http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/understanding-the-reason-why-victoire-ingabire-is-on-trial/Understanding the reason why Victoire Ingabire is on trial'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' For non informed people or those that Western media keep deliberately ignorant to safeguard interests of particular socio/ economic groups, it would appear difficult to grasp what has been going on more or less for the last two decades in the Great Lakes region of Africa, and particularly in Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo. In the last few years, Ann Garrison, a Californian radio journalist, has developed an interest in the events happening in that part of the world. In her following article, 'Free African political prisoner Victoire Ingabire,' which appears on freedetainees.org website, she provides a glimpse of the picture that none of the big news names around would dare to highlight, because it would distort the image they have created to cover up the reality found on the ground, but at the same time protect interests of Western multinationals and governments. But the overall picture leans towards a certain racism similar to that protestors experienced from a European who, on Friday 2/9/11, argued vigorously that Africans liked to kill each other. This was in front of the Department for International Development where we were holding a protest against DfID significant support to Paul Kagame, dictator of Rwanda. We had to leave the irrational interlocutor to his ignorance, because it was impossible to convince him that Africans were the most human on the planet despite the overall propaganda against their humanity. Free African political prisoner Victoire Ingabire by Ann Garrison "Don't give up. He will never jail a whole nation." – Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza We need an international movement to free Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. Her case is important to African people all over the continent and in the Diaspora and to all of us, all people. The weight on Victoire's shoulders is that of resource war, the ongoing wars for the world's natural resources that threaten to destroy the whole planet. The fate of her tiny East African nation, Rwanda, is intertwined with the resource war in Rwanda's vast, resource rich neighbor, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, site of the most lethal conflict since World War II. The Congo conflict has taken over 6 million African lives since 1998 alone. Background of the Congo conflict, in Rwanda and Uganda In 1990, the U.S. and Uganda backed the invasion of Rwanda, from Uganda, by an army of ethnic Tutsis who had grown up in Uganda, the children of Rwandan refugees. Four years of bloody civil war left over a million Rwandans dead, and Rwanda then joined Uganda and Burundi, the two nations on Congo's eastern border, in invading Congo, first to overthrow Congolese dictator Mobutu Sese Seko and then to overthrow his successor, Laurent Kabila, the onetime ally who had proven less than compliant in their project: the ongoing occupation, de facto colonization and resource plunder of eastern Congo. A peace treaty was signed in 2003, but the death toll in Congo continues to rise. The majority of war dead perish of hardship after being driven from their resource rich land, rich in minerals, timber, cropland, fresh water, oil and natural gas, everything that feeds the world's industrial and military industrial machines and the global capitalist system's insatiable demand for profit. Victoire I don't believe that Victoire went home to Rwanda, after 16 years spent first studying, then working and raising a family in the Netherlands, to take on so much weight, the weight of resource war threatening the whole world, but that is the broad context in which her own people are suffering. She said she was returning home because she could no longer stand to see her Rwandan people suffering so, under such brutal dictatorship. By that time, January 2010, she had emerged as the most inspiring and intellectually forceful leader in the Rwandan Diaspora. I first became aware of Victoire when I saw demonstrations amongst the Rwandan Diaspora in Europe. She was then under house arrest in Rwanda and they were lined up in Brussels, holding her picture and chanting "Victoire! Victoire! Victoire!" As a journalist, I maintained my distance for some time, making my way through all the available information and asking myself, "Who is Victoire?" I knew American radicals who were suspicious of her. They imagined that she was the Pentagon and State Department's chosen successor to Paul Kagame. I still don't know just why they imagined that, though it seemed perhaps because she hadn't been arrested, or rather, had only been placed under house arrest, forbidden to leave Kigali, Rwanda's capital, to speak to the majority Rwandan population, rural peasant farmers, whom she hoped to represent. Her political party was not allowed to register and she was not allowed to run in Rwanda's 2010 presidential election. Victoire was finally arrested and incarcerated two months after the election she had been excluded from, and several days after the last time I spoke to her for Pacifica Radio station KPFA. We had by then spoken many times, for KPFA and for WINGS, Womens' International News Gathering Service. She has been in maximum security prison ever since. Her Rwandan support team now reports that she is ill, without a doctor's care. This worries me because, earlier this year, Rwandan American Law Professor Charles Kambanda told me that he did not believe Rwandan President Paul Kagame would release her from prison with her faculties intact. Pasteur Bizimungu, Kagame's last major challenger, has been released, but he is, by all accounts, not the same man who entered Rwanda's prison system, one of the most overcrowded and notorious on earth. Rwanda's per capita prison population is second only to those of the United States and Russia. Professor Kambanda said that Victoire is a great leader, capable of leading Rwanda, whose conflict has spilled into eastern Congo, to real reconciliation – between African people who have been manipulated by foreign powers to the point of human catastrophe. But Kambanda also thinks Victoire is such a great leader that Rwandan President Paul Kagame will never let her leave prison alive, or with her faculties intact. I hope he's wrong, because we need her. Rwanda, Congo, Africa and the world need her. Free Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza! San Francisco writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View,Global Research, Colored Opinions, Black Star News, the Newsline EA (East Africa) and her own blog, Ann Garrison, and produces for AfrobeatRadio on WBAI-NYC, Weekend News on KPFA and her own YouTube Channel,AnnieGetYourGang. She can be reached at ann@afrobeatradio.com. |
Monday, 29 October 2012
Understanding the reason why Victoire Ingabire is on trial
-“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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