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Wednesday, 27 July 2011

UK-Monster behind genocide and rape squads - By Ian Birrell

Who is Andrew Mitchell?
UK Foreign aid, Rwanda, Andrew Mitchell and David Cameron.

Andrew Mitchell is the UK Secretary of State for International Development who has no experience in international development and economic development.  This man   knows Rwanda only.  Every year he takes his summer holiday in Rwanda. In November 2008, Andrew Mitchell said on BBC that there were no Hutu refugees massacres in Congo Democratic Republic.  Andrew Mitchell said that refugees were killed by hunger and diseases while they were Congo Democratic Republic. This is a man who has no empathy toward the poor, the weak and the disadvantaged.  This means that Andrew Mitchell dismisses the UN Mapping Report findings about human rights abuses, genocide and massacres of refugees who fleeing Kagame.
David Cameron and Andrew Mitchell know that Britain's influence is diminishing around the world. They only option that they have to keep some British influence is foreign aid.  Their foreign aid has becomes the tool for advancing British influence and interests around the world. PM David Cameron has consistently said that British Foreign aid helps Britain to advance   British interests.
In Rwanda, British foreign aid is for bribing Kagame to continue to help Britain in promoting British linguistic interests in African Great Lakes Region.
So, Is UK foreign for helping the poor in developing countries or for advancing British interests in these countries?

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Monster behind genocide and rape squads

Last updated at 2:17 AM on 27th July 2011
Kagame has created what one observer calls a well-managed ethnic, social and economic dictatorship
Kagame has created what one observer calls a well-managed ethnic, social and economic dictatorship
Women and children – desperately sick and weak after months on the run – were finally caught by Rwandan army commander Papy Kamanzi.
He told them he would give them food and then send them home.
But he now admits he was lying and says: 'We took them instead into the forest and killed them with a small hatchet.'
Kamanzi despatched scores with a blow to the back of the skull. As the bloodbath went on, his soldiers' methods became cruder. 'We could kill more than 100 a day,' he said.
'We used ropes – it was the fastest way and we didn't spill blood. Two of us would place a guy on the ground, wrap a rope around his neck once, then pull hard.
'The victim's windpipe would break and they would be strangled silently to death.'
The reason this young commander in an elite unit and father of two young children carried out these horrific massacres of Congolese is simple.
In a chilling refrain, so familiar from the darkest deeds in history, he says: 'We were ordered to do it.'
Kamanzi's story should be heard by all Western apologists for the suspected architect of these atrocities, Rwanda's brutal autocratic ruler, President Kagame.
This includes Britain's International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell.
For while world leaders and the aid lobby fawn over Kagame the reality of his repressive regime is becoming clearer by the day.
Enlarge   Handshake: Andrew Mitchell and Paul Kagame at a previous meeting
Handshake: Andrew Mitchell and Paul Kagame at a previous meeting
This is a man who launched a war with neighbouring Congo in 1996 which led to more than five million deaths and tore Congo apart – and has used British taxpayers' money to silence his critics.
Papy Kamanzi's death squad was operating in the Congolese jungle, where it was guilty of acts of genocide.
His story is told in Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters, a brilliant new book about the collapse of the Congo by an American author who has spent ten years in the country.
A United Nations investigation found Kagame's army and its allies killed tens of thousands of innocent refugees.
This is a terrible indictment of the Rwandan president who came to power by ending his own country's bloody civil war in 1994 between the Hutus and Tutsis.
Following the slaughter of a staggering one million mainly Tutsi civilians in less than a year, Kagame led the army which overthrew the Hutu militias responsible for the genocide and seized power.
At the time he was seen as a liberator. Ever since, he has skilfully exploited international sympathy for Rwanda's tragic recent history to stifle dissent at home and win friends, influence and money abroad.
As huge amounts of foreign aid poured in, he has overseen impressive economic growth, promoted the interests of women and eradicated corruption.
This is the Rwanda that so beguiles visiting Western politicians and aid agencies – the lush land of a thousand hills, of gourmet coffee, gorilla tourism and hi-tech ambitions.
They believe this nation's 'success story' could be the answer the swelling chorus of critics who question what has been achieved for all the billions of aid money.
But this desperate desire for good news out of Africa has ensured that for too long, too many people who should know better have ignored grotesque human rights abuses. The whiff of hypocrisy hangs heavy in the air.
First and foremost on the charge sheet is Rwanda's long involvement in neighbouring Congo. It has twice invaded, fought proxy wars with brutal militias and profited from the proceeds of stolen minerals.
Mass rape was commonplace. The gruesome lexicon now includes words such as 're-rape' – for women who have been repeatedly raped – and 'auto-cannibalism' – where victims are forced to eat their own flesh.
President Kagame should no longer be able to avoid blame despite protestations that his regime was merely tracking down remnants of mass-murdering Hutu militias.
Kagame has created what one observer calls 'a well-managed ethnic, social and economic dictatorship'. People speak of a climate of fear, where the wrong words can lead to incarceration – or worse.
Last year's election was a sham, with the regime jailing political rivals and closing newspapers, using institutions shamefully funded by British aid to win with 93 per cent of the vote.
One opponent was beheaded shortly before the election.
Tony Blair :Advises the Rwandan government and uses Kagame's private jet - he sent the president a note of congratulations
Tony Blair :Advises the Rwandan government and uses Kagame's private jet - he sent the president a note of congratulations
Despite widespread international concern, Tony Blair – who advises the Rwandan government and uses Kagame's private jet – sent the president a note of congratulations.
As for the Tories, they invited Kagame to address their party conference four years ago after Mr Mitchell had taken a group of party volunteers to Rwanda.
Now, as international development minister, he remains among the regime's most fervent supporters.
What makes Mr Mitchell's visit so shocking is that it comes just weeks after Scotland Yard warned two Rwandan dissidents living in Britain that their lives were in danger from hit squads sent by Kagame's government.
One of those targets is Rene Mugenzi, a Liberal Democrat activist. He says the Rwandan government 'wants to kill' him and he feels betrayed because the British government both refuses to condemn the threat to his life and continues to send aid.
'Now Mr Mitchell goes out there as if nothing has happened,' he says.
Meanwhile, there have been persistent reports of murders and assassination attempts of people who have fallen out with Kagame.
Paul Rusesabagina, a heroic Rwandan hotel manager who saved 1,268 people amid the hell of genocide, is one of those who has been declared 'an enemy of the state'.
He says: 'I'll continue to speak out about the need for genuine reconciliation and real peace in our country.'
Brave words that shame Andrew Mitchell as he is the guest of a man accused of sending death squads to kill British citizens.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2019187/Monster-genocide-rape-squads.html#ixzz1TI1r35uf
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OPJDR expects the UNHCHR report on Human Rights abuses in DRC between

His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon September 2, 2010
UN Secretary-General Nº 29/J/PK/910
760 United Nations Plaza,
Manhattan, NY 10017
New York, NY 10017
Re: OPJDR expects the UNHCHR report on Human Rights abuses in DRC between
March 1993 and June 2003 to be officially released as it was drafted without any
distortion on the content and that a genuine action be taken thereafter.
Excellency,
The Organization for Peace , Justice and Development in Rwanda (OPJDR), Inc; a
human rights organization based in US with area of interest being the Great Lakes region
of Africa, has just read the draft of the report from United Nations High Commission for
Human Rights (UNHCHR) detailing serious violations of human rights and international
humanitarian law, including crimes of genocide perpetrated by the current army of
Rwanda, Rwanda Patriotic Army, against Hutu refugees in DRC between 1996 and 1998.
OPJDR welcomes this report but was disturbed by the information that the Government
of Rwanda has for months being busy pressuring you personally and the whole UN
system to dismiss the entire report or at least to water it down by removing the term
"genocide". This information has been confirmed by the French daily newspaper Le
Monde in its edition dated August 26, 2010, an official letter sent to you on August 3,
2010 by Mrs. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and finally by
statement of the government of Rwanda dated August 27, 2010 where it threatens to
withdraw its forces from African Union- United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) if
its demands were not met.
Reports and testimonies about the atrocities that have been committed by the RPA are not
new in the UN offices but unfortunately, all of them have been dismissed under the
pressure of Kigali and its lobbies. OPJDR recalls a few of them.
1. On April 6, 1994, the presidential aircraft carrying the then Presidents Juvenal
Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, has been shoot
down when preparing to land at the Kigali International Airport. All 13 persons
on board perished. Despite the fact that the airport was under the control of the
United Nations Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), UN did not dare to conduct any
genuine investigation and the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
(ICTR), refuses to look at the issue even though it states that this terrorist act
sparked the Rwanda genocide. French and Spanish judges, who investigated the
incident, concluded that the RPF/RPA was responsible of the aircraft shooting.

2. In April 1994, when it was clear that the genocide was underway, the UN
preferred to walk away by pulling most of its peacekeeping force of UNAMIR.
People of Rwanda and friends of Rwanda will never forget that moment.
3. In October 1994, Mr. Robert Gersony, consultant to the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), after a four week long investigation
inside Rwanda and Tanzania, concluded that the RPF regime has murdered at
least 30,000 Hutus since July 1994. Kigali regime threatened to terminate the
operations of the UNAMIR, if the report was validated. The UN, represented in
Rwanda by Shaharyar Khan, succumbed to the pressure and sealed the report.
4. On April 22, 1995, the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) massacred internally
displaced people (IDP) in Kibeho, South West of Rwanda in the presence of
Australian and Zambian UN peacekeepers from UNAMIR. More than 8000
refugees Hutu perished that day and UN kept silent as of today.
5. In 1997, the Special Reporter of the UN commission in charge of human rights in
DRC, the Chilean Roberto Garreton, released a report on crimes committed by the
RPA against the Hutu refugees in DRC. The Rwanda government put an intensive
pressure to suppress the report and managed to block a UN mission that was set to
confirm the results of the Garreton's mission. The public did not hear about this
mission since then.
6. The selectively ethnic killings started in February 1991 in the Byumba and
Ruhengeri prefectures when RPF staged a major attack in several communes of
the Provinces of Ruhengeri and Byumba, selectively killing as many Hutus as
42,200 Hutu populations
7. UN HCR team report of September 12, 1994 "New Human Rights Abuse in
Rwanda" led by George E. Moose concluded that RPF and Tutsi civilians killed at
least 10,000 Hutu civilians per month with a purpose of ethnic cleansing intended
to clear certain areas in the south of Rwanda for Tutsi returnees' habitation. The
killings also served to reduce the population of Hutu males and discouraged
refugees from returning to claim their lands".
8. These are few UN official reports but numerous eyewitnesses, most of them
survivors of these pogroms are available around the world and would be more
than happy to testify.
OPJDR urges the UN not to fail once again the people of Rwanda by dismissing or
altering this genuine report. People of Rwanda has suffered so much in the hand of war
mongers and other criminals that it needs now to know exactly what happened and who
did what, so it can start the long process of healing and reconciliation based on a solid
foundation of truth and justice.
The fact that the Kigali regime threatens to withdraw its troops does not hold at all. First,
that mission in Darfour is not founded by Rwandan taxpayers, so other countries will be
ready to provide necessary troops. Second, UN is setting a very bad example by
employing troops from Rwanda suspected to have committed genocide in peacekeeping
missions as in Darfour where the International Criminal Court (ICC) has concluded that
crimes of genocide took place.
OPJDR believes that justice will prevail and that this report will be officially launched
and that genuine actions will be taken thereafter such as the creation of a special tribunal
for Congo or by the amending the status of the ICTR or ICC to prosecute those who will
be found responsible of those crimes. It is only that way that the impunity will be
eradicated in the Great Lakes region of Africa.
Due to this report, once again OPJDR asks to the UN Security council and the President
of the ICTR to stop sending cases of detainees in Arusha to Rwanda to be prosecuted by
their war opponents. OPJDR reminds you that, in the resolution 955 creating the ICTR,
the UN Security Council concluded that both parties to the conflict, namely RPF and the
government forces, have been involved in genocide and other crimes against humanity
and should respond before the created tribunal. Therefore, the current government in
place in Rwanda led by RPF doesn't have the moral authority to prosecute anybody else
for the crime they are themselves accused for.
In conclusion we would like to recall this quote from Albert Einstein work "The world
will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but those who look and refuse to act."
Sincerely;
Pascal Kalinganire
Coordinator General
Copies:
Honorable U.S. Senator John Kerry
Chair of Foreign Relations Committee
218 Russell Bldg/ Second Floor
Washington D.C. 0510
Honorable U.S. Senator Russ Feingold
US Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs
506 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4904
Honorable Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Honorable Mrs. Susan Rice
Permanent Representative and Ambassador of
the United States to the United Nations
140 East 45th Street
New York, N.Y. 10017
Tel: 212-415-4062; Fax: 212-415-4053
Honorable Mark Lyall Grant
Permanent Representative and Ambassador of
the United Kingdom to the United Nations
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
885 Second Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Tel: 212 745 9200; Fax: 212 745 9316
Honorable LI Baodong, PR
Permanent Representative and Ambassador of
the People's Republic of China to the United Nations
350 East 35th Street,
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212-655-6100/Fax: 212-634-7626
E-mail: ChinaMissionUN@Gmail.com
Honorable Gérard ARAUD
Permanent Representative and Ambassador of France to the United Nations
245 East, 47th Street - 44th floor
New York, NY, 10017
Tel.: 212.702.4900
E-mail: france@franceonu.org
Honorable VITALY CHURKIN
Permanent Representative and Ambassador of Russia Federation to the United Nations
136 East 67 Street
New York, N.Y. 10065
Tel.: (212)861-4901, (212)861-4900; FAX: (212)628-0252
E-mail: rusun@un.int
Organization For Peace Justice and
Development in Rwanda,
(OPJDR) Inc.
Organisation Pour la Paix, la Justice et le
Développement au Rwanda,
(OPJDR) Inc
OPJDR • BP 3026 • Manchester, NH • 03105 / PHONE: (603) 361-6473 www.opjdr.org. OPJDR is non-profit and apolitical. Its mission is to promote the respect of
human rights and Cultural, educational, and economic development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

Sunday, 6 March 2011

UK foreign aid re-focused. But, this isn't enough!

It is good news that UK has now re-focused their foreign aid to poorer countries. UK must acknowledge the negative impacts of their foreign aid to developing countries:


Over the last   decade, UK has campaigned for promoting the budget support which has contributed to fuel wars and ethnic violence in the African Great lakes Region starting from Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda to Democratic Republic of Congo. UK foreign aid has been used to buy weapons to fight these wars.


UK does not recognise the political opposition voices based in the UK and in aid recipient countries. UK aid budget support is used to run foreign governments, the military apparatus and the Parliament whose members are not chosen on the basis of democratic principles.


UK  has been campaigning for the  removal of foreign aid conditionalities and the current revolt and  un unrest in several countries is the result of this UK policy.


Where the condition of human rights have been clearly specify in memorandums of cooperation between UK and  aid recipients,  UK deliberately ignore human rights abuses and continue to pump  money to governments that are expected to respect all terms and conditions of the foreign aid provided. This is the case in Rwanda.


UK  foreign aid benefit local elite than the poorer in many countries  where the Head of the Government  is paid a salary and benefits  five time than the  UK Prime Minister.


UK has been providing aid based on competition with other nations rather than on the basis of the real needs of aid recipients and the UK funding capabilities.


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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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