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Thursday, 12 September 2013

{FATA IJAMBO} UBUTEGETSI BW'U RWANDA NGO NI NK'UBWA GASHAKABUHAKE

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Mu mpera z'umwaka w'2010, leta  y'u Rwanda yakoresheje igikorwa cyo gutumira abanyarwanda baba hanze kuza gusura u Rwanda, kugirango babashe gushishikariza n'abandi gutahuka. 
     
          Icyo gikorwa cyiswe "NGWINO UREBE" cyitabiriwe n'abanyarwanda basaga ijana batuye mu bihugu bitandukanye; mu baturutse mu gihugu cy'u Bubiligi n'ubwo nta wigeze afata icyemezo cyo gutahuka, aliko abenshi muli bo bahisemo kuba abatoni kuli Leta y'u Rwanda ku buryo bugaragara, ndetse nk'uko bisanzwe iyo umukuru w'u Rwanda aje nko mu bihugu  by'i Bulayi abanyarwanda benshi bajya kwigaragambya bamwamagana; mu gihe abandi ndetse na babandi bagiye muri "NGWINO UREBE" bo usanga ahubwo bakora indi myigaragambyo yo kumushyigikira.

Umwe mu banyarwanda baturutse mu gihugu cy'u Bubiligi bwana      Karuranga Saleh we aliko yahisemo kutayoboka ubutegetsi bw'u Rwanda nka bagenzi be bajyane, ahubwo ahitamo kurwanya ubwo butegetsi bwamwishyuliye itike y'indege ndetse akanacumbikirwa ku buntu mu mahoteli meza y'i Rwanda mu gihe cy'ukwezi . 

                            Nyuma y'aho havuzwe byinshi ngo impamvu we yahisemo inzira yo kurwanya ubutegetsi bw'u Rwanda ngo n'uko  atahawe ku kamanyu k'umutsima nk'abandi; bityo ahitamo kwivumbura.
             
 Niyo mpamvu twifuje kumenya imvo n'imvano yabyo, adusobanulira impamvu yahisemo umurongo we bwite.


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Powers behind Rwanda-Tanzania ailing relations


Powers behind Rwanda-Tanzania ailing relations

At the first meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for DR Congo and the Region on May 26, 2013, Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete volunteered advice to the three governments with rebel groups operating inside the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kagame-na-Kikwete

he told Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to engage their respective insurgents in talks in order to resolve the region's long-running armed conflicts.

No one seems to have paid attention to whatever the Kabila government said in response.

President Museveni of Uganda is reported to have expressed willingness to talk.

Rwanda, however, reacted angrily to what were termed "shocking" and "aberrant" remarks and reiterated its policy ruling out talks with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

The FDLR is the current incarnation of several rebel groups formed over the years by people accused of planning and executing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

A "concerned citizen" writing on an official Government of Tanzania blog decried Rwanda's "over-reaction" and called its leadership "delusional".

Since then, Rwandans and Tanzanians have laboured to outdo each other in condemning each other's governments while defending their own on social media. Meanwhile after the initial firestorm officials on both sides have tried to downplay the row, at least in public.

Like many Tanzanians, some of whom have been influenced by their government's pronouncements on the matter, some commentators believe that President Kikwete gave his advice in good faith.

Like their "concerned" compatriot, Tanzanians I have spoken to believe that in its response the Rwandan government was unreasonable and demeaning of their president.

Acknowledge Rwanda's efforts

However, ordinary Rwandans and government officials alike insist that President Kikwete ought to have known better. One official elaborated: "we are rebuilding this country on the bodies of hundreds of thousands of people killed by members of that group.

"Kikwete should have acknowledged the efforts we have made to resolve that problem. Over the years tens of thousands of ex-combatants who once belonged to the FDLR have been persuaded to return and are contributing to nation building.

"Some are in the army, including in very senior positions. It is the hardliners who committed genocide here and would like to come back and continue killing that refuse to return. No one should ask us to negotiate with them."

 

According to media reports and some 'experts' on the region, problems between the two countries "started" with President Kikwete's statement in Addis Ababa.

Informed sources in both countries contest those claims. The standoff, they maintain, stems from things that have remained largely unsaid, at least in public.

Sources in Kigali accuse some Tanzanian officials in high places of conduct that is prejudicial to Rwanda's security. This, they maintain, is the background to Rwanda's furious response to President Kikwete's statement.

At the centre of the accusations are two groups: the FDLR, and the Rwanda National Congress of former Rwandan military officers now in exile, General Kayumba Nyamwasa, Colonel Patrick Karegeya and Major Theogene Rudasingwa.

In reports that give pause for thought, given that the three dissidents are ethnic Tutsis and therefore part of the community the FDLR is sworn to want to exterminate, the FDLR and the RNC are said to have long been engaged in efforts to join forces in pursuit of a common objective: the overthrow of the current government of Rwanda.

One may ask what this has to do with Tanzania or Tanzanian officials. Here the plot really thickens. According to intelligence sources, RNC officials have been regular visitors to Dar es Salaam, while UN sources point to at least one RNC official visiting the DRC to confer with the FDLR leadership.

Further, according to the same sources, FDLR operatives have long frequented areas of Tanzania bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, which they apparently use for smuggling weapons.

The Tanzanian border town of Kigoma is said to be a favourite haunt of theirs. Efforts to establish whether officials on both sides have discussed these claims were unsuccessful.

It is entirely possible that, given the porous nature of African borders, the FDLR sneak in and out of Tanzania without the knowledge of Tanzanian officials.

They could even be crossing into the country as bona fide travellers using whatever passports they carry. Be that as it may, relatively recent developments have raised the level of suspicion in Kigali.

Operations against M23

In early April this year, way before President Kikwete volunteered his advice, media reports started circulating that a top FDLR commander, General Stanislas Nizeyimana, also known as Bigaruka Izabayo, had disappeared while in Tanzania where he had been invited by the Tanzanian military, by then preparing to deploy troops in eastern DRC as part of the UN's Force Intervention Brigade, alongside contingents from Malawi and South Africa.

Apparently, General Nizeyimana and Tanzania were discussing how the Brigade could conduct operations against M23, the rebel group fighting the DRC government in Kivu Province allegedly with Rwanda's support, while avoiding confrontation with FDLR.

According to the reports, after several weeks in Tanzania, General Bigaruka disappeared in Kigoma as he returned to the DRC. Some media sources have credited Rwanda's military intelligence with waylaying and abducting him.

Rwandan officials would neither deny nor confirm the reports. However, one who agreed to speak maintained that Bigaruka's whereabouts were "irrelevant", preferring instead to ask what Bigaruka was doing in Tanzania in meetings with officials of the Tanzanian government and military.

Tanzanian sources have confirmed that Bigaruka was indeed in Tanzania, with one saying he could still be there, "as a resource person for the army given his knowledge of the Kivus". Wherever he is, however, if true, this saga would have been a factor in Kigali's irritation at Kikwete's advice.

Adding to Rwanda's suspicion of Tanzania's intentions is an interview Bernard Membe, the country's foreign minister, gave to the Pan-African magazine,Jeune Afrique, while visiting France, way back in November 2012, when preparations to deploy the UN's Force Intervention Brigade were already underway.

Although he spoke of the need for the FIB to be neutral, he also insisted on the imperative to recapture the territory "occupied illegally" by M23.

A Rwandan official noted: "Membe said absolutely nothing about the FDLR which for over ten years has been committing war crimes in the DRC and has been declared a terrorist organisation by the UN".

As if to confirm that Tanzania is pre-occupied by M23 and not the FDLR, which the FIB is supposed to disarm, Assah Mwambene, the spokesman for the Tanzanian government, recently told the BBC: "we are determined to eliminate M23".

He said nothing about what was in store for the FDLR, which Rwandan officials maintain has deployed troops within units of the DRC army with the knowledge of MONUSCO under whose auspices the Force Intervention Brigade operates.

With all this in the background, it is hardly surprising that when the Tanzanian government started expelling illegal aliens, the majority of whom are said to be Rwandans or of Rwandan origin, Kigali smelt a hidden agenda.

The Tanzanian government has emphasised, rightly so, that ejecting illegal immigrants is within the rights of any sovereign state. The timing, however, lends itself to a diversity of interpretations.

It remains to be seen whether President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda who has been asked by Tanzania to mediate will defuse the row whose causes go deeper than many have hitherto assumed.

(Frederick Golooba-Mutebi is a Kampala- and Kigali-based researcher and writer on politics and public affairs. E-mail: fgmutebi@yahoo.com)

 

Powers behind Rwanda-Tanzania ailing relations


Powers behind Rwanda-Tanzania ailing relations

At the first meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism of the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework for DR Congo and the Region on May 26, 2013, Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete volunteered advice to the three governments with rebel groups operating inside the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kagame-na-Kikwete

he told Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo to engage their respective insurgents in talks in order to resolve the region's long-running armed conflicts.

No one seems to have paid attention to whatever the Kabila government said in response.

President Museveni of Uganda is reported to have expressed willingness to talk.

Rwanda, however, reacted angrily to what were termed "shocking" and "aberrant" remarks and reiterated its policy ruling out talks with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

The FDLR is the current incarnation of several rebel groups formed over the years by people accused of planning and executing the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

A "concerned citizen" writing on an official Government of Tanzania blog decried Rwanda's "over-reaction" and called its leadership "delusional".

Since then, Rwandans and Tanzanians have laboured to outdo each other in condemning each other's governments while defending their own on social media. Meanwhile after the initial firestorm officials on both sides have tried to downplay the row, at least in public.

Like many Tanzanians, some of whom have been influenced by their government's pronouncements on the matter, some commentators believe that President Kikwete gave his advice in good faith.

Like their "concerned" compatriot, Tanzanians I have spoken to believe that in its response the Rwandan government was unreasonable and demeaning of their president.

Acknowledge Rwanda's efforts

However, ordinary Rwandans and government officials alike insist that President Kikwete ought to have known better. One official elaborated: "we are rebuilding this country on the bodies of hundreds of thousands of people killed by members of that group.

"Kikwete should have acknowledged the efforts we have made to resolve that problem. Over the years tens of thousands of ex-combatants who once belonged to the FDLR have been persuaded to return and are contributing to nation building.

"Some are in the army, including in very senior positions. It is the hardliners who committed genocide here and would like to come back and continue killing that refuse to return. No one should ask us to negotiate with them."

 

According to media reports and some 'experts' on the region, problems between the two countries "started" with President Kikwete's statement in Addis Ababa.

Informed sources in both countries contest those claims. The standoff, they maintain, stems from things that have remained largely unsaid, at least in public.

Sources in Kigali accuse some Tanzanian officials in high places of conduct that is prejudicial to Rwanda's security. This, they maintain, is the background to Rwanda's furious response to President Kikwete's statement.

At the centre of the accusations are two groups: the FDLR, and the Rwanda National Congress of former Rwandan military officers now in exile, General Kayumba Nyamwasa, Colonel Patrick Karegeya and Major Theogene Rudasingwa.

In reports that give pause for thought, given that the three dissidents are ethnic Tutsis and therefore part of the community the FDLR is sworn to want to exterminate, the FDLR and the RNC are said to have long been engaged in efforts to join forces in pursuit of a common objective: the overthrow of the current government of Rwanda.

One may ask what this has to do with Tanzania or Tanzanian officials. Here the plot really thickens. According to intelligence sources, RNC officials have been regular visitors to Dar es Salaam, while UN sources point to at least one RNC official visiting the DRC to confer with the FDLR leadership.

Further, according to the same sources, FDLR operatives have long frequented areas of Tanzania bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, which they apparently use for smuggling weapons.

The Tanzanian border town of Kigoma is said to be a favourite haunt of theirs. Efforts to establish whether officials on both sides have discussed these claims were unsuccessful.

It is entirely possible that, given the porous nature of African borders, the FDLR sneak in and out of Tanzania without the knowledge of Tanzanian officials.

They could even be crossing into the country as bona fide travellers using whatever passports they carry. Be that as it may, relatively recent developments have raised the level of suspicion in Kigali.

Operations against M23

In early April this year, way before President Kikwete volunteered his advice, media reports started circulating that a top FDLR commander, General Stanislas Nizeyimana, also known as Bigaruka Izabayo, had disappeared while in Tanzania where he had been invited by the Tanzanian military, by then preparing to deploy troops in eastern DRC as part of the UN's Force Intervention Brigade, alongside contingents from Malawi and South Africa.

Apparently, General Nizeyimana and Tanzania were discussing how the Brigade could conduct operations against M23, the rebel group fighting the DRC government in Kivu Province allegedly with Rwanda's support, while avoiding confrontation with FDLR.

According to the reports, after several weeks in Tanzania, General Bigaruka disappeared in Kigoma as he returned to the DRC. Some media sources have credited Rwanda's military intelligence with waylaying and abducting him.

Rwandan officials would neither deny nor confirm the reports. However, one who agreed to speak maintained that Bigaruka's whereabouts were "irrelevant", preferring instead to ask what Bigaruka was doing in Tanzania in meetings with officials of the Tanzanian government and military.

Tanzanian sources have confirmed that Bigaruka was indeed in Tanzania, with one saying he could still be there, "as a resource person for the army given his knowledge of the Kivus". Wherever he is, however, if true, this saga would have been a factor in Kigali's irritation at Kikwete's advice.

Adding to Rwanda's suspicion of Tanzania's intentions is an interview Bernard Membe, the country's foreign minister, gave to the Pan-African magazine,Jeune Afrique, while visiting France, way back in November 2012, when preparations to deploy the UN's Force Intervention Brigade were already underway.

Although he spoke of the need for the FIB to be neutral, he also insisted on the imperative to recapture the territory "occupied illegally" by M23.

A Rwandan official noted: "Membe said absolutely nothing about the FDLR which for over ten years has been committing war crimes in the DRC and has been declared a terrorist organisation by the UN".

As if to confirm that Tanzania is pre-occupied by M23 and not the FDLR, which the FIB is supposed to disarm, Assah Mwambene, the spokesman for the Tanzanian government, recently told the BBC: "we are determined to eliminate M23".

He said nothing about what was in store for the FDLR, which Rwandan officials maintain has deployed troops within units of the DRC army with the knowledge of MONUSCO under whose auspices the Force Intervention Brigade operates.

With all this in the background, it is hardly surprising that when the Tanzanian government started expelling illegal aliens, the majority of whom are said to be Rwandans or of Rwandan origin, Kigali smelt a hidden agenda.

The Tanzanian government has emphasised, rightly so, that ejecting illegal immigrants is within the rights of any sovereign state. The timing, however, lends itself to a diversity of interpretations.

It remains to be seen whether President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda who has been asked by Tanzania to mediate will defuse the row whose causes go deeper than many have hitherto assumed.

(Frederick Golooba-Mutebi is a Kampala- and Kigali-based researcher and writer on politics and public affairs. E-mail: fgmutebi@yahoo.com)

 

Leta Zunze Ubumwe z'Amerika ziri gushaka umuti w'amahoro n'umutekano mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari zihereye ku rugero rw'u Burundi.


Nkurunziza.pngPerezida wa Leta zunze Ubumwe z'Amerika Barack Obama, Umunyamabanga w'Amerika ushinzwe Ububanyi n'amahanga John Kerry na Russ Feingold intumwa idasanzwe ya Perezida Obama, uko ari 3 babaye intumwa za rubanda muri icyo gihugu mu mutwe wa sena, uko ari 3 bakaba baranengaga cyane uburyo igihugu cyabo kitwara mu bibazo biteza umutekano muke mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari ;bakavuga ko baramutse aribo bayobora bahindura imikore maze ibihugu bituriye ibiyaga bigari bikagira amahoro n'umutekano ; kubw'amahire abo basenateri uko ari 3 ubu nibo bayobora igihugu cy'Amerika ;umugambi wabo wo kugarura amahoro mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari bakaba barawutangiye ubwo Perezida Obama yashyiragaho intumwe ye idasanzwe mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari ,ubu akaba atangiye kuvuguta umuti wagarura amahoro n'umutekano mu karere kose !

 

Intumwa idasanzwe ya perezida Barack Obama wa Leta Zunze Ubumwe z'Amerika mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari by'Afurika Russ Feingold arimo akorera urugendo mu bihugu bigize akarere k'ibiyaga bigari mu gushakisha umuti wagarura amahoro n'umutekano birambye mu bihugu bigize ako karere. Kuwa mbere taliki ya 9/09/2013 yabonanye na Perezida Pierre Nkurunziza w'igihugu cy'u Burundi.

 

Intumwa ya perezida Obama yasobanuriye Perezida w'u Burundi ko aje muri icyo gihugu kugira ngo amenye neza uko igihugu cy'u Burundi cyabonye umuti wo guhosha amakimbirane y'intambara yakirangwagamo mu bihe byashize nk'uko ubu bimeze mu gihugu cya Congo. Russ yagize ati : « ndimo ndakora ingendo muri aka karere k'ibiyaga bigari kugirango menye neza uko ibintu byifashe mukarere k'ibiyaga bigari maze igihugu cy'Amerika gishobore kugira icyo cyafasha kugira ngo umutekano n'amahoro birambye bigaruke muri aka karere, bitewe n'ibirimo bibera mu gihugu cya Congo aho umutekano ukomeza kugenda uhungabana. Nje kureba uburyo u Burundi bwabyifashemo kugira ngo bushobore kugera kubwumvikane, nkareba neza ingorane mwahuye nazo n'ibyo mwashoboye kugeraho kugira ngo mugere kuri ayo mahoro ».

 

Intumwa ya Obama isanga u Burundi ari icyitegererezo mu bihugu bigize akarere kuko icyo gihugu cyashoboye kugera ku mugambi w'amahoro ukajya no mu bikorwa. Igihugu cy'u Burundi cyashoboye gukora ibiganiro, nyuma kigera kumasezerano avuye muri ibyo biganiro noneho biba akarusho kuko u Burundi bwashoboye no gushyira mu bikorwa amasezerano bwagezeho avuye muri ibyo biganiro, kugeza ubwo bamwe mubarwanaga barambitse intwaro hasi bagasubira mubuzima busanzwe byose bikagenda neza kuburyo muri iki gihe usanga abarundi bashishikajwe n'ibikorwa by'amajyambere kurusha ibyo kwibanda k'umutekano.

 

Perezida w'u Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza  yabwiye intumwa ya Perezida Obama ko u Burundi buhangayikishijwe n'ikibazo cy'umutekano mucye uri muri Congo kuko ushobora kugira ingaruka mbi ku gihugu cy'u Burundi kikongera kugira ibibazo by'umutekano mucye bitewe n'impunzi ziba ziva muri icyo gihugu zigahungira mu Burundi, Nkurunziza avuga ko Perezida Museveni akora ibishoboka byose kugira ngo agerageze guhuza abayobozi b'ibihugu byo mukarere k'ibiyaga bigari ariko akaba asanga ibyo bidahagije hakenewe gushakisha ibindi bisubizo bishobora kuzana amahoro n'umutekano mu karere.

 

Nkurunziza yabwiye intumwa ya Obama ko hakenewe uburyo bwo gushaka abahoze ari abayobozi b'ibihugu bazi neza ibibazo by'inkomoko y'amakimbirane mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari bagashaka umuti wagarura amahoro mu karere ; Nkurunziza yavuze ko nk'u Burundi bushobora gutanga Pierre Buyoya, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya na Domiciani Ndayizeye babaye abayobozi bakomeye b'u Burundi, bakaba bazi neza ibibazo biri mu karere bityo bakaba bafasha mu gushaka igisubizo cyagarura amahoro mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari !

 

N'ubwo igihugu cy'u Burundi gifatwa nk'impanga y'igihugu cy'u Rwanda, ibyo bihugu byombi bikaba bihuje amateka , bivuga ururimi rumwe , bifite ubukungu bujya kungana, bikaba bijya guhurira ku muco umwe , bikaba bifite ibibazo by'abahutu n'abatutsi… umuntu ashobora kwibaza niba koko umuti wo guhosha amakimbirane watanze umusaruro mu gihugu cy'u Burundi ukagarura amahoro ushobora no gukoreshwa mu Rwanda.

 

Gusa rero ikigaragara cyo ni uko igihugu cya Leta Zunze Ubumwe z'Amerika kiyemeje guhagurikira ikibazo cy'intambara no gushyiraho ubutegetsi bugendera kuri demokarasi mu karere k'ibiyaga bigari, amahoro n'umutekano byagaruka muri ako karere mu gihe gito cyane kuko Amerika ibifite ubushobozi buhagije.

 

Iyi nkuru veritasinfo iyikesha radiyo "Ijwi ry'Amerika" (VOA)

 

 

Ubwanditsi.

 

 

 

 

MER 11 SEP 2013AUCUN COMMENTAIRE

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Two months on President Kagame still chasing a visa to Canada


Two months on President Kagame still chasing a visa to Canada

The president is determined to visit Canada even though he has found it extremely hard to obtain the entry requirements.

After President Kagame received an embarrassing welcome in Said College Oxford, United Kingdom a number of western countries are finding it hard to issue a visa to him due to his image which he tarnished in the great lakes region. His ministers and other followers have been working around the clock trying to obtain a visa for his trip to Canada however still unclear whether he will finally be handed it.

Visa Canada

 

The difficulties faced by President Kagame's diplomats trying to obtain a visa are as follows:
On the 24th of August, Louise Mushikiwabo received a phone call from the Canadian embassy in Nairobi instructing her that the Canadian government can't issue a diplomatic visa at the specified time required by Rwandan government. Louise Mushikiwabo was advised to cancel the presidential trip as the visa application is under review.

On 27th of August, Louise Mushikiwabo, receives a letter from Canadian embassy in Kenya explaining the delay in issuing a visa for criminal Kagame.
On 27th of august, the Canadian embassy faxed a letter to Louise Mushikiwabo on the reasons of delays in awarding a visa for Rwanda's criminal ruler. The letter to Mushikiwabo underlined the following issues:
The Canadian government needs time to investigate Complaints raised from Canadians of Rwandese origins living in Canada.
The Canadian government needed time to study at complaints raised by Canadian Non Government Organisation on Kagame's human right issues.
The Canadian government wanted to analyse the security issues that arise with his visits, as some Rwandans in Canada have lodged complaints about being intimidated by Kagame's agents in Canada.

Fellow Comrades sisters and brothers, the president is still trying for a visa and so lets not rest you never know he may get it and so we need to stay on alert to chase the thug.

As the struggle of exposing the killer continues, the Rwandan community in Canada is divided into two, one supporting Kagame and the other objecting the idea of welcoming a criminal on their land.

We are calling upon all Rwandans and Congolese in America and Canada plus around the globe to get together and chase away the criminal, we are working hard to make sure that President Kagame will get a similar lesson of Oxford United Kingdom.


-“The root cause of the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 is the long and past historical ethnic dominance of one minority ethnic group to the other majority ethnic group. Ignoring this reality is giving a black cheque for the Rwandan people’s future and deepening resentment, hostility and hatred between the two groups.”

-« Ce dont j’ai le plus peur, c’est des gens qui croient que, du jour au lendemain, on peut prendre une société, lui tordre le cou et en faire une autre ».

-“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.”

-“I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

-“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

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