Rwanda: Ubutumwa Paul Kagame yagejeje ku banyamuryango ba FPR-Inkotanyi

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Rwanda: Ubutumwa Paul Kagame yagejeje ku banyamuryango ba FPR-Inkotanyi

Inkuru ya Gatabazi Jean Marie Vianney

Diaspora Rwanda

Tariki ya 8 Kanama 2013

Ifoto: Bwana Gatabazi Jean Marie Vianney, Umuyobozi ushinzwe ihindura myumvire mu kigo gishinzwe itumanaho mu by'ubuzima-Rwanda Biomedical Centre/Rwanda Health Communication Centre (RHCC/RBC) akaba na Candidat Député wa FPR-Inkotanyi, mu Karere ka Gicumbi.

Mu nama ya Bureau Politique ya FPR-Inkotanyi yayobowe na Nyakubahwa Paul Kagame, Chairman w'Umuryango FPR-Inkotanyi, akaba na Perezida wa Repubulika, abanyamuryango bibukijwe ko ibimaze kugerwaho na RPF n'igihugu muri rusange ari byiza kandi byinshi ariko tukaba dusabwa gukomeza kubinoza kubibungabunga no kubirinda kugira ngo bidasenywa cg bisubizwe inyuma.

Yagize ati: "Muzirikane ko intambwe dutera igomba kutwereka ko hari izindi ntambwe nyinshi imbere;  tugomba nazo kuzitera kugira ngo igihugu cyacu gitere imbere kinagire umutekano urambye, kuko nta rugendo rugizwe n'Intamwe imwe. Umuryango RPF-Inkotanyi, abanyamuryango n'abandi dufatanyije, twakoze ibikorwa byinshi bishoboka kuko ibidashoka ntawabiduhora".

Chairman yasabye abanyamuryango ko bagomba kumva ko kugira ngo tugere kuri byinshi bisaba KUTARAMBIRWA kandi ntitugire uwo dusiga inyuma. Ubufatanye, ubwubahane bikaba ngombwa, tuzirikana ko hari urundi rugendo imbere (yibukije uko mu rugamba rwo kwibohora bagendaga imisozi n'imisozi nta kurambirwa cg kwinubira ubayobora (guide)).

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Chairman yabwiye abanyamuryango ko inshingano zabo zizwi ariko ko tugoma kuzirikana ko hakenewe sustainability kubyo tugenda tugeraho (for continued progress). Tugomba kujya dupima neza ibyo tugeraho tutibeshya cg ngo tubeshye kuko aribwo biduha guhora dutera intambwe. 
Umuco wo kubazwa ibyo dukorera igihugu ni ngombwa (accountability) kandi mu bufatanye buri wese akumva ko afite responsibility mubyo ashinzwe.

Amatora y'abadepite ateganyijwe muri Nzeri.

Chairman yashimiye abanyamuryango ko hirya no hino mu gihugu batoye neza, FPR ikaba ifite abakandida basobanutse, abagore n'abagabo bakiri bato bafite imbaraga. Yagize ati: "Nibaduhe icyizere ariko natwe tubagirire icyizere kandi bazatunyuze mu matora neza, azagende neza, tuyatsinde kuko RPF ubusanzwe ifite ubunararibonye bwo kugera ku nshingano iba yihaye byanze bikunze; n'aya matora tuzayakore neza ".

Chairman yibukije Intore z'Umuryango ko mu bigerwaho byose tugomba guhora tureba niba dusubiza koko ibibazo by'Igihugu cyacu. Yagize ati:"Tuzi ibibazo byacu nk'abanyarwanda ariko se tubisubiza ku buryo bungana iki? Hari ibibazo bisanzwe by'ubukene, imibereho myiza , umutekano ndetse hakiyongeraho na pressure duterwa nabyo.  Twirinde guteta ngo twibagirwe ko tugomba kubikemura bitugoye hato tutazaba like a spoiled child uhabwa ibyo ashatse igihe ashakiye kabone niyo yaba ahabwa n'ibidafite akamaro. Twe rero ntabwo dukwiye kwangirika".Yavuze ko ibibazo tubamo bikwiriye kuturinda umuteto bikaduha gukorana Umuhate.

 
Nyakubahwa Chairman yibukije abanyamuryango ko bakwiriye kumva ko amateka yacu adusaba gukora cyane, mu nshingano zikomeye tugakora birenze uko ahandi bakora, twumve ko aho bibaye ngombwa ibyagakozwe n'abantu 10 byakorwa n'umuntu umwe cg 10 bagakora ibyagakozwe n'abantu 100. Akaba atari ugushaka kuvuna abantu ahubwo biterwa n'uko ibibazo duhanganye nabyo ubwabyo bikomeye bikaba bidusaba gukora ku buryo bukomeye. This must be the way of thinking based on our background. Ideology ya RPF irangwa no kwirwanaho dukoresha duke tukatubyaza byinshi kandi tukabyumva nk'abanyarwanda byaba na ngombwa tukabyumva nk'abanyafrika.

Twirinde umuco wo kutivuna cg kwitera ikinya tugakeka ko nta bibazo dufite kandi bihari. Nta kwibeshya, ibibazo birahari, tugomba guhangana nabyo. Kwitera ikinya tukishima binyuranye na Politiki ya RPF.
Uko RPF yavutse, uko yabayeho, n'uko yagihe ihangana n'ibibazo uRwanda rufite ntibyatwemerera guteta. Duharanire kubaka ejo heza.

Ntabwo tugomba gukora ibintu kuko biri popular cg bikorwa n'abandi. Tugomba gukora ibintu kuko bifite Agaciro.  N'ubwo hari abadahita babyumva ako kanya iyo birimo agaciro bageraho bakabyumva. Ibyo twemerera abanyarwanda tuzirikane ko tugomba kubibagezaho. We Must deliver, tukagira umuryango ukora kandi abawugize bakuzuzanya. Abayobozi ba za Ministeri, ibigo n'izindi nzego bagomba gukora, gufatanya, bakubahana. Twamagane abantu babana badakorana neza, batavugana. Duharanire gushyira hamwe tuzirikana ko iyo duteshutse buri gihe bitugabanyiriza amahirwe yo gutera imbere.

 
Intambara turwana yahinduye isura.

Aha Chairman w'Umuryango yagaragarije abanyamuryango ko nyuma y'intambara yo kubohora uRwanda, guhagarika Jenoside, gusana no kubaka igihugu, ubu intambara turwana yahinduye isura.

Twatakaje abantu muri Jenoside ariko iyo urebye uko abantu basigaye batekereza uRwanda ubona ibintu bisubira inyuma. Kuri ubu abicanyi bafatanyije n'abantu bamwe bo mu bihugu byatereranye uRwanda mu gihe cya Jenoside ubu bafata VICTIMS bakaduhindura abicanyi bagafata abicanyi bakoze Jenoside bakaba basigaye bavuga ko aribo Victims. Ugasanga FDLR n'Interahamwe ubu basigaye bavugirwa nk'aho bahindutse Victims.

Ibi rero ntidushobora kubyihanganira ari nayo mpamvu hasabwa ubufatanye bwa buri wese mu kubirwanya.

 
M23 yabaye urwitwazo ariko hagamije kuyivanga n'uRwanda. Ibyaha byose byakorwaga muri DRC na M23 itarabaho basigaye ariyo babirega ariko ahanini bigaragara ko bashaka guharabika isura y'uRwanda no kurubuza gukomeza intambwe rumaze kugeraho. Dore zimwe mu mpamvu aba bantu basigaye baturwanya kandi bazi neza ko nta makosa dufite.

Baricara bakibaza bati?

1) Uru Rwanda rwari rwapfuye, ibibazo byarubanye byinshi, babyivanyemo gute atari twe (bo) tubibavanyemo?

2) Impamvu za Jenoside: N'ubwo ari abanyarwanda bayikoze ariko impamvu muzi zavuye hanze (external roots causes of genocide). Ntibifuza ko tubivuga cg ngo tugaragaze uruhare bagize muri Jenoside. Bahisemo kutugira twese abicanyi. Ngo ari abari mu Rwanda barishe ndetse n'abaje nyuma barishe. They are all killers. Africans are killers. Ubu niyo narrative (story) barimo kwandika. 

3) Iterambere ry'u Rwanda:  the progress of Rwanda is seen as a threat. Ku buryo hari abababazwa n'ibyo babona. Aha HE yatanze urugero rw'umuzungu wagaragaje ko yababajwe no kubona Gisenyi ari nziza kurusha Goma maze bamwumvisha ko ibyo byose bigerwaho agaciro kabyo kari hasi y'amafaranga birwa bamena muri DRC batanabafasha kwiteza imbere byibuze. 
Aba bazungu HE yabagarutseho yibutsa ko nabo bakagombye kwibuka ko iyi Africa bagize akarima batoba uko bashaka nabo ariyo bakomokaho, ko batari bakwiriye kugira iyo mitekerereze gusa kubera ko badufata gutyo hakagira ababyemera bagahinduka abaja, batwumvishwa ko hari urwego rw'imyumvire n'iterambere abirabura batemerewe kurenga kandi waba ushaka kuharenga akaba aribo babiguha (ukaba umuja wabo). Mu yandi magambo ubu uRwanda turi kuzira ko dutera imbere, dukoresha umutungo wacu n'inkunga duhabwa neza, tukazira ko badufasha tugatera imbere. 

Ikindi tuzira nk'uRwanda ni uko abazungu ngo bavuga natwe tukavuga. Ingero HE yatanze ni nyinshi aho agaragaza ko abazungu bamwe basigaye bavuga ngo kariya gahugu kishyizeho. Kari strong. Urababwira bakagusubiramo. Ubundi bakibaza impamvu kaba strong kandi DRC ikaba weak. Chairman yagaragaje ko uRwanda rutakwifuza na rimwe ko Goma cg DRC imera nabi cyane ko nk'ibihugu bituranye buri wese akenera undi mu guhahirana.

 
Mu gusoza ijambo rye, Chairman yasabye Intore z'Umuryango n'abanamuryango gufata umwanya wo gutekereza bihagije (byimbitse) kandi uko gutekereza kukabongerera imbaraga zo gutera intambwe tugana imbere.

Naho abashaka umuti w'ikibazo cya Kongo biragaragara ko barigushakira igisubizo aho kitari. Bavura system aho kuvura impamvu nyazo. Bakaba babikora babizi kuko bazana amadorali muri DRC ariko yose bakayahemba abanyamahanga bakayaguramo ibikoresho biva hanze ya DRC, so, yose bakayasubiza iwabo ntacyo bimariye abaturage ba DRC. 

Duharanire kwandika amateka yacu. Tugaragaze ukuri ahashoboka hose kuko nitutabikora bazabyandika uko bishakiye kandi mu nyungu zabo. 
Asaba abanyamuryango gukoresha ubwonko n'ubwenge ariko bakabuhuza n'umutima. Brain integrated with the heart. 

Ngayo, nguko. Dukomeze imihigo. 

Rwanda: Ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside ntireba imyaka cyangwa umubare

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Ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside ntireba imyaka cyangwa umubare

Yanditswe kuya 9-08-2013 - Saa 09:26' na Rene Anthere Rwanyange

Ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside ntishingira ku mubare w'abantu cyangwa se ngo igendere ku myaka. Kuba umutwe wa FDLR bivugwa ko harimo abana bavutse nyuma ya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi, ntibikuraho kuba basangiye ibitekerezo n'abo bari kumwe basize bayikoze, kandi ibikorwa byo guhungabanya umutekano mu karere bigaragaza ko bahuje imyumvire. Ikindi kandi ni uko icyaha cya Jenoside atari icyaha cyakorewe Abanyarwanda gusa ahubwo cyakorewe Isi yose.

Minisitiri w'Ububanyi n'Amahanga Louise Mushikiwabo, ubwo ku wa 8 Kanama yagiranaga ikiganiro n'abanyamakuru, yatangaje ko ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside itabarirwa ku mubare cyangwa se ku myaka, nk'uko abenshi bavuga ko mu mutwe wa FDLR harimo abavutse nyuma ya Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi muri Mata 1994. Avuga ko ibyo ari ukwibeshya kuko bose basangiye ibitekerezo akndi bahuje imyumvire mu gushaka kurimbura abantu no guhungabanya umutekano mu karere.

Mushikiwabo agira ati "FDLR si umutwe usanzwe. Bariya basize bakoze Jenoside. Hakwiye kuvaho urujijo, tukagaragaza impamvu Abanyarwanda tutishimiye umutwe wa FDLR. Jenoside ni icyaha cyakorewe isi yose. U Rwanda ruraharanira gutera imbere, FDLR nibashyire hasi intwari, bareke ingengabitekerezo yabo ya Jenoside, batahe mu gihugu cyabo. Abavuga ko harimo abana, ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside ntigendera ku myaka cyangwa umubare. Abo bose bakomeje guhungabanya umutekano mu karere."

Mushikiwabo atangaza ko u Rwanda rutazigera rwihanganira umuntu wese ushyigikiye umutwe wa FDLR. Iki kikajyana n'umubano w'u Rwanda na Tanzaniya utameze neza ahagati y'u Rwanda na Tanzaniya, byatumye Tanzaniya yirukana ku buryo butunguranye Abanyarwanda baba muri icyo gihugu, bahungiyeyo mu 1959.

Kuri iki kibazo, Mushikiwabo agira ati "Umubano w'u Rwanda na Tanzaniya kimwe n'ibindi bihugu ni umubano twifuza ko uba mwiza cyane. Dufitanye ibikorwa by'ubucuruzi n'abatanzaniya kandi ni abavandimwe. Na none ibyo ntibyabuza ko hari ikibazo kitameze neza, ibihugu byombi byashaka uburyo byagikemura. Ariko kandi uwo ari we wese uzasaba ko twagirana ibiganiro na FDLR, ntituzamwihanganira. FDLR si umutwe usanzwe witwaje intwaro, ahubwo ni agatsiko kagamije kurimbura abantu, kuzuye ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside. Ikibazo si umubare, si n'imyaka yabo nk'uko benshi babivuga, ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside ntigira imyaka, kandi Jenoside ni icyaha cyakorewe Isi yose."

Ku birebana n'abanyarwanda bafatirwa muri Congo Kinshasa hashakwa uburyo barenganurwa kandi ibihugu byose byashyize umukono ku masezerano yo kugarura amahoro mu karere, bigira uruhare mu kuyashyira mu bikorwa. Avuga ko Congo igombye kugira uruhare rukomeye kugira ngo umutekano ugaruke.

Ku kibazo kijyanye n'Abanyekongo bari mu Rwanda, Minisitiri Mushikiwabo atangaza ko bavuganye na Leta ya Congo, kuko bo ubwabo bifuza gutaha n'ubwo igihugu cyabo cyabangiye, baiganiraho n'Ishami ry'Umuryango w'Abibumbye ryita ku mpunzi, uburyo abo babishaka bataha mu gihugu cyabo nta nzitizi zibayeho.

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Abavuga ko muri FDLR harimo abana, ingengabitekerezo ya Jenoside ntigendera ku myaka cyangwa umubare. Abo bose bakomeje guhungabanya umutekano mu karere" _Louise Mushikiwabo

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Rwanda, Tanzania Edging Closer To War?

Rwanda and Tanzania are moving closer to war with a high ranking government official telling reporters in Kigali that Rwandans are being harassed and kicked out of Tanzania.

By Giles Muhame 2 hours 32 minutes ago

Kagame (L) and Kikwete inspect a military parade (INTERNET PHOTO)

Rwanda government spokesperson, Louise Mushikiwabo, who also doubles as the Foreign Affairs Minister, said Thursday that Kigali was not "consulted" when Tanzanian authorities raided the homes of Rwandan families in the border areas of Kagera before expelling them.

 

Officials said at least 300 Rwandans of whom some have lived in Tanzania for the last 60 years, have since early this week been walking long miles from Kagera to Rwanda through Rusumo border point after President Jakaya Kikwete asked authorities to kick out the "illegal immigrants."

 

Citizenship and other residential documents were subsequently destroyed by Tanzanian security officials; a move sources said was aimed at creating a special zone near the border with Rwanda which would be utilized for an attack.

 

Responding to a question from a journalist on the expulsion of Rwandans from Tanzania, Mushikiwabo said: "It wasn't our decision. We were not consulted."

ICGLR leaders in a meeting at Entebbe recently 

 

"We have been busy doing whatever possible to welcome, help resettle and offer security to Rwandans expelled from Tanzania," added Mushikiwabo.

 

She, however, noted that "whatever tension exists between Rwanda and Tanzania must be resolved," adding, "The relationship is too important."

 

"We are neighbours and so we have to live in peace. We are in the same block and much is to be gained from this. However, the tension that arose from the suggestion to Rwanda negotiate with FDLR would be met with the same reaction were it from anyone else," said Mushikiwabo.

 

She added: "FDLR committed genocide in Rwanda. They should be the whole world's enemy. That's how serious crimes of genocide are; we are not talking of a mutiny or a rebel group. They committed genocide in Rwanda and have continued their deadly work in the DRC."

 

She emphasized that Rwanda's position has not changed on FDLR.

 

"Some say most FDLR are too young to have been in the genocide but the ideology, indoctrinated since birth, has no age. Rwanda will never sit at a table with them and rejects any suggestion to do so. FDLR should disarm, reject genocidal ideology and return to Rwanda."

 

Mushikiwabo addressing press in Kigali on Thursday 

 

PLAN OF ATTACK

 

Officials in the Rwandan government have told Chimpreports they suspect that Kikwete's plan is to create a large space of land near the border which would be utilized by FDLR militants to strike deep into Rwanda.

 

Tanzania denies supporting FDLR but Kikwete's recent remarks that Kigali should hold negotiations with the DRC-based militia, which draws the better part of its fighters and leaders from perpetrators of the Rwanda genocide in 1994, have caused concern in Kigali.

 

President Paul Kagame recently said he does not take "Kikwete's remarks on FDLR for granted."

 

Kikwete further unruffled feathers at a military function when he said the Tanzanian armed forces were ready to strike any force that threatened its interests, a statement many thought was directed at Rwanda and Malawi.

 

Due to international pressure, Kikwete would later be quoted as saying he wanted to see good relations with Tanzania's neighbours.

 

MENDING OR BREAKING RELATIONS?

 

But a source in Kigali says Kikwete is not being honest. "He said he wanted to mend relations, portraying himself as peace-loving but what he is doing is against the tenets of Pan Africanism. Some of those people evicted have Tanzania nationality and have lived there since the 1950s"

 

The source further noted that "Rwandans are being mistreated and their property confiscated by opportunists."

 

"There is every indication that we are heading in that direction of war though we don't want any clashes with Tanzania. They are supporting FDLR and are now harassing our people. Where is the spirit of the East African integration?" the source, who preferred anonymity so as to speak freely, wondered.

 

Gonza Mugi, an experienced Rwandan journalist says it is "ridiculous expelling Africans from an African country."

 

He adds "Other leaders in the region should also be active in cooling tensions between Kagame and Kikwete from going out of hand. Otherwise what happened to Pan Africanism? Remember the disagreement between Idi Amin and Nyerere had a big role in collapse in of EAC in 1977."

 

Gonza says in 1982, Ugandan leader, Milton Obote expelled Banyarwanda "which effectively gave an army (National Resistance Army) to Museveni."

 

Ugandan fighters of Rwandan origin, who at the time included now President Kagame and Fred Rwigyema (RIP), played a pivotal role in ousting Obote's government.

 

With Museveni as the NRA leader, Kagame and Rwigyema participated in the successful attack on Kabamba barracks, which many believe was a turning point in the NRA struggle that saw rebels seize Kampala in 1985.

 

Gonza added: "In 1996 Mobutu was busy expelling Banyarwanda in Congo, he ended up with a rebellion that kicked him out. In 1998, Kabila Laurent expelled Banyarwanda soldiers; he soon got a bullet in the head."

 

It is also feared that Kikwete's actions could be as a result of panic, fearing the penetration of Rwandan intelligence personnel in Kagera.

 

The unfolding events, especially concerns that FDLR militants are being supported by Tanzania and DRC, could touch off a spark that will see the region engulfed in a deadly war.

 

While regional observers thought Rwanda would quickly move to strike FDLR elements in DRC, latest reports show that a conflict with Tanzania appears so imminent than earlier thought.

President Kikwete and Kagame at a function in Rwanda 

 

DIPLOMATIC MUSHKIWABO

 

Mushikiwabo says "while these things are usually discussed among countries, Rwanda is ready to receive any Rwandan who crossed the border. We have already started to receive them, with more crossing every day. I want to reassure Tanzanians living in Rwanda that no harm will come to them. We are all part of the East African Community and as such any Tanzanian should feel welcome."

 

Meanwhile, on wider discussions on the DRC, Mushikiwabo said that the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Summit held last week called on the DRC government to resume Kampala peace talks as well as naming FDLR, a negative force.

 

This combined with individual country commitments in the UN Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region showed that regional efforts and as well as a commitment to addressing root causes gives hope of a lasting solution for sustainable peace in the region.

 

 

"As we do our part, Rwanda requests that that there are no other threats to our territory," she noted.

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Rwanda, Tanzania Edging Closer To War?

Rwanda and Tanzania are moving closer to war with a high ranking government official telling reporters in Kigali that Rwandans are being harassed and kicked out of Tanzania.

By Giles Muhame 2 hours 32 minutes ago

Kagame (L) and Kikwete inspect a military parade (INTERNET PHOTO)

Rwanda government spokesperson, Louise Mushikiwabo, who also doubles as the Foreign Affairs Minister, said Thursday that Kigali was not "consulted" when Tanzanian authorities raided the homes of Rwandan families in the border areas of Kagera before expelling them.

 

Officials said at least 300 Rwandans of whom some have lived in Tanzania for the last 60 years, have since early this week been walking long miles from Kagera to Rwanda through Rusumo border point after President Jakaya Kikwete asked authorities to kick out the "illegal immigrants."

 

Citizenship and other residential documents were subsequently destroyed by Tanzanian security officials; a move sources said was aimed at creating a special zone near the border with Rwanda which would be utilized for an attack.

 

Responding to a question from a journalist on the expulsion of Rwandans from Tanzania, Mushikiwabo said: "It wasn't our decision. We were not consulted."

ICGLR leaders in a meeting at Entebbe recently 

 

"We have been busy doing whatever possible to welcome, help resettle and offer security to Rwandans expelled from Tanzania," added Mushikiwabo.

 

She, however, noted that "whatever tension exists between Rwanda and Tanzania must be resolved," adding, "The relationship is too important."

 

"We are neighbours and so we have to live in peace. We are in the same block and much is to be gained from this. However, the tension that arose from the suggestion to Rwanda negotiate with FDLR would be met with the same reaction were it from anyone else," said Mushikiwabo.

 

She added: "FDLR committed genocide in Rwanda. They should be the whole world's enemy. That's how serious crimes of genocide are; we are not talking of a mutiny or a rebel group. They committed genocide in Rwanda and have continued their deadly work in the DRC."

 

She emphasized that Rwanda's position has not changed on FDLR.

 

"Some say most FDLR are too young to have been in the genocide but the ideology, indoctrinated since birth, has no age. Rwanda will never sit at a table with them and rejects any suggestion to do so. FDLR should disarm, reject genocidal ideology and return to Rwanda."

 

Mushikiwabo addressing press in Kigali on Thursday 

 

PLAN OF ATTACK

 

Officials in the Rwandan government have told Chimpreports they suspect that Kikwete's plan is to create a large space of land near the border which would be utilized by FDLR militants to strike deep into Rwanda.

 

Tanzania denies supporting FDLR but Kikwete's recent remarks that Kigali should hold negotiations with the DRC-based militia, which draws the better part of its fighters and leaders from perpetrators of the Rwanda genocide in 1994, have caused concern in Kigali.

 

President Paul Kagame recently said he does not take "Kikwete's remarks on FDLR for granted."

 

Kikwete further unruffled feathers at a military function when he said the Tanzanian armed forces were ready to strike any force that threatened its interests, a statement many thought was directed at Rwanda and Malawi.

 

Due to international pressure, Kikwete would later be quoted as saying he wanted to see good relations with Tanzania's neighbours.

 

MENDING OR BREAKING RELATIONS?

 

But a source in Kigali says Kikwete is not being honest. "He said he wanted to mend relations, portraying himself as peace-loving but what he is doing is against the tenets of Pan Africanism. Some of those people evicted have Tanzania nationality and have lived there since the 1950s"

 

The source further noted that "Rwandans are being mistreated and their property confiscated by opportunists."

 

"There is every indication that we are heading in that direction of war though we don't want any clashes with Tanzania. They are supporting FDLR and are now harassing our people. Where is the spirit of the East African integration?" the source, who preferred anonymity so as to speak freely, wondered.

 

Gonza Mugi, an experienced Rwandan journalist says it is "ridiculous expelling Africans from an African country."

 

He adds "Other leaders in the region should also be active in cooling tensions between Kagame and Kikwete from going out of hand. Otherwise what happened to Pan Africanism? Remember the disagreement between Idi Amin and Nyerere had a big role in collapse in of EAC in 1977."

 

Gonza says in 1982, Ugandan leader, Milton Obote expelled Banyarwanda "which effectively gave an army (National Resistance Army) to Museveni."

 

Ugandan fighters of Rwandan origin, who at the time included now President Kagame and Fred Rwigyema (RIP), played a pivotal role in ousting Obote's government.

 

With Museveni as the NRA leader, Kagame and Rwigyema participated in the successful attack on Kabamba barracks, which many believe was a turning point in the NRA struggle that saw rebels seize Kampala in 1985.

 

Gonza added: "In 1996 Mobutu was busy expelling Banyarwanda in Congo, he ended up with a rebellion that kicked him out. In 1998, Kabila Laurent expelled Banyarwanda soldiers; he soon got a bullet in the head."

 

It is also feared that Kikwete's actions could be as a result of panic, fearing the penetration of Rwandan intelligence personnel in Kagera.

 

The unfolding events, especially concerns that FDLR militants are being supported by Tanzania and DRC, could touch off a spark that will see the region engulfed in a deadly war.

 

While regional observers thought Rwanda would quickly move to strike FDLR elements in DRC, latest reports show that a conflict with Tanzania appears so imminent than earlier thought.

President Kikwete and Kagame at a function in Rwanda 

 

DIPLOMATIC MUSHKIWABO

 

Mushikiwabo says "while these things are usually discussed among countries, Rwanda is ready to receive any Rwandan who crossed the border. We have already started to receive them, with more crossing every day. I want to reassure Tanzanians living in Rwanda that no harm will come to them. We are all part of the East African Community and as such any Tanzanian should feel welcome."

 

Meanwhile, on wider discussions on the DRC, Mushikiwabo said that the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) Summit held last week called on the DRC government to resume Kampala peace talks as well as naming FDLR, a negative force.

 

This combined with individual country commitments in the UN Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for the DRC and the Region showed that regional efforts and as well as a commitment to addressing root causes gives hope of a lasting solution for sustainable peace in the region.

 

 

"As we do our part, Rwanda requests that that there are no other threats to our territory," she noted.

Fw: *DHR* How U.S. Dollars Fund African Horrors

 

How U.S. Dollars Fund African Horrors

By Michael Shank, Madeline Rose

August 8, 2013 

This month, roughly 25 members of Congress will travel to Sub-Saharan Africa for a wide range of discussions in Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Riding on the heels of President Obama's trip to the region, U.S. policymakers appear keen to focus their conversations on trade and investment. What they should prioritize, however, is what Obama fastidiously avoided on his trip: an evaluation of existing – and American plans to ramp up – U.S. security assistance across the region. There are three reasons, in particular, why it behooves members to be mindful of this mission.

First, the efficacy and return-on-investment of costly counterterrorism operations has never been adequately measured. The U.S. spends more than $25 billion annually on security assistance to the military and paramilitary forces of foreign countries, as a mechanism of U.S. counterterrorism aimed broadly at improving the "security capacity" of recipient states.

While security assistance has been a component of the U.S. foreign policy toolkit for nearly half a century – from Franklin Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program, to anti-narcotics training in Honduras throughout the 1980s, to recent efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Mali and Libya – it has repeatedly done more damage than good to stability, peace, and US perception.

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U.S. security assistance spending has never been audited or overseen in any coordinated way, allowing U.S.-made and U.S.-delivered tear gas canisters to be used against civilians peacefully protesting in Egypt and rape, torture and abuse to be committed regularly in Somalia by U.S.-backed Kenyan military troops. Moreover, a new survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that countries receiving the largest amount of U.S. security assistance are often those with the least favorable perceptions of America. Clearly, some rethinking is required.

Second, these members of Congress who are considering new investments in trade and economic development will ultimately see deals backfire if they are not properly coordinated with security assistance reform. The U.S. spent more than $1.5 billion on security assistance to the Congo since 2009, enabling a military regime to commit human rights abuses upon its civilians, making the region more hostile to humanitarian workers and more resentful to U.S. engagements. This is not uncommon. Conflict-affected countries that have yet to achieve the Millennium Development Goals are often victim of repeated cycles of conflict.

Finally, security assistance must be more consistent with Obama's commitment to an open government. The hypocrisies plaguing U.S. security assistance policies are not lost on those impacted by the rapes, murders and assaults by U.S.-trained soldiers throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, the civilians threatened by the U.S.-funded military coup in Mali, or the imprisoned journalists in Ethiopia whose guards are protected by U.S. foreign military financing. As Sub-Saharan African economies grow increasingly robust and interconnected, the U.S. must be prepared to stand, ethically and transparently, by its policies.

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Despite serious concerns with security assistance and the urgent need for reform, Congress continues to fund all of this with little oversight. This is remarkable given how many American taxpayer dollars are spent on these non-transparent programs. Last month, amidst the noise of political gridlock in Washington, bipartisan members of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees agreed to fully fund the president's fiscal year 2014 budget request for U.S. security assistance in their respective State and Foreign Operations appropriations bills (see House and Senate versions).

Efforts to get transparency and oversight for these programs, however, haven't been so easy. As these elected officials travel to Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August, we hope they will engage in conversations around the emerging patterns and needed reforms of U.S. security assistance in Africa and return home committed to establishing mechanisms of accountability, measurability and reform for security assistance.

This is a unique opportunity to reclaim, for an increasingly skeptical contingent of civil society on the African continent, the faith and good intentions of U.S. engagement.

Will the senators and representatives get it right? Let's hope so, since it's a rare moment for members of Congress to travel to Sub-Saharan Africa in the first place. This likely won't happen again anytime soon, so let's make the most of it now. The people of Ethiopia, Liberia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo are waiting and wanting something more and something meaningful from America. It is about time that we listened to them.

Michael Shank, Ph.D., is the director of foreign policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation.

Madeline Rose is a legislative associate for foreign policy at FCNL.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/08/08/congress-should-reform-security-assistance-in-africa

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