[Video] Rwandan refugees face repatriation threat

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Rwandan refugees face repatriation threat

UN order could force thousands who fled 1994 genocide and ensuing fighting to return home this summer. Last Modified: 30 Apr 2013 19:56

Thousands of Rwandan refugees could be forced to return home this summer under a United Nations order. The 1994 genocide and fighting in subsequent years created more than 3.5 million refugees. They are scattered around the world but many still have not managed to get citizenship where they are living. Al Jazeera's Diane Eastabrook reports from Chicago.

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[Video] Rwandan refugees face repatriation threat

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Rwandan refugees face repatriation threat

UN order could force thousands who fled 1994 genocide and ensuing fighting to return home this summer. Last Modified: 30 Apr 2013 19:56

Thousands of Rwandan refugees could be forced to return home this summer under a United Nations order. The 1994 genocide and fighting in subsequent years created more than 3.5 million refugees. They are scattered around the world but many still have not managed to get citizenship where they are living. Al Jazeera's Diane Eastabrook reports from Chicago.

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Rwanda on the spot once again on claims of poor human-rights record

April 28, 2013 by Rwema IT Webmaster Leave a Comment

Rwanda's human-rights record is once again in the spotlight after a new report by the US Department of State accused government security agents of engaging in torture, arbitrary or unlawful killings and detention of citizens without trial.

The Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2012 accuses Rwanda's military intelligence services and police of torturing civilians using electric shocks, beatings and starving of suspects, among other abuses.

Specifically, the military intelligence department is accused of detaining civilians in safe houses without being charged or tried for several months.

The report, which the authors said offers an assessment of Rwanda's human-rights record last year, notes that, while the government has occasionally made efforts to investigate these abuses, it did not punish any perpetrators.

"The most important human-rights problems in the country remained the government's targeting of journalists, political opponents and human-rights advocates for harassment, arrest, and abuse; disregard for the rule of law among security forces and the judiciary; restrictions on civil liberties; and support of rebel groups in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo," said the US report.

"The government generally took steps to prosecute or punish officials who committed abuses, whether in the security services or elsewhere, but impunity involving civilian officials and State Security Forces was a problem."

Rwanda has repeatedly denied allegations that the country is backing the M23 rebels operating in eastern Congo.

The accusations saw some key donors, mainly Germany, UK, the Netherlands and the US suspend or withdraw aid to Rwanda late last year.

In December last year, it was reported that US President Barack Obama had called Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and warned him about supporting the rebels.

Read: 'He is neither a messiah nor a dictator, but a CEO with a vision')

The latest report further damages the image of Rwanda, which at the beginning of the year took up its position as a member of the United Nations Security Council.

Rwanda, analysts said, was hoping to use its newly acquired membership to the UNSC to defuse tensions over its alleged role in the conflict in eastern DRC.

Only last year, yet another report by Amnesty International documented 18 allegations of torture and other cruel or degrading treatment or punishment perpetrated by the military intelligence and other agencies to secure information or force confessions at Kami military intelligence camp, Ministry of Defence headquarters, Mukamira military camp and safe houses.

Positive steps

However, local and international human-rights organisations acknowledged that the army's leadership had taken positive steps during the year to reform military interrogation methods and detention standards, resulting in fewer reports of torture and other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment at Kami and other military detention facilities.

According to the report, there were fewer reports of disappearances and politically motivated abductions or kidnappings than in previous years, but local human-rights organisations ceased investigating disappearances during the year after reporting pressure from government officials, including threats and allegations of treason.

Amnesty International, Liprodhor and other observers alleged that the Military Intelligence Directorate, the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) as well as the Department of Intelligence orchestrated the disappearances.

Reacting to the report, the leader of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Frank Habineza, said: "The National Human Rights Commission and the office of Ombudsman should carry out independent investigations into the matter and inform the general public about the alleged human-rights abuses."

On his part, the executive secretary for the League for the Defence of Human Rights in the Great Lakes Region, Epimack Kwokwo, asks Members of Parliament to come up with a law that gives an independent body powers to investigative the alleged crimes and bring the culprits to book

He noted that the police and military could not investigate themselves. While prison and detention centre conditions were harsh, the report notes, the government made numerous improvements during the year.

The US report also criticises the government over failed attempts to stem rampant corruption, citing several cases. In a controversial March report, an ad hoc parliamentary committee charged the then Minister for Finance and Economic Planning John Rwangomba and eight other senior government officials with mismanaging the Rukara hydropower dam project.
Investigations by parliament

The parliamentary investigation followed the publication of an article in the New Times, which claimed that in 2011 Minister of Local Government James Musoni had illegally awarded public tenders to the local company Digitech Solutions (now known as Ngali Holdings).

Mr Rwangomba and the other officials protested the report's findings as inaccurate and poorly researched, and in August the parliamentary committee of public accounts cleared the nine officials of any wrongdoing.

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Rwanda on the spot once again on claims of poor human-rights record

April 28, 2013 by Rwema IT Webmaster Leave a Comment

Rwanda's human-rights record is once again in the spotlight after a new report by the US Department of State accused government security agents of engaging in torture, arbitrary or unlawful killings and detention of citizens without trial.

The Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2012 accuses Rwanda's military intelligence services and police of torturing civilians using electric shocks, beatings and starving of suspects, among other abuses.

Specifically, the military intelligence department is accused of detaining civilians in safe houses without being charged or tried for several months.

The report, which the authors said offers an assessment of Rwanda's human-rights record last year, notes that, while the government has occasionally made efforts to investigate these abuses, it did not punish any perpetrators.

"The most important human-rights problems in the country remained the government's targeting of journalists, political opponents and human-rights advocates for harassment, arrest, and abuse; disregard for the rule of law among security forces and the judiciary; restrictions on civil liberties; and support of rebel groups in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo," said the US report.

"The government generally took steps to prosecute or punish officials who committed abuses, whether in the security services or elsewhere, but impunity involving civilian officials and State Security Forces was a problem."

Rwanda has repeatedly denied allegations that the country is backing the M23 rebels operating in eastern Congo.

The accusations saw some key donors, mainly Germany, UK, the Netherlands and the US suspend or withdraw aid to Rwanda late last year.

In December last year, it was reported that US President Barack Obama had called Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and warned him about supporting the rebels.

Read: 'He is neither a messiah nor a dictator, but a CEO with a vision')

The latest report further damages the image of Rwanda, which at the beginning of the year took up its position as a member of the United Nations Security Council.

Rwanda, analysts said, was hoping to use its newly acquired membership to the UNSC to defuse tensions over its alleged role in the conflict in eastern DRC.

Only last year, yet another report by Amnesty International documented 18 allegations of torture and other cruel or degrading treatment or punishment perpetrated by the military intelligence and other agencies to secure information or force confessions at Kami military intelligence camp, Ministry of Defence headquarters, Mukamira military camp and safe houses.

Positive steps

However, local and international human-rights organisations acknowledged that the army's leadership had taken positive steps during the year to reform military interrogation methods and detention standards, resulting in fewer reports of torture and other cruel, inhumane, or degrading treatment or punishment at Kami and other military detention facilities.

According to the report, there were fewer reports of disappearances and politically motivated abductions or kidnappings than in previous years, but local human-rights organisations ceased investigating disappearances during the year after reporting pressure from government officials, including threats and allegations of treason.

Amnesty International, Liprodhor and other observers alleged that the Military Intelligence Directorate, the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) as well as the Department of Intelligence orchestrated the disappearances.

Reacting to the report, the leader of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda, Frank Habineza, said: "The National Human Rights Commission and the office of Ombudsman should carry out independent investigations into the matter and inform the general public about the alleged human-rights abuses."

On his part, the executive secretary for the League for the Defence of Human Rights in the Great Lakes Region, Epimack Kwokwo, asks Members of Parliament to come up with a law that gives an independent body powers to investigative the alleged crimes and bring the culprits to book

He noted that the police and military could not investigate themselves. While prison and detention centre conditions were harsh, the report notes, the government made numerous improvements during the year.

The US report also criticises the government over failed attempts to stem rampant corruption, citing several cases. In a controversial March report, an ad hoc parliamentary committee charged the then Minister for Finance and Economic Planning John Rwangomba and eight other senior government officials with mismanaging the Rukara hydropower dam project.
Investigations by parliament

The parliamentary investigation followed the publication of an article in the New Times, which claimed that in 2011 Minister of Local Government James Musoni had illegally awarded public tenders to the local company Digitech Solutions (now known as Ngali Holdings).

Mr Rwangomba and the other officials protested the report's findings as inaccurate and poorly researched, and in August the parliamentary committee of public accounts cleared the nine officials of any wrongdoing.

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MENYA NEZA UMWANZI W'U RWANDA.

April 30, 2013 by Rwema IT Webmaster 1 Comment

Igitondo cyiza bavandimwe banyarwanda, mbanje kwisegura ku basomyi b'inyandiko zanjye kuko nsa n'uwahinduye gato umurongo nkaba ngiye gukoresha amagambo akakaye, atari ukubakura umutima ahubwo nshaka kubereka ibinyoma, amafuti ndetse n'ubuswa bw'abiyita abanyapolitiki, aho ibikorwa byabo aribyo birio kuvutsa amahirwe igihugu cyacu twahawe n'Imana. U Rwanda rero nkuko mubizi, ni igihugu cy'igihangange cyane cyahawe impano yo kugira amaboko, kuva na kera imwe mu mpano twiyiziho nk'abanyarwanda ni ukuba tugira ingabo zikomeye mu karere dutuyemo, uwabihakana yaba atazi amateka yarwo, uko rwagiye rwagurwa n'abami kugeza ubwo abakoloni badusubirishijemo imipaka, murebe ukuntu agahugu gato kahangamuye igihangange Zaire ya Mobutu, zifasha Museveni wa Uganda gufata ubutegetsi, mwibuke uburyo EX-FAR zahinduye ubutegetsi mu bihugu byinshi aho bivugwa ko zafashije Mugabe kuguma ku butegetsi, zigafasha Perezida Sassou wa Congo Brazaville gufata ubutegetsi, zigafasha uwahoze ari Perezida ca Centre Afrique gufata ubutegetsi, Ingabo za RDF zikaba zifasha kugarura amahoro hirya no hino kw'Isi nka Darfour, Khartoum, Haiti n'ahandi henshi.

Ikintangaza kandi kikantera kwibaza byinshi, nukuntu twambaye ikirezi tukaba tutaziko cyera, aho usanga tugira ibyago byo kutagira abayobozi bafite impano nziza yo guhuriza hamwe abanyarwanda ngo buri wese mu mpano yahawe n'Imana atange umusanzu we twiyubakire igihugu, ahubwo abo bayobozi b'abanyepolitike ugasanga bo bashishikajwe no guducamo ibice, nk'aho ariho ubushobozi bwabo bugarukira, iyi nyandiko ndende nkaba ngerageza gusobanura uburyo u Rwanda rwategetswe n'ikinyoma kuva kera kugeza ubu aho ruhora rwubakiye kuri politike ishingiye kwivuna umwanzi, ugasanga mu bushobozi bwacu buke dushishikajwe no kugira igisirikare kigizwe n'umubare mwinshi, imbunda za rutura, maneko nyinshi cyane mpamyako ziba zigizwe na 2/3 by'abaturage batuye u Rwanda, imitwe yitwara gisirikare myinshi cyane, ubutabera budakorera abaturage ahubwo bukorera ubutegetsi, kwambura ububasha abaturage bugahabwa umutegetsi aho asigara yitiranya inyungu ze bwite n'inyungu za rubanda, ugasanga ubwisanzure bw'abaturage buhazaharira, ndetse uwihaye kwerekana ko ibyo bidakwiye akitwa umwanzi kuburyo ubuzima bwe bujya mu kaga, akaba ashobora no kwicwa ataburanye, kuko ubutabera buba buri mu biganza by'umutegetsi mukuru, aho icyo ategetse ntawukigamburuza kabone n'iyo cyaba gishyira igihugu mu kaga. Ubwo bamwe wasanga batangiye kubangura imijugujugu ngo Kanyarwanda arimo kwikoma Kagame, hoya sibyo ibi byahozeho, biriho kandi mfite impungenge z'uko bizakomeza nihatagira igikorwa.

Mbibutse gato ko kuva twabona ubwigenge muri 1959, nyuma y'uko habayeho gusubiranamo kw'amoko ibi bikatuzanira Revolisiyo yari yuzuyemo icuraburindi n'umwiryane, ubutegetsi bwagiyeho, bwirengagije cyangwa bwakoze nkana politike ishingiye ku MWANZI W'IGIHUGU, ibi bihinduka inkingi nyamukuru bubakiyeho inzego za Leta, ibi bigenda bikomera, aho kubonako umwanzi w'u Rwanda ari ubujiji bwuzuye mu banyarwanda, ari amatiku, amacakubiri ashingiye ku moko, irondakarere no kwihimura, kwigwizaho no kwimika akazu, bo babonako igice kimwe cy'abanyarwanda aribo mwanzi w'u Rwanda, aha niho politiki yo kwanga, kwangisha, kumenesha, kujujubya no kwica umututsi yatangiye, ubutegetsi buyishyiramo ingufu bwubaka igisirikare cy'ubwoko bumwe, abatutsi bahezwa mu nzego zose za Leta, bararenganywa, baravangurwa karahava, kandi ibi bishimangirwa na gahunda zimwe na zimwe Leta yashyiragaho ikoresheje inzego zayo bwite nk'inteko ishinga amatageko, ubutabera n'inzego z'umutekano. Byarakomeje birakura byigishwa mu mashuri, politiki y'iringaniza irashimangirwa, ubwoko bushyirwa mu ndangamuntu hagamijwe kubusenya, baratotezwa bishyirakera, habaho intambara abari baratotejwe, baciriweho iteka bagizwe abanzi b'igihugu igihe kirekire bumvako ntayindi nzira, begura intwaro, bishyira hamwe kubera bose bumvaga ko bugarijwe biyahura kuri Leta yari ifite igisirikare gikomeye n'ibikoresho n'inkunga z'ibihugu by'inshuti ariko byose bihinduka ubusa kuko BARWANAGA n'umujinya kandi hari impamvu ituma abatutsi barwana nk'abiyahura, Leta ibonyeko isumbirijwe ihitamo kubamaraho burundu niho habaga Itsembabwoko ryo muri 1994 ryamaze igihe kirekire ritegurwa, ibyo ni amateka.

Igitangaje kandi giteye agahinda nuko, FPR mw'ikubitiro yaje ishaka gukosora ibyakozwe na MRND ya Habyarimana kimwe n'andi mashyaka ashingiye ku bwoko bw'abahutu, izana agashya ko yo yigishaga ko hagomba kubaho guhuriza hamwe abanyarwanda bose hatitawe ku bwoko, ibi byari byiza kandi byayifashije kugera ku ntego yayo yo gufata ubutegetsi, ariko aho babufatiye ko habayeho amakosa utatandukanya n'ayo abahutu bakoze? Uti aho urakabije Kanyarwanda we… Hoya sugukabya, habayeho urwango, wenda twavuga ko rwatewe n'amateka, habaho ubwicanyi buteguwe, habaho guheza abahutu kuko abatutsi bumvaga bagomba guhabwa byose nk'uko bavunikiye gufata ubutegetsi, habaho guheza abahutu bari bafatanyije ibi bigenda bikorwa buhoro buhoro, Seth SENDASHONGA agerageza kubyamagana uko byamugendekeye nuko atishwe n'urupfu rusanzwe, ndavuga indwara, ahubwo yararashwe, abaminisitiri b'abahutu batangira kubonako bibeshye ibyakurikiye kwari uguhunga igihugu, abanyepolitike bakomeye barishwe, abatutsi bagerageje kwamagana aya mahano ya FPR bahindutse abanzi b'u Rwanda, abanyakibuye baribasirwa ngo ngaho bagira imitwe minini, nyuma yo kurokoka Jenoside yakorewe abatutsi ntibarokotse ABAGIZI BA NABI, Kabera Assiel araraswa, abasirikare bakuru bagenda bicwa, abandi bigizwayo, Pasteur Bizimungu w'umuhutu arananizwa, ndetse agerekwaho ibyaha arahanwa, Sebarenzi arahunga, FPR abayishinze hafi ya bose barayihunga, abayiyoboye mugihe gikomeye bahindurwa indorerezi, Kanyarengwe w'umuhutu yigizwayo aracunaguzwa karahava, ubwicanyi burimakazwa, nyuma yo kurimbura imbaga za Gakurazo, Kibeho, n'ahandi henshi aho abantu bakusanyirizwaga mu manama bagaterwamo za grenades n'urufaya rw'amasasu ubwicanyi bwimukiye muri Congo ahabarurwa abantu ibihumbi byinshi cyane byishwe na Leta ya Kagame.

Ngarutse rero ku mutwe w'inkuru ndashaka ko twicara buriwese agasesengura yibaza ati umwanzi w'u Rwanda ninde? Ese ko tuziko igihugu kigira ingabo ngo zizarinde ubusugire bwacyo, kikagira polisi icunga umutekano w'abanyagihugu imbere kugirango hatagira ubangamira undi, hakabaho ubutabera kugira ngo burenganure abarenganya abandi bunahane abitwara nabi, mu Rwanda ibi byose musanga bikora icyo bigomba gukora? Ese iyo amafaranga menshi y'ingengo y'imari ashiriye mu bikorwa byo kubungabunga umutekano mwumva ariko byakabaye bigenda? Ntabundi buryo twabungabungamo umutekano? Aha niho isesengura ryanjye rigiye kwibanda.
Nkurikije amateka yacu, nsanga umwanzi w'u Rwanda yarakomeje kuba umunyarwanda, uburyo arwanywamo byakabaye bikorwa hatabayeho guhuruza ingabo ibihumbi byinshi, ngo dusesagure amafaranga muri ba maneko hirya no hino, kuko byagaragaye ko aba bahembera inzangano babiba amatiku adashira kugirango bashimishe shebuja, uyu nawe agahora yokamwe n'ubwoba kuko ahora yikanga guhirikwa ku butegetsi igihe cyose, umwanzi w'u Rwanda ni UBUJIJI kuko kutamenya igikwiye ngo abanyepolitike bategure politike ziteza imbere ubuzima bwiza bw'abaturage banababanisha neza ubwabyo ari imbogamizi izakomeza guteza intambara mu banyarwanda. Umwanzi w'u Rwanda kandi ni INDA nini ituma umuntu yumvako ibyiza byose byaba ibye, bikamutera ubuhumyi buterwa n'uko akora ibitemewe byose ngo akunde arambe ku butegetsi, noneho hakabaho kwikanyiza no gushaka gushuka rubanda arwubakiraho ingabo nyinshi yitwaje UMUTEKANO muke aho umuntu umubwira uti FDLR ni abanyarwanda, kuba bateza umutekano muke mu Rwanda hari uko byakemuka mu mahoro, bagataha, kuko buriya ibyo bakora ninko gukanga bashaka kwerekana ko barambiwe ishyamba no kuba mu mahanga, nk'uko nawe wayabayemo, bacyure ku neza, ureke ubutabera bukore akazi kabwo, bityo uwishe muri Jenoside azahanwe n'ubutabera umwere asubire mu buzima busanzwe, umutegetsi akinangira, kuko icyitwa ingabo uzasanga azikoresha mu nyungu ze aho zikora ibikorwa byo gutera ubwoba abaturage akabatwara uburenganzira bwabo bwose, kuko ntabundi bushobozi aba afite bwo kuyobora uretse gukoresha igitugu. Niyo mpamvu uzasanga habaho gutinya guhangana muri demokarasi, kuko abanyepolitike dufite nta bushobozi bafite, kandi aha mbivuze nshimitse abenshi ni politike YO GUCAMO IBICE KUGIRANGO BATEGEKE (Divide to rule).

Niba Kagame yitwaza ko umwanzi w'igihugu ari FDLR, byaba arukwijijisha kuko n'abatutsi biswe abanzi b'igihugu, burya nta mwenegihugu wanga igihugu cye iyo gifite INZEGO ZIKOMEYE KANDI ZIKORA, DEMOKARASI, UBWISANZURE BWO KUBAHO NO GUKORA ICYO USHAKA ndetse igihugu kizira AKARENGANE AKO ARIKO KOSE. Ntabwo umwanzi w'igihugu ari umunyarwanda wifuzako ibintu byahinduka bikaba byiza, umwanzi w'igihugu ni uwo wese ukandamiza abandi, akumvako ibitekerezo bye ari kamara, ni uwo wese wumvako INTAMBARA ariwo muti w'ibibazo, uwo wese ubeshya ko abanyarwanda bariho neza kandi hari abari mu mashyamba ya Congo, hari ababuze ibyo kurya, ababuze ababo ku maherere bazize abagizi ba nabi (akenshi usanga ari inzego z'iperereza zabhitanye), ababona ba se bicwa urw'gashinyaguro nka Rwisereka Leta ikitwara nkaho ntacyabaye, umwanzi ni uvutsa u Rwanda Demokarasi, akiba ububasha bw'abaturage bwo kwitorera uwo babonamo ubushobozi, akababuza kwisanzura mu bitekerezo abahatira gutekereza ibyo ashaka, ni uwo uhindura abana b'u Rwanda abicanyi, ababibamo urwango, amatiku ashingiye ku moko, uturere, ururimi inkomoko ndetse agaheza bamwe ku byiza by'igihugu nkaho aribye, ni umuntu wumvako abari beza b'u Rwanda n'abategarugori bagahekeye u Rwanda bagomba gukoreshwa UBUSAMBANYI kugirango bahabwe akazi keza, ibi bikadusenyera umuryango, ndetse bikaba bimaze kuba umuco aho abantu bagera igihe cyo gushaka bakabura abari bazima kuko bashukishijwe ibyo bafitiye uburenganzira, umwanzi w'u Rwanda si igipinga nkuko bivugwa si Kanyandekwe uvuga ko u Rwanda rukeneye itegeko nshinga rishya riha abaturage ububasha bwo gutora UMUDEPITE uhagarariye inyungu z'akarere yatorewemo, kuko aba yahawe ubutumwa n'abaturage ndetse igihe cyose atakoze ibyo bamutumye bakaba abafite ububasha bwo kumuvanaho, si Kanyanyarwanda usabako UBUTABERA bugomba gukorera rubanda, abacamanza bakagira uburenganzira busesuye bwo kwitorera ababuyobora, kugirango ejo hatazinjiramo abadashoboye bakabuhindura akarima k'umutegetsi kubera ariwe uba washyizeho abacamanza, bityo mugutinya kuvanwa ku mugati nkuko byitwa agakora ibitandukanye n'ibyo yemera, umwanzi si Nzabandora usaba uburenganzira bw'itangaza makuru aho tuzaba twifitiye ibinyamakuru bitubwira amafuti ya Leta aho kugira za Newtimes, Igihe, Imvaho na Orinfor ziduhatira kwemera ibinyoma no kutwoza ubwonko. Umwanzi w'u Rwanda ni uwo wese urwanya Kagame akoresheje iturufu y'ubwoko, ashaka gusenya ibyo Kagame yubatse bike, nyamara nawe afite gahunda yo gukandamiza ubwoko Kagame abarizwamo. Reka ndekere aho, mugire icyumweru cyiza munibaza aho tugana.

Kanyarwanda.