Susan Rice’s defense of Kagame in Congo puts Obama State Department on the defensive

 

http://sfbayview.com/2012/susan-rices-defense-of-kagame-in-congo-puts-obama-state-department-on-the-defensive/   Susan Rice's defense of Kagame in Congo puts Obama State Department on the defensive December 19, 2012 13 by Ann Garrison U.S. President Barack Obama, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice The Obama administration was on the defensive about the U.S. relationship with Rwanda and its U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice at the Dec. 11, 2012, U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two days after the hearing, Rice withdrew her name from consideration to become secretary of state. Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, current chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, now appears to be first in line for the job, and Republicans aren't likely to unleash attack dogs on him because his appointment will give them a shot at his Massachusetts Senate seat. Will Kerry be any better, for Congo or the rest of Africa? Of course not, unless political pressure forces him to be any better, and there's some danger that journalists, Africa advocates, and peace and social justice advocates won't keep their eyes on him as they might have on Susan Rice. Kerry was an early backer of the invasion of Iraq. He's down with all the warmongering in East and Central Africa by John Prendergast's Enough Project and its satellite organizations, including Invisible Children and their KONY 2012 campaign. He toured college campuses with movie star Ben Affleck to promote conflict minerals legislation, a faux solution to the Congo conflict, broken down by Friends of the Congo's Kambale Musavuli and Bodia Macharia in "Conflict Minerals: A Cover For U.S. Allies and Western Mining Interests?" In 2011, Kerry was in South Sudan, along with John Prendergast, George Clooney and Bono, to celebrate its independence and deliverance to Glencore International, the new nation's new oil marketing partner. Why imagine that Kerry would oppose the break-up of the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Will Kerry be any better, for Congo or the rest of Africa? Of course not, unless political pressure forces him to be any better, and there's some danger that journalists, Africa advocates, and peace and social justice advocates won't keep their eyes on him as they might have on Susan Rice. As a unified nation, D.R. Congo has the resources, including its Atlantic port on the mouth of the Congo River, to become a global powerhouse – much as a unified Sudan did, with its vast resources including its port on the Gulf of Aden. Is it in the USA's geostrategic interest to see any African nation emerge as a global powerhouse? Especially one where so much of the mineral wealth essential to weapons manufacture is so densely concentrated, as it is in Congo? That's certainly not in the interest of what we call "the U.S." as it is now. In a U.S. committed to global community, it might be, but that's obviously not the U.S. we live in. At the Democratic Convention this year, Kerry's most notable remarks celebrated the extrajudicial, summary execution of the U.S.' best excuse for squandering trillions on imperial wars of aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan: "Ask Osama bin Laden if he is better off now than he was four years ago?" However, though there's no reason to expect John Kerry to be any better, Susan Rice's withdrawal of her name is still a victory for Africa peace and social justice activists. It symbolizes recognition that Rice has been protecting Kagame's Rwandan regime and Museveni's Ugandan regime from being named as the aggressors in Congo and protecting their top military and police officers from being subjected to targeted sanctions in U.N. Security Council resolutions. Is it in the USA's geostrategic interest to see any African nation emerge as a global powerhouse? Especially one where so much of the mineral wealth essential to weapons manufacture is so densely concentrated, as it is in Congo? In 2011, Rice flew to Libya after Gaddafi's extrajudicial, summary execution to say the U.S. got it right this time – that we'd stopped genocide – before flying to Rwanda to say the same. And, like Kagame, she delivered a solemn eulogy at the funeral of brutal Ethiopian autocrat Meles Zenawi. So her appointment would have been a slap in the face of African people well beyond the Great Lakes region. In one of the contradictions so prominent in Obama's America, some said that the Republican attacks on her were racist and sexist, and they probably were, but that's not what kept her from following in the path of Madeline Albright, Condoleeza Rice and Hillary Clinton. As Milton Allimadi wrote in the Black Star News, "What Rice would not have been able to surmount is her support for Rwanda's dictator, Gen. Paul Kagame, especially given the humanitarian catastrophe created in Congo by M23, the terrorist army that invaded from Rwanda in what amounts to a war of aggression from a neighboring country." KPFA Morning Mix host Sabrina Jacobs and Friends of the Congo Executive Director Maurice Carney Delaware Congressman Christopher Smith began his opening remarks at the Dec. 11 House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing by saying that the U.S. now stands alone in its support for Rwanda: "Today's hearing will examine U.S. policy regarding the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This conflict was exacerbated by Rwanda's interventions in neighboring eastern Congo, as documented by the release of three United Nations reports this year. These reports confirmed Rwanda's support of militias that have ravaged and continue to plague this region. "The State Department was unavailable to testify at our Sept. 19 hearing on this issue, and the subcommittee promised at that time the follow-up when State was available to testify. "In the aftermath of the 1994 genocide, successive administrations have turned a blind eye to reports of Rwanda plundering the DRC and supporting rebels who have devastated Congo and its people. It seems that guilt over the Clinton administration's colossal failure, responding effectively, as they did not, to the genocide in Rwanda, has led to subsequent administrations being reluctant to criticize the government of Rwanda. "We must overcome our regret over what happened 18 years ago. As an NGO letter to President Obama points out, the United States is now out of step with our European allies, who have cut aid to Rwanda because of their 'interference' in the DRC." After claiming that the State Department was doing all it could by talking to everyone, Under-Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson indignantly dismissed the suggestion that the administration had delayed release of the Group of Experts report and gone out of its way to protect the USA's longstanding ally and "military partner" Rwanda. Congressman Smith turned to Carson asked: "There are rumors – maybe they're just rumors – that the administration sought to delay the U.N. Group of Experts report on the DRC this past summer and attempted to soften criticism of Rwandan involvement with M23. Can you speak to that? "I reject that out of hand," responded Carson. Displaced women sort beans in front of their shelter in Mugunga III refugee camp near Goma, within Congo's borders. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that 900,000 people have been displaced since April. – Photo: UNHCR The Group of Experts recommended sanctions – specifically travel bans and asset seizures – targeting top Rwandan and Ugandan officials. Carson's response to Congressman Smith's question regarding sanctions was that the Administration would welcome Rwanda onto the U.N. Security Council, as a member in good standing, with high hopes. "The Rwandans join the U.N. Security Council next year. Does that have any bearing on what our policy will be, particularly when it comes to sanctions, since they will be on the Security Council?" asked Congressman Smith. "Ah, no, it does not," Carson answered. "I would just hope that the Rwandans, when they join the council, will carry out their duties in a responsible and thoughtful way." John Prendergast, a former National Security Council adviser to President Bill Clinton while Susan Rice was his under-secretary of state for African affairs, claimed that no one doubts the administration's commitment to peace in the Great Lakes Region, most of all that of Under-Secretary of State Johnnie Carson and U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice: "No one is questioning the hard work and the dedication, decades long commitment, that key administration officials have exhibited on behalf of peace in Congo," Prendergast declared. "I would particularly point out for special commendation Ambassador Johnnie Carson and Ambassador Susan Rice at the U.N." Even Prendergast knew that this was his own wishful thinking, however, because in the same breath he decried those who do indeed doubt that commitment, particularly those who doubt Ambassador Rice's commitment. A mother, shot in the hip five years ago, her husband killed, supports her seven children in Mugunga III camp for internally displaced people by begging in nearby Goma. According to UNHCR, families have reported 751 missing children since April. – Photo: Frédèric Noy, UNHCR "I'm particularly saddened by the personal attacks we've seen against Ambassador Rice, in the press and the blogosphere, over the past couple weeks over issues related to the Congo," Prendergast said. "Knowing Johnnie and Susan, and working with them for over the past 16 years, I can tell you from personal experience that they've worked tirelessly for peace in the Great Lakes Region." Curious comment, coming from someone who so recently, writing in Foreign Policy, urged Obama to "unleash the dogs of war and let them hunt" in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, South Sudan and the Central African Republic. Before the hearing was over, Congressman Thomas Marino, R-Penn., called out the Obama administration for its unwillingness to impose sanctions to stop Rwanda and Uganda in Congo, but, true though that was, he should, to be honest, have acknowledged that the unwillingness has been a bi-partisan effort. Neither Clinton, Bush nor Obama – yet – has been willing to stop Rwanda and Uganda in Congo, despite similarly damning U.N. reports since 1998. Two days after the hearing, Ambassador Susan Rice publicly withdrew her name from consideration to become secretary of state on NBC. The network reported, however, that they do not expect her to leave the Obama administration and imagine that she will stay on as U.N. ambassador or perhaps join Obama's National Security Council in a powerful post that Congress would not have to approve. In President Obama's statement on Susan Rice, issued the same day, Dec. 13, he praised her work advancing America's interests and specifically mentioned her efforts regarding Iran, North Korea, Libya, South Sudan, Israel and the U.N. He did not mention Rwanda, Uganda or the Democratic Republic of Congo. San Francisco writer Ann Garrison writes for the San Francisco Bay View, Global Research, Colored Opinions, Black Star News and her own website, Ann Garrison, and produces for AfrobeatRadio on WBAI-NYC, KPFA Evening News and her own YouTube Channel, AnnieGetYourGang. She can be reached at ann@afrobeatradio.com. If you want to see Ann Garrison's independent reporting continue, please contribute on her website at anngarrison.com. Friends of the Congo's Maurice Carney talks to KPFA Morning Mix host Sabrina Jacobs about the eastern Congo conflict, broadcast Dec. 17, 2012 The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Dec. 11, 2012, hearing on eastern Congo and U.S. relations with Rwanda and Uganda, reported by Ann Garrison, also broadcast on the KPFA Morning Mix, Dec. 17, 2012   You may also like - Congo: What's Rwanda got to do with it? Rwanda's Kagame, keynote speaker at a Sac State genocide conference? White man's burden: Affleck and Prendergast in Congress for Congo Share on yahoomailShare on facebookShare on twitterShare on emailMore Sharing Services Related Posts Congo, AFRICOM and the U.S. Corporate Council on Africa Withhold U.S. aid to speed end of atrocities in Congo White man's burden: Affleck and Prendergast in Congress for Congo Who benefits from sexual violence in eastern Congo? Cui bono? U.N. on Congo: Dodd-Frank conflict minerals law increases conflict

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Extrait Chronique d'un génocide (La partie occultée): 1994 - 1996 les massacres commis par le FPR

 

Extrait Chronique d'un génocide (La partie occultée): 1994 - 1996  les massacres commis par le FPR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-qX1t240g

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Imvo n'Imvano: Isabukuru ya FPR

http://www.bbc.co.uk/gahuza/audio_console.shtml?programme=glak0530_sat --- On Sat, 12/22/12, Michel Niyibizi <niyimike@yahoo.fr> wrote: From: Michel Niyibizi <niyimike@yahoo.fr> Subject: *DHR* Imvo n'Imvano To: "DHRDHR" <democracy_human_rights@yahoogroupes.fr>, "Group Ibukabose" <ibukabose_rengerabose@yahoogroupes.fr>, "Fonda Banya" <fondationbanyarwanda@yahoogroupes.fr>, "Joseph Matata" <cliir2004@yahoo.fr>, "CORWABEL ASBL" <corwabel@gmail.com>, "Christophe Tuvugishukuri" <psj_survivors@yahoo.com>, "Jambo" <jamboasbl@gmail.com> Date: Saturday, December 22, 2012, 1:18 PM   Nyabuneka ntimuzacikwe n'ikiganiro Imvo n'Imvano yo kuri uyu wa gatandatu 22/12/2012! Kiravuga kivuye inyuma ibijyanye n'Isabukuru ya FPR; abaturage, Karangwa Gérard wa PDP Imanzi na Boniface Twagilimana wa FDU baravuga bakinigura! Ntimucikwe! __._,_.___ Répondre à expéditeur | Répondre à groupe | Répondre en mode Web | Nouvelle discussion Toute la discussion (1) Activités récentes: Aller sur votre groupe http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Democracy_Human_Rights Maître Innocent  TWAGIRAMUNGU DHR FOUNDER&OWNER Tél.mobile: 0032- 495 48 29 21 UT UNUM SINT "L'extrémisme dans la défense de la liberté n'est pas un vice; La modération dans la poursuite de la justice n'est pas une vertu". "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." (USA,Republican Convention 1964,Barry Morris Goldwater (1909-1998)). "Le monde ne sera pas détruit par ceux qui font le mal mais par ceux qui regardent et refusent d'agir", Albert EINSTEIN. Les messages publiés sur DHR n'engagent que la responsabilité de leurs auteurs. CONSIDERATION, TOLERANCE, PATIENCE AND MUTUAL RESPECT towards the reinforcement of GOOD GOVERNANCE,DEMOCRACY and HUMAN RIGHTS in our states. Liability and Responsibility: You are legally responsible, and solely responsible, for any content that you post to DHR. You may only post materials that you have the right or permission to distribute electronically. The owner of DHR cannot and does not guarantee the accuracy of any statements made in or materials posted to the group by participants. " BE NICE TO PEOPLE ON YOUR WAY UP, BECAUSE YOU MIGHT MEET THEM ON YOUR WAY DOWN." Jimmy DURANTE. COMBATTONS la haine SANS complaisance, PARTOUT et avec Toute ENERGIE!!!!!! Let's  rather prefer Peace, Love , Hope and Life, and get together as one!!! Inno TWAGIRA Passer à: Texte seulement, Résumé du jour • Désinscription • Conditions d'utilisation . __,_._,___

Extrait Chronique d'un génocide (La partie occultée): 1994 - 1996 les massacres commis par le FPR

Extrait Chronique d'un génocide (La partie occultée): 1994 - 1996  les massacres commis par le FPR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8t-qX1t240g

http://www.umuvugizi.com/?p=7277 Ari Perezida Kagame n'abamunenga, ni nde uvuga ibinyoma ? FPR niryo Shyaka ryonyine rinaniwe kuyobora Igihugu mu gihe kitarenze Imyaka Makumyi abiri n'itanu . Ejo ni bwo ishyaka riri ku butegetsi rya FPR ryizihizaga imyaka makumyabiri n'itanu rivutse. Mu mihango y'isabukuru yaryo yari yitabiriwe na Perezida wa Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, Perezida Kagame yahavugiye amagambo atari macye, ari na bwo yibasiraga abanenga ubutegetsi bwe, abita abavuga binyoma. Ibi byatumye twibaza, ari perezida Kagame n'abanenga ibikorwa bye bibi, byiganjemo ubwicanyi n'ubusahuzi simusiga, uvuga ibinyoma uwo ari we. Ikindi nuko na bagenzi be bagize uruhare mu gushinga ishyaka rya RPF kuva ku muryango wa Nyakwigendera Gen Gisa Rwigema kugera ku wa Nyakwigendera Col Alexis Kanyarengwe, nta n'umwe wari watumiwe muri ibyo birori, Kagame akaba atanazi uburyo imfubyi n'abapfakazi b'iyi miryango babayeho. Ibi birori by'isabukuru y'imyaka 25 ya FPR bikaba bibaye mu gihe hafi ya bagenzi be bose bafatanyije kuyobora urugamba, kuva kuri ba Col Kayitare, Col Ndugutei Stephen, Col Ngoga, Col Wilson Rutayisire, Major Ruzindana Alex, Col Rizinde Theoneste, Col Cyiza Augustin, Assiel Kabera, kimwe n'abandi umuntu atarondora ngo arangize, yagiye abica uruhongohongo, kandi mu buryo budasobanutse. Ibi byose bikaba ari byo byatumye twibaza niba ari bwo butwari yaratiraga abanyarwanda ko bamaze kugeraho kuva RPF yafata ubutegetsi, cyangwa niba ari wo murage azasigira urwo rubyiruko rw'u Rwanda yavugaga mw'ijambo rye ry'ejo ubundi . Mu gihe kandi perezida Kagame yivugaga ibigwi, aho yavugaga ko FPR yarwaniye demokrasi, ubutabera, n'amajyambere mu gihugu, byatumye tunibaza impanvu avuga ibinyoma imbere y'abaturage ashinzwe kuyobora, dore ko adatinya kuvuga ko yazanye demokarasi, mu gihe ingero nyinshi zihari zihagije z'ukuntu abagerageje kuvuga ibyo batecyereza bitandukanye n'ibitekerezo bye, bose yabishe, uwo atishe akaba yaramuhejeje muri gereza. Urugero rufatika ni urwa Perezida Bizimungu Pasteur, yafunze agafungura ari igisenzegeri, azira gusa kuba yarashatse gushinga ishyaka ritavuga rumwe n'ubutegetsi bwe (PDR Ubuyanja). Nta n'uwari ukwiye kwibagirwa abandi banyapolitiki nka ba Ntakirutinka Charles, na we yafunze imyaka icumi yose, amuziza gushinga ishyaka ritavuga rumwe n'ubutegetsi bwe, Madame Ingabire Victoire ugiye kuborera muri gereza, n'ishyaka rye akaba yararibujije gukorera mu gihugu, André Kagwa Rwisereka, wari Visi perezida w'ishyaka riharanira demukarasi n'ibidukikije, uyu akaba yaramwishe urw'agashinyaguro amukegese ijosi, Maitre Ntaganda Bernard yafunze akanabuza ishyaka rye (PS Imberakuri) gukora, n'ubwo yari yemeye ko ryemerwa mu gihugu, ubu akaba afungiwe muri gereza ya Mpanga, mu rwego rwo kubuza umuryango we kumusura, ndetse n'abandi banyapolitiki bagiye bagerageza gushinga amashyaka ya politiki bakabizira, nka Deo Mushayidi, ubu na we yafunze ubuzima bwe bwose. Ikindi gitangaje nuko Perezida Kagame, iyo avuga ibinyoma atajya atekereza icyo Abanyarwanda bamwibazaho. Avuga ko yazanye demokarasi n'ubutabera mu gihugu, kandi azi neza ko abanyamakuru batabarika amaze kubamenesha mu gihugu, abandi nka ba Rugambage Jean Leonard, wahoze ari umwanditsi mukuru wungirije w'Umuvugizi, akaba yarabarashe mu kanwa, abaziza inyandiko zabo, ibinyamakuru byonyine byigenga byakoreraga mu gihugu, ari byo Umuvugizi n'Umuseso, akaba yaritangiye amabwiriza yo kubifunga, abiziza kunenga imikorere ye mibi, y'igitugu n'ubwicanyi. Perezida Kagame yavuga rero ate ko Leta ye yazanye ubutabera na demukarasi mu Rwanda, mu gihe azi neza ko yashimuse abantu batabarika, aba bakaba baraburiwe irengero kugeza magingo aya. Ingero ni nka Shekh Idi Abas, Brig Gen Urayeneza Robert , Kayitesi Beatrice, aba bose imiryango yabo ikaba yaramusabye ngo byibura abahe imirambo yabo babishyingurire mu cyubahiro, ariko akaba yaravuniye ibiti mu matwi, dore ko ari agatsiko k'abicanyi be babahitanye. Abandi Kagame yisasiye ni nka mzee Ntare Semadwinga Denis, Emeritha Munyeshuri, na Rutayisire John Bosco, bose bagiye bicwa urw'agashinyaguro n'inzego ze z'ubutasi, ku mabwiriza ye. Ibindi binyoma byatumye twibaza byinshi kuri Kagame mu muhango w'ejo w'isabukuru y'imyaka 25 y'ishyaka rya FPR, ni uburyo avuga ko avugira abagore, mu gihe n'abanyamakuru kazi babiri, bagerageje kunenga ubutegetsi bwe, ari bo Nkusi Agnes Uwimana na Saidati Mukakibibi, yabakatiye imyaka itabarika yo gufungirwa mu magereza ye, imiryango mpuzamahanga nka Amnesty International na Human Rights Watch ikaba yaragerageje kumutesha ngo areke hufunga aba banyamakuru abaziza ubusa, nyamara akaba yaratereye agati mu ryinyo, kubera igitugu cye cyamaze kumurenga. Gasasira, Sweden.