Saturday, 21 November 2015

[haguruka.com] Rwanda: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to rule in Munyakazi case

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Rwanda: Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to rule in Munyakazi case

November 20, 2015

by Ann Garrison

Dr. Léopold Munyakazi is a Rwandan intellectual and former Goucher College French professor who expected to be deported from the U.S. to Rwanda on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. His attorney, Ofelia L. Calderón, had filed legal papers requesting a stay until his appeal could be heard in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, but the stay had been denied and his wife had been told to deliver a suitcase of no more than 40 pounds to the jail by 4 p.m. on Friday.

Dr. Léopold Munyakazi, right, poses with his wife, Catherine, and their friend, Nicole Lee Wills, who has organized a Léopold support committee.

He had used a 20-second courtesy call to say goodbye and thank you to Nicole Lee Wills, a close friend who had done all she could to try and stop his deportation to all but certain imprisonment, torture and possibly even extrajudicial execution.

Three days later, on Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, he and his family and supporters were informed that his deportation will be suspended until his appeal can indeed be heard in the Fourth District Court of Appeals. No one on his support team is quite sure why, but some have contacted members of Congress and State Department officials to protest his deportation and ask that his appeal be heard before the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ofelia L. Calderón, the immigration attorney who has represented Dr. Munyakazi pro bono for the past nine years, shared this new, near term legal timeline: "Nov. 23 is the government's response due date. Then we have another 15 days to reply. Then we wait for the possibility of arguing in court."

The Rwandan government accuses Dr. Munyakazi of incitement to genocide and genocide divisionism. However, the Rwandan government did not indict and issue arrest warrants for Dr. Munyakazi until after he had given several speeches on Delaware and Maryland college campuses, in which he said that the Rwandan massacres of 1994 were a form of class war and fratricide because Rwandans are one people who speak the same language, share the same culture, and marry one another.

These statements undermine the justification of Rwanda's totalitarian government, which is that it stopped a genocide.

Attorney Ofelia L. Calderón provided this precise summary of events that led to Dr. Munyakazi's appeal in the Fourth District Court of Appeals.

"Leopold was originally detained from Oct. 24, 1994, until Aug. 30, 1999, as part of the post genocide round up [in Rwanda]. He did not receive a trial nor was he actually charged with crimes. According to documents from the Rwandan government, they interviewed individuals in Kirwa who all indicated that Leopold had no part of the genocide.

Immigration attorney Ofelia L. Calderón, who has represented Dr. Munyakazi pro bono for nine years.

"In 2004, he came to the U.S. for a conference and learned he was on a list of individuals with 'divisive ideas.' He applied for asylum pro se, which was not adjudicated for four years. During that time, he was a teacher and later a lecturer at Montclair.

"He gave two speeches where he described the genocide as a fratricide: Oct. 25, 2006, at the University of Delaware and then Nov. 15, 2006, at Montclair. The first warrant was issued Nov. 10, 2006, and the second Oct. 20, 2008. In January of 2009, DHS denied his asylum and referred him to court as well as arresting him in his home.

"The Rwandan government issued warrants accusing Leopold of inciting the genocide. Specifically, they claim he was involved with a group in or around Kirwa. They claim that he was present at a large meeting where he told other Hutus to go out and kill Tutsis. They also accuse him of genocide negation [a speech crime in Rwanda]. I don't have any other official statements, but the warrants and indictment themselves.

"As for the law, a person cannot get asylum if there is evidence indicating that they are a persecutor of others. So, notwithstanding a finding that he has been the subject of past persecution and has a reasonable fear of future persecution based on his political opinion, he was found ineligible for asylum because we were unable to demonstrate by a preponderance of the evidence that he was NOT involved in the genocide.

"The evidence of the U.S. government consisted of the warrants and reports from a special agent who went to Rwanda to investigate these claims. He interviewed a number of people, most of whom were convicted genocidaires who 'suddenly' had information that Leopold was at this April 19 meeting."

Oakland writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View, Black Agenda Report, Black Star News, Counterpunch and her own website, Ann Garrison, and produces for AfrobeatRadio on WBAI-NYC, KPFA Evening News, KPFA Flashpoints and for her own YouTube Channel, AnnieGetYourGang. She can be reached at anniegarrison@gmail.com. In March 2014 she was awarded the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize for promoting peace in the Great Lakes Region of Africa through her reporting.

Phil Taylor interviews Ofelia L. Calderón about the Munyakazi case on the CIUT 89.5fm-Toronto Taylor Report on Nov. 16, 2015.

Nicole Lee Wills interviews Dr. Munyakazi about how he had been tortured in prison in Rwanda.

Rwanda: Supporters of scholar Léopold Munyakazi struggle to stop his deportation from the USSeptember 13, 2015In "Africa and the World"

Rwanda: Nahimana asks why the US wants to deport MunyakaziOctober 3, 2015In "Africa and the World"

Defense lawyers condemn assassination of ICTR lawyer MwaikusaJuly 17, 2010In "Africa and the World"

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Friday, 20 November 2015

[haguruka.com] Rwandan officer who leaked assassination-list evidence becomes a target

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Rwandan officer who leaked assassination-list evidence becomes a target

GEOFFREY YORK

JOHANNESBURG — THE GLOBE AND MAIL

Published Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015 8:57PM EST

Robert Higiro was part of Paul Kagame's rebel army in 1990 when it invaded Rwanda. Here, the two men (Mr. Higiro at right) attend a military academy ceremony. (Courtesy of Roberty Higiro)

The United States has warned a former Rwandan military officer that his life is in danger after he gave evidence to The Globe and Mail about the Rwandan government's alleged efforts to assassinate dissidents who had fled abroad.

The former officer, Robert Higiro, provided audio recordings and other evidence for a Globe and Mail investigation into the Rwandan government's involvement in attacks and planned attacks on exiled Rwandan dissidents around the world.

Mr. Higiro was living in Belgium at the time of the investigation, but the U.S. State Department has advised him to leave Belgium for his own safety, according to the chairman of a U.S. congressional subcommittee that has been investigating his allegations. His current location is now being kept secret.

"The State Department has not only found the allegations to be credible, but warned Major Higiro to leave Belgium, where his life was in danger," said U.S. Representative Chris Smith, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Mr. Smith is chairman of a subcommittee that heard testimony from Mr. Higiro in May, several months after the Globe and Mail report was published. He followed up with more questions about the case last month during testimony by senior State Department officials.

"When Rwandan Major Robert Higiro testified, we had vetted him very, very carefully, and I know we asked the State Department to review his evidence, which seemed very compelling," Mr. Smith told the officials. "And my understanding is very clearly that you found it to be credible."

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, said the U.S. government has been raising the issue "at every level" with the Rwandan government.

"In all of our engagements with the Rwandan government and president, we have raised our concerns about human-rights violations, about reports and allegations of extra-judicial killings, about disappearances," she told the subcommittee.

"They have denied their involvement in all of these cases, but we have been clear in our messaging that this will have a real deep impact on our future engagement with the Rwandans."

Ms. Thomas-Greenfield said the country's social and economic progress has been impressive, but "that amazing legacy will be destroyed" if the government fails to respect human rights.

In an interview from an undisclosed location, Mr. Higiro said the Rwandan government has already approached gangs in Europe to try to kill him. "They want to take me out at any cost," he said.

He said he welcomes the public statements by the U.S. officials about the threats to his life. "It's good that they're making Rwanda accountable. It shows how seriously they are taking this."

After reviewing the Globe and Mail report earlier this year, Mr. Smith called for a full investigation by an international team, under the authority of the United Nations or African Union, with "unfettered access" to Rwandan government officials and documents.

Months of research by The Globe last year found evidence to support allegations of Rwandan government involvement in attacks or planned attacks on Rwandan dissidents in South Africa, Britain, Sweden, Belgium, Uganda, Kenya and Mozambique.

Mr. Higiro and other Rwandan exiles gave detailed accounts of being recruited to assassinate critics of Rwandan President Paul Kagame. The audio recordings provided by Mr. Higiro were telephone conversations in 2011 between him and Mr. Kagame's military-intelligence director, Colonel Dan Munyuza, in which Col. Munyuza allegedly offered $1-million (U.S.) to hire contract killers to assassinate two high-profile Rwandan dissidents in South Africa. One of the dissidents was strangled to death in a Johannesburg hotel room last year, while the other has survived repeated attacks.

The U.S. warning to Mr. Higiro about the threat to his life in Belgium is part of a larger pattern of threats against Mr. Kagame's critics in the same country. Early last year, eight Belgian police officers were deployed to guard the home of a former Rwandan prime minister, Faustin Twagiramungu, who has become a dissident and opponent of Mr. Kagame. He said Belgian police and state security officers had warned him that his life was in danger.

Judi Rever, a Canadian freelance journalist and co-author of the Globe and Mail investigative report last year, was given 24-hour protection by Belgian security officials for a week when she visited Brussels for research last year. The protection included an armoured car and two armed bodyguards, including one who searched her hotel room each time she entered. She said the officials told her the Belgian government had received credible information that the Rwandan embassy in Brussels posed a threat to her.

Western governments, including the United States and Canada, have been long-time supporters of Mr. Kagame, but this month the U.S. State Department urged Mr. Kagame to step down at the end of his current term in 2017, rather than seeking another term as he appears likely to do.

The State Department expressed "great concern" over a Rwandan parliamentary move to change the constitution to allow Mr. Kagame to seek another term.

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Les exigences pour étudier aux USA – au Royaume-Uni – en Australie – au Canada

Les exigences pour étudier aux USA – au Royaume-Uni – en Australie – au Canada

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Je voudrais porter à votre connaissance les exigences pour étudier aux USA – au Royaume-Uni – en Australie et une partie du Canada. Bien que les conditions d'admission varient d'une école à l'autre, certaines exigences demeurent les mêmes, par exemple, celle de subir un test d'aptitudes linguistiques dans la langue d'usage de l'établissement choisi. Que […]

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Thursday, 19 November 2015

Re: [fondationbanyarwanda] FW: [haguruka.com] Kagame igifaransa yagihanaguye na blanco mu itegekonshinga ryemejwe n’Abasenateri.

Passer à l'Anglais comme langue de l'éducation et administrative, donc comme langue officielle principale, a été une très grande décision positive pour le pays.

Cependant ce aurait été encore mieux, si l'on continuait à encourager aussi l'apprentissage du Français.

C'est une langue internationale parlé couramment par bcp de peuples et de pays et pas les moindres.

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Nyamara murarenganya Mushikiwabo na Kagame! Uwigize agatabo ayora ivu koko.

Abafransa babonye neza ibyabereye mu Rwanda. Niba bazi ko bakoze genocide nibemere bayambare. Ahubwo bagomba no gufungwa nta yandi mananiza.

Niba kandi batabyemera nibahagaruke batajenjetse bahangane n'ubasukaho ayo mabi batarayakoze. Ibindi se balimo ni ibiki?

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Subject: [haguruka.com] Kagame igifaransa yagihanaguye na blanco mu itegekonshinga ryemejwe n'Abasenateri.

Kagame igifaransa yagihanaguye na blanco mu itegekonshinga ryemejwe n'Abasenateri. Umushinga w'itegekonshinga wemejwe n'Asenateri urerekana ko igifaransa Kagame yagihanaguye burundu. Nyamara igifaransa cyari umuyoboro wo guhuza u Rwanda n'ibihugu francophones.

Ibi biriyongera ku byo Mushikiwabo amaze iminsi atangaza ko Ambassaderi w'u Bufaransa mu Rwanda atazemerwa ngo atangire imilimo ye mu gihe France ntacyo ikora ngo umubano w'u Rwanda n'ubu Bufaransa utere imbere kandi France ikemera ko yakoze genocide mu Rwanda.

Sinzi rero niba gukuraho igifaransa aribwo buryo Mushikiwabyo yabonye bwo guteza imbere uwo mubano. Sinzi niba iki kemezo kitazagira ingaruka mu manza ziteganijwe mu Bufaransa zatanzwe na za ONGs zikorana na Kagame zirega abategetsi b'Abafaransa ko bakoze genocide mu Rwanda.

Mushikwabo niyibuke ko kugira Amabassade mu gihugu runaka ataribyo byerekana umubano mwiza hagati y'ibihugu byombi. Hari ibihugu byinshi bifitanye za Ambassades ariko bitumvikana cyangwa se bifite ibindi bibazo hagati yabyo. Urugero ni u Burundi n'u Rwanda.

Ambassade ntabwo ari ugukorera ubutegetsi rw'iguhugu irimo. Ni ugutsura mu umubano, ukureba inyungu z'igihugu cyayo muri icyo gihugu no gufasha abaturage bayo baba muri icyo gihugu ndetse no gufasha abenegihugu yasanze.

Ibi byose ni chantage ikorerwa ku Bufaransa.

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[haguruka.com] ntawarubara!

Aliko se bwana Serge aho wabereye wali wabona agasimba kikura mu mwobo wako ushyushye gashoboye kubona ubulyo bwo kuwugumamo?

Tugaruke ibutware kwa HE: Uragira se ngo Nyakubahwa yikure mu Rugwiro igihe agishoboye kubona abamufasha kurugumamo, maze asubire gucuruza amagi cyangwa yishore abajyajyi nka bamwe birwa bakinira kuli ba prof Munyakazi ( Rwanda: Ibimenyetso Simusiga bya CNLG ni Ibinyoma Gusa. ), J. B. Habinshuti (private secretary of late A Uwilingiyimana Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter, Published on Mon Nov 09 2015 )?

Oyaa! Yava mu Rugwiro ali amaburakindi, naho ubundi nkuko mubivuga azarusaziramo ndetse ni biba ngombwa arusigire umwe mu bibondo bye, baduha iterambere lisa na bya byiza Semuhanuka na Nyirarunyonga bakoranaga bakanabisangira.

Erega bulya na Habyarimana yali umunyarwanda nk'abandi bose, uretse ko yaliganyaga buhoro kandi ntabe yarashize igitsure gikomeye mu banyarwanda maze ngo bamuhakweho kabisa, nkuko umwami Musinga yabibwiye abazungu.

"Niba abanyarwanda bafite uburenganzira bwo gukora ibyo bashaka byose bakagera naho batoba constitution bikemerwa, none kuki babakulikiranira ibibi bakoze muli 1994" ibi Abdul Karim avuga ntawabirenza yewe bwana Serge. Karim ati abanyarwanda bategekeshwa amategeko (rule of law) aliko ntibategekwa hakulikije amategeko (rule by law), nta na social capital bafite. Yabitoye.

Ese bwana Serge wowe ni bakurega kwangisha abanyarwanda ubutegetsi uzabiburana ute, dore ko wowe ibyo uvuga abazaguhamya banabifata ku mavideo? Ikindi niba umugabo wa Roza-wacu na brigadier general Rusagara baliho bagirwa kuliya, nka rubanda rusanzwe murabona rwakora iki uretse kwikorera ibiseke bakabishyikiliza inteko nshinga-mategeko, bagira amahirwe ligaserura? Mbiswa daa!

Bwana Serge uratangara uti "ese Amateka (tuvuga ko ali mabi) y'abanyarwanda yavumbutsemo iterambere ate? Byasabaga se genocide kugira ngo Urwanda rutere imbere bagenzi"? Ngaho abazi ubwenge ni bahatane badusobanulire, uretse ko tuzi ko genocide yatumye za UN n'ibindi bihugu bisuka imali nyinshi mu Rwanda, igatanga n'ubudahangarwa mu gukora ibidasobanutse byose by'abavuga ko bayihagalitse nyamara bagaculilirwa!

Aliko reka tubakopeze: None Rwanda yaba yaragenderewe na wa mu genie-voyageur wo muli "Candide ou l'optimiste" par Voltaire!

Iki kiganiro rwose ni cyiza: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radioitahuka/2015/11/18/pres-paul-kagame-ati-ninongera-kuyobora-u-rwanda-nzakorera-ibirenze-ibyo-nkora

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[haguruka.com] Re: Amb. Herman Cohen to President PaulKagame : “U NDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES” you should not run for a 3rd term!

Urakoze nawe Vero.

Kuri iyi ngingo yo turumvikana rwose.

Ariko se iyo "statut special" y'uRda izageza ryari ko nziko na patience igira limite?

Misiri ya Mubarak na Pakistan ya Musharaf nabyo byari bifite statut special ku byerekeye "war on terror" ariko ntibyabujije ingoma guhindura imirisho ndetse ubu Misiri niyo icumbikiye Command Center ya Africom.

No mu Rda rero nta kidashoboka iyo statut special ntacyo ipfa na alternance politique. Wibuke ejobundi Afandi mkubwa yivugiye ko hari igihugu kigihangange cyamuzaniye amazina y'abantu gikeka ko bamusimbura. Ati nibyo rwose bashobora kunsimbura. Cyokora Afandi yongeye ho ngo none se abo bantu nibansimbura ari mwe mubigennye, aho democracy ntizaba ipfukiranwe?

Ngibyo nguko.

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On Nov 18, 2015, at 9:52 PM, Veronika Kirimumpuzu <veronika_kirimumpuzu@yahoo.com> wrote:

Merci Nzinink de faire rappeler, par Amb. Cohen interpose, que le cas du Rwanda est spécial. Si ça peut tempérer l'effervescence des radicalisés de DHR!

277441 Amb. Herman Cohen to President PaulKagame : "U NDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES" you should not run for a 3rd term!
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Amb. Herman Cohen reminds Kagame that "UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES" he should not change the constitution to run for a 3rd term!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2xtd6w

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Nyamara murarenganya Mushikiwabo na Kagame! Uwigize agatabo ayora ivu koko.

Abafransa babonye neza ibyabereye mu Rwanda. Niba bazi ko bakoze genocide nibemere bayambare. Ahubwo bagomba no gufungwa nta yandi mananiza.

Niba kandi batabyemera nibahagaruke batajenjetse bahangane n'ubasukaho ayo mabi batarayakoze. Ibindi se balimo ni ibiki?

Ibi byose ni chantage ikorerwa ku Bufaransa.

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“Uwigize agatebo ayora ivi”. Ubutegetsi bukugira agatebo ukariyora uko bukeye n’uko bwije.

"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.”

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."

“Uwigize agatebo ayora ivi”. Ubutegetsi bukugira agatebo ukariyora uko bukeye n’uko bwije.

"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.”

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile."

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