Catholic priest arrested in Rwanda for insulting President Kagame

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Catholic priest arrested in Rwanda for insulting President Kagame

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Rwanda: Urukiko rwisumbuye rwa Gasabo ngo nta bubasha rufite bwo kuburanisha Sibomana Sylvain, umunyamabanga wa FDU-Inkingi na Shyirambere Dominique. | FDU Rwanda

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Rwanda: Urukiko rwisumbuye rwa Gasabo ngo nta bubasha rufite bwo kuburanisha Sibomana Sylvain, umunyamabanga wa FDU-Inkingi na Shyirambere Dominique.

NYAKANGA 25, 2013  

Kigali kuwa 24 Nyakanga 2013

 

Uyu munsi tariki ya 24 Nyakanga 2013 ubwo abayoboke b'ishyaka FDU-Inkingi ndetse na bagenzi babo bo muri PS Imberakuri bari biteguye kumva isomwa ry'urubanza rwari rwaraburanishijwe mu mizi tarikiya 13 Kamena 2013 batunguwe  no gutegereza isomwa ryuru rubanza mu ruhame baraheba  bigeze mu ma saa kumi z'umugoroba bajya mu bwanditsi bw'urwo rukiko bahabwa icyemezo cyuko uru rukiko rwavuze ko rudafite ububasha bwo kuburanisha uru rubanza ko ruzarwohereza mu rukiko rw'ibanze rwa Nyarugunga narwo ruri mu karere ka Gasabo umujyi wa Kigali.

Uru rubanza rukaba rwaragombaga kuba rwarasomwe tariki ya 19 Nyakanga 2013 ariko nabwo ntirwasomwa ku mpamvu zagizwe ibanga. Ubushinjacyaha bwa leta ya Kigali burega Bwana Sibomana Sylvain ;umunyamabanga mukuru w'ishyaka FDU-Inkingi na Bwana Shyirambere Dominique umuyobozi w'ishyaka PS Imberakuri mu karere ka Kicukiro icyaha cyo gukoza isoni abashinzwe umurimo rusange w'igihugu, n'icyaha cyo kwigaragambya mu buryo bunyuranyije n'amategeko. Aba  kandi bakaba baratawe muri yombi tariki ya 25 Werugwe 2013 ubwo bari bitabiriye urubanza rw'ubujurire bwa Mme Ingabire Umuhoza umuyobozi mukuru w'ishyaka FDU-Inkingi mu rukuko rw'ikirenga. Icyo gihe bakaba barahohotewe  ndetse bakicwa urubozo n'abapolisi bigaragara ko bari babigambiriye hagamijwe gutera ubwoba abarwanashyaka ndetse n'abanyarwanda muri rusange kugirango bategera ahantu haburanira umuntu utavugarumwe na leta ya FPR-Inkotanyi.

Abatavugarumwe na leta ya Kigali noneho bafatiwe ingamba shya zo guteragiranwa mu nkiko n'abacamanza umwe abasunikira mugenzi we mu rwego rwo kubaheza mu buroko.

Bimaze kugaragara ko ubutegetsi bwa Kigali bwahinduye amayeri yo guhangana n'ababurwanya hagamijwe kubaheza mu buroko igihe kinini gishoboka kubera impamvu z'uko bigera mu rubanza abashinjacyaha bakabura ibimenyetso babwira umucamanza byerekana imikorere y'icyaha. Ibi ariko birongera bikaba ihurizo rikomeye ku bacamanza kuko nabo batagira ubutwari bwo guhagarara ku maguru yabo ngo batangaze ko uregwa ari umwere ahubwo nabo bagahitamo kwikuraho urubanza bakarusunikira undi bitwaje ko ngo urukiko rudafite ububasha nyamara mu iburanisha mu mizi baba bararuciye bakarumira.

Iyi gahunda yo guheza mu gihirahiro abatavugarumwe na leta ya FPR-Inkotanyi babateragirana mu nkiko ubu yugarije n'undi muyoboke w'ishyaka PS Imberakuri akaba n'umuyobozi w'ishyaka mu karere ka Nyarugenge Bwana Eric Nshimyumuremyi warashwe n'abapolisi ku manywa y'ihangu tariki ya 15 /09/2011 ubwo nawe yari avuye mu rubanza rwa Ingabire ubwo yaburanaga mu rukiko rukuru rwa Kigali hagamijwe kumuhitana ariko Imana igakinga akaboko ubwo  nawe agahita ahimbirwa icyaha ngo cyo gutunga intwaro no kurwanya abarinzi b'amahoro. Icyi kirego cyaburaniwe mu rukiko rwisumbuye rwa  Nyamirambo ariko bigora ubushinjacyaha kumubonera ibimenyetso bimuhamya icyaha. Urubanza rwaburanwe mu mizi  ndetse batanga n'igihe cyo gusomerwa rukajya rusubikwa nyuma umucamanza ntiyerura ngo amurekure ahubwo nawe avuga ko urukiko rudafite ububasha bwo kuruburanisha,maze rutegeka ko ajya kubururanishwa n'urukiko rukuru rwa Kigali narwo rwaje kuvuga ko rudafite ububasha bwo kuburanisha urwo rubanza ubu Bwana Eric Nshimyumuremyi akaba ari  mu gihirahiro ari nako aborera muri gereza nkuru ya Kigali doreko niryo sasu yarashwe ryamuhezemo ubu akaba ahora atakamba ngo avuzwe ariko bikirengagizwa kuburyo ubwo twamusuraga tariki ya 19 Nyakanga 2013  yavugaga ko ubuzima bwe buri kugenda bujya mu mazi abira.

Ishyaka FDU-Inkingi ntirizahwema gukomeza gusaba no kwibutsa leta ya FPR Inkotanyi kudashakira umuti w'ibibazo byugarije abanyarwanda mu kubafunga,kubabuza kuvuga, cyangwa kwirirwa basiragizwa mu nkiko,ibibazo byugarije abanyarwanda ndetse bimaze no kototera akarere kose k'ibiyaga bigari bizakemurwa no kwicara bikaganirwaho maze bikabonerwa umuti urambye,gusa birababaje kubona ubutegetsi bwa FPR iyi nzira butayikozwa ahubwo bugahitamo inzira zikomeza gushyira igihugu n'abanyarwanda mu kato hirya no hino.

 

FDU-Inkingi

Boniface Twagirimana

Visi Perezida w'agateganyo

RWANDAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS UNEQUIVOCAL STAND ON RWANDA SUPPORT TO THE M23

RWANDAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS UNEQUIVOCAL STAND ON RWANDA SUPPORT TO THE M23.

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RWANDA Amahoro People's Congress  -    FDU-INKINGI -    PS Imberakuri   -     RNC  

PRESS RELEASE.

Date: 24 July 2013.

OPPOSITION DEMANDS UNEQUIVOCAL STAND ON RWANDA SUPPORT TO THE M23.

In a US Department of State Daily Press Briefing issued in Washington, D.C. on 23 July 2013, Spokesperson Jen Psaki stated: "…..we believe there is a credible body of evidence that supports the key findings of the Human Rights Watch report, including support by senior Rwandan officials to the M23 and of Rwandan military personnel in the D.R.C. We call upon Rwanda to immediately end any support to the M23, withdraw military personnel from eastern D.R.C., and follow through on its commitments under the framework." Responding to a journalist's question inquiring whether Rwanda's failure to stop its support to the rebels in the Eastern DRC is attributable to the fact that the US Government has to date only issued lame appeals to Rwanda instead of signaling preparedness to apply the leverage necessary to ensure Rwanda's compliance, the spokesperson responded: "We will take that all into consideration."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will this week chair a meeting of the U.N. Security Council aimed at strengthening efforts to achieve peace in Central Africa's Great Lakes region. Commenting on this high-level Security Council session, Acting U.S. United Nations Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo said:

"The session will build on several events that have brought renewed energy to this effort…….Secretary-General Ban has accepted our invitation to brief, as has World Bank President [Jim] Kim. [U.N.]Special Envoy Mary Robinson and high-level representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo.Uganda and the African Union have also been invited to brief the Council. Also a high-level representative of Rwanda has been invited to speak as a council member."

The people of the Great Lakes region have their eyes turned towards this U.N. Security Council session and expect candid discussions and unequivocal measures, including but not limited to the prosecution of Rwandan leadership at the International Criminal Court for organizing, arming, supporting, and directing insurgent groups responsible for past as well as on-going atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Rwandan Defense Forces have been fighting into the DRC directly and by proxy rebellions since 1996. The official pretext for the catastrophic suffering Rwanda's government has visited upon the people of Congo is the pursuit of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), whose units are scattered in various locations of the DRC. Millions of civilians have died as a result of Rwanda's never ending military invasions, interventions, occupations and plundering of precious minerals in the DRC.

In view of the undeniable fact that Rwanda's costly, 18 year campaign of waging war in the DRC has failed to destroy the armed rebel groups that are a pretext for its campaigns, it is timely that the international community consider new strategies for ensuring peace in Rwanda and the region. Some African leaders have recognized and expressed grave concerns over the stalemate towards achieving peace in the Great Lakes region. On 17 June 2013, the extraordinary summit of the Heads of State and Governments of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) held in Maputo (Mozambique) urged Rwanda and Uganda to consider peace talks with the armed opposition groups that their governments are fighting as the path to lasting peace in the Great Lakes region. During the last African Union Summit, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete advised Rwanda in particular to have peace talks with its opposition.

We encourage the UN Security Council, the US government, the European Union and other key partners of Rwandan President Paul Kagame to use the full leverage of their relationship with Rwanda to influence Rwanda to withdraw from the DRC territory, to stop support for armed groups fighting the government of the sister state and to instead adopt sound policies that promote domestic, regional and international peace. We call upon the international community to support direct talks between the government of Rwanda and its internal and external oppositions under international facilitation.

We reiterate that there can and will be no lasting solution to the acute problems that Rwanda and the Great Lakes region face as a direct result of crucial issues of governance in Rwanda that continue to be ignored. These issues include lack of political space and extreme violations of fundamental rights. We particularly call to the attention of the international community the plight of political prisoners i.e. Madame Victoire Ingabire (Chairperson FDU-INKINGI), Bernard Ntaganda (Founding President PS Imberakuri), Deogratias Mushayidi (PDP Imanzi), Dr. Theoneste Niyitegeka (Presidential candidate in 2003), and Sylvain Sibomana (FDU-INKINGI interim Secretary General), whose incarceration reflects the regime's absolute intolerance for the Rwandan people's legitimate aspirations for democracy. We urge the international community to address continuing impunity in Rwanda and to hold the Government of Rwanda accountable for past war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as on-going disappearances and extra-judicial killings assassinations of political figures, journalists and human rights defenders. There will be no end to impunity or prospect for peace and stability in Rwanda and the Great Lakes region until there are credible steps towards ensuring international prosecution of President Paul Kagame and warlords operating under his direction and control to commit atrocities on the DRC territory.

Sincerely,

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

Rwanda National Congress (RNC)

Washington DC, USA

RWANDAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS UNEQUIVOCAL STAND ON RWANDA SUPPORT TO THE M23

RWANDAN OPPOSITION DEMANDS UNEQUIVOCAL STAND ON RWANDA SUPPORT TO THE M23.

http://www.fdu-rwanda.com/en/english-rwanda-opposition-demands-unequivocal-stand-on-rwanda-support-to-the-m23/#more-2973

RWANDA Amahoro People's Congress  -    FDU-INKINGI -    PS Imberakuri   -     RNC  

PRESS RELEASE.

Date: 24 July 2013.

OPPOSITION DEMANDS UNEQUIVOCAL STAND ON RWANDA SUPPORT TO THE M23.

In a US Department of State Daily Press Briefing issued in Washington, D.C. on 23 July 2013, Spokesperson Jen Psaki stated: "…..we believe there is a credible body of evidence that supports the key findings of the Human Rights Watch report, including support by senior Rwandan officials to the M23 and of Rwandan military personnel in the D.R.C. We call upon Rwanda to immediately end any support to the M23, withdraw military personnel from eastern D.R.C., and follow through on its commitments under the framework." Responding to a journalist's question inquiring whether Rwanda's failure to stop its support to the rebels in the Eastern DRC is attributable to the fact that the US Government has to date only issued lame appeals to Rwanda instead of signaling preparedness to apply the leverage necessary to ensure Rwanda's compliance, the spokesperson responded: "We will take that all into consideration."

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will this week chair a meeting of the U.N. Security Council aimed at strengthening efforts to achieve peace in Central Africa's Great Lakes region. Commenting on this high-level Security Council session, Acting U.S. United Nations Ambassador Rosemary DiCarlo said:

"The session will build on several events that have brought renewed energy to this effort…….Secretary-General Ban has accepted our invitation to brief, as has World Bank President [Jim] Kim. [U.N.]Special Envoy Mary Robinson and high-level representatives from the Democratic Republic of Congo.Uganda and the African Union have also been invited to brief the Council. Also a high-level representative of Rwanda has been invited to speak as a council member."

The people of the Great Lakes region have their eyes turned towards this U.N. Security Council session and expect candid discussions and unequivocal measures, including but not limited to the prosecution of Rwandan leadership at the International Criminal Court for organizing, arming, supporting, and directing insurgent groups responsible for past as well as on-going atrocities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Rwandan Defense Forces have been fighting into the DRC directly and by proxy rebellions since 1996. The official pretext for the catastrophic suffering Rwanda's government has visited upon the people of Congo is the pursuit of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), whose units are scattered in various locations of the DRC. Millions of civilians have died as a result of Rwanda's never ending military invasions, interventions, occupations and plundering of precious minerals in the DRC.

In view of the undeniable fact that Rwanda's costly, 18 year campaign of waging war in the DRC has failed to destroy the armed rebel groups that are a pretext for its campaigns, it is timely that the international community consider new strategies for ensuring peace in Rwanda and the region. Some African leaders have recognized and expressed grave concerns over the stalemate towards achieving peace in the Great Lakes region. On 17 June 2013, the extraordinary summit of the Heads of State and Governments of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) held in Maputo (Mozambique) urged Rwanda and Uganda to consider peace talks with the armed opposition groups that their governments are fighting as the path to lasting peace in the Great Lakes region. During the last African Union Summit, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete advised Rwanda in particular to have peace talks with its opposition.

We encourage the UN Security Council, the US government, the European Union and other key partners of Rwandan President Paul Kagame to use the full leverage of their relationship with Rwanda to influence Rwanda to withdraw from the DRC territory, to stop support for armed groups fighting the government of the sister state and to instead adopt sound policies that promote domestic, regional and international peace. We call upon the international community to support direct talks between the government of Rwanda and its internal and external oppositions under international facilitation.

We reiterate that there can and will be no lasting solution to the acute problems that Rwanda and the Great Lakes region face as a direct result of crucial issues of governance in Rwanda that continue to be ignored. These issues include lack of political space and extreme violations of fundamental rights. We particularly call to the attention of the international community the plight of political prisoners i.e. Madame Victoire Ingabire (Chairperson FDU-INKINGI), Bernard Ntaganda (Founding President PS Imberakuri), Deogratias Mushayidi (PDP Imanzi), Dr. Theoneste Niyitegeka (Presidential candidate in 2003), and Sylvain Sibomana (FDU-INKINGI interim Secretary General), whose incarceration reflects the regime's absolute intolerance for the Rwandan people's legitimate aspirations for democracy. We urge the international community to address continuing impunity in Rwanda and to hold the Government of Rwanda accountable for past war crimes and crimes against humanity, as well as on-going disappearances and extra-judicial killings assassinations of political figures, journalists and human rights defenders. There will be no end to impunity or prospect for peace and stability in Rwanda and the Great Lakes region until there are credible steps towards ensuring international prosecution of President Paul Kagame and warlords operating under his direction and control to commit atrocities on the DRC territory.

Sincerely,

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

Rwanda National Congress (RNC)

Washington DC, USA