Saturday, September 29, 2012

RPF Under President Kagame is richer than Rwanda under President Kagame


By Ruganzu Vicent
Umuvugizi


Sydney, Sep 28 2012

The Financial Times (UK) and the BBC Kinyarwanda Program have reported that RPF the ruling party of Rwanda (RPF) has made formidable fortunes of wealth and is considered the richest party on the continent save the ruling party of Ethiopia (EPRDF) of Meles Zanawi. However, all these fortunes have come at a cost, all the business is owned directly or indirectly by the Rwandan Patriotic Front through numerous proxies of business

Within days of seizing power in 1994, the victorious Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) started investing in almost everything from the supply of plastic chairs and beer to bars, the harvest of coffee, to the financing of government.
The Local Government Minister, James Musoni the man in charge of RPF Finances has defended the RPF business ventures by arguing that RPF saved Rwanda from Total collapse by injecting their own savings from the war to finance even suits worn by the first ministers to take office immediately after the war. However he does not say, whether it was a loan or a grant.
Minister James Musoni who has amassed a lot of wealth through crook methods has further argued that since RPF has been very successful in both economic and political ventures, the legacy of economic monopoly must live on. Indeed, according to James Musoni, economic monopoly is justified by the fact that, the RPF regime picked the state from scratches, therefore they have a right to retain a dominant position in many walks of political and economic life.
It is estimated that RPF through its investment arm, Crystal Ventures, controls assets worth more than $500m inside the country. The group owns a construction and road-building company, granite and tile factories, a furniture company, a chain of market coffee shops (in Kigali, Boston, London, Washington and New York), a real estate developer and an agro-processing venture, Inyange. It also retains a stake in MTN, the leading mobile phone operator in Rwanda.
With all the above chains of business empires inside Rwanda and outside the country, RPF is the largest quasi-private business venture inside and outside the country compared to other private companies within the region, and with 7,000 staff, the second-largest employer after the state. It also puts the ruling party in an enviable position when it comes to financing politics. Relative to the size of the country, the RPF is one of the best endowed political movements in the world. In the sub region, only Ethiopia’s ruling EPRDF, under Meles Zenawi the recently deceased prime minister.
Whereas the RPF is considered the most successful economic company, the Managing Director the board of Crystal Ventures Professor Nshuti Manasseh, says half the RF1.5bn ($2.4m) cost of RPF campaigning in 2010 elections was met by donations from party members, the other half from company coffers. Again Prof. Manasseh does not tell the truth that many so called members of RPF are coerced to pay what they call RPF contribution; in fact all government employees have joined RPF not out of conviction but out of fear and to save their jobs.
As already mentioned above all the so called profits from the RPF business empire have come with a cost which involve corruption by the people who are praised by the region and international community as the least corrupt regime in the region. From the global perspective a person in Washington or London might think so, because it is only Kagame and his close allies that are immune from the long arm of the law against corruption. They have used the money they collect from people framed as contributions and some proceeds from their business ventures to buy two executive jets, which it then leases – among others to President Kagame, from a base in South Africa on exorbitant prices even when cheap flights of the same comfort could be obtained elsewhere.
RPF and Kagame are not only accused of corruption in their own country, they have also been implicated in dirty business by UN experts of plundering mineral resources during neighboring Congo’s wars. Another frequent charge is that they have crowded out other investors, and enjoyed favoured status when it comes to government contracts.
Crystal Ventures’ Intersec, for example is the only private security outfit authorized to carry arms. “Where there is lucrative business they control it. Things are not as open as you think,” says a prominent business person in Kigali.
While Prof Manasseh defends an indefensible corruption within RPF ranks, the recent scandal of electric dam that brought in almost the whole establishment of RPF including James Musoni, John Rwangombwa just to mention a few was thrown out of parliament not because it lacked evidence but it was going to expose what RPF has been all along hiding from some Rwandans and the international community.
The Managing Director Crystal Ventures Prof Manasseh has proposed to sell some of its companies like Inyange to Kenya’s Brookside, owned by the Kenyatta family but for some us who know how RPF operates they will sell to their proxies who in turn bring back the money to their political movement. It is unfortunate that RPF is growing richer while the country and all the Rwandans are becoming poorer, the big fish will always feed on the small fish.

USA: On a sunny afternoon in Boston... Rwanda Day 2012

By Jennifer Fierberg 
Salem-News.com
Sep-24-2012

How many have to die?
Protest against Paul Kagame at UN
All photos by Jennifer Fierberg Salem-News.com

(BOSTON) - At the corner of Dartmouth and St. James in Boston, Massachusetts about one hundred people gathered for two separate but related reasons.

On the one side were approximately a dozen supporters for President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and directly across the street just over one hundred people gathered to protest the arrival and hosting of His Excellency in this American city.

About a dozen supporters from inside The Westin Copley came out with signs while singing and dancing in celebration of this ongoing controversial leader. Their banners read "Rwanda Day 2012" and "Agaciro" (which means Dignity in Kinyarwanda, the native language of Rwandans https://www.agaciro.org/) and another that had a supportive statement of Paul Kagame's new financial plan for Rwanda.

Back on the other side of the street over 100 Rwandan's, Congolese, Burundian and Tanzanian people also gathered. They were chanting "We are human, how 'bout you," "Move Kagame, get out of the way!" Others chanted "Kagme, get out of the Congo" while holding banners and signs listing the crimes President Paul Kagame is accused of in the U.S. Mapping Report on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (August 2010  http://www.ohchr.org/EN/ Countries/AfricaRegion/Pages/ RDCProjetMapping.aspx) the Report by the U.N Group of Experts (June 2012 http://www.un.org/ga/search/ view_doc.asp?symbol=S/2012/348 ) listing in detail the crimes and evidences that Paul Kagame and his regime are currently engaged in through the M23 that is committing atrocious war crimes in Eastern Congo.

There are many other UN reports as well as the Rwanda Briefing (August 2010https://docs.google.com/file/ d/0BzL0v- ZpWCAIMGM1MWVkMTQtMWY0Zi00NjNm LTgxZDgtOTI3NWNkZDhmYTMy/edit? pli=1&hl=en#) that describe the ongoing human rights violations that Paul Kagame is continuing to commit in Rwanda and in the Congo.

Yet, all of these reports have found their way onto the shelves of the UN under dust. Why? Well there are various reasons. First, Paul Kagame has friends in high and low places and is able to silence almost anyone who dare judge him through his murderous hit squads.

A few examples are General Kayumba Nyamwasa who faced an assassination attempt in 2010, a case which is currently before the courts in South Africa; also, Frank Ntwali (Brother in law to General Nyamwasa) survived multiple stabbings also in South Africa in August 2012.

Outspoken Rwandan Humanitarian activists were also notified in the UK by Scotland Yard that they had credible evidence that hit squads were looking for them and could possibly kill them if they did not increase their security measures and take the necessary precautions to protect themselves and their families (May 2011 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/ news/article-1389075/Rwandan- dissidents-warned-hit-squad- sent-London-suspect-detained- Eurotunnel.html).

These are just a few isolated cases.

Those President Kagame has not been able to eliminate he has either imprisoned, driven into exile or sentenced in absentia to charges that Kagame's regime has created through the ubiquitous title of the "Genocide Law" in Rwanda (http://minnesota.publicradio. org/display/web/2010/06/04/ phillips/).

There are many more examples but for the sake of brevity let’s get back to the protest.
Of those opposed to President Kagame their emotion and passion were very clear, their goal is for the U.N to and the International Community to continue to investigate and hold Paul Kagame accountable for the crimes he has committed in Central Africa and around the world.

The previous reports on Paul Kagame have gone unnoticed until the most recent U.N Group of Experts report on what is really happening in the Eastern Congo (see the link above).

Due to this report most European countries who contributed to Rwanda’s development as well as a nominal amount from the US have either cut or suspended their foreign aid to Rwanda which, in total, amounts to tens of millions of dollars and Rwanda is feeling the heat.

President Kagame has responded by sending out his Minister of Foreign affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo on mission impossible which requires her to travel the world over and vehemently deny all of the allegations in this damming report.

With each appearance she appears more and more disgruntled and it seems as though she does not even believe what she has to say yet she follows orders as dictated to her.

Other Rwandan officials take to social media to support their President and deny all allegations by the U.N. Group of Experts, they have even gone as far to discredit those on the committee who have had years of experience in this field. Since the testimony and rebuttal report put out by the Government of Rwanda (http://allafrica.com/stories/ 201208020326.html) they have begun a campaign of Agaciro Development.

This campaign is a fundraising campaign that all Rwandan businesses and residents are to contribute to with pride. All Rwandans are asked to sign a pledge of how much they will commit to donating each month in order to make up for monstrous gap that the withdrawal of foreign aid has left in their national budget because this aid makes up for 40% of the national budget.
Now, again, back to the sunny afternoon in Boston. Rwanda Day 2012 was a fancy fundraising maneuver in order to gain pledges from Rwandans in the diaspora.

But, did it work? Doubts have arisen due to the already inconsistent reports coming out of the event. So far the Rwandan government owned and operated publications, such as The New Times and Igihe.com, have both reported that 4,000-5,000 people were in attendance.

Yet, they seem to have forgotten that the event was live web-casted onwww.Rwandaday.org and in the main hall where President Kagame addressed a crowd it was clear that there were barely 500 people in attendance. One third of the chairs were empty. When President Kagame asked for Rwandans from North America to stand up less than half the room got on their feet.

The other half of the room was clearly filled with Rwandan officials, Rwandans who were paid to be there and many who were bussed in from Maine on transportation provided by the Rwandan Government.
Although, the busses were due to hold 500 people to arrive in two separate runs from Maine, one run was Friday afternoon and the other was early Saturday morning, but on only 75 people actually arrived in Boston on those busses.

Some supporters reported even being turned away at the door because they refused to register or show their ID's out of fear of being reported to immigration for supporting a regime they claim to be fleeing in fear for their lives and political/personal persecution into the safe haven of the US.

The Mayor of Boston was scheduled to speak but also did not show up to greet a visiting Presidential Detail from this African nation.
Kagame Protestors
William Penn University Protest, photo by Jennifer Fierberg
On President Kagame's last visit to the US at William Penn University he and the president of the University were named in a $350 Million lawsuit. That case is ongoing and is for the families and wives of the former President of Rwanda, Juvenal Habyarimana along with the French crew members and the wife of the President of Burundi who all perished in the shooting down of the plane they were all in on the order of Paul Kagame through his RDF soldiers.

This accusation has also been vehemently denied by President Kagame and his government except for two major political opposition figures who have gone on public record and under oath, General Kayumba Nyamwasa and Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa, that President Kagame confessed to ordering the assassination of President Habyarimana in order to claim power in Rwanda.

These two men were as close as brothers to Paul Kagame in the years following the end of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. This assassination has also been called an "open secret" in Rwanda. Could the Mayor of Boston have feared a similar fate of being named in a lawsuit for hosting such a controversial character?

Back on the ground outside The Westin Copley those opposing President Kagame remained vigilant in their protest which Claude Gatebuke, a 1994 Genocide survivor and human rights activist, riled the crowd with his chants and enthusiasm.

At the closing of the protest representatives from each of the organizations present gave thank you speeches and words of encouragement to keep the struggle alive for the sake of freedom in Rwanda, Congo and all of Central Africa.

Although, the question remains, how many people have to die senselessly at the hands of this dangerous regime in order for the world to take notice? Are the six million dead in Congo not enough? Are the 800,000 killed in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide not enough? What about those who spoke out or openly criticized the current ruling party in Rwanda who have never been seen or heard from again?

What about the 150 Hutu prostitutes that have been systematically murdered in Rwanda over the last two months?

Is this not enough yet? How much blood has to be on this ruling party before the world says "enough is enough" and agrees to hold President Kagame at The Hague while we investigate further?
How many have to die?

Rwandans deserve a country in which they are free to speak and free to have democracy in their own way on their own terms where every member of society has a voice.
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Jennifer Fierberg is a social worker in the US working on peace and justice issues in Africa with an emphasis on the crisis in Rwanda and throughout the central region of Africa. Her articles have been published on many humanitarian sites that are also focused on changing the world through social, political and personal action.
Jennifer has extensive background working with victims of trauma and domestic violence, justice matters as well as individual and family therapy. Passionate and focused on bringing the many humanitarian issues that plague the African Continent to the awareness of the developed world in order to incite change. She is a correspondent, Assistant Editor, and Volunteer Coordinator for NGO News Africa through the volunteer project of the UN. Jennifer was also the media co-coordinator and senior funding executive for The Africa Global Village. You can write to Jennifer atjfierberg@ymail.com. Jennifer comes to www.Salem-News.com with a great deal of experience and passion for working to stop human right violation in Africa.

EU freezes aid to Rwanda over Congo rebel claims


KINSHASA | Wed Sep 26, 2012
(Reuters) - The European Union has frozen further budgetary support to Rwanda over allegations that the Central African state supports anti-government rebels in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, the EU's ambassador to Congo said on Wednesday.
The EU is the latest western partner to impose aid suspensions against Kigali over an independent United Nations report that said Rwanda was behind a six-month rebellion in Congo's eastern hills, which has forced 470,000 people to flee their homes.
"It was agreed to freeze the programme of budgetary assistance and to not agree to any supplementary budgetary credit for Rwanda without them giving signs of co-operating," Jean-Michel Dumond, the EU's ambassador in Kinshasa, told the U.N.-backed broadcaster Radio Okapi.
A spokesman for the EU in Brussels had said on Monday that existing projects would continue, but that a decision on additional budget support would be delayed until Rwanda's role in the unrest is clarified.
Although the scale of cuts was not given, the EU website says that the EU agreed a six-year budget support deal with Kigali in 2009, worth up to 175 million euros (139.2 million pounds).
Rwanda has repeatedly denied any involvement with the M23 rebel group in Congo.
Rwanda's foreign minister Louise Mushikiwabo responded to news of the cuts on the social networking site Twitter. "EU suspending 'new aid' to Rwanda is either old news or designed to mislead. No such decision has been taken," she wrote.
Last month President Paul Kagame hit out at donors who cut aid and he launched a so-called "dignity fund" to help to wean the country off its dependence on outside help.
Presidents Kagame and Congo's Joseph Kabila are due to join a U.N. crisis meeting in New York on Thursday, aimed at trying to find a solution to the problem.
On Monday U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met both leaders to push for a solution, only for Kabila to make indirect reference to Rwanda's alleged support for M23 in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
Other countries, including the United States, Sweden and the Netherlands have all suspended aid to Rwanda, which relies on donors for about 40 percent of its budget. However, Britain unblocked part of its cash this month, praising the Rwandans for constructively engaging in the search for peace.
Aid agencies say that the situation on the ground remains serious and the U.N.'s refugee agency has called for an additional $40 million to help those displaced by fighting.
Rwanda and Congo have a long history of tensions and Kigali has repeatedly backed armed movements in its neighbour, citing the need to tackle Rwandan rebels who use Congo as a base.
Critics say that Kagame's government has used its influence to build lucrative political and economic networks in its resource-rich neighbour, with officials and human rights groups saying that minerals continue to be smuggled out of the region through Rwanda. ($1 = 0.7788 euros)
(Additional reporting by Jenny Clover; Editing by Bate Felix and David Goodman)

Les nominés pour le Prix Sakharov pour la liberté de l’esprit 2012 sont connus


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Par Centre Régional d'Information des Nations Unies pour l'Europe Occidentale

25 septembre 2012 - Les noms des cinq nominés pour le Prix du Parlement européen pour la liberté de l'esprit (Le Prix Sakharov) ont été dévoilés.

Le Prix Sakharov récompense chaque année depuis 1988 des personnalités exceptionnelles qui luttent contre l’intolérance, le fanatisme et l’oppression. Il a été nommé d'après Andreï Sakharov, physicien russe, inventeur de la bombe à hydrogène, dissident et Prix Nobel de la paix. L'an dernier, le prix Sakharov a récompensé des activistes du Printemps arabe.

Les cinq nominés de cette année sont :

  • Ales Bialiatski, militant de la liberté d'expression en Biélorussie, il a fondé le Centre des droits de l'homme de Viasna, une organisation non gouvernementale qui apporte un soutien financier et légal aux prisonniers politiques et à leurs familles. Il est lui-même emprisonné dans son pays.
  • Joseph Francis,  fondateur en 1992 du Centre d'aide juridique, d'assistance et de relogement (CLASS) au Pakistan. Il aide les victimes des lois interdisant le blasphème : soutien juridique, logement voire déménagement.
  • Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Déogratias Mushayidi et Bernard Ntaganda, opposants politiques rwandais qui sont actuellement emprisonnés. Ils veulent mettre fin à la violence en prônant le dialogue et la réconciliation.
  • Les Pussy Riots, groupe de musique russe qui a fait parler de lui en critiquant vertement le Kremlin. Trois de ses membres - Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich et Maria Alyokhina - ont pour cela été condamnés à deux ans d'internement dans un camp de travail.
  • Nasrin Sotoudeh, avocate iranienne spécialisée dans les droits de l'homme. Elle défend des opposants et des jeunes qui risquent la peine capitale. Jafar Panahi est un réalisateur iranien qui met en scène dans ses films les difficultés auxquelles font face les enfants, les pauvres et les femmes.

Pour plus d’informations sur le sujet :

Source : Parlement européen, REF.: 20120921STO51984

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

2012 Sakharov Prize: Find out who has been nominated


By United Nations Regional Information Centre For Western Europe

24 September 2012
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What do the following people have in common: a civil society activist from Belarus, the director of a centre offering legal assistance to victims of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, three Rwandan opposition representatives, a Russian feminist punk-rock group, an Iranian lawyer and an Iranian film director? They are all nominees for this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. The list will be officially presented on Tuesday 25 September from 3pm to 4.30pm.Watch it live!
About the prize
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded annually by the European Parliament since 1988 to individuals or organisations that have made an important contribution to the fight for human rights or democracy. It is named in honour of the Russian physicist and political dissident Andrei Sakharov. Last year it was awarded to the Arab Spring activists.
This year's nominees
The list of nominations for this year's prize will be presented at a joint meeting of the parliamentary committees for foreign affairs, development and human rights on 25 September. The nominees are:
  • Ales Bialiatski is an imprisoned  civil society activist fighting for freedom of thought and expression in Belarus. He founded the Viasna Human Rights Centre, a nongovernmental organisation which provides financial and legal assistance to political prisoners and their families.

    Nominated by MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski and 82 other MEPs

  • Joseph Francis is the founder and director of the Center for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS). Founded in 1992, CLAAS addresses the needs of victims of Pakistan's blasphemy laws, through legal assistance and if necessary by providing shelter and relocation.

    Nominated by the European Conservatives and Reformists Group

  • Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Déogratias Mushayidi, Bernard Ntaganda areimprisoned Rwandan opposition politicians who tried to put an end to the violence in their country by fostering dialogue and reconciliation.

    Nominated by MEPs Willy Meyer, Rosa Estaràs, Santiago Fisas, María Muñiz, Ana Miranda and 37 other MEPs

  • Pussy Riot is a band from Russia. Three of its members - Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova, Yekaterina Samutsevich and Maria Alyokhina - were arrested after protesting in a cathedral against Russian president Vladimir Putin. They were sentenced to two years in a labour camp.

    Nominated by MEP Werner Schulz and 45 other MEPs

  • Nasrin Sotoudeh, Jafar Panahi
    Nasrin Sotoudeh is an  imprisoned Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate. She represented imprisoned opposition activists and juvenile offenders facing the death sentence. Jafar Panahi is an Iranian film director, screenwriter and film editor. His films often focus on the hardship children, the impoverished and women face.

    Nominated by the Social-Democrat group, the Liberal-Democrat group, the Greens/European Free Alliance group as well as by MEPs José Ignacio Salafranca, Elmar Brok and 11 other MEPs


SourceEuropean Parliament - Sakharov Prize

RWANDA: LES SEPT DEMONS QUI MAINTIENNENT KAGAME AU POUVOIR


Par Theogene Rudasingwa
September 23, 2012

Je recommande à mes amis de prendre un total d'une heure et demie cette semaine à écouter TD Jakes parler de l'engagement. Ne vous inquiétez pas, il est prédicateur chrétien. Vous n'avez pas à être un croyant. L'engagement est la clé du succès dans tous les efforts de vie. Pour les Rwandais d'aujourd'hui, l'engageme
nt au changement est un grand effort enjeux.

Pour la quasi-totalité des Rwandais, nous savons combien de souffrances que nous traversons. Nous sommes une nation peureuse. Sur chaque colline, nous vivons dans la peur, la colère, la suspicion et incertain de l'avenir. Nous sommes dans les prisons au Rwanda. Nous sommes dans les prisons à Arusha, et même lorsque nous sommes libres, nous ne pouvons pas rentrer à la maison en tant que peuple libre. Nous sommes bannis en tant que réfugiés dans tous les coins du monde. Nous sommes silencieux par crainte de persécution si nous osons parler. Nous sommes des cibles d'assassinat dans tous les coins du monde. Nous sommes dans les jungles du Congo, combattant des guerres sans fin qui consomment les vies des jeunes rwandais et congolais pour qu’un dictateur puisse survivre plus longtemps. Nous sommes pauvres, et pourtant obligés de donner de l'argent pour le soi-disant Fond de Développement Agaciro (Agaciro Development Fund), à un dictateur qui pille et tue les Rwandais. Nous applaudissons pour le dictateur quand il nous voit, mais secrètement dans nos cœurs nous lui souhaitons mourir. Nous sommes beaucoup humiliés, vivant comme des citoyens de seconde classe dans le pays qui appartient à chacun de nous.

La révolution se fait pressante, car il y a beaucoup d’injustice et de souffrance humaine parmi nous Rwandais. La moisson est abondante. Mais les moissonneurs sont peu nombreux. Rien dans la vie ne se gagne gratuitement. Il faut neuf mois de grossesse, un travail pénible et toute une vie pour obtenir et élever un être humain utile. Les révolutions coutent très cher. L’atout numéro un pour une révolution, c'est l'engagement. Il a fallu un grand engagement de la part des rois du Rwanda pour bien assoir un system administratif sans discontinuité pendant plusieurs siècles. Même l'administration coloniale belge était entièrement engagée pour diriger le Rwanda pendant des décennies. Il a fallu plein d’engagement de la part du MDR pour porter et délivrer l’étendard de la révolution de 1959.Il a fallu beaucoup d’engagement de la part des organisateurs du coup d’état de 1973 pour instaurer le régime MRND qui a duré jusqu’en 1994. Il a fallu engagement pour le FPR à mener et gagner la guerre de 1994.

Quel est l’engagement que les Rwandais ont aujourd’hui pour gagner la révolution en cours et dont la mission principale est d’unir et guérir tous les rwandais? Quand vous parlez aux rwandais, ils disent qu’ils veulent un changement immédiate. Une solution rapide et pas couteuse, vous disent-ils. Nous passons énormément de temps sur internet et des médias sociaux échangeant des mots entre nous et avec le dangereux régime de Kigali. Nous sommes éparpillés dans les organisations qui sont assez faibles pour être manipulés, intimidés ou achetés par le régime. Beaucoup d'entre nous ne sont ni chaud ni froid. Ils ont un pied dans la révolution et l'autre dans le régime qui les traque. Les Hutus sont beaucoup marginalisés, mais ils rêvent qu'un jour, comme par magie, les numéros feront le miracle. Les Tutsi, otages croyant à tort que Kagame les représente, sont dans le déni, pensant que le monopole de l'armée, de l'intelligence, du gouvernement et de l'argent va sauver le régime pour toujours.

Régime de Kagamé est à son plus faible depuis 1994, avec peu de légitimité entre les Rwandais et de plus en plus isolé à l'étranger. C'est le temps de se mobiliser et de s'organiser, et de raccourcir l'agonie et la souffrance du peuple rwandais. Nous devons faire face et tuer les sept démons suivant qui consomment notre engagement à agir rapidement pour mettre fin pacifiquement au régime brutal de Kagame:

1. LA PEUR: La peur est l'arme la plus puissante dans les mains de Kagame et sa clique. Le moment où les Rwandais surmonteront la peur sera le moment le régime s'écroulera.

2. PROCRASTATION: les Rwandais savent ce qu'il faut faire et comment le faire, mais ils sont toujours pris au piège de croire que ce sera fait demain. Pourtant, une journée passée à tergiverser est une autre journée passée dans la misère. La paresse n'a jamais été un atout. Vous récoltez des résultats en relation directe avec le temps et l'effort que vous avez investi dans quelque chose.

3. ESPRITS ENGOUFRES DANS LE DENI ET LA TROMPERIE: Il y a encore parmi nous ceux qui croyons que nous pouvons restaurer le Royaume du Rwanda, les régimes du passé (MDR-Parmehutu, et le MRND) ou de prolonger le FPR pour toujours. Le passé est passé, et disparu à jamais. Le mieux qu'on puisse faire est de tirer des leçons pour nous aider à changer le présent et réinventer, ou ré-imaginer l'avenir dans lequel nous laissons derrière nous un mauvais passé que nous partageons tous, et de s'appuyer sur les aspects positifs partages de notre histoire.

4. EGOISME ET CUPIDITE : surtout de nous l'élite, ont tendance à penser que le monde tourne autour de nous et de notre famille immédiate. Nous sommes devenus les victimes de la gratification instantanée, sans penser à l'avenir de nos enfants et petits-enfants. Oui, nous avons les moyens de réparer nos voitures, l'hypothèque, les vacances d'été, et un mode de vie en rapport avec notre statut. Nous avons encore à réserver une partie de nos ressources à investir dans notre avenir commun. Ou, malheureusement, nous sommes «achetés» pour une plaque d'emplois et de l'argent. Nous sommes incités à "venir voir " " Le nouveau Rwanda " "où coulent le lait et le miel". Dans notre propre pays, nous sommes invités à venir voir, comme des visiteurs ou des étrangers. En particulier chez les Hutus, nous sommes devenus la génération des " Venez et voyez." Pour venir voir votre propriété, et que si vous tombez sur vos genoux, ils donneront de nouveau à vous ce qui vous appartient? Qu’enseignons-nous à nos enfants ? Qu'ils doivent se plier à la soumission si vous pouvez leur donner un emploi ou de la nourriture? Est-ce cela l’Agaciro, notre valeur?

5. LA MENTALITE, "ILS LE FERONT POUR NOUS" : Il y a une fausse croyance parmi nous que quelqu'un va le faire pour nous. Les Belges et les Français l'ont fait pour les Hutus, disent certains. D'autres disent que les Américains et les Britanniques l'ont fait pour les Tutsi. La véritable vérité est que les Belges, Français, Américains et les Britanniques se battent pour leurs intérêts. Les Rwandais doivent surveiller et défendre leurs intérêts avant tout. Personne d'autre ne le fera. Pour obtenir des amis qui soutiennent votre cause, vous devez prouver que vous méritez leur aide, vous le méritez et vous allez en faire bon usage. Mais vous devez prouver que vous êtes dans le siège du conducteur et que quoi qu'il arrive, avec ou sans leur aide, vous allez gagner de toute façon.

6. LE "NOUS vs EUX": le Rwanda est si précieux que très souvent nous voulons vivre seule sans l'autre. L'autre est l'ennemi. L'autre est le problème. L'autre est "inyangarwanda", les gars inciviques qui détestent le Rwanda. L'autre a tué mon peuple. Qui est saint parmi nous pour jeter la première pierre? Les rois? MDR-Parmehutu? MRND? FPR? Hutu? Tutsi? Nous ne pouvons pas réinventer le passé du Rwanda. Il est partagé, le bon et le mauvais. Nous pouvons, cependant, choisir d'écrire ensemble notre avenir. Nous devons faire preuve d'audace et de courage pour regarder les uns les autres à partir de l'autre point de vue, et de voir les zones où l'on peut se tenir debout et construire ensemble, brique par brique, un jour à la fois. Nous devons commencer là où nous vivons et travaillons. Nous devons tendre la main à l'autre. Je suis dans l'autre. L'autre est en moi.

7. CUPABILITE ET HONTE. Nous avons fait du tort à l'autre pendant trop longtemps que les démons de la culpabilité et la honte nous ont volé l'estime de soi. Nous parlons à voix basse, afin que nous ne soyons pas dénoncés comme des génocidaires, des Interahamwe, révisionnistes, ceux qui nient le génocide, les terroristes, etc. Sur internet, on écrit de manière anonyme afin que personne ne découvre qui nous sommes vraiment. Je connais personnellement des Rwandais exceptionnellement intelligents qui ne peuvent pas parler par peur de représailles de Kagame. On m'a dit qu'il ne pouvait pas être sur Radio Itahuka parce qu'ils (Kagame et al) relieraient son organisation avec les FDLR. Incroyable! Quelqu'un avec un doctorat (Ph.D). Nous allons là où nous ne devrions être pour acheter l'identité et l'acceptation. Maintenant, il y a des gens au Rwanda qui disent qu'ils ont "du sang tutsi" pour mettre pied dans la mafia qui règne sur le Rwanda. Il y des Tutsi qui, on m'a dit, prétendaient être Hutu pendant les régimes précédents. Nous sommes ce que nous sommes, un point. Nous devrions être très fiers de ce que nous sommes. Nous n'avons pas marchande avec Dieu de nous créer comme ceci ou comme cela. Nous sommes les fils et les filles fiers du Dieu vivant. Nous avons tous péché, mais nous refusons d'être tenus à la culpabilité et la honte.

Lorsque Kagame nous nargue avec ses escadrons de la mort armés de canons et des baïonnettes, nous devrions nous tenir carrément sur son visage, et comme l’adolescent David au géant Goliath, dire: " Qui est-ce philistin qui défie les armées du Dieu vivant ?” Nous construisons une armée puissante des Rwandais libre, armés de paix, de vérité et d'unité. Le géant doit bientôt tomber.

Maintenant, Rwandais prenez votre courage et tuer les démons de la culpabilité et de la honte, " nous vs eux", de l'égoïsme et de la cupidité," ils le feront pour nous" mentalité, la peur, la procrastination, le déni et la tromperie.

Nourrissez votre engagement. Tenez-vous debout, au travail ! Ou bien vous allez mourir dans l'humiliation et la misère, et condamner les générations futures à un héritage servitude.

Nous vaincrons!

Monday, September 24, 2012

RWANDA: IBIDAYIMONI BIRINDWI BIGUMISHIJE KAGAME KU NGOMA



Na Teogene Rudasingwa


Kuwa 23 Neli 2012

Ndabararika inshuti mwese kwigomwa muri icyi cyumweru isaha n'igice mukumva ikiganiro cya T D Jakes kw'ijambo ry' ubwitange (commitment). Ntihagire uwo bitera akantu kubera ko uwo mugabo asanzwe ari umwigisha w'umukristu. Ntimukeneye kuba mwemera idini iri n'iri. Ubwitange ni urufunguzo rukomeye mu buzima ku ntego yose ushaka kug
eraho byanze bikunze. Ku Banyarwanda, ubwitange bwo guhindura imiyoborere ni intego ikomeye cyane. 

Twese Abanyarwanda tuzi akababaro dufite. Mu miterere yacu Abanyarwanda dukunze gutinya no gucisha make. Uhereye kuri buri gasozi, abantu babana ubwoba, umujinya, urwikekwe, n'impungenge z'ejo hazaza. Turi ku ngoyi mu gihugu. Turi ku ngoyi Arusha, kandi ikibabaje n'uko n'utayiriho uri hanze y'igihugu, adashobora gutaha ngo yishyire yizane. Abandi turi impunzi mu duce twose tw'isi. Dutinya kuvuga ngo tutabizira. Kandi koko turicwa hirya no hino ku isi. Turi mu bihuru byo muri Kongo, turwana izitarangira kandi zirimbura urubyiruko rw'abanywarwanda n'abanyekongo kugira ngo ubutegetsi bw'igitugu bukomeze buhabwe intebe iwacu.
Turakennye, nyamara turemera agahato ko gutanga amafaranga mu byo bise Ikigega cyo kwiha Agaciro (Agaciro Development Fund) kigamije gufasha umunyagitugu usahura kandi akica abana b'u Rwanda. Turamukomera yombi uwo munyagitugu, nyamara iyo atatureba, cyangwa mu mitima yacu tumuvumira ku gahera. Twabaye insuzugurwa z'indushyi zimeze nk'abacakara mu gihugu cyacu twese.

Igihe cyo kwibohoza cyarageze, kubera ko twapyinagajwe, tukazongwa bikabije. Imirima ireze ariko abasaruzi ni bake cyane. Nta mubyizi ugaragara mu buzima utarushya kandi uwiyemeje kumanura agati arahaguruka. Inda ivuka umubyeyi ayimaranye amezi icyenda, akabyara anyuze mu bise bibabaza cyane, kandi n'ubuzima bwe bwose agakomeza gusagasira umwana ngo azavemo umuntu wiyubashye. Kwibohoza byo ni urundi rwego rurushijeho kugora. Ikintu cy'ingenzi kwibohoza bisaba ni ubwitange. Abami bategetse u Rwanda byabasabye kwitangira ibyo bemeraga (ubwitange) kugira ngo bategeke imyaka magana. Ababiligi nabo bitangiye kudukoloniza imyaka mirongo. Byasabye ubwitange abarwanashyaka ba MDR bitangiye kandi bagakora revolutiyo yo muri 1959. Abakoze kudeta yo muri 1973 nabo barabyitangiye. Byasabye ubwitange n'ibitambo FPR kugira ngo itangize kandi itsinde imtambara muri 1994.

Abanyarwanda ni ubuhe bwitange bagomba kugeraho ubu ng'ubu kugira ngo batsinde iyi Revolusiyo yo kwunga ubumwe bw'Abanyarwanda no kugarurira bose ihumure? Iyo ubajije Abanyarwanda benshi bakubwira ako kanya ko bifuza impindura. Bakubwira badashidikanya ko bashaka umuti ubangutse kandi utaruhije.

Tumara igihe kinini cyane ku byuma bya mudasobwa na internet duhana amakuru hagati yacu dukoresheje ubwo buryo, ndetse tugahangana n'iriya ngoma ngome iri i Kigali. Tunyanyagiye mu miryango itatanye cyakora yihagazeho, kuko idakorera mu kwaha kw'iriya ngoma y'igitugu idashoboye kudutera ubwoba burundu cyangwa kutugura. Bamwe muri twe baracyari nk'amazi y'akazuyazi. Bafite ikirenge kimwe mu guharanira Revolusiyo, bakagira ikindi mu gushyigikira iyo ngoma ibahigira hasi no hejuru. Abahutu barakandamijwe cyane. Benshi batekereza ko hazaba igitangaza nka maji, kijyanye n'ubwinshi, bakibohora. Abatutsi, nabo bameze nk'ingwate zishuka ko Kagame azihagarariye, bityo bakibeshya ko kwizimba no kwikanyiza mu gisirikari, mu nzego z'ubutasi, muri Leta no mu mutungo bizatuma iyi ngoma izabaho ubuziraherezo.

Kuva muri 1994, nta gihe Kagame yigeze agira intege nke nk'ubu, aho atizewe n'abaturage ndetse n'amahanga akaba arushaho kumuha akato. Iki ni igihe cyo kwihwitura, guhaguruka tukagabanya akababaro n'amaganya by'Abanyarwanda. Tugomba guhangara kandi tukarandura aya madayimoni arindwi atuboshye, akatubuza kwitanga ngo dusezerere mu mahoro ingoma y'igitugu ya Kagame:

1.UBWOBA: Ubwoba niyo ntwaro ikomeye Kagame n'abambari be bakoresha. Bazi neza ko umunsi Abanyarwanda babushize, ingoma izahirima.

2.GUSUBIKIRIZA: Abanyarwanda bazi ikigomba gukorwa n'uko kigomba gukorwa ariko bari mu mutego wo gusubikiriza no kwiringira iby'ejo bibara ab'ejo. Buri munsi dusubikiriza, uba ari undi munsi wo gutinza amaganya ya rubanda. Kugira ubute ni ikibazo gikomeye. Ni ugutubya umusaruro mwiza ujyana n'igihe gikoreshwa hamwe n'imbaraga zishirwa mu gikorwa. 

3.IMITEKEREREZE YO KWIHENDA NO KWIBESHYA: Muri twe hari abakibeshya ko bashobora kugarura Ubwami, cyangwa se Ubutegetsi bwa MDR-PARMEHUTU, cyangwa MRND, cyangwa se kugumishaho ubuziraherezo FPR. Ibyagiye byaragiye. Icyiza twabikuramo ni amasomo yatuma twubaka ejo hazaza dusize inyuma amabi twanyuzemo yose, tukubakira ku byiza duhuriyeho.

4.KWIKUNDA NO GUSHAKA INGWIZE: Kwikunda mu Banyarwanda cyane cyane bamwe mu bize amashuri. Ugansanga umuntu ameze nk'aho we wenyine n'umuryango we aribo batuma isi izenguruka, ko aribo kamara. Twabaye ingwate z'uko kwibona kutareba kure ngo dutekereze ejo hazaza, abana bacu n'abazabakomokaho. Koko bamwe dufite imyenda yo mu ma banki tugomba kwishyura kubera imodoka, icumbi, ibiruhuko n'imibereho ijyanye n'ubuzima turimo. Dukeneye ariko no gushyira ku ruhande inkunga yo gushora muri ejo hazaza heza kuri twese. Cyangwa se tugahitamo kuba imbata z'imirimo myiza n'amafaranga. Duhora dushukishwa “ngwino urebe” u Rwanda “rushya rw'amata n'ubuki”. Mu gihugu cyacu, turasabwa kuza kureba, boshye abihitira cyangwa abavantara. Cyane cyane bamwe mu Bahutu bamaze guhinduka “ngwino urebe”. Ngwino urebe ibyawe byatwawe, nudupfukamira ugashyira amavi ku butaka tuzabigusubiza? Ni uwuhe murage turiho dusigira abana bacu? Ko bazajya bapfukama, bagahakwa kugira ngo babone akazi cyangwa ibibabeshaho? Ako ni ko gaciro, dusigaranye koko?

5.GUTEKEREZA KO HARI ABANDI BAZABIDUKORERA: Dukunze kwibeshya ko hari abandi bazabidukorera. Hari abibeshya ngo Ababiligi n'Abafaransa babikoreye Abahutu. Abandi ngo Abanyamerika n'abongeleza babikoreye Abatutsi. Nitwe ubwacu Abanyarwanda tugomba kwiyuha akuya duharanira inyungu zacu mbere y'abo banyamahanga bose. Nta wundi uzabidukorera. Kugira inshuti zigutera ingabo mu bitugu, ugomba kuzereka ko wihagazeho, ko ubifitiye ubushobozi kandi ko inkunga yazo uzayikoresha neza. Ugomba kugaragaza ko ari wowe utwaye imodoka mu nzira uzi kandi ko bagufasha batagufasha uzi aho ujya kandi uzahagera byanze bikunze.

6. GUTEKEREZA NGO NIBO CYANGWA NITWE: Iyo ni ya mitekerereze ibabaje ishaka kwikubira u Rwanda ikarugira akarima ka bamwe. Abandi bagahinduka abanzi, ikibazo cyangwa “inyangarwanda”, cyangwa ngo abagome banga igihugu cyabo. Ngo abandi baranyiciye. Ni bande batagatifu muri twe batera abandi ibuye rya mbere? Abo ku ngoma ya cyami? Ba MDR-PARMEHUTU? BA MRND? BA FPR? Abahutu? Abatutsi? Amateka y'u Rwanda ntitwayahindura. Ni ayacu twese. Amabi n'ameza. Ariko dushobora gushyira hamwe tugategura cyangwa tukandika ejo hazaza. Bisaba ubutwari bukomeye, bwo kwishyira mu mwanya w'undi, maze tukareba ibyo twahurizaho tukubakana buri tafari ku rindi umunsi ku wundi, dutegura ejo hazaza heza. Twatangirira aho tuba n'aho dukora. Tugafashanya. Buri wese akibona mu wundi, n'undi uko.

7.INKOMANGA (guilt) N'ISONI: Twarahemukiranye, turagambanirana igihe kinini ku buryo inkomanga dufite ku mutima, ikimwaro n'isoni bitubuza kwibonamo ubumuntu. Tuvugira mu matamatama ngo tutaregwa ubugenosideri , ubuterahamwe, gupfobya genoside, ibyihebe bikora iterabwoba n'ibindi. Kuri Internet turiyita amazina atabarika ngo batatumenya. Ku giti cyanjye nzi Abanyarwanda benshi b'ababanyabwenge bakomeye ariko batinya kuvuga no kugaragara ngo Kagame atazabahitana. Hari uwambwiye ati sinshobora kuvugira kuri Radio Itahuka kuko bahita bavuga ko umuryango ndimo ukorana na FDLR. Biratangaje nyine. Ku muntu wize akaminuza akabona na za diplome zo mu rwego rwo hejuru bita PHD!! Twigira ibi n'ibi, tukajya aha n'aha kugira ngo twemerwe cyangwa tubonwe nk'abatoni. Nko mu Rwanda hari benshi bavuga ngo “bakomoka mu batutsi cyangwa bafitemo ibisanira” kugira ngo bahabwe akarwi n'agatsiko kigaruriye igihugu. Abantu bambwiye ko hari Abatutsi benshi bihinduraga Abahutu ku ngoma z'ubutegesi bw'Abahutu. Turi abo turibo. Dukwiye kugira ishema ryo kuba abo turibo. Ntitwigeze twumvikana n'Imana ngo itugire abo turibo. Twese turi abana b'Imana nzima. Twese turi abanyabyaha, ariko ntidushaka kuba imbata z'ibyaha zigomba guhorana inkomanga, ikimwaro, ubwoba n'isoni. 

Niba Kagame aduterereje abicanyi be bitwaje imbunda n'ibyuma bya bayoneti, tugomba guhagarara twemye imbere ye nka wa musore w'ingimbi Dawudi wahagaze imbere y'igikenya nyamunini Goliyati akamubwira ati “uyu mu Filisitini ni muntu ki usuzugura aka kageni ingabo z'Imana nzima?”. Tuzaba ingabo zitaneshwa z'Abanyarwanda bigenga, zishyira imbere amahoro, ukuri n'ubumwe. Nyamunini azahirima mu minsi mike.

Banyarwanda mwese, mureke tuneshe burundu izo ngoyi z'ayo madayimoni yihisha inyuma y'inkomanga n'isoni; imitekerereze ya nibo cyangwa nitwe; kwikunda no kwikanyiza; kwikirigita ngo abandi bazabidukorera; ingoyi y'ubwoba no guhora twigiza ejo ibyo twari gukora uyu munsi. Dutsinde shitani yo kwihenda no kwibeshya. Dushyire imbere ubwitange. Duhaguruke twiyuhe akuya. Naho ubundi tuzapfana agashinyaguro n'agahinda, kandi dusige abacu mu bucakara n'ubuhake.

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