Rwanda, Tanzania Edging Closer To War?

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Rwanda, Tanzania Edging Closer To War?

Rwanda and Tanzania are moving closer to war with a high ranking government official telling reporters in Kigali that Rwandans are being harassed and kicked out of Tanzania.

By Giles Muhame 2 hours 32 minutes ago

Kagame (L) and Kikwete inspect a military parade (INTERNET PHOTO)

Rwanda government spokesperson, Louise Mushikiwabo, who also doubles as the Foreign Affairs Minister, said Thursday that Kigali was not "consulted" when Tanzanian authorities raided the homes of Rwandan families in the border areas of Kagera before expelling them.

Officials said at least 300 Rwandans of whom some have lived in Tanzania for the last 60 years, have since early this week been walking long miles from Kagera to Rwanda through Rusumo border point after President Jakaya Kikwete asked authorities to kick out the "illegal immigrants."

Citizenship and other residential documents were subsequently destroyed by Tanzanian security officials; a move sources said was aimed at creating a special zone near the border with Rwanda which would be utilized for an attack.

Responding to a question from a journalist on the expulsion of Rwandans from Tanzania, Mushikiwabo said: "It wasn't our decision. We were not consulted."

ICGLR leaders in a meeting at Entebbe recently

"We have been busy doing whatever possible to welcome, help resettle and offer security to Rwandans expelled from Tanzania," added Mushikiwabo.

She, however, noted that "whatever tension exists between Rwanda and Tanzania must be resolved," adding, "The relationship is too important."

"We are neighbours and so we have to live in peace. We are in the same block and much is to be gained from this. However, the tension that arose from the suggestion to Rwanda negotiate with FDLR would be met with the same reaction were it from anyone else," said Mushikiwabo.

She added: "FDLR committed genocide in Rwanda. They should be the whole world's enemy. That's how serious crimes of genocide are; we are not talking of a mutiny or a rebel group. They committed genocide in Rwanda and have continued their deadly work in the DRC."

She emphasized that Rwanda's position has not changed on FDLR.

"Some say most FDLR are too young to have been in the genocide but the ideology, indoctrinated since birth, has no age. Rwanda will never sit at a table with them and rejects any suggestion to do so. FDLR should disarm, reject genocidal ideology and return to Rwanda."

Mushikiwabo addressing press in Kigali on Thursday

PLAN OF ATTACK

Officials in the Rwandan government have told Chimpreports they suspect that Kikwete's plan is to create a large space of land near the border which would be utilized by FDLR militants to strike deep into Rwanda.

Tanzania denies supporting FDLR but Kikwete's recent remarks that Kigali should hold negotiations with the DRC-based militia, which draws the better part of its fighters and leaders from perpetrators of the Rwanda genocide in 1994, have caused concern in Kigali.

President Paul Kagame recently said he does not take "Kikwete's remarks on FDLR for granted."

Kikwete further unruffled feathers at a military function when he said the Tanzanian armed forces were ready to strike any force that threatened its interests, a statement many thought was directed at Rwanda and Malawi.

Due to international pressure, Kikwete would later be quoted as saying he wanted to see good relations with Tanzania's neighbours.

MENDING OR BREAKING RELATIONS?

But a source in Kigali says Kikwete is not being honest. "He said he wanted to mend relations, portraying himself as peace-loving but what he is doing is against the tenets of Pan Africanism. Some of those people evicted have Tanzania nationality and have lived there since the 1950s"

The source further noted that "Rwandans are being mistreated and their property confiscated by opportunists."

"There is every indication that we are heading in that direction of war though we don't want any clashes with Tanzania. They are supporting FDLR and are now harassing our people. Where is the spirit of the East African integration?" the source, who preferred anonymity so as to speak freely, wondered.

Gonza Mugi, an experienced Rwandan journalist says it is "ridiculous expelling Africans from an African country."

He adds "Other leaders in the region should also be active in cooling tensions between Kagame and Kikwete from going out of hand. Otherwise what happened to Pan Africanism? Remember the disagreement between Idi Amin and Nyerere had a big role in collapse in of EAC in 1977."

Gonza says in 1982, Ugandan leader, Milton Obote expelled Banyarwanda "which effectively gave an army (National Resistance Army) to Museveni."

Ugandan fighters of Rwandan origin, who at the time included now President Kagame and Fred Rwigyema (RIP), played a pivotal role in ousting Obote's government.

With Museveni as the NRA leader, Kagame and Rwigyema participated in the successful attack on Kabamba barracks, which many believe was a turning point in the NRA struggle that saw rebels seize Kampala in 1985.

Gonza added: "In 1996 Mobutu was busy expelling Banyarwanda in Congo, he ended up with a rebellion that kicked him out. In 1998, Kabila Laurent expelled Banyarwanda soldiers; he soon got a bullet in the head."

It is also feared that Kikwete's actions could be as a result of panic, fearing the penetration of Rwandan intelligence personnel in Kagera.

The unfolding events, especially concerns that FDLR militants are being supported by Tanzania and DRC, could touch off a spark that will see the region engulfed in a deadly war.

While regional observers thought Rwanda would quickly move to strike FDLR elements in DRC, latest reports show that a conflict with Tanzania appears so imminent than earlier thought.

President Kikwete and Kagame at a function in Rwanda

DIPLOMATIC MUSHKIWABO

Mushikiwabo says "while these things are usually discussed among countries, Rwanda is ready to receive any Rwandan who crossed the border. We have already started to receive them, with more crossing every day. I want to reassure Tanzanians living in Rwanda that no harm will come to them. We are all part of the East African Community and as such any Tanzanian should feel welcome."

Meanwhile, on wider discussions on the DRC, Mushikiwabo said that the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Summit held last week called on the DRC government to resume Kampala peace talks as well as naming FDLR, a negative force.

This combined with individual country commitments in the UN Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region showed that regional efforts and as well as a commitment to addressing root causes gives hope of a lasting solution for sustainable peace in the region.

"As we do our part, Rwanda requests that that there are no other threats to our territory," she noted.

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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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