Kagame visit should not go without scrutiny
April 24, 2014

Students of Stanford STAND are calling a protest Friday, April 25, 11
a.m., prior to Kagame's speech at the Stanford Graduate School of
Business 12-1 p.m. in CEMEX Auditorium – join them!
Editorial by The Tufts Daily, the independent student newspaper of
Tufts University
Rwandan President Paul Kagame visited Tufts April 22 to give a speech
to students and guests on his country's recovery from genocide, ethnic
tensions and its future. The lecture was so popular that tickets for
the event were gone within an hour of their public release. While
Jumbos should feel lucky that the university continues to bring in
elite speakers, thinkers and media figures, it's important to remain
aware of Rwanda's full story.
While Kagame's Rwanda has seen marked improvement in representing
women in its parliament – more than 60 percent of the body is made up
of women – and in economic growth, his administration has still been
accused of human rights abuses. The rebel group M23's skirmishes and
assaults in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC) have been connected to the Rwandan government by the United
Nations.
M23, which has only been the most recent militia group to contribute
to the consistent troubles and instability in the DRC, represents one
of the darker parts of Kagame's tenure in a region where many ethnic
Tutsis fled from Hutu massacres in Rwanda in the 1990s.
Domestically, according to Human Rights Watch, political and civil
rights in Rwanda have been significantly curtailed under the Kagame
administration. Human Rights Watch has accused the government, led by
the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), of "numerous cases of arbitrary
arrests, detentions, prosecutions, killings, torture, enforced
disappearances, threats, harassment and intimidation against
government opponents and critics."
An essay in the Wall Street Journal by Howard French titled "How
Rwanda's Paul Kagame Exploits U.S. Guilt" makes further accusations,
examining Rwanda's intervention into the DRC in 1996 (then Zaire) as a
stepping stone for gaining influence in the country and alleging that
Kagame's administration has taken steps to imprison or otherwise
eliminate political opposition to him and his party.
While it's important to recognize the advancements made in Rwanda as
significant and worthy of encouragement, Tufts students should not
turn a blind eye to the numerous allegations and questions that hover
over Kagame's administration.
It is especially important that future policymakers among us carefully
consider what he and his party have done before deciding to mark
Rwanda and its leader as rising stars in a troubled region. Few
stories are so guiltless, and Kagame's Rwanda does not look to be
entering into that small number.
This story first appeared on the website of The Tufts Daily.
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