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Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Tony Blair quits as adviser to Malawi's president - Telegraph


Tony Blair quits as adviser to Malawi's president

Malawi's President Joyce Banda (R) presents a gift to Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair (L) on August 30, 2012
Malawi's President Joyce Banda presents a gift to Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on August 30, 2012
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Tony Blair and his team of advisers are withdrawing from Malawi - but insist the decision has nothing to do with a corruption scandal engulfing the country

Tony Blair and his team are pulling out as official consultants to Malawi's president amid a corruption scandal engulfing the country.

Mr Blair's staff have been working in the office of Joyce Banda advising her on how to run the African nation. But at the end of this month, theTony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), a charity set up by the former prime minister, will quit Malawi.

Mrs Banda sacked her Cabinet over the scandal while a number of senior officials and politicians have been arrested, including two members of staff working in her presidential office.

In November, the British Government froze aid payments to Malawi in response to the crisis.

A spokesman for Malawi's president said last week that Mr Blair was withdrawing his team but insisted the events were not linked to the "Cashgate" scandal, so-called because of the large amounts of money found at the homes and in cars of public officials.

Steven Nhlane, the presidential press secretary, said the stepping back of the AGI staff was planned before the corruption scandal broke. "They haven't withdrawn per se, the agreement was that they wind up their work here before the May elections," he said. "This is according to plan. It's not because of any emerging issues at all.

"The relationship between President Banda and [former] prime minister Blair is still cordial. AGI has said they are open to come back whenever invited again."

AGI, a not-for-profit organisation, has been working closely with Mrs Banda for about 18 months but stepped up its "Malawi project" in January last year when it sent four advisers to the capital Lilongwe.

As recently as Nov 23, when pressed by The Telegraph, Mr Blair gave no indication that AGI might be halting its operations in the country. At the time a spokesman for Mr Blair said: "We continue to think it is really important to work in Malawi and we certainly do have faith in the country."

But Mr Blair has come under fire for pleading ignorance over the scandal until it became public knowledge in September, sparked by a failed assassination of an official working in Malawi's finance ministry – amid claims by his family that he was about to expose widespread state corruption.

There is no evidence Mrs Banda, a friend of Mr Blair and his wife Cherie, is involved in embezzlement.

Richard Bacon, a Conservative MP and member of the public accounts committee, said at the time: "This is potentially very embarrassing for Tony Blair. He needs to explain what his people were doing there. If they didn't know anything, then why not? If they are in the president's office what does that say about the quality of the governance?"

Mr Blair's office said AGI could not possibly be "party to everything that happens within the governments we work with".

A spokesman for AGI said the decision to pull out had nothing to do with the corruption scandal. They said: "It is public knowledge that the AGI's work in Malawi is due to end in early 2014. The team has been working there since July 2012 and the agreement was to support President Banda up to the presidential election in 2014.

"In the case of Malawi, the agreement with the government was always to end work early this year."

This is thought to be the first time Mr Blair has pulled out of one of the countries he advises.

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Monday, 6 January 2014

LETTER FROM THE NORTH: DICTATOR PAUL KAGAME’S DEATH SQUAD KILLS PATRICK KAREGEYA.

LETTER FROM THE NORTH: DICTATOR PAUL KAGAME’S DEATH SQUAD KILLS PATRICK KAREGEYA.

2 janvier 2014
Once criminal Paul Kagame told his selfish parliamentarian that, “I will smash the opposition with the hammer and crush them.” Once Paul Kagame talks about something, he will always follow on it. Once criminal Kagame says that he will kill you, he will make sure that you’re dead. The criminal has now got his target again. 
Apollo Ismael Kirisisi
Apollo Ismail Kirisisi
After getting the news from South Africa on the death of Col. Patrick Karegeya, Ikaze Iwacu decided to start an investigation by contacting its informers within Village Urugwiro and DMI. The investigation was not to confirm that criminal Paul Kagame killed Col. Patrick Karegeya, as everyone knows that he ordered the killing. But to identify the Killing squad that went to South Africa to carry out this heinous mission.   
Names of the killing squad that went to South Africa
  • Appolo Ismael Kiririsi; who is a perceived friend to Karegeya.
  • Brig. Gen. Faustin Kalisa; external under the president’s office.
  • Col. Francis Mutiganda; head of Rwanda’s external and former escort to Jack Nziza.
  • Maj. Matungo; an assassin from the presidential guard.
  • Lt. Col. Francis Gakwerere; an external operative who is experienced at assassinations.
  • Captain Tuyisenge; presidential guard and Paul Kagame’s personal body guard.
  • Lt. Col. Charles Shema; external and Paul Kagame’s nephew.
Ikaze Iwacu hasn’t come up with the above names; these names were given to Ikaze Iwacu by its informers. Readers may doubt our information; reliable informers within DMI have told Ikaze Iwacu that the above names have been holding clandestine meetings in Gikondo at a house that was formerly owned by Kabuga Felicien; top level meetings were always conducted by killer Jack Nziza and on the 20th December 2013 even Kagame personally attended this meeting at 2PM. As the meetings were always conducted in the middle of the nights.
Ikaze Iwacu informers stated “that it was unfortunately that we did not know that they were planning to kill Karegeya. Usually these meetings at this location are usually held before kidnappings on opposition members in Uganda, Kagame attending this meeting is a sign that they were aiming a high target.”   
This informer continued to tell Ikaze Iwacu that before the abduction of Lt. Joel Mutabazithere were also similar meetings taking place at this house in Gikondo that was formerly owned by Kabuga Felicien. Ikaze Iwacu readers should know that the operation to kidnap Lt. Joel Mutabazi was personally supervised by Killer Jack Nziza and conducted by Col. Franco Rutagengwa, Lt Col. Burabyo James and Lt. Col. Francis Gakwerere.
Who is Apollo Ismail Kiririsi?
Apollo Kiririsi is a son of the late Hadji Kiririsi; those who know this family have told Ikaze Iwacu that Appllo’s father Hadji Kiririsi was a honourable man, hard working and loved by all the Muslim community in Rwanda and the region like in Burundi and in the City of Goma. The son Apollo Kiririsi is the opposite of his father, he is a conman that he even grabbed all the wealth left by his late father without sharing with his siblings. 
Apollo Kiririsi is not a normal person, those who know him say that he speaks fluentKinyarwanda, Swahili, Arabic, French, English, Russian and some Lingala and Luganda. He has lived in Egypt, Kuwait, Russia and Europe. He was also imprisoned in England for Drug trafficking. Apollo Kiririsi had also dealings with the CDD-FDD rebellion in Burundi as he was their channel of conduct for weapons and it was due to arms dealings with CDD-FDD that he was briefly imprisoned in 2002 in Rwanda. 
As Gasigwa Norbert stated in his Ikaze Iwacu article that Apollo Kiririsi was also involved in human smuggling; where he transported many men and women in Europe and America. Reliable informers have told Ikaze Iwacu that between 1997 to 2002; more than 70% of people that came to Europe and America were helped by Apollo Kiririsi. As one Rwandan in Holland told Ikaze Iwacu that “My parents paid Apollo 2000 dollars to bring me to Holland through Moscow.”
On this fate full day Col. Patrick Karegeya had gone to meet Apollo Kirisisi as usual, since Patrick Karegeya was always in contact with this man as one of his informers in Rwanda. As an external intelligence officer Col. Patrick Karegeya had recruited this man as his informer in the region. When Patrick Karegeya wanted to meet this man he never used to visit him with escorts as Apollo Kiririsi always wanted his meetings with Karegeya to be kept as a secret. 
Why the above criminals?
Ikaze Iwacu asked its contacts in DMI why they suspect the above names to have been involved in the assassination of Patrick Karegeya. Our informers have told Ikaze Iwacu that on the 22nd December 2013, a group led by Brig. Gen. Faustin KalisaMaj. Matungo and Captain Tuyisenge left Rwanda a board Kenya air ways to Lilongwe and then to Mozambique. These men weren’t in Kigali during Christmas period as they had travel outside Rwanda.
The second group left Rwanda on the 26th December 2013; it was led by Col. Francis Mutiganda that involved Lt. Col. Francis Gakwerere, Lt. Col. Charles Shema and Col. Francis Mutiganda. This group left Rwanda a board Ethiopian airlines to Lusaka Zambia. Ikaze Iwacu would like to remind its readers that Lt. Col. Francis Gakwerere is the person who led the attempted assassination on Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa and the brain behind the assassination of Mzee Laurent Kabila as he was his former escort before being sent out of Congo, when Mzee Laurent Kabila told Rwandans to return to their country.
Ikaze Iwacu asked its informers why they suspected that these men and this is their reply
  • This group should be suspected as the first group that composed of Brig. Gen. Faustin Kalisa, Maj. Matungo and Captain Tuyisenge travelled before Christmas, yet knowing that all of them have wives and children. During Christmas they were still out of the country.
  • The second group also visiting the South African countries that was composed of Col. Francis Mutiganda, Lt. Col. Francis Gakwerere and Lt. Col. Charles Shema, was also suspicious. This group left exactly after Christmas and they lied to other DMI agents that they are going to Uganda. But we later found out that they travelled to Zambia.
  • The informer said that, “ We in the DMI knew that Jack Nziza was leading top secret meetings in Gikondo DMI safe house with the above killers; that even President attended; those people would not tell us otherwise if the information was leaked they would have been killed.”  
  • The above DMI men are constantly in pubs around Kigali; but since early December we stopped seeing them in pubs as they were involved in planning for something.
  • The above men know those countries in South Africa very well, they have operated before in Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa itself.
  • These are the same people that killed Theogene Turatsinze in Mozambique and that operation was personally carried out by Lt. Col. Francis Gakwerere at the orders of Paul Kagame.
  • This group was large enough for technical operation and it was composed of well known Presidential hit squad.  
However these informers have confirmed with Ikaze Iwacu that Apollo Ismail Kiririsi was not among the people who used to attend the Gikondo meeting.  
Rwandans should know that Kagame’s external intelligence uses Ugandan passports and of recently they have started using Congo Brazzaville passports and Nigerian passports obtain by the Nigerian mafias with the help of Mr Joseph Habeniza, Rwanda’s ambassador to Nigeria.
The relationship between Apollo Kiririsi and Jack Nziza
Ikaze Iwacu tried to ask its informers if they know whether there is a working relationship between Apollo and criminal Jack; one of the informers told Ikaze Iwacu that initially they did not know each other, but after the release from 1930 prison Apollo Kiririsi was introduced to Jack Nziza by Sheikh Saleh Harerimana who is an internal DMI agent for Jack Nziza; and from then they would meet but, we in the DMI thought he was running business dealings with JacK Nziza as Apollo is always in Dubai. 
nziza-okHere in DMI we are shocked at how easy col. Karegeya was able to trust this man knowing his history as a street crook. The DMI informer continued to say that “the problem of being in intelligence work is that you become obsessed with information. Karegeya was obsessed with knowing information about Kagame and the RPF; and that was his weakness.” 
The informer told Ikaze Iwacu that apart from the above names no one else knew about this plan, if the National Security Personnel had known about it trust me, we would have known it.  The DMI informer stated that “People like James Kabarebe, Karenzi Karake and Patrick Nyamvumba may not have known about it; it was an exclusive plan done by criminal Paul Kagame, his right hand dog Jack Nziza and the above named thugs.”   
Rutembesa Didier’s movement in Kigali
Ikaze Iwacu readers should know that Rwanda’s chief spy in South Africa was in Rwanda, where he arrived early December; going back to Rwanda is not a problem but the people he met while he was in Rwanda. Ikaze Iwacu informer in village Urugwiro has testified that Didier was a regular night visitor in village Urugwuiro. 
kagame the vampireWhen Paul Kagame went to South Africa to pay his last respect to Nelson Mandela; Rutembesa Didier went back with Kagame on the same plane. It is even possible that criminal Paul Kagame may have used his plane to transport poison to South Africa, since his killing thug Rutembesa was also on this plane and the dictator. These embassy staffs are the people who provide logistic support to Jack Nziza’s thugs in their plans to eliminate political opponents.
The end of Apollo Kiririsi
Rwandans know how the RPF operates; they don’t like any one on the outside knowing too much. Kagame has turned his guns against those who know his secrets, and it is a matter of time before criminal Kagame eliminates Apollo Kiririsi. 
Conclusion
All Ikaze Iwacu informers in the Rwandan security services confirmed that this group must have entered South Africa by road through the Mozambique- South Africa road. By the time Ikaze Iwacu went to press, these men were not yet in Rwanda. Kwame Nkrumah once said that “Those who assassinate others are, because they have failed to convince them. You can kill the body but you can’t kill the spirit of Ideology.”

For the Kagames they think that they will convince Rwandans by using death squads and his blood money. Rwandans are registering RPF’s killings and trust me, the time is soon coming for these thugs to pay up. The tragic consequences will be severe for Kagame’s thugs and Rwandans know who they are!! For the RPF’s criminal politician, Rwandans know who you are and you will one day pay for your crimes.  
When we tell opposition leaders that the only way to remove criminal Kagame and his RPF bandits is through an armed struggle; we are usually rebuffed, called war mongers, FDLR sympathisers or haters of Rwanda. J.F. Kennedy once said that “Those who make a peaceful revolution impossible, will make a violent revolution inevitable.” Dear Rwandans the time is ripe to weed out RPF and all its criminals.
R.I.P Col Patrick Karegeya and Col Mamadou Moustafa Ndala; the Abega-Tutsi- Hima empire will be defeated at all Cost

By a Correspondent
Ikazeiwacu.unblog.fr

Sunday, 5 January 2014

NewsWeek: Getting Away With Murder


 
 
Getting Away With Murder

By Pete Guest / January 05 2014 12:55 PM


Some of the biggest war criminals in Africa are dodging justice AP
Photo/Stephen Wandera

It was an open secret that one of the Democratic Republic of Congo's
worst tormentors, Bosco Ntaganda, lived on Avenue des Tulipés until
2012, crossing into Rwanda now and then despite a travel ban. Rich off
the proceeds of the illegal tax revenues he imposed on local mines, he
served as a general in the Congolese army.

For a wanted fugitive, the man nicknamed "the Terminator" lived a
comfortable and unencumbered life.

Six years before, a warrant for his arrest had been issued by the
International Criminal Court (ICC) for his role in recruiting child
soldiers. Goma, the capital of Congo, is still trying to reintegrate
these former combatants: boys now in their teens who were forced to
become killers before they had reached puberty and now struggle to be
seen as victims.

A second warrant for Ntaganda, issued in July 2012, added four more
counts of war crimes and three more of crimes against humanity. But no
one wanted to move on Ntaganda. It was widely acknowledged he was
useful – an important interlocutor in a region that is perpetually
about to slide back into violence.

Ntaganda's apparent impunity was a neon sign that the ICC's reach and
relevance, 12 years on from its creation, were weak and waning, and
that justice for war criminals remains subordinate to global
realpolitik.

Now, a cynical, targeted attack on the ICC by two Kenyan leaders
charged with crimes against humanity has lifted the hood on the flaws
in the global "court of last resort". Through what one experienced
court insider calls "a dirty-tricks campaign," the two killers are
attempting to discredit and dismantle a system that, while far from
perfect, metes out justice to victims of warlords and those
responsible for state-sanctioned abuse.

"There has been a very intensive effort to tarnish and delegitimize
the court," says Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch's
international justice program, who led the group's campaign for the
creation of the ICC in the 1990s.

Ntaganda is now in custody. In March 2013, having left the Congolese
army and returned to militant insurrection, he walked into the U.S.
embassy in Kigali and asked to be extradited to The Hague. It is
unclear what drove him to surrender. One theory is that his Rwandan
allies had been pressured by Washington, which was at the time pushing
Kigali to resolve the ongoing hostilities in the Great Lakes region.

His strategic relevance had disappeared. He was no longer protected,
and he came to the conclusion that surrender to the ICC was a better
option than trying to negotiate the treacherous shifting allegiances
of the Eastern Congo. His confirmation of charges hearing is set for
February next year. His arrest and appearance before the court is one
of the ICC's very few qualified successes.

Most of those on the ICC's wanted list remain at large, although in a
strange footnote to the unfolding tragedy of the Central African
Republic (CAR), the leaders of the country's junta made a bold offer
to the international community: the surrender of one of Africa's most
wanted, Joseph Kony.

Brought back to the attention of the Western media in 2012 by a
charity campaign, Kony still leads the cult-like militant movement
that began in Uganda and terrorized the region, abducting young boys
as child soldiers – and young girls into a life of sexual slavery. As
many as 60,000 Ugandan children are thought to have been conscripted
over the course of two decades.

Survivors of Kony's attacks were found mutilated – the calling card of
the group was severed lips, ears and noses, permanently scarring their
victims. Kony is wanted on 12 counts of crimes against humanity and 21
counts of war crimes. His arrest warrant was issued by the ICC in
2005, but since then he has remained international justice's white
whale, hiding in the bush in the CAR as the country descends into a
hell of sectarian violence, the forced conscription of child soldiers
and the brutal murder of civilians.

Last summer, Melinda Taylor, a lawyer at the ICC, was arrested in
Libya and accused of passing secrets to a foreign power. Taylor had
been assigned to defend Saif al-Islam Qaddafi, son of the former
dictator Muammar, who was detained for crimes against humanity. All
conventional notions of legal privilege were abandoned in a country
that wanted retribution for the crimes of the despotic family who
ruled over them for so long. It is unlikely that Qaddafi will ever
reach The Hague for a fair trial.

The biggest name on the ICC's wanted list is not only at large, but
running a petro-state. Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, was
referred to the court in 2007 for crimes against humanity in Darfur.
Although his international travel has been curtailed, to some degree,
he remains a regular visitor to Addis Ababa and to regional summits in
Africa and the Arab world.

Today, the ICC wanted list is an identity parade of yesterday's
villains, each accused of unimaginable crimes – genocide, recruiting
child soldiers, mass rape. But after more than a decade, the ICC has
secured just one conviction – the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga.
The court's critics claim this shows the court to be hopelessly
inefficient, its high ideals of holding the powerful responsible for
crimes against the weak hobbled by the realities of international
politics.

Many African leaders like to paint the court as discriminatory and a
tool of neocolonial oppression. (It has only ever prosecuted
Africans.) There have been regular grumblings that the court selects
its cases according to a political agendas; that it is profligate in
its spending but simultaneously underresourced; that its lawyers and
prosecutors are substandard; that its evidence-gathering is flawed and
its witnesses too easily tampered with.

Rarely, though, has the court been attacked on all of these fronts at
once, and never since its inception has it faced an adversary as
politically connected and diplomatically influential as Kenya's new
president, Uhuru Kenyatta, and his deputy, William Ruto.

Their cases stem from familiar fault lines in Kenya. Powerful Kenyan
political families have often exploited their position to reallocate
or promise land to people of their own ethnicity, and in the
post-colonial democratic system this has translated into loyalty at
the ballot box.

Being caught in the crossfire of these battles between the rich and
powerful is nothing new for Kenyans. There is a popular folk saying in
the country: "Wapiganapo tembo nyasi huumia" – "When elephants fight,
it is the grass that gets trampled."

In Kenya's 2007 elections, Kenyatta backed his kinsman, Mwai Kibaki;
Ruto threw his weight behind the challenger Raila Odinga. Exit polls
showed Odinga in the lead; the electoral commission declared Kibaki
the winner. Rumors spread that the election had been rigged. Kenyans
took to the streets.

What followed were pitched battles between rival factions and
incidents of startling brutality. In Kiambaa, on New Year's Day 2008,
28 Kikuyu died when a church was set on fire. In retaliation, Kalenjin
were pulled from buses and attacked with machetes. When the smoke had
cleared, 1,200 were dead and 250,000 had fled their homes.

Ruto was accused of exhorting his followers to "root out weeds" and
Kenyatta of directing violent attacks against his opponents. No one
ever faced trial. Eventually, a list of names was passed to the ICC,
which opened proceedings against six men, including Ruto and Kenyatta
who agreed to cooperate with The Hague.

This year, Kenyatta and Ruto joined forces to run for election, though
the U.K. and U.S. both warned there could be serious consequences
should they be elected. Kenyatta and Ruto stormed to victory – and the
whole tenor of the court case against them changed.

The ICC has been dismissed as a Mickey Mouse court and there have been
concerted official efforts to either delay the case indefinitely or
force its collapse.

Steven Kay, who defended the Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic at
his war crimes trial, is advising Kenyatta. He claims that a lack of
detailed forensic examination of crime scenes and expert witnesses and
a "total reliance on oral sources" has fatally compromised the
prosecution's case.

Kenyatta's defense team have made a series of abuse of process
arguments, such as false testimony from a key witness, and say the
case should be halted.

At the same time, the Kenyans have aggressively pursued a diplomatic
offensive in Africa and at the U.N. and employed western public
relations firms to present their case.

One result has been the African Union declaring that sitting heads of
government should not face trial while in office. They argued it to be
a practical consideration to allow leaders to get on with running
their countries; their opponents say it encourages the guilty to
remain in power at any cost.

After pressure from the African Union, the U.N. Security Council ended
the requirement that heads of state attend their trials in person.

It seems that world leaders are reluctant to upset African leaders who
sit on substantial untapped mineral resources. Located on a
geopolitical fault lines and one of the world's last untapped oil
reserves, Kenya is too strategically important to alienate.

Africa as a whole is experiencing sustained economic growth, which
Western companies want to access but find themselves struggling to
compete with the huge influx of Chinese money.

"We now have a situation where it now suits the West for [Kenyatta and
Ruto] to be acquitted," says Courtenay Griffiths, a criminal lawyer
who defended the Liberian leader Charles Taylor at his war crimes
trial. "They're trying to put pressure on the court to affect the
outcome. That's not justice as I understand it."

Within months of his election, Kenyatta was in London attending a
conference on Somalia and holding bilateral talks with David Cameron,
the British prime minister.

Other powerful countries have also stepped back.

Some never stepped up. Not wanting to be bound by a legal obligation
to arrest influential political leaders or to hand over their own
leaders for trial, the U.S., China, and Russia backed out of the Rome
Statute treaty that set up the ICC in 1998. All three sit on the
U.N.'s Security Council, which can refer cases to the ICC and has a
power of veto over the court.

Mukesh Kapila witnessed the aftermath of atrocities in the Balkans,
Sierra Leone, and Sudan. As U.N. resident coordinator in Sudan, he was
instrumental in referring the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir to the
ICC. He is adamant the attacks on the court must be resisted.

"If the purpose of justice is to prevent future atrocities and future
crimes against humanity, then...the International Criminal Court is
one of the blazing successes of the current generation. We are
completely on a different footing from where we were a decade ago," he
says.

For Kenyans, this is all starting to read like the same old story:
that those with power and money can get away without facing justice.

"The victims want the cases to move forward. There has been no justice
on the ground. The root of grievance in Kenya has not been dealt with.
Not land, not inequality on ethnic grounds," said Muthoni Wanyeki,
former executive director of the Kenyan Human Rights Commission. "You
can't put issues of grievance permanently under the carpet. It will
explode."

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La Aung San Suu Kyi Rwandaise a besoin de protection et soutien

 
La Aung San Suu Kyi Rwandaise a besoin de protection et soutien

Par Frank Samvura
Gicumbi District
Northern Province
Rwanda

 
Le 27 Décembre 2013

 
Dans sa dépêche du 23 Décembre 2013, l'Agence France Presse nous parle d'une formation militaire qu'aurait reçue le futur libérateur du peuple Sud-Africain au début des années 60. Nelson Mandela aurait été entraîné en Ethiopie au judo,sabotage et maniement des armes par les agents des services de renseignementsIsraéliens, le Mossad. La publication de cette information seulement quelque jours après que les dirigeants de l'Etat Hébreux aient snobés la cérémonie de commémoration de la vie du leader anti-apartheid à Johannesburg ne peut en aucun cas être fortuite. Ça serait peut-être une façon de nous dire "même si nous avions une relation un peu embarrassante avec le régime ségrégationniste, nous avions tout de même contribué à la formation politico-militaire du Père-fondateur de la National Arc-en-Ciel ».  L'avenir nous réserve toujours des surprises. Ça ne m'étonnerait pas si un jour le MI-6 ou la CIA venaient de publier une information similaire.

 
Au cours de ces vingt dernières années, j'ai toujours été intrigué par la façon selon laquelle certains des pires dirigeants qu'ait connus ce monde essaient de s'identifier à l'image et la stature de Nelson Mandela. Les autres n'ont même pas honte de faire une récupération politique de son succès, après l'avoir ignoré pendant presque trois décennies lorsqu'il croupissait derrière les barreaux du régime de l'apartheid. Le comportement des Américains envers Mandela et l'ANC en est un bon exemple de l'histoire. Si ça n'avait pas été grâce à la ténacité de l'ex-Sénateur et actuel Secrétaire d'Etat, John Kerry et à la mobilisation des amis Hollywoodiens, Nelson Mandela et ses compagnons de lutte seraient toujours sur la liste noire américaine « des terroristes à abattre ».  Aujourd'hui, les médias et hommes politiques veulent nous faire croire que les Etats-Unis sont et ont toujours été les meilleurs amis de Nelson Mandela ! Or, vers la fin des années 80, l'Archevêque Desmond Tutu qualifiait les relations privilégiées qui existaient entre les Etats-Unis et le régime d'apartheid de « sacrilège », immoral, anti-chrétien et honteux. J'ai toujours été étonné par les erreurs diplomatiques de l'Oncle Sam durant la guerre froide, malgré ses avances technologiques inégalées. Et pourtant, ce n'était ni l'information ni les réseaux qui leur manquaient.

 
Néanmoins, les Américains et autres défenseurs de la démocratie ont réussis à peser de tout leur poids pour protéger la Chef de l'opposition Birmane, Aung San Suu Kyi. Aujourd'hui, une autre Aung San Suu Kyi a besoin de protection et soutien. Mme Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza se trouve derrière les barreaux, juste pour avoir avancé des idéaux démocratiques. Comme Dawn Aung San Suu Kyi, Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est prisonnière d'une dictature militariste, déterminée à faire taire toute opposition démocratique.

 
Il est temps pour tout individu, toute institution et toute nation de faire son choix au lieu de tenter une quelconque récupération politique à la fin d'un long périlleux processus comme les Israéliens qui veulent nous faire croire qu'ils ont formé Nelson Mandela alors qu'ils soutenaient massivement le régime qu'il combattait. La Tanzanie, leader incontestable des pays de la ligne de front, peut se vanter aujourd'hui d'avoir participé activement à la libération de l'Afrique Australe toute entière. Qui se vantera demain d'avoir participé à la libération de Mme Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza et par conséquent à la libération du Rwanda ? A l'instar de la Birmanie d'Aung San Suu Kyi, la communauté internationale, avec les Etats-Unis en tête, a l'opportunité de faire les choses correctement au Rwanda, au lieu de tenter une récupération politique à la Mandela. La libération du Rwanda des mains du Führer des Grand Lacs Africains demande courage et soutien, tant moral que matériel. Le monde entier doit prendre ses distances avec lui et son régime. Nous lançons un appel solennel à tout homme et toute femme de bonne volonté, et surtout aux nations amies du Rwanda de nous venir en aide. C'est le moment de se vanter publiquement de soutenir une prisonnière politique, pas après la Victoire.
Longue vie à Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza !
Vive la République du Rwanda !

-“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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