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[amakurunamateka.com] Someone must answer for the crimes committed by Kagame and his RPF

Someone must answer for the crimes committed by Kagame and his RPF

In Rwanda , there is no one who has answered for the crimes committed by Kagame and his RPF. This is really the essence of the arrest of this Kagame's spy. If UK criminal justice system believes that there is no case to answer and that no crimes were committed by RPF, OK just release Karegeya. It is simple as that. Someone must be held responsible. The question is who ? The answer is anyone available from RFP's top military and intelligence services.

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Rwandan General Arrested in the UK on Spain's Behalf - ABC News
LONDON — A Rwandan military general was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport and will appear in court later this week, British police said Tuesday, prompting an angry response from Rwandan leaders.
Police said the warrant for Emmanuel Karenzi Karake, head of Rwanda's intelligence and security service, was made on behalf of authorities in Spain.
Karake, a close ally of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, was one of 40 members of the Rwandan military indicted in 2008 on charges of terrorism and genocide by Spanish national Court Judge Fernando Andreu.
Spanish magistrates have used the principle of universal jurisdiction several times to go after current or former government leaders or terrorism suspects, even indicting Osama bin Laden over the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But extraditions and convictions have been rare.
On Twitter, Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo called the arrest "an outrage," adding "Western solidarity in demeaning Africans is unacceptable."
Rwanda and Britain "are talking to resolve the matter," Rwandan Justice Minister Johnston Busingye said, insisting that Spain's indictment of Karake was illegitimate and politically motivated.
Police said Karake was arrested Saturday, had a brief hearing at Westminster Magistrates' Court that day and will be back in court on Thursday.
A spokesman for Spain's National Court said it was now up to British authorities to decide whether or not to extradite Karake. He spoke on condition of anonymity in keeping with court policy.
Andreu began considering the Rwanda case in 2005 after a complaint was filed by an African human rights group. Others indicted include James Kabarebe, now the defense minister in Rwanda.
In the 182-page indictment, Andreu said he also had evidence implicating Kagame, who led the rebel forces that stopped the genocide in 1994, but could not charge him because as a sitting president Kagame has immunity.
In 1998, a Spanish judge indicted former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet and managed to have him arrested while Pinochet was visiting London, but the British government refused to extradite him to Madrid, saying Pinochet was in poor health. Pinochet died in Chile in 2007.
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Kagire reported from Kigale, Rwanda. Ciaran Giles from Madrid also contributed.

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[amakurunamateka.com] Fw: [uRwanda_rwacu] Original Documents Received From Spain.

Original Documents Received From Spain.

http://www.friendsofthecongo.org/pdf/spanish_indictment.pdf

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[amakurunamateka.com] Human Rihts Watch: UN/AU: Investigate Karake's ast Conduct

Kagame and Mushikiwabo should stop intimidating and obstructing the British justice system. They believe that Rwandan officials should be exempted from facing justice. They also believe that the UK government should behave like the Rwandan Government that decides the outcomes of law cases. The UK government does not influence their judiciary system.

Karake killed Spanish, Congolese, Rwandan, Burundians, French and Canadian and other foreign nationals during Kagame's war.

Except providing foreign aid to Rwanda, there are no substantial British interests in Rwanda to allow this spy and killer escape justice.

UN/AU: Investigate Karake's Past Conduct

DECEMBER 20, 2007

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· Letter to the Chairman of the African Union Commission and the Under-Secretary-General for UN Peacekeeping

AUGUST 15, 2007

Letter

Mr. Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
Department of Peacekeeping Operations
United Nations

H.E. Prof. Alpha Oumar Konare
Chairperson
African Union Commission

Dear Mr. Guéhenno and Mr. Konare,

Human Rights Watch is writing to follow up on our concerns about General Karenzi Karake, named as Deputy Commander of the United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).

We appreciate the importance of Rwandan peacekeepers to UN peacekeeping operations. We also appreciate the well publicized difficulties in assembling an operational UNAMID force with all the resources that it requires. As emphasized in the joint NGO report "UNAMID Deployment on the Brink" published by Human Rights Watch and others this week, it is essential that governments provide the equipment that you require and that Khartoum ends its obstructiveness.

We also believe, however, that it is crucial that UN commanders should be above reproach when it comes to the protection of civilians, and that issues of such importance cannot be set aside, whatever the circumstances. We believe that a number of important concerns regarding General Karake's military record with regard to the protection of civilians must be investigated and appropriate action taken following such an investigation.

In this letter, we wish to focus particularly on the killings of civilians in the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo in June 2000. Press accounts identify General Karake as the commanding officer of Rwandan troops who fought against Ugandan army forces at Kisangani during that period. His own comments make clear that he had command of those forces at that time.

During that conflict, both sides acted with blatant disregard for the lives of the civilians present in Kisangani, Congo's third largest city. According to a UN inter-agency assessment mission, more than 760 civilians were killed and 1,700 injured during four days of battle. Heavy artillery was used in a populated area of the city by the belligerents resulting in the destruction of schools, health centers, and churches as well as hundred of homes. Then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, "There can be no possible justification for this reckless victimization of the civilian population, who are trapped in a conflict not of their own making."

The UN Security Council, in Resolution 1304 adopted on June 16, 2000, expressed "outrage" and "unreserved condemnation," including at the failure of both Rwandan and Ugandan forces to comply with their commitments under international law, and deplored the loss of civilian lives.

The Security Council also called on Rwanda and Uganda to make reparations, including for the loss of civilian life, a recommendation that to our knowledge has never been implemented. The same Security Council resolution, while condemning all massacres and atrocities carried out, directed that an assessment mission be sent to Kisangani to determine the extent of Congolese losses, and urged that an international investigation into the events be carried out with a view to bringing to justice those responsible.

In a December 4, 2000 letter, Secretary-General Annan sent the report of the assessment mission to the Security Council. The report speaks of "systematic violations of international humanitarian law and indiscriminate attacks on civilians" by both sides (UN document S/2000/1153, Report of the Interagency Assessment Mission to Kisangani, December 5, 2000, paragraph 18). While it is not known whether General Karake personally ordered indiscriminate attacks on civilians, General Karake was undoubtedly aware of the impact of Rwandan military operations on the civilian population, and had the authority to end these egregious violations.

As the commanding officer of the Rwandan forces engaged in Kisangani in June 2000, General Karake may bear direct or command responsibility for violations of international humanitarian law committed by Rwandan troops against Congolese civilians and civilian property.

Protection of civilians is at the heart of UN peacekeeping operations, such as that in Darfur. This is one of many reasons why it is imperative that officers of such forces, particularly high-ranking officers, be persons who have demonstrated strict adherence to international humanitarian law, particularly the protection of civilian life and property.

Human Rights Watch believes that it is appropriate and necessary to further investigate the conduct of General Karake and troops under his command at Kisangani in June 2000. If it is found that he bore responsibility for violations of international law, General Karake should be removed from his position as the Deputy Commander of UNAMID.

Further investigations by the United Nations should include contemporary reports by UN Observer Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) staff present during the attack, and material gathered by the assessment mission but not included in its report. The investigation would permit final resolution of this troubling issue, which threatens to diminish the reputation of DPKO and soldiers serving in peacekeeping missions.

We would appreciate learning of steps you are taking in this regard.

Yours sincerely,

Kenneth Roth
Executive Director

Steve Crawshaw
UN Advocacy Director

cc: General M. L. Agwai, Force Commander, AU/UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur;
Maj. General Paul Kagame, President of the Rwandese Republic

http://www.hrw.org/news/2007/12/19/unau-investigate-karakes-past-conduct

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[amakurunamateka.com] Kagame’s Hutu refugee massacres and human rights violations in Rwanda and DRC

Kagame's Hutu refugee massacres and human rights violations in Rwanda and DRC

http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Countries/CD/DRC_MAPPING_REPORT_FINAL_EN.pdf

THE SLAUGHTER OF HUTU REFUGEES IN DRC

http://rwandarwabanyarwanda.over-blog.com/pages/THE_SLAUGHTER_OF_HUTU_REFUGEES_IN_DRC-1001738.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM4nCK_QpzY

Pure Massacre Soldiers Reflect on the Rwandan Massacre - Book Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ivlWwthB-g

U.N. Congo Report Offers New View on Genocide

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/world/africa/28congo.html?_r=0

Kibeho 1995: a massacre forgotten in Rwanda's 20-year history

http://www.jambonews.net/en/news/20150427-4848/

UN: Attacks on Hutus in Congo in aftermath of 1994 Rwandan slaughter also could be genocide

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/27/draft-report-rwandan-army-attacks-hutu-refugees-congo-s-genocide/

U.S./U.N. cover-up of Kagame's genocide in Rwanda and Congo

http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-u-n-cover-up-of-kagame-s-genocide-in-rwanda-and-congo/21127

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Propaganda System

http://monthlyreview.org/2010/05/01/rwanda-and-the-democratic-republic-of-congo-in-the-propaganda-system/

Ghosts of a Genocide: The Story of the Kibeho Massacre

http://hungryoftruth.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/ghosts-of-genocide-story-of-kibeho.html

Rwanda: Kibeho Massacre, 20th anniversary

http://www.anngarrison.com/audio/2015/04/22/567/rwanda-20th-anniversary-of-the-kibeho-massacre

Les Massacres de KIBEHO

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbz9k4_les-massacres-de-kibeho_news

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[amakurunamateka.com] Rwanda: Kibeho Massacre, 20th anniversary

On April 22, 1995, 4000 to 8000 Rwandan Hutu people, maybe more, were massacred at the Kibeho Camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Southwestern Rwanda. No one has ever been prosecuted, even though there were many witnesses and detailed photodocumentation by at least two photographers.

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Flashpoints Host Dennis Bernstein: In Berkeley, I'm Dennis Bernstein. You're listening to Flashpoints on Pacifica Radio. Between four and eight thousand internally displaced persons, refugees

UN troops carry a victim away on a stretcher. Most troops were combat medics and they were too outnumbered to have stopped the massacre. Photo: George Gittoesinside Rwanda's borders, were massacred at Kibeho IDP camp in Southwestern Rwanda twenty year ago. This is one of many crimes of Paul Kagame's army, for which no one has ever been charged or prosecuted. Independent reporter Ann Garrison has this remembrance.

KPFA/Ann Garrison: The Holocaust and the Rwandan Genocide are intertwined in US interventionist ideology. According to this ideology, the US, with NATO and/or its other military partners, must intervene to stop the next Holocaust or "the next Rwanda" - in Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, or wherever else they feel morally compelled to "stop genocide." And, Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been given license to "hunt down Hutu genocidaires" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 20 years of war that have cost more than six million lives, as vast quantities of eastern Congo's mineral wealth were smuggled out through Rwanda and Uganda.

But, what really happened in Rwanda? Who killed who, how, when, and for what purpose? The Hollywood morality play Hotel Rwanda told us that extremist Hutus killed a million Tutsis in 100 days until General Paul Kagame's Tutsi army stopped the genocide in 1994.

Today, however, marks the 20th anniversary of the Kibeho Massacre of April 22, 1995, when Kagame's army murdered eight thousand or more unarmed Hutu refugees in a camp in Southwestern Rwanda, and the UN Security Council made sure that no one was ever prosecuted.

The Kibeho massacre is one of many committed by the the Rwandan Patriotic Army in Rwanda and DR Congo, but it is one of the most shocking because it was witnessed by UN Peacekeepers from Australia, Zambia, and the UK, and well documented by at least two photographers, but no one was ever prosecuted for the crime. In his book about the massacre, Australian combat medic Terry Pickard wrote, "We could only hope the RPA [Rwandan Patriotic Army] would let us leave after what we had just witnessed. They had just murdered thousands of unarmed, starving, thirsty, and helpless men, women, and children. Even babies had not been spared. Some of those who had survived the lethal onslaught of 50 caliber machineguns, AK47 rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars were ruthlessly hunted down and bayoneted to death where they lay injured."

George Gittoes in LE DELUGE, a documentary film in progress. www.thedelugefilm.comIn The Deluge, a documentary film in progress, Australian photographer George Gittoes describes a young girl who shepherded her sisters and her mother to safety before she died, even though she herself was already riddled with bullets.

George Gittoes: There was this girl, like she was just riddled with bullet wounds, like she was just . . . shouldn't have been walking. It was like Bonnie and Clyde's car, she was just all shot up.. And she came over to me and like a ghost, she just put her hand out to me and she said, "Don't you go anywhere." Well I wasn't going anywhere because, like, I would have just been cut in half by bullets myself. And then she went and got her older sisters and I think her mother. It was an older woman. And then, like a little gaggle of geese, she brought them back through all the dead, all the bullets and she kept on getting hit by more bullets, but none of them did. And then she just settled them around me, and she said, "Now you get them out of here." And she . . . she put her head down on my chest, and she was all hot, and then within a few seconds, she was cold. And she died. And that was, in my whole life, the bravest, the bravest thing I've ever seen. And that girl hadn't done anything. She couldn't possibly have been part of any genocidal massacre.

KPFA: Today, Gittoes sent a note in response to several questions, which read.

"No one knows how many were killed. I would personally estimate much more than anyone else has. The RPA fired mortars and rockets and machine guns into those fleeing down the hill towards the river. Many died in the river. I have photos of this. These were never accounted for - it was brutal murder."

KPFA: The Australian medics counted 4100 bodies, with a mechanical counting device until they were ordered to stop, and said that they thought they had counted about half.

In 2010, Rwandan exile and British citizen Rene Mugenzi organized a commemorative event with Amnesty International, other human rights organizations and UN peacekeepers who had witnessed the Kibeho Massacre.

Rene Mugenzi: In April 2010, we organized the event to commemorate victims and to raise awareness about the killings that happened and the justice that should be done. And at that event, we invited human rights organizations and also some former UN peacekeepers who were present during the massacres. Those peacekeepers include a British soldier, an Australian, and a Zambian.

KPFA: And one of them had taken photographs of the massacre?

Mugenzi: Yes, one of them had shown us pictures which showed what happened. You know, how the RPF came and prepared and shot those people. And those pictures had never been shown publicly before.

KPFA: And now, after that, the BBC reported that President Kagame, Rwanda's President Kagame, had sent assassins into London to kill you and your friend Jonathan Musonera.

Mugenzi: Yes.

KPFA: And have you been threatened since?

Mugenzi: We haven't because the UK government has warned the Rwandan government not to try to do those terrible acts on British soil. So since then we haven't received any threats from anyone.

KPFA: A long list of enemies of the Rwandan government have either been assassinated or disappeared, including President Kagame's former intelligence chief, Patrick Karegeya, who was strangled in a Johannesburg, South Africa hotel on New Year's Day in 2014. The Rwandan government's enemies include all those who describe the Rwandan Genocide and its aftermath in any way differing from their official account.

For Pacifica, I'm Ann Garrison.

Flashpoints/Mike Biggs: And, that wraps it up for another edition of Flashpoints.

There are more voices of witnesses to the Kibeho Massacre in "Le Deluge," a film in progress about the Rwandan massacres

and their aftermath in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, including the ensuing 20 years of war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

For more information about the film, see www.thedelugefilm.com.

Rwanda: Kibeho Massacre, 20th anniversary



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-“The root cause of the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 is the long and past historical ethnic dominance of one minority ethnic group to the other majority ethnic group. Ignoring this reality is giving a black cheque for the Rwandan people’s future and deepening resentment, hostility and hatred between the two groups.”

-« Ce dont j’ai le plus peur, c’est des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre ».

-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.”

-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

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[amakurunamateka.com] Someone must answer for the crimes committed by Kagame and his RPF

Rwandan General Arrested in the UK on Spain's Behalf - ABC News

[amakurunamateka.com] Fw: [uRwanda_rwacu] Original Documents Received From Spain.

[amakurunamateka.com] Human Rihts Watch: UN/AU: Investigate Karake's ast Conduct

Karake killed Spanish, Congolese, Rwandan, Burundians, French and Canadian and other foreign nationals during Kagame's war.

Except providing foreign aid to Rwanda, there are no substantial British interests in Rwanda to allow this spy and killer escape justice.

UN/AU: Investigate Karake's Past Conduct

[amakurunamateka.com] Kagame’s Hutu refugee massacres and human rights violations in Rwanda and DRC

[amakurunamateka.com] Rwanda: Kibeho Massacre, 20th anniversary

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