude Gatebuke is a Rwandan war and genocide survivor. He is the executive director and co-founder of the African Great Lakes Action Network. Claude is a human rights advocate who regularly speaks in various parts of the world as well as appear on national and international media. He can be reached at claude@aglan.org

* Kambale Musavuli, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo and one of the leading political and cultural Congolese voices, is a social entrepreneur and an international human rights advocate. He serves as the National Spokesperson for the Friends of the Congo, a group that raises global consciousness about the situation in the Congo and provides support to local institutions. He is featured in the short film 'Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering the Truth,' an abbreviated version of the upcoming feature length documentary that explores the role that the United States and its allies, Rwanda and Uganda, have played in triggering the greatest humanitarian crisis at the dawn of the 21st century. He can be reached at Kambale@friendsofthecongo.org


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[amakurunamateka.com] Is Burundi really on brink of a bloodbath?

 

Is Burundi really on brink of a bloodbath?

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Two nights in Bujumbura, two assassination attempts on high-profile figures. One succeeded, while the other failed. But together these add up to bad news for the troubled East African nation, as hopes for a peaceful resolution dim further and the international community runs out of ideas. By SIMON ALLISON.
Over the past few months, as President Pierre Nkurunziza tightens his grip on power and his opponents seek to resist him, the residents of Bujumbura have become increasingly used to the sound of gunfire at night – and the reports of deaths in the morning. But even by Burundi's increasingly low standards, the attacks on two high-profile figures from opposite sides of the divide came as a shock. Burundians can only hope these are not a harbinger of things to come.
The first attack was on Sunday evening. General Adolphe Nshimirimana, a colleague and confidante of the president, was attacked in his car by men in military uniforms. The general was killed, as were his bodyguards.
Nshimirimana wasn't just any old general. He was Nkurunziza's right-hand man, his war buddy, perceived by many to be the power behind the throne. Whoever killed him – and speculation ranges from disgruntled military officers to armed opposition to plots from within the inner circle itself – struck a devastating blow against the heart of the regime.
The second attack was on Monday evening. Human rights activist Pierre Claver Mbonimpa was also in his car, near his home, when he was surrounded by motorcyclists who fired into the vehicle. Mbonimpa didn't die, but he was seriously injured and rushed to hospital. It's believed his injuries are not life-threatening.
Mbonimpa wasn't just any old human rights activist (although there are precious few of them left in Burundi). "I would say he is Burundi's leading human rights activist, very much respected and admired and loved by the population … He has a lot of charisma, has refused to be intimidated, has been threatened by all sides, but he's carried out his work regardless and I think the authorities just can't handle that," said Human Rights Watch researcher Carina Tertsakian, who specialises in the region. Mbonimpa was also a leading critic of Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third term in office.
Whether by coincidence or design, there's something ominous about the symmetry of these assassination attempts. It's hard to escape the feeling that they presage a new and disturbing chapter. "Up until now I've been resisting the more alarmist interpretations of what's been going on, but in the last few days the situation is really spinning out of control. These two dramatic and quite shocking incidents are a sign that the violence is likely to escalate. I don't want to predict too much gloom and doom, but these are two high-profile individuals," said Tertsakian.
Her fears are echoed by the Crisis Group's project director for Central Africa, Thierry Vircoulon. "The re-election of Nkurunziza has put Burundi on the path of war. It sent the signal to the opposition that there is nothing left to negotiate after his re-election and all they can do is to accept his 'victory'. As a result, the opposition is trying to unite on the political front (with the creation of an opposition coalition in Addis Ababa) and some parts of the opposition have opted for the armed struggle and decided to strike at the top of the Burundian regime's power system. The change of the pattern of violence, from street demonstrations to targeted assassinations of top leaders, is a clear sign of the things to come," he said.
While the signs aren't good, it's important to note that the violence is still relatively small-scale and targeted. Burundi has yet to become the bloodbath some have been predicting. Comparisons with Rwanda in 1994 remain off the mark – for now. "What you see now is really very similar to what you saw following 2010 elections. But concern is that you have high level targets, compared to mid to low level targets previously," explained Yolande Bouka, senior researcher with the Institute for Security Studies. "Until you see an escalation of violence in the street, in up-country violence, then we're not at the worst case scenario."
Naturally, attention turns to what comes next, and specifically what can be done to prevent that worst case scenario. Options are dangerously limited for the international community, which remains reluctant to be drawn into a costly, open-ended military intervention and is hamstrung by its reliance on Burundian soldiers to keep the peace in Somalia. Even worse, the measures already taken are failing: neither the East African Community nor chief mediator Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni have been able to make any headway in negotiations. And while the African Union has been vocal in its condemnation of the assassination attempts, its military observers – deployed only late last month – have been powerless to prevent the violence.
The last word goes to Domitille Kiramvu, who reported from Burundi for Deutsche Welle until she was forced out by the violence. In a moving op-ed, she describes just how chaotic the situation remains – and, in these circumstances, how easily power comes and goes: "In such choppy waters, more or less everybody believes they can lay their hand on the tiller. Former henchmen who helped create the repugnant apparatus of repression now cloak themselves in innocence. Former politicians choose to remember their past deeds in a positive light, forgetting that the people rejected them for their authoritarian and tyrannical excesses. New arrivals to Burundian politics promise everybody everything. There is little appealing or pleasant about those campaigning for change in our country. One can only hope that with the passage of time political realism will triumph over the villainy, egotism and thoughtless speculation. May statesmanship and self-control eventually prevail." DM
Photo: Protestors gather next to rocks strewn on a street in Bujumbura's Niyakabiga district on presidential election day in Burundi, July 21, 2015. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings
 
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[amakurunamateka.com] Rwanda: Abanyeshuri ba Kaminuza ntibashyigikiye ko Itegeko Nshinga ryahindurwa

 

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"Ce dont j’ai le plus peur, c’est des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre."

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

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