African Great Lakes Observer

ICC’s double standards in dealing with war criminals are preventing justice to ordinary and poor people in Africa. Mr Bashir is   indicted by the ICC, for committing   genocide and war crimes in Darfur.     But, the dictator and war criminal Paul Kagame may never face justice. Kagame   massacred many people in Rwanda and neighbouring countries   than Mr. Bashir. Kagame continues   to enjoy impunity. He frequently meet   UK   British Officials. He   also met Her Majesty The Queen. In fact, On Earth   Kagame is only black person   who is much loved  and respected by British policies and   the media. More at: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/july252012/kagame-ntaganda.php The UK may block the   prosecution of Paul Kagame by the ICC. http://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/laura-seay-bbc-newsday?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=http://soundcloud.com/bbc-...

Rwanda's Paul Kagame Warned he May be Charged with Aiding War Crimes Salem-News.com US tells president he could face prosecution for arming groups that carried out atrocities in DRC. Recent visit of Rwanda's Paul Kagame to Oskaloosa, Iowa, where activists yelled: “Kagame…Criminal... Kagame…Criminal” in various languages. Photo by Jennifer Fierberg (LONDON The Guardian) - The head of the US war crimes office has warned Rwanda's leaders, including President Paul Kagame, that they could face prosecution at the international criminal court for arming groups responsible for atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Stephen Rapp, who leads the US Office of Global Criminal Justice, told the Guardian the Rwandan leadership may be open to charges of "aiding and abetting" crimes against humanity in a neighbouring country – actions similar to those for which the former Liberian president, Charles Taylor, was jailed for 50 years by an internationa...

The UK may block the   prosecution of Paul Kagame by the ICC. http://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/laura-seay-bbc-newsday?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=http://soundcloud.com/bbc-world-service/laura-seay-bbc-newsday

  La chronique de Normand Lester, Journaliste d'investigation http://fr-ca.actualites.yahoo.com/blogues/la-chronique-de-normand-lester/rwanda-congo-burundi-guerres-sans-fin-et-genocides-apprehendes.html#more-id Même les États-Unis commencent à en avoir soupé du régime dictatorial de Paul Kagamé qui se livre à des crimes de guerre au Congo voisin tout en exigeant la sympathie du monde entier pour le génocide dont a été victime sa population tutsie en 1994. Washington a décidé de suspendre sa coopération militaire avec le Rwanda et de ne pas allouer 200 000 dollars destinés à financer une école militaire rwandaise. Pas de quoi mettre le régime en péril. Kagamé a rétabli la paix au Rwanda au prix de violations importantes des droits et des libertés. Le pays reste fondamentalement instable parce que les nouvelles élites dirigeantes sont maintenant essentiellement tutsies et représentent moins de 15 % de la population composée dans son immense majorité de Hutus, la majorité res...

  http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2012/07/23/kagame-2012/#more-2479 Kagame 2012 Posted on   July 23, 2012   |   Leave a comment A critical question should resonate loudly in the mind of those who follow international politics since Kony 2012 came out on March 5 th , 2012.   Why would a global campaign to track a criminal with apparently ill equipped 300 followers be staged while the same countries which are after the former Passer à : Texte seulement , Résumé du jour • Désinscription • Conditions dutilisation having been providing billions of £, $ and Euros and persist in backing another criminal leader of a country whose responsibility in worse atrocities has been irrevocably proven? We remember well  Kony 2012 , the phenomenal viral clip that Invisible Children launched online to track Joseph Kony, the Ugandan rebel leader of the Lord Resistance Army. Adam Branch  is clearer on the real intentions from backers in the...

  http://allafrica.com/stories/201203121333.html Rwanda Focus  (Kigali) EMAIL   PRINT   SHARE Rwanda: Education, Not Parliamentary Seats, Will Empower Women BY EDWARD OJULU, 12 MARCH 2012 On March 8, nations around the globe marked the International Women's Day for the 102nd time since it was first observed in 1910. As usual, there was more talk and political posturing than tackling real issues that hinder political, social and economic development for the less privileged women, especially those in rural Africa. Emphasis appeared to be on symptoms rather than confronting with frankness the real problems that keep women, and by extension all people, under social and economic deprivation. This means that we are either pretentious or simply out of touch with real issues that hurt ordinary women. One of the most simplistic thoughts to come out of this year's women's day is the hype about the "worryingly low" number of women representatives in parliaments aro...

  Engaging Conspiracy Theories On Africa's Great Lakes Region Brian Solis wrote sometime ago: "Once invincible organisations are seeking your help to earn relevance today and in the future". Former Obama campaign new media operations manager Mary Joyce is worried that Obama and the State Department aren't getting the message, as she said in july: "America is still the one speaking and others around the world are expected to listen." @texasinafrica, a regular blogger on Rwanda, Congo and the rest of Africa , tweeted yesterday: "I saw a preview screening of "Crisis in the Congo" in April. Strongly disagree with film's implication that US pulls strings in DRC, Rwanda." If US had that much influence, DRC would be much more stable than it is. DRC is not a US foreign policy priority. Government doesn't care enough to engage in grand conspiracies some imagine. The trailer she is referring to is probably this one. In her tw...

  Congo: The UN Mapping Report & the Responsibility to Justice March 28th, 2011 § Leave a Comment ( http://rachelstrohm.com/2011/03/28/congo-the-un-mapping-report-the-responsibility-to-justice/ )   Continuing my quest to catch up on Congo - related conference blogging, I wanted to share some notes from the December 2010 Great Lakes Policy Forum discussion of the UN mapping report .  The GLPF's official summary can be downloaded here . One commentator took on the political economy of the report's publication, noting that many Congolese found psychological and emotional value in seeing the UN provide proof of crimes they had long known to have occurred.  However, the report's existence also complicates peacebuilding efforts in the region.  "There's blood on almost everyone's hands," as almost every government in the region has some members who've been guilty of massive human rights abuses at some point.  This is clearly visible in Rwan...

  Kagame's RPF Using Harvard For Propaganda Purposes  In an interview, Mark Tracy, a member of the  Harvard delegation visiting Rwanda , (organized by Angelique Kantengwa who until 2009 had an important job at the Rwandan national bank) , claimed that Rwanda as a country, its people and President Kagame have taught them many lessons that they are eager to take to their own countries when they go back. "Frankly speaking, the portrayal of Rwanda in the Western press does not equal what we have seen here, so we are very enthusiastic about becoming ambassadors and taking the message back to our countries," What stories in the western press is Mark Tracy talking about? This very broad claim can't be justified and is a gross mischaracterisation of the debate taking place in western press on Rwanda. Mark Tracy probably did not even read Jimmy Wu's article on Rwanda in the Harvard Review before going on his trip. Is Mark Tracy here denying the facts recorded ...