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Russ Feingold, nouvel émissaire des Etats-Unis pour la région de Grands lacs

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Russ Feingold a été nommé, mardi 18 juin, nouvel émissaire des Etats-Unis pour la région de Grands lacs. Il succède à Barrie Walkley, qui a occupé ce poste depuis décembre 2011. A travers cette nomination, les Etats-Unis veulent contribuer à sceller la paix dans l'est de la RDC, meurtrie notamment par la rébellion congolaise du M23, a souligné le secrétaire d'État américain, John Kerry, cité par l'AFP.

« Nous restons extrêmement perturbés par la souffrance dans la région des Grands lacs et par la crise qui se déroule dans l'est de la RDC », a déclaré John Kerry.

Le secrétaire d'Etat américain a indiqué queRuss Feingold est « un expert » qui connaît bien la région de Grands lacs.

« Nous sommes convaincus que nous pouvons aider les parties à trouver le chemin vers une paix durable, une cessation permanente des hostilités et vers le désarmement et la démobilisation du M23 », a affirmé John Kerry.

Selon lui, le retour de la paix en RDC et le désarmement et la démobilisation du M23 est « une priorité élevée » pour son gouvernement.

Russ Feingold travaillera en étroite collaboration avec la représentante spéciale de l'ONU pour la région des Grands lacs, Mary Robinson, précise Washington.

Le M23 a vu le jour en mai 2012.  Les chefs militaires de ce mouvement avaient appartenu à l'ex-rébellion du CNDP de Laurent Nkunda avant d'intégrer l'armée loyaliste et de redevenir rebelles. A sa création, les rebelles exigeaient l'application de l'accord du 23 mars 2009 signé entre le gouvernement et le CNDP. Les rebelles du M23 ont occupé brièvement la ville de Goma en novembre 2012. Ils s'en sont retirés en échange des négociations ouvertes en décembre de la même année avec le gouvernement congolais à Kampala.

Les deux parties n'ont pas encore abouti à un accord.

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Amerika, n'Aba Talibani, Bazogirana Ibiganiro, Amaso mu Yandi, Ejo ku Musi wa Kane

19.06.2013

VOA Africa

Umutegetsi mukuru agira kabiri mu bayobozi mu vya gisirikare b'Aba Talibani, Waliur Rehman

Reta Zunze Ubumwe za Amerika, ziriteguriye kwugurura ibiganiro icese, n'Aba Talibani, mu mpera z'iyi ndwi, mu mugambi w'ugushiraho uburyo bw'uguhagarika ingwano, imaze igihe kirenga imyaka cumi, mu gihugu ca Afghanistani.

Abategetsi ba Reta ya Amerika, batangaje kw'ivyo biganiro bizotangura, ejo ku musi wa kane, mu gisagara ca Doha, muri Emirat ya Qatar.

Vyitezwe kw'abategetsi bakomeye ba Departement ya Reta ya Amerika, n'abategetsi bakomeye bo mu biro kwa prezida wa Amerika babonana, n'abaserukira Aba Talibani, muvyo abategetsi bavuga kw'ari ibiganiro vy'intangamarara.

Ivyerekeye ivyo biganiro vyasohotse, mu gihe abategetsi bajejwe kwivuna abansi ba Amerika, bemeje kw'abasirikare bane b'Abanyamerika bane bishwe, ejo ku musi wa kabiri, mu kibanza c'igisirikare kirwanira mu kirere, ca Amerika ca Bagram, mu buraruko bw'umurwa mukuru wa Afghanistani, Kabul.

Prezida wa Amerika, Barack Obama, ari mu nama y'abategetsi b'ibihugu umunani bikomeye kurusha ibindi kw'isi, mu vyerekeye ubutunzi, muri Irlande yo mu buraruko, yavuze kw'ivyo biganiro n'Aba Talibani ari intambwe ya mbere, akaba yaragabishije ko yiteze ko hazoba intambamyi zitari nke, muri ivyo biganiro.

Ntivyitezwe ko Reta ya Prezida w'igihugu ca Afghanistani, Hamid Karzai, ija mu ncuro yo mu ntango y'ibiganiro vyo mu gisagara ca Doha.

Yamara abategetsi batangajeko vyitezwe kw'ibiganiro, vy'ejo ku musi wa kane, bishikana ku nama, hagati y'Aba Taliban,i n'abagize urwego rw'amahoro, rwashizweho na prezida w'igihugu ca Afghanistani.

Gushika ubu, Aba Talibani, baranse kuvugana icese na Reta ya prezida Karzai.

RWANDA: POLITICAL OPPOSITION COMMENDS SADC POSITION ON TALKS FOR LASTING PEACE IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION. | FDU Rwanda

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RWANDA: POLITICAL OPPOSITION COMMENDS SADC POSITION ON TALKS FOR LASTING PEACE IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION.

JUNE 19, 2013  

PRESS RELEASE.

Date: 19 June 2013.

 

On 17 June 2013, the extraordinary summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) held inMaputo(Mozambique) urgedRwandaandUgandato consider peace talks with the armed opposition for a lasting peace in the Great Lakes region. During the last African Union Summit, Tanzanian President Kikwete advised Rwanda to talk peace with its opposition.

On 2 June 2013, in Yokohama(Japan) during his meeting with H.E. Mr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, commended his stand for comprehensive peace in the region, the deployment of Tanzanian forces for the International intervention brigade in Eastern DRC, and his advice for peace talks. He promised to deepen this issue of lasting solutions engaging all stakeholders during the September 2013 meeting in New York.

Earlier on 26 May 2013 in Addis Ababa, during the first meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework Agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region, the participants "agreed on the need of a comprehensive approach including to engage all stakeholders working towards the objective of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Great Lakes region". They "agreed to meet again in September 2013 in New York, on the margins of the 69th UN General Assembly, to further discuss concrete steps and specific benchmarks for implementing the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework."

The undersigned, members of Rwandan opposition organisations, distance ourselves from arrogant words aired by President Paul Kagame against the President of Tanzania, H.E. Mr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, on 10 June 2013, while officiating a graduation ceremony of senior military officers, at the Rwanda Defence Forces Staff and Command College. He said about President Kikwete's advice: "I kept quiet for the contempt I have for it because I thought it was utter nonsense spoken out of ignorance. We must be left to live our lives the way Rwandans want to live them."

The Rwandan political opposition, FDU-Inkingi, RNC, PSI-Imberakuri and Amahoro People's Congress commend SADC recommendations for lasting peace in the DRC,Rwanda,Uganda, and the whole Great Lakes region. We, the undersigned, express our readiness to fully contribute to any peace efforts in the region and to take part in talks under the facilitation of SADC leaders and the international community.

 

Dr. Nkiko Nsengimana

Coordinator

FDU-Inkingi

Lausanne

Switzerland

 

Alexis Bakunzibake

Vice President

PS-Imberakuri

Kigali

Rwanda

 

Etienne Masozera

President

Amahoro People's Congress

Ottawa

Canada

 

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

Coordinator

RwandaNational Congress (RNC)

WashingtonDC

USA

 

Rwanda: Opposition commends SADC position for lasting peace in the great lakes region.pdf

RWANDA: POLITICAL OPPOSITION COMMENDS SADC POSITION ON TALKS FOR LASTING PEACE IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION. | FDU Rwanda

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RWANDA: POLITICAL OPPOSITION COMMENDS SADC POSITION ON TALKS FOR LASTING PEACE IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION.

JUNE 19, 2013  

PRESS RELEASE.

Date: 19 June 2013.

 

On 17 June 2013, the extraordinary summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) held inMaputo(Mozambique) urgedRwandaandUgandato consider peace talks with the armed opposition for a lasting peace in the Great Lakes region. During the last African Union Summit, Tanzanian President Kikwete advised Rwanda to talk peace with its opposition.

On 2 June 2013, in Yokohama(Japan) during his meeting with H.E. Mr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, commended his stand for comprehensive peace in the region, the deployment of Tanzanian forces for the International intervention brigade in Eastern DRC, and his advice for peace talks. He promised to deepen this issue of lasting solutions engaging all stakeholders during the September 2013 meeting in New York.

Earlier on 26 May 2013 in Addis Ababa, during the first meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework Agreement for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region, the participants "agreed on the need of a comprehensive approach including to engage all stakeholders working towards the objective of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Great Lakes region". They "agreed to meet again in September 2013 in New York, on the margins of the 69th UN General Assembly, to further discuss concrete steps and specific benchmarks for implementing the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework."

The undersigned, members of Rwandan opposition organisations, distance ourselves from arrogant words aired by President Paul Kagame against the President of Tanzania, H.E. Mr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, on 10 June 2013, while officiating a graduation ceremony of senior military officers, at the Rwanda Defence Forces Staff and Command College. He said about President Kikwete's advice: "I kept quiet for the contempt I have for it because I thought it was utter nonsense spoken out of ignorance. We must be left to live our lives the way Rwandans want to live them."

The Rwandan political opposition, FDU-Inkingi, RNC, PSI-Imberakuri and Amahoro People's Congress commend SADC recommendations for lasting peace in the DRC,Rwanda,Uganda, and the whole Great Lakes region. We, the undersigned, express our readiness to fully contribute to any peace efforts in the region and to take part in talks under the facilitation of SADC leaders and the international community.

 

Dr. Nkiko Nsengimana

Coordinator

FDU-Inkingi

Lausanne

Switzerland

 

Alexis Bakunzibake

Vice President

PS-Imberakuri

Kigali

Rwanda

 

Etienne Masozera

President

Amahoro People's Congress

Ottawa

Canada

 

Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa

Coordinator

RwandaNational Congress (RNC)

WashingtonDC

USA

 

Rwanda: Opposition commends SADC position for lasting peace in the great lakes region.pdf

[Errata] FDLR was never listed by US State Dept. as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

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Foreign Terrorist Organizations

BUREAU OF COUNTERTERRORISM

September 28, 2012

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Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) are foreign organizations that are designated by the Secretary of State in accordance with section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended. FTO designations play a critical role in our fight against terrorism and are an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.

Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Date Designated	Name
10/8/1997	Abu Nidal Organization (ANO)
10/8/1997	Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
10/8/1997	Aum Shinrikyo (AUM)
10/8/1997	Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA)
10/8/1997	Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Islamic Group) (IG)
10/8/1997	HAMAS
10/8/1997	Harakat ul-Mujahidin (HUM)
10/8/1997	Hizballah
10/8/1997	Kahane Chai (Kach)
10/8/1997	Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) (Kongra-Gel)
10/8/1997	Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
10/8/1997	National Liberation Army (ELN)
10/8/1997	Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
10/8/1997	Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
10/8/1997	Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLF)
10/8/1997	PFLP-General Command (PFLP-GC)
10/8/1997	Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
10/8/1997	Revolutionary Organization 17 November (17N)
10/8/1997	Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
10/8/1997	Shining Path (SL)
10/8/1999	al-Qa'ida (AQ)
9/25/2000	Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
5/16/2001	Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA)
9/10/2001	United Self Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC)
12/26/2001	Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
12/26/2001	Lashkar-e Tayyiba (LeT)
3/27/2002	Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (AAMB)
3/27/2002	Asbat al-Ansar (AAA)
3/27/2002	al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)
8/9/2002	Communist Party of the Philippines/New People's Army (CPP/NPA)
10/23/2002	Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
1/30/2003	Lashkar i Jhangvi (LJ)
3/22/2004	Ansar al-Islam (AAI)
7/13/2004	Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
12/17/2004	Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
12/17/2004	al-Qaida in Iraq (AQI)
6/17/2005	Islamic Jihad Union (IJU)
3/5/2008	Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
3/18/2008	al-Shabaab
5/18/2009	Revolutionary Struggle (RS)
7/2/2009	Kata'ib Hizballah (KH)
1/19/2010	al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
8/6/2010	Harakat ul-Jihad-i-Islami (HUJI)
9/1/2010	Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
11/4/2010	Jundallah
5/23/2011	Army of Islam (AOI)
9/19/2011	Indian Mujahedeen (IM)
3/13/2012	Jemaah Anshorut Tauhid (JAT)
5/30/2012	Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB)
9/19/2012	Haqqani Network (HQN)
3/22/2013	Ansar al-Dine (AAD)

Delisted Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Date Removed	Name	Date Orginally Designated
10/8/1999	Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine -Hawatmeh Faction	10/8/1997
10/8/1999	Khmer Rouge	10/8/1997
10/8/1999	Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front Dissidents	10/8/1997
10/8/2001	Japanese Red Army	10/8/1997
10/8/2001	Tupac Amaru Revolution Movement	10/8/1997
5/18/2009	Revolutionary Nuclei	10/8/1997
10/15/2010	Armed Islamic Group (GIA)	10/8/1997
9/28/2012	Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)	10/8/1997
5/28/2013	Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)	10/11/2005

Identification
The Bureau of Counterterrorism in the State Department (S/CT) continually monitors the activities of terrorist groups active around the world to identify potential targets for designation. When reviewing potential targets, S/CT looks not only at the actual terrorist attacks that a group has carried out, but also at whether the group has engaged in planning and preparations for possible future acts of terrorism or retains the capability and intent to carry out such acts.

Designation
Once a target is identified, S/CT prepares a detailed "administrative record," which is a compilation of information, typically including both classified and open sources information, demonstrating that the statutory criteria for designation have been satisfied. If the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Treasury, decides to make the designation, Congress is notified of the Secretary's intent to designate the organization and given seven days to review the designation, as the INA requires. Upon the expiration of the seven-day waiting period and in the absence of Congressional action to block the designation, notice of the designation is published in the Federal Register, at which point the designation takes effect. By law an organization designated as an FTO may seek judicial review of the designation in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit not later than 30 days after the designation is published in the Federal Register.

Until recently the INA provided that FTOs must be redesignated every 2 years or the designation would lapse. Under the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA), however, the redesignation requirement was replaced by certain review and revocation procedures. IRTPA provides that an FTO may file a petition for revocation 2 years after its designation date (or in the case of redesignated FTOs, its most recent redesignation date) or 2 years after the determination date on its most recent petition for revocation. In order to provide a basis for revocation, the petitioning FTO must provide evidence that the circumstances forming the basis for the designation are sufficiently different as to warrant revocation. If no such review has been conducted during a 5 year period with respect to a designation, then the Secretary of State is required to review the designation to determine whether revocation would be appropriate. In addition, the Secretary of State may at any time revoke a designation upon a finding that the circumstances forming the basis for the designation have changed in such a manner as to warrant revocation, or that the national security of the United States warrants a revocation. The same procedural requirements apply to revocations made by the Secretary of State as apply to designations. A designation may be revoked by an Act of Congress, or set aside by a Court order.

Legal Criteria for Designation under Section 219 of the INA as amended

1. It must be a foreign organization.
2. The organization must engage in terrorist activity, as defined in section 212 (a)(3)(B) of the INA (8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(3)(B)),* orterrorism, as defined in section 140(d)(2) of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. § 2656f(d)(2)),** or retain the capability and intent to engage in terrorist activity or terrorism.
3. The organization's terrorist activity or terrorism must threaten the security of U.S. nationals or the national security (national defense, foreign relations, or the economic interests) of the United States.

Legal Ramifications of Designation

1. It is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide "material support or resources" to a designated FTO. (The term "material support or resources" is defined in 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b)(1) as " any property, tangible or intangible, or service, including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (1 or more individuals who maybe or include oneself), and transportation, except medicine or religious materials." 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b)(2) provides that for these purposes "the term 'training' means instruction or teaching designed to impart a specific skill, as opposed to general knowledge." 18 U.S.C. § 2339A(b)(3) further provides that for these purposes the term 'expert advice or assistance' means advice or assistance derived from scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge.''
2. Representatives and members of a designated FTO, if they are aliens, are inadmissible to and, in certain circumstances, removable from the United States (see 8 U.S.C. §§ 1182 (a)(3)(B)(i)(IV)-(V), 1227 (a)(1)(A)).
3. Any U.S. financial institution that becomes aware that it has possession of or control over funds in which a designated FTO or its agent has an interest must retain possession of or control over the funds and report the funds to the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Other Effects of Designation

1. Supports our efforts to curb terrorism financing and to encourage other nations to do the same.
2. Stigmatizes and isolates designated terrorist organizations internationally.
3. Deters donations or contributions to and economic transactions with named organizations.
4. Heightens public awareness and knowledge of terrorist organizations.
5. Signals to other governments our concern about named organizations.

Revocations of Foreign Terrorist Organizations

The Immigration and Nationality Act sets out three possible basis for revoking a Foreign Terrorist Organization designation:

1. The Secretary of State must revoke a designation if the Secretary finds that the circumstances that were the basis of the designation have changed in such a manner as to warrant a revocation;
2. The Secretary of State must revoke a designation if the Secretary finds that the national security of the United States warrants a revocation;
3. The Secretary of State may revoke a designation at any time.

Any revocation shall take effect on the date specified in the revocation or upon publication in the Federal Register if no effective date is specified. The revocation of a designation shall not affect any action or proceeding based on conduct committed prior to the effective date of such revocation.