FDU-INKINGI AND RWANDA NATIONAL CONGRESS (RNC) RESPOND TO TONY BLAIR AND HOWARD BUFFET

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FDU-INKINGI AND RWANDA NATIONAL CONGRESS (RNC) RESPOND TO TONY BLAIR AND HOWARD BUFFET

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

In the Foreign Policy issue of February 21, 2013, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and American billionaire Howard Buffet pleaded with the international community to "stand with Rwanda, and that now is no time to cut aid to Kigali". Blair and Buffet recognise the shocking consequences of DRC's Second Congo War, which has claimed more than 5.4 million lives, as "the most deadly conflict since World II". Since the eruption of the M23 insurgency, Blair and Buffet admit, 900,000 people have been displaced and serious human rights abuses have been committed.

Like the Government of Rwanda's denials and deception regarding the U.N. Security Council group of experts report onRwanda's involvement with the M23 rebellion, the thrust of Blair's repeated absurd and scandalous campaign is to question the integrity of the report, and condemn the international effort to hold President Paul Kagame accountable for his actions in DRC.

FDU-Inkingi and Rwanda National Congress (RNC) would like to state the following regarding the Blair-Buffet position:

It is either sheer ignorance or outright selective amnesia to remember the scourge of the Second Congo War, without mentioning the authors of the same war. For those who may not be familiar with the recent history of theGreat Lakesregion of centralAfrica, it was President Kagame ofRwanda, later supported by President Museveni ofUganda, who started the First Congo War as well as the Second Congo War. President Laurent Kabila responded toRwanda's andUganda's attack by requesting the help ofAngola,ZimbabweandNamibiaas the conflict escalated into a regional war. A stalemate followed and ultimatelyRwandaandUgandawithdrew, and have since maintained their presence through proxy forces. M23, like CNDP before it, isRwanda's creation.

The pretense that everyone is wrong aboutRwanda's involvement with M23 except President Kagame, Tony Blair and Howard Buffet is in itself a symptom of the corrupting power of money and unchallenged political influence. The United Nations Group of Experts' Report has been confirmed as credible and compelling by the whole international community, including U.S, British, French and many African governments. Human rights organizations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have diligently shown the extent of human rights abuses thatRwandaand its proxies have committed in DRC.

Having dismissed the whole world, except the trio, as liars, Blair and Buffet re-iterated and echoedRwanda's often repeated defense that cutting or suspending aid is the "wrong approach". One would ask them, "what is the right approach" to a regime that without provocation abuses the sovereignty and territorial integrity of another state? More aid? There is no dispute that President Kagame's regime has been a recipient of tremendous amounts of resources from the West's bilateral and multilateral finance institutions. While there are some positive outcomes of this guilt-driven largesse from the international community, the unquestioning attitude towardsRwandahas fueled President Kagame's impunity inRwandaand war-making in DRC.

It is true that DRC's internal problems have a long history. It is true that problems of theGreat Lakesregion are complex, dangerous and inter-related. DRC's population and geographical size may be seen by Blair and Buffet as a problem, but they are assets that are yet to be harnessed by Congolese people for their own benefits. An ineffectual UN Peacekeeping operation in DRC is ridiculous, but it is no reason forRwandato always be the spoiler who acts with arrogance and impunity. FDLR may be the convenient culprit, but it is no longer the leading rationale for President Kagame's policies and actions in DRC. What is beyond any shade of doubt is that President Kagame's regime has become a major part of DRC's problems.Rwanda's presence in DRC, direct or through proxies, has nothing to do with protecting Tutsi there or inRwanda. The main reasons are domestic and financial. A dictatorial, brutal, and minority regime inRwandais simultaneously belligerent and exploitative with neighbors. To perpetually weaken and compound DRC's problems is President Kagame's unstated, yet unequivocal, goal.

Asking the DRC,RwandaandUgandato find solutions for problems thatRwanda(and to a lesser extent,Uganda) causes to DRC is an absurd proposition that is designed to preserve the status quo. If Blair and Buffet were not blindly or intentionally pro-Kagame, they would have highlighted and supported the current initiative to deploy troops from the SADC region (spearheaded bySouth Africa,TanzaniaandAngola). Only such African force, logistically and financially supported by the international community, stands the chance of getting DRC to reclaim its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Tony Blair's quest to sell President Kagame to an increasingly skeptical and questioning public opinion is seen by many as suspect on grounds of greed and racial considerations. Has this former British Prime Minister turned into a hired disciple who must sell a soiled and spoiled product to anyone who cares to listen? Is Tony Blair a closet racist who does not care for the plight of millions of Rwandese and Congolese who have perished due to President Kagame's policies and actions inRwandaand DRC simply because the victims are Africans and black?

If he is not greedy and/or racist, Tony Blair should assist Rwandans and the Congolese by joining Africans and the rest of the international community in putting pressure on President Kagame to release all political prisoners, open political space to allow political parties to establish themselves and function, allow independent media and civil society to function, stop human rights abuses, stop his DRC adventures and account for his policies and actions related to M23 and the UN Mapping report, and promote dialogue between President Kagame and Rwanda's opposition, unarmed or armed ( including FDLR).

We call upon Tony Blair and Howard Buffet to make a choice: stand with the Rwandans, Congolese people and the international community or with President Kagame's minority military clique as it accelerates to its own demise. The former path requires that they become students willing to learn the true context and consequences of the status quo which they are promoting. Being a rich dictator's friend and promoter may be tempting, but it is temporary and dangerous, as history has repeatedly demonstrated; all the reason why Blair and Buffet should listen to their conscience.

Dr.Nkiko Nsengimana
Co-ordinator
FDU-Inkingi
Lausanne
Switzerland

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Co-ordinator
Rwanda National Congress (RNC)
Washington,D.C.
USA

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Why has the UN ignored its own report about the massacres of Hutu refugees in DRC ?

The UN has ignored its own reports, NGOs and media reports about the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Hutu in DRC Congo (estimated to be more than 400,000) by Kagame when he attacked Hutu refugee camps in Eastern DRC in 1996. This barbaric killings and human rights violations were perpetrated by Kagame’s RPF with the approval of UK and USA and with sympathetic understanding and knowledge of UNHCR and international NGOs which were operating in the refugees camps. According to the UN, NGO and media reports between 1993 and 2003 women and girls were raped. Men slaughtered. Refugees killed with machetes and sticks. The attacks of refugees also prevented humanitarian organisations to help many other refugees and were forced to die from cholera and other diseases. Other refugees who tried to return to Rwanda where killed on their way by RFI and did not reach their homes. No media, no UNHCR, no NGO were there to witness these massacres. When Kagame plans to kill, he makes sure no NGO and no media are prevent. Kagame always kills at night.

The principal key root causes that lead to the Rwandan genocide of 1994 that affected all Rwandan ethnic groups were:

1)The majority Hutu community’s fear of the return of the discriminatory monarchy system that was practiced by the minority Tutsi community against the enslaved majority Hutu community for about 500 years

2)The Hutu community’s fear of Kagame’s guerrilla that committed massacres in the North of the country and other parts of the countries including assassinations of Rwandan politicians.

3) The Rwandan people felt abandoned by the international community ( who was believed to support Kagame’s guerrilla) and then decided to defend themselves with whatever means they had against the advance of Kagame’ guerrilla supported by Ugandan, Tanzanian and Ethiopian armies and other Western powers.

SUMMARY : THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE BRITISH BUDGET SUPPORT AND GEO-STRATEGIC AMBITIONS

United Kingdom's Proxy Wars in Africa: The Case of Rwanda and DR Congo:

The Rwandan genocide and 6,000,000 Congolese and Hutu refugees killed are the culminating point of a long UK’s battle to expand their influence to the African Great Lakes Region. UK supported Kagame’s guerrilla war by providing military support and money. The UK refused to intervene in Rwanda during the genocide to allow Kagame to take power by military means that triggered the genocide. Kagame’s fighters and their families were on the Ugandan payroll paid by UK budget support.

· 4 Heads of State assassinated in the francophone African Great Lakes Region.
· 2,000,000 people died in Hutu and Tutsi genocides in Rwanda, Burundi and RD.Congo.
· 600,000 Hutu refugees killed in R.D.Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic and Rep of Congo.
· 6,000,000 Congolese dead.
· 8,000,000 internal displaced people in Rwanda, Burundi and DR. Congo.
· 500,000 permanent Rwandan and Burundian Hutu refugees, and Congolese refugees around the world.
· English language expansion to Rwanda to replace the French language.
· 20,000 Kagame’s fighters paid salaries from the British Budget Support from 1986 to present.
· £500,000 of British taxpayer’s money paid, so far, to Kagame and his cronies through the budget support, SWAPs, Tutsi-dominated parliament, consultancy, British and Tutsi-owned NGOs.
· Kagame has paid back the British aid received to invade Rwanda and to strengthen his political power by joining the East African Community together with Burundi, joining the Commonwealth, imposing the English Language to Rwandans to replace the French language; helping the British to establish businesses and to access to jobs in Rwanda, and to exploit minerals in D.R.Congo.

Thousands of Hutu murdered by Kagame inside Rwanda, e.g. Kibeho massacres

25,000 Hutu bodies floated down River Akagera into Lake Victoria in Uganda.

The British irrational, extremist, partisan,biased, one-sided media and politicians have disregarded Kagame war crimes e.g. the Kibeho camp massacres, massacres of innocents Hutu refugees in DR. Congo. The British media have been supporting Kagame since he invaded Rwanda by organising the propaganda against the French over the Rwandan genocide, suppressing the truth about the genocide and promoting the impunity of Kagame and his cronies in the African Great Lakes Region. For the British, Rwanda does not need democracy, Rwanda is the African Israel; and Kagame and his guerilla fighters are heroes.The extremist British news reporters including Fergal Keane, Chris Simpson, Chris McGreal, Mark Doyle, etc. continue to hate the Hutus communities and to polarise the Rwandan society.

Kagame political ambitions triggered the genocide.

Kagame’s guerrilla war was aimed at accessing to power at any cost. He rejected all attempts and advice that could stop his military adventures including the cease-fire, political negotiations and cohabitation, and UN peacekeeping interventions. He ignored all warnings that could have helped him to manage the war without tragic consequences. Either you supported Kagame’ s wars and you are now his friend, or you were against his wars and you are his enemy. Therefore, Kagame as the Rwandan strong man now, you have to apologise to him for having been against his war and condemned his war crimes, or accept to be labelled as having been involved in the genocide. All key Kagame’s fighters who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity are the ones who hold key positions in Rwandan army and government for the last 15 years. They continue to be supported and advised by the British including Tony Blair, Andrew Mitchell MP, and the British army senior officials.

Aid that kills: The British Budget Support financed Museveni and Kagame’s wars in Rwanda and DRC.

Genocide propaganda and fabrications are used by the so-called British scholars, news reporters and investigative journalists to promote their CVs and to get income out of the genocide through the selling of their books, providing testimonies against the French, access to consultancy contracts from the UN and Kagame, and participation in conferences and lectures in Rwanda, UK and internationally about genocide. Genocide propaganda has become a lucrative business for Kagame and the British. Anyone who condemned or did not support Kagame’s war is now in jail in Rwanda under the gacaca courts system suuported by British tax payer's money, or his/she is on arrest warrant if he/she managed to flee the Kagame’s regime. Others have fled the country and are still fleeing now. Many others Rwandans are being persecuted in their own country. Kagame is waiting indefinitely for the apologies from other players who warn him or who wanted to help to ensure that political negotiations take place between Kagame and the former government he was fighting against. Britain continues to supply foreign aid to Kagame and his cronies with media reports highlighting economic successes of Rwanda. Such reports are flawed and are aimed at misleading the British public to justify the use of British taxpayers’ money. Kagame and his cronies continue to milk British taxpayers’ money under the British budget support. This started from 1986 through the British budget support to Uganda until now.

Dictator Kagame: No remorse for his unwise actions and ambitions that led to the Rwandan genocide.

No apologies yet to the Rwandan people. The assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana by Kagame was the only gateway for Kagame to access power in Rwanda. The British media, politicians, and the so-called British scholars took the role of obstructing the search for the truth and justice; and of denying this assassination on behalf of General Kagame. General Paul Kagame has been obliging the whole world to apologise for his mistakes and war crimes. The UK’s way to apologise has been pumping massive aid into Rwanda's crony government and parliement; and supporting Kagame though media campaigns.

This blog reports the crimes that remain unpunished and the impunity that has generated a continuous cycle of massacres in many parts of Africa. In many cases, the perpetrators of the crimes seem to have acted in the knowledge that they would not be held to account for their actions.

The need to fight this impunity has become even clearer with the massacres and genocide in many parts of Africa and beyond.

The blog also addresses issues such as Rwanda War Crimes, Rwandan Refugee massacres in Dr Congo, genocide, African leaders’ war crimes and crimes against humanity, Africa war criminals, Africa crimes against humanity, Africa Justice.

-The British relentless and long running battle to become the sole player and gain new grounds of influence in the francophone African Great Lakes Region has led to the expulsion of other traditional players from the region, or strained diplomatic relations between the countries of the region and their traditional friends. These new tensions are even encouraged by the British using a variety of political and economic manoeuvres.

-General Kagame has been echoing the British advice that Rwanda does not need any loan or aid from Rwandan traditional development partners, meaning that British aid is enough to solve all Rwandan problems.

-The British obsession for the English Language expansion has become a tyranny that has led to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, dictatorial regimes, human rights violations, mass killings, destruction of families, communities and cultures, permanent refugees and displaced persons in the African Great Lakes region.

- Rwanda, a country that is run by a corrupt clique of minority-tutsi is governed with institutional discrmination, human rights violations, dictatorship, authoritarianism and autocracy, as everybody would expect.

Susan Rice: a cheater, irresponsible and corrupt woman

Susan Rice: a cheater, irresponsible and corrupt woman: US and UN have supported and protecting the Rwandan dictator and war criminal Paul Kagame who has ordered and supported the death of almost 8 million people both in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ms. Susan Rice has been at the forefront of trying to shield the Rwandan government, and Mr. Kagame in particular, from international censure, even as several United Nations reports have laid the blame for civilians massacred and genocide of Hutu community in DR Congo. Susan Rice advised Bill Clinton not to intervene in Rwanda to prevent the massacres of civilians by Kagame’s war and to prevent genocide in Rwanda and DR Congo. UK, Uganda and US opted to provide more arms, intelligence, media and diplomatic support to Kagame’s guerrilla war, which contributed to massacres of civilians and genocide of hutu and tutsi in Rwanda and DR Congo.

"British budget support killed our dads, mums, uncles and aunts, our sisters and brothers..."

Guilty of not speaking English: Tears, rapes, bloodshed, terror and horrors as the result of Museveni and Kagame’s liberation for the expansion of the East African Community to create a regional super state, of the British influence and of the English language to francophone countries of the African Great Lakes Region. British’s poor judgement of their geo-strategic ambitions and British endless and chronic rivalries against the French have led to human rights abuses and the killings of millions of innocent people in the Great Lakes Region.

Kagame’s licence to kill Hutu Refugees in DR.Congo

General Nkunda’s wars supported by Kagame through the British Budget support.

Museveni, Kagame and Nkunda ’s wars in D.R. Congo were funded by the British taxpayer’s money through the budget support and by the British private companies that illegally exploit minerals in D.R.Congo. The assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana by Kagame was the only gateway to access to power in Rwanda, to help Museveni and the British create and Anglophone super state that includes Rwanda, Burundi and D.R.Congo and to continue the fighting for the regime change in DR.Congo that will lead to easier access to minerals in RD Congo and to the implementation of the UK and Museveni’s plans for East African Political Federation.

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We are proud of our achievements ! This blog has done a good job so far. For the last 5 years we have been campaigning against war , huma rights violations and sexual violence against women and girls in Democratic Republic of Congo. The outcome of our campaign to the UK and USA is the pressure brought to bear on the dictator President Paul Kagame to end Rwanda's support to M23’s guerrilla war and human rights abuses. It is the UK and USA 's late realisation that British and American people have been supporting a wrong man (Paul Kagame) for the last 20 years. This is how we have achieved our goal. M23 has been politically and militarily defeated and Congolese people are starting to enjoy peace, security and human rights. The Congolese people can now focus on improving their lives through undertaking social and economic activities that will contribute to ending hunger, diseases, ignorance, poverty, illiteracy and malnutrition. But Kagame is unpredictable. He may re-start again to create a new military group in the next few years. We will continue our campaign until all perpetrators of human rights abuses and war crimes in Rwanda, DRC and all East Africa are brought to justice. We are not claiming a Nobel Prize. This is our humble contribution to a fairer and just world.

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