Patrick Karegeya's Last Letter

PATRICK KAREGEYA'S LAST LETTER

Mr. Douglas E. Coe

The Fellowship

1271 Washington Avenue

San Leandro,CA 94577

USA

28th December, 2013

Dear Mr. Coe,

Re: Ending the Crisis in Rwanda and the Great Lakes Region through Dialogue

On behalf of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), I am writing to inform you that the current situation in Rwanda is one of those that ought to be of the greatest and urgent concern to those in the international community who have genuine concern about international peace and security in general and in the Great Lakes region of Central Africa in particular.

The majority of the people of Rwanda, we believe, share a common perception that policies of the international community have not reflected principled support for the development of democratic and inclusive institutions, respect for the fundamental rights of citizens and accountability of public officials for gross violations of human rights. I write this letter to share our views on the political situation in Rwanda and on the role that you can play in advancing freedom and promoting long term stability and peace in Rwanda and the Great Lakes region.

The status of governance in Rwanda

The people of Rwanda have for a very long time been exposed to repressive government, leading to recurrent violent conflict. This violence reached its peak with the genocide of 1994. I have no doubt that you are well aware of the deprivation and immense suffering that recurrent conflict has occasioned to millions of Rwandans. I also acknowledge that the Government of Rwanda has, with the assistance of the international community, made significant progress in restoring public order, re-establishing effective state institutions, and rebuilding the country's economy during the period since 1994. Unfortunately, the reconstruction efforts that Rwanda has undertaken since the genocide are not rooted in democratic values, respect for human rights and broad inclusion.

As stated in the Rwanda Briefing document that four former colleagues of Rwandan President Kagame ( including myself) published in August 2010,"there is more to Rwanda and Paul Kagame than new buildings, clean streets, and efficient government than President Kagame's famous friends in high places in Europe and America care to admit. Rwanda is essentially a hard-line, one-party, secretive police state with a façade of democracy …"

The ruling party, the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), has closed space for political participation. The RPF does not tolerate political opposition or open competition for power. President Kagame does not allow opposition parties to be registered, let alone operate freely. Media outlets that are critical of the government are either shut down by the government or forced to close operations as a result of attacks against their journalists.

The Government of Rwanda has now closed down all the independent media outlets the country once had. Civil society organizations independent of the government operate under draconian restrictions that make the exercise of their role as watchdogs over government impossible. The people of Rwanda have no liberty to discuss, nor decide, how they should be governed. The Rwanda Government is controlled by a small group of Tutsi military officers and civilians from behind the scenes. The political system marginalizes the majority of the population from political participation.

The Government of Rwanda relies on severe repression to stay in power. The RPF government relies on a wide range of laws, administrative practices and terror to restrict citizens' enjoyment of political freedoms. Institutions of the state continue to subject real and imagined critics of the government to a wide range of human rights violations including arbitrary arrests and detentions and involuntary disappearances and extrajudicial killings. The security services, all exclusively controlled by Tutsi military officers, that are responsible for keeping President Kagame in power enjoy absolute impunity for grave human rights abuses. Many members of opposition parties, civil society groups, independent media outlets and individuals suspected of being opponents of the regime have been hunted down, arrested, tortured, imprisoned or killed by agents of the state. Victims of state sponsored terror who have lost their lives over the recent past include Andre Kagwa Rwisereka (Vice-President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda), Jean Leonard Rugambagye (Deputy Editor of Umuvugizi Newspaper) and John Rutayisire. The Rwanda Government has deployed a very large number of intelligence operatives in countries across Africa, Europe and North America to hunt down and kill opponents of the regime.

Many members and leaders of opposition parties including ; Bernard Ntaganda, President of the Social Imberakuli Party; Victoire Ingabire President of the FDU-Inkingi Party recently sentenced to 15 years in jail; and, Deo Mushayindi of PPD Imanzi Party, remain in detention and so do some innocent relatives of opposition leaders. The Rwanda Government continues its relentless persecution of government critics. The most recent victims of this persecution include independents journalists and opposition leaders, all of whom have been sentenced to long prison terms, some after trials in absentia that did not meet international standards of fair trial. The climate of repression that prevails in Rwanda has forced many government officials including two former Prime Ministers, two former Speakers of Parliament, and a host of former Ministers, former Judges, senior government officials, Military officers, journalists and Human rights activists to join hundreds of thousands of their compatriots in exile.

As a result of the repression that security services helping President Kagame are responsible for, Rwanda is a country engulfed by fear. Not since the days of Idi Amin have the security services of a state terrorized a nation to the extent to which Rwanda's security services have visited fear and terror upon the country's citizens. The climate of fear and terror that prevails in Rwanda does not permit Rwandan society to freely discuss the very grave problems facing the country and to find solutions to those problems.

President Paul Kagame's leadership

The grave political crisis that Rwanda is facing is largely a result of President Kagame's relentless pursuit of absolute power. Rwanda's first post-genocide government included a range of other political groups that had campaigned for democratic reform during the early 1990s. Rwanda's experience with broad-based multi-party government came to an end after only a year. Then Vice President Kagame drove the opposition leaders who were part of that government from office on account of their criticism of human rights abuses by members of the Rwandese Patriotic Army. From then on, President Kagame embarked on a mission to emasculate all party and state institutions and to craft a state controlled in every aspect by a single person who wields absolute and unaccountable power. Rwanda is not only a one party state; it is also a state governed by one man. President Paul Kagame exerts absolute control over both the ruling party (RPF) and the government. All institutions of the state are controlled by the President. The country's political system lacks checks and balances. The judiciary and the legislature do not have any independence. State institutions, especially law enforcement agencies, the judiciary and security services, serve to protect President Paul Kagame's political monopoly instead of protecting the fundamental human rights of citizens and executing their constitutional mandates. President Kagame's absolute control of the entire machinery of the state affords him protection from being held accountable for his many serious crimes, some of which have led to horrendous consequences for innocent civilians both inside and outside Rwanda.

President Kagame is one of Africa's most ruthless dictators. He is a corrupt leader who lives a lavish lifestyle that is out step with the abject poverty of the majority of the people of Rwanda. President Kagame has used his time in office to amass personal wealth of unprecedented proportions in the Eastern and Southern African region. The business conglomerate (Crystal Ventures formerly Tri-Star Investments, and the military-led Horizon Group) owned by his political party, which for all practical purposes is his personal property, has extensive corrupt business relations with the state. RPF business entities have priority when government is issuing licenses for the most lucrative sectors of the country's resources. Business entities owned by the RPF and close family and friends of the President receive the bulk of the government's procurement contracts. Domestic and foreign investors seeking business opportunities in Rwanda are often compelled to go into partnership with the RPF as a condition for being allowed to do business in Rwanda.

The RPF finances its various businesses with preferential financial backing from state-owned banks, insurances companies, and the national social security fund. Because they benefit only a small group of people, the business activities of the RPF promote social inequality and undermine national stability. The involvement of the RPF compromises the integrity of very many of its members, including President Kagame, because of the conflict of interest that they are involved in day to day in making official decisions affecting the party's business interests. The RPF's business arm already controls a big part of the country's economy, about 80% by some credible estimates.

One example that demonstrates the depravity of Kagame's corruption is the case of luxury jets that President Kagame uses for his personal and official trips. The planes, Global Expresses made by Canadian Aircraft manufacturer Bombadier, cost more than US 60 million dollars each.

President Kagame also bears personal responsibility for some extremely serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, that have been committed against innocent civilians in both Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. President Kagame will not shrink from committing any crime in order to stay in power. He does not have respect for the sanctity of human life and that is why he is always prepared to resort to murder of political opponents ( and Heads of State ) to deal with peaceful challenges to his rule. President Kagame bears responsibility for Rwanda's failed transition to democracy and the political impasse that his attempts to cling to unaccountable power has given rise to.

President Kagame's manipulation and abuse of institutions of state to harass political opponents and stifle dissenting opinions continues to be condemned by virtually every reputable international human rights organisation, and many major media outlets and prominent scholars and journalists, including some who have previously been supportive of President Kagame.

Potential consequences of the policies of the Rwanda Government

Rwanda, as demonstrated, still faces many difficult challenges in its experience of nation building in the aftermath of violent conflict. It is generally acknowledged that Rwandan society remains deeply divided along ethnic lines. The country's transition to democracy has been unsuccessful. The human rights situation in the country remains a matter of grave concern. Citizens lack access to fundamental human rights. State security agencies commit grave human rights abuses with impunity. The country is peaceful, but many observers are of the view that recurrence of very violent conflict may be inevitable, at least in the medium to long term.

President Kagame claims to have made progress in developing Rwanda, and argues that human rights, including rights relating to political participation, are not a priority for the development process. Nevertheless, concerns over the country's progress in engendering reconciliation and creating a democratic system of government raise questions about the sustainability of Rwanda's social and economic advances and the potential for renewed conflict. The situation that prevails raises serious questions about the country's future. Are the country's development achievements sustainable? Can Rwanda continue to be peaceful while the government continues to be repressive and the majority of the people consider the government illegitimate? How do we balance individual freedoms and the requirement for a stable community? How should citizens respond when rulers mistake the state to be their personal estate and deprive their subjects of their inalienable rights?

We firmly believe that the violent conflicts that Rwanda has experienced over the past half century are rooted in issues revolving around governance. The RPF government, we assert, has failed to effectively address the root causes of conflict in Rwandan society. As a result, Rwanda is in a situation of serious crisis. The only path to sustainable peace and development in Rwanda is a system of government that has popular legitimacy, includes all communities of Rwanda and is committed to the respect of fundamental human rights, especially the integrity of the person and the right to political participation.

Economic development in post conflict societies that is not rooted in democratic values, respect for human rights, and broad inclusion is not sustainable. We are convinced that violent conflict is virtually certain to return to Rwanda if the present government does not heed calls for dialogue and agree to a process of peaceful political reform leading to democracy. The results of the substantial development assistance that the international community has extended to Rwanda since the end of the genocide could be very swiftly undone in the event of such conflict, with grave implications for the whole Great Lakes region and international peace and security.

The role of the international community in supporting democratic change and building sustainable peace in Rwanda:

President Kagame has exploited the failure of the West to stop or prevent the 1994 genocide to silence critics of his opposition to democratic change and the human rights practices of his security services. The tolerance that the international community has exhibited towards Paul Kagame's excesses continues to fuel impunity and is an obstacle to lasting peace and sustainable development in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Western indifference to President Kagame's human rights record and stand on popular political participation is incomprehensible to the majority of Rwandans, and it alienates them. Stability and development do not substitute for liberty and freedom. In view of the grave consequences that a return to violent conflict in Rwanda would entail, the RNC and its partners hold the view that peace and security in Rwanda should be a matter of international concern. The people of Rwanda count on Rwanda's neighbors, and development partners, to support the promotion of respect for human rights and advancement of democracy. We believe, that Rwanda's development partners, especially those who have close relations with the current government (the United States and the United Kingdom) have a unique role, if not responsibility, to advance the cause of peaceful change in Rwanda by engaging President Kagame on the need for progress in guaranteeing fundamental human rights and for national dialogue to resolve the country's crisis.

The international community ought to support the seeking of democratic change, inclusive government

a) Empowering the people of Rwanda to realize the full range of their human rights:

The people of Rwanda continue to be deprived of the opportunity to enjoy some of the most fundamental human rights, including rights relating to integrity of the person, freedom of expression and political participation. The Kagame regime relies on repression to maintain this status quo. The people of Rwanda are much entitled to be relieved of this tyranny as citizens of Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya whom the international community is supporting to make the realization of their human rights a reality.

b) Promoting international peace and security:

In the absence of democratic reforms, the policies of the present government of Rwanda are likely to lead to a return to violence in the country. A system of government that deprives citizens of fundamental human rights, especially the right to political participation and the integrity of the person, cannot last indefinitely. Change in Rwanda is inevitable; the issue is whether change will be negotiated and peaceful, or violent and imposed, again, by the victors of a bloody armed conflict. Political change is necessary to avert violent conflict that repressive government in Rwanda has made almost inevitable. A return to violent conflict in Rwanda would further destabilize the Great Lakes region of Central Africa.

c) Humanitarian considerations:

Rwanda is on the precipice of a very serious political and humanitarian crisis. A return to violent conflict in Rwanda is likely to take an ethnic dimension. As was demonstrated after 1994, violent conflict in Rwanda has capacity to lead to massive loss of human life, as well as immense suffering for millions, both inside Rwanda and in other countries in the region. The international community needs to act today in order to prevent the suffering and horrendous loss of life that is likely to result from the outbreak of new violence in Rwanda.

What you can do to help all Rwandans

There are even more important reasons why we, as Christians, are invited to radical inclusion, in truth, that leads to freedom, peace and reconciliation. I have read with a lot of interest the vision and mission of The Fellowship that is inspired from the scriptures:

"Once you were not a people, but now are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. "- I Peter 2:10

For a society like ours that has witnessed past and ongoing trauma, with all communities becoming victims and perpetrators, the question of forgiveness and mercy cannot be overemphasized. As brothers and sisters who are otherwise united by one nation and one language, we have sinned against each other. The alienation from God and from each other has consequently inflicted untold suffering on our society as a whole, and to our neighbors in the region. We can face the future with hope if we talk to each other truthfully and learn to forgive each other.

In the words of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ:

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother. But if he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, that every charge may be established by the evidence of two or three witnesses. If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church." - Matthew 18:15-17

Equally inspired by these words of wisdom from the One we serve, our organization is planning to organize an international conference on Rwanda this coming year, around March, 2014. The idea is to invite stakeholders in Rwandan society (Government, Church, Civil Society and Opposition organizations, including those that are armed, etc..) to talk candidly about the state of affairs in our beloved country and how we can build the future together. Understandably, this is a very difficult proposition, given the fact that such a culture of dialogue, give and take is evidently lacking in our society. Yet, we can only imagine the dangerous alternatives to the dialogue and peace.

We have informed the United States Government, and the Governments of France, Belgium, Tanzania and South Africa about this idea. While they all note how difficult this will be, they appreciate how timely, important and urgent it is.

Could you help us in this important endeavor to get Rwandans talk to each other?

As we look forward to the coming year, we are reminded of the prophetic words of the Prophet Isaiah, echoed many centuries later by our Lord and King, Jesus Christ:

"The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the afflicted; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to captives, and freedom to prisoners; to proclaim the favorable year of the LORD." -Luke :18-19

The hands of the millions of Rwandans who enter 2014 afflicted, brokenhearted, captive in fear, and prisoners beckon all of us to action. It is an invitation we cannot ignore.

I wish you and your family a Happy New Year.

In Christ,

Colonel Patrick Karegeya

Co-founder and Member of the Executive

Encl: Founding Declaration of the Rwanda National Congress




 

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AFRIKA Y’EPFO : MU KWIBUKA UKO COL PATRICK KAREGEYA YAHOTOWE ISHAVU RIRANIGA

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AFRIKA Y'EPFO : MU KWIBUKA UKO COL PATRICK KAREGEYA YAHOTOWE ISHAVU RIRANIGA.

Icyumba Col Patrick Karegeya yahoterewemo.

Ku cyumweru taliki 05  Mutarama mu muhango wo kwibuka  no gushyira indabyo kuri hotel MICHELANGELO Col Karegeya yahotorewemo, abitabiriye uwo muhango ishavu ryari ryose. Umuhango watangiye kuva mu ma saa tanu abawitabiriye berekwa icyumba  nomero 905 mu igorofa ya cyenda y'iyi hotel aho Col Patrick Karegeya yahotorewe  n'abicanyi bari bagambanye na APPOLO KIRIRISI.

  

Uyu muhango  wari witabiriwe na Lt Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa n'umuryango we, abayobozi ba RNC muri Afrika y'Epfo, abayoboke  ba RNC batandukanye, ndetse n'abanyarwanda benshi baba muri  icyo gihugu babajwe n'ubuhotozi bwa Kagame. Umukozi wa hotel  wabonye bwa mbere umurambo wa nyakwigendera  yasobanuriye  abari aho uko yatunguwe no gusanga  Col Karegeya bamunize bamworoshe neza ku gitanda  mu gihe uwari acumbitse muri icyo cyumba Appollo yari yamaze kuyabangira ingata hamwe n'inkoramaraso bafatanije.

Umuhango wo gushyira indabyo  mu cyumba Col Karegeya yanigiwemo urangiye, imihango yakomereje mu rugo rwa nyakwigendera.

Abafashe amajambo bose n'ubwo buri wese kuvuga  bitari byoroshye kubera ikiniga, bibanze  ku kuntu  nyakwigendera yari umuntu w'umunyakuri,  wanga amazimwe, wiyoroshya cyane, kwicisha bugufi kwe no gukunda gusabana n'abantu akaba ari nabyo byatumye yanga abamurinda. Abari bahagarariye umuryango wa nyakwigendera bavuze ibyaranze ubuzima bwe banashimira by'umwihariko uburyo abanyarwanda  baba muri  Afrika y'Epfo bakomeje kubaba hafi muri ibi bihe bitoroshye.

Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa hamwe n'abavandimwe n'inshuti kwanyakwigendera

 

GEN KAYUMBA ATI "UBU SE KAGAME KO AMWISHE AZAMURYA"?

Mu ijambo rya Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, yibukije ukuntu yamenyanye na  Col Karegeya bakiri abana bato biga  amashuri abanza, kuko bari baturanye i Bugande. Nyuma baje kongera guhurira muri  kaminuza ya Makerere. Yakomeje asobanura ukuntu  Karegeya yafunzwe imyaka irenga itatu azira kwinjiza abasirikare mu nyeshyamba za  NRA zari ziyobowe na Yoweli Museveni. Nyuma yo gufungurwa yaje asanga Kayumba muri NRA.

Bamaze gufata u Rwanda Karegeya yaranzwe no kuba umwe mu bantu bacye babwizaga Kagame ukuri, akamagana akarengane n'igitugu cyarimo cyubakwa na Kagame. Karegeya ibyo  ngo byamuviriyemo gufungwa imyaka irenga ibiri  azira gusa ko Kagame yamusabye gukora dosiye ihimbira ibyaha Kayumba undi akabyanga. Ngo Karegeya iyaza kuba umunyamazimwe nk'abandi basirikare bakuru bari mugihu yarikuba yarabaye Generali  kera kuko abenshi yabarushaga ubushobozi n'ubunararibonye mu gisirikare.

Gen Kayumba yakomeje agira ati"twababwiraga kenshi ko uriya mugabo Kagame ari umwicanyi mukabihakana none ndumva bisobanutse ntayindi gihamya mukeneye" yakomeje asaba abayoboke ba RNC n'abanyarwanda muri rusange kudacika intege, ahubwo bagahaguruka bagacyenyera bagakomeza bagakuraho buriya butegetsi vuba na bwangu butarabamarira kw'icumu.

  

BAMWE BASANGA KAGAME ARI NKA GAHINI WAGWIRIYE U RWANDA

Umusaza Pasteri Andereya Munonoka , mu nyigisho ze yagereranije ishyari n'ubugome bwa Kagame nk'ibya Gahini wishe umuvandimwe we Abel.  Yakomeje avuga ko igihe kigeze ngo abanyarwanda b'ingeri zose bahumuke bahaguruke bikize uwo Gahini mu maguru mashya.

IMYIGARAGAMBYO KURI AMBASADE Y'U RWANDA

Hagati aho, kuri uyu wa kane abanyarwanda bose barambiwe ubwicanyi bwa Kagame barahamagarirwa kuzitabira imyigaragambyo izabera kuri ambasade y'urwanda i Pretoria .

UKO TUBIBONA

Ikimaze kugaragara n'uburyo iyicwa rya Col Karegeya ryakanguye abanyarwanda benshi baba muri iki gihugu, abo twagerageje kuganira bavuga ko  ibyabaye ari akumiro, ko Kagame ubu bamumenye  batazongera kumwibeshyaho ukundi , kandi ko kwigira ba ntibindeba ari ukubishyira ku ruhande bagafatanya n'abandi urugamba rwo gukuraho iriya ngoma -mpotozi. Uyu muhango wari witabiriwe n'amagana y'abanyarwanda baba muri iki gihugu, wari wanahuruje itangazamakuru mpuzamhanga nka TV5, BBC, RFI, n'ibindi bitangazamakuru ariko cyane cyane  itangazamakuru ry'iki gihugu rikaba ryarahagurukiye gutangaza ubu bwicanyi. Ikinyamakuru cya mbere gikomeye muri iki gihugu 'THE STAR' ubwicanyi bwakorewe Col Karegeya  akaba ariyo yari inkuru nyamukuru kumunsi wambere, taliki 6 Mutarama 2014.

Ikindi cyagaragaye n'uko abashinzwe umutekano wa Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa wabonaga ko baryamiye amajanja. Uyu muhango kandi wari witabiriwe na bamwe mubanya Afrika y'epfo b'inshuti za Karegeya. Hagati aho abakozi ba ambasade y'u Rwanda muri iki gihugu ubu ntanumwe ucaracara ahaboneka kubera umwuka mubi uri muri iki gihugu n'uburakari bw'abanyarwanda baba muri iki guhugu. 

Ikindi n'uburyo ubu bwicanyi bwahaye isura mbi  leta ya  Paul Kagame ku buryo abanyamahanga n'abaturage b'iki gihugu ubu bose usanga bavuga bati "uwo mwicanyi Kagame kuki Afrika y'epfo n'amahanga batamuhagurukira akareka gukomeza kumena amaraso no kuvogera ubusugire bw'Afrika y'Epfo. Tuboneyo umwanya wo kwihanganisha umuryango wa nyakwigendera, inshuti ze, n'abayoboke ba Rnc aho bari hose.

Umuhango wo gushyingura  Col karegeya ukaba uteganijwe kuzabera muri iki gihugu cya Africa y'Epfo nyuma y'uko umuryango we uba muri amerika,  kanada na Uganda uhageze.

Hagati aho amakuru atugezeho aturuka ahantu hizewe  aremeza ko bamwe mu bacyekwa guhotora Col Patrick Karegeya bafatiwe I Maputo  muri Mozambique aribo capt Gakwerere Francis, umucuruzi vitali Hitimana, na Damiyani Bongwa.  Inkuru irambuye kubireban n'ifatwa ry'aba bicanyi tukaba tukiyikurikirana neza.

NKUNZURWANDA  Mihigo Alexis

Pretoria Africa y''Epfo

http://www.umuvugizi.com/?p=9582

Uburyo Perezida Kagame afite uruhare rukomeye mu iyicwa rya Col Karegeya Patrick

Uburyo umwicanyi Kagame yahekuye umuryango wa Col Karegeya Patrick

Umuvugizi umaze iminsi ukora iperereza ku iyicwa rya Col Karegeya Patrick, iri yicwa rikaba ryarapanzwe, rikanashyirwa mu bikorwa n'umukuru w'urwego rushinzwe iperereza ry'igihugu-NSS, General Karenzi Emmanuel Karake.

By'umwihariko, amabwiriza yo kwica Col Karegeya yatanzwe na perezida Kagame, kuko yari amaze igihe kinini amuhiga, ashakisha uburyo yamuhitana, kubera ubuhanga n'ubushobozi yari amuziho mu bikorwa by'ubutasi, ku buryo Karegeya yari n'umwe mu bantu bakunzwe n'ingeri zose, barimo abayobozi b'ibihugu n'abayoboye inzego z'iperereza ku rwego mpuzamahanga ; ibi bikaba ahanini ari byo byatumye Perezida Kagame yarakomeje kumwikanga, ndetse na baringa ye, kugeza n'aho ahiga abana be b'impinja, bangana n'abe bwite.

Imigambi yo guhitana Col Patrick Karegeya yanateguwe kuva cyera na Gen Jack Nziza hamwe na Col Dan Munyuza, ubwo aba bombi bashatse kumukura ku isi bakoresheje inzira zitandukanye zirimo kumurasa mu gatuza, no kumwicisha amarozi, kugeza ejobundi taliki ya 31 ukuboza 2013 umugambi wabo mubisha bawushyize mu bikorwa, bafatanyije na maneko mukuru, Lt Gen Karenzi Karake.

Mu gupanga ibikorwa byo guhotora Col Patrick Karegeya, Perezida Kagame akaba yarashyizeho agatsiko k'abicanyi b'abasirikare n'abamaneko bakuru, aka gatsiko kakaba kari kayobowe na maneko Komiseri wungirije wa Polisi, Dan Munyuza, afatanyije n'abandi bicanyi baturutse muri ambasade y'u Rwanda muri Uganda.

Izo za  maneko za Kagame, na none zibifashijwemo na Lt Col Karibata Anacleti, ushinzwe abinjira n'abasohoka mu gihugu, zashoboye kubona impapuro z'inzira (pasiporo) zitari izo mu gihugu cy'u Rwanda kugirango abazazikoresha muri ubwo bwicanyi batazapfa bamenyekanye.

 

Kubera akayabo katanzwe n'inzego nkuru z'iperereza z'igihugu, uwitwa Gafaranga Appolo Ismail Kiririsi, afatanyije na komiseri wa polisi wungirije ushinzwe ibikorwa bya gipolisi (Deputy  Inspector General of police), DCP Dan Munyuza,  bahawe amabwiriza yo gukorana n'akandi gatsiko gakorera muri ambasade y'u Rwanda muri Uganda, aka gatsiko kakaba ari na ko muri iyi minsi gafite inshingano zo gukora ubwicanyi butandukanye mu karere kose ka Afurika.

Ikindi gico cy'abicanyi cyayobowe na Ambasaderi w'u Rwanda muri Uganda, Major General Frank Mugambage, dore ko ari nyirarume w'umwicanyi ruharwa wagiye uyoboye agatsiko ka bariya bicanyi kavuye muri Uganda, kayobowe na Apollo Ismail Gafaranga Kiririsi, wari usanzwe ahura kenshi na Col Karegeya Patrick, abifashijwemo n'inshuti ye magara ntunsige wa Col Karegeya, wari waramufashije akamugurira imodoka yo kumujyanira abashyitsi baje kumusura ku buryo yabaga azi inzinduko ze za buri munsi, ari na we wabaye icyuho nyacyo cy'agaco kamuhitanye.

Muri aba bahitanye Col Patrick Karegeya, bari barimo n'umupolisi ukora muri ambasade y'u Rwanda muri Uganda, bahimbiye umwanya wo kuba Police Attache, akaba ari umwicanyi ruharwa wanayoboye Interpol, Chief Superitendant Ismael Mubarak, afatanyije n'undi mwicanyi ruharwa, Lt Col Burabyo James, uyu akaba ari na we wanize Col Patrick Karegeya, kugeza ashizemo umwuka.

Ubwanditsi bukuru bw'Umuvugizi burifuriza Nyakwigendera Col Patrick Karegeya iruhuko ridashira.

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RDC : Les FDLR prêtes à quitter la RDC pour le Rwanda

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RDC : Les FDLR prêtes à quitter la RDC pour le Rwanda

Après avoir réglé le compte du Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) par les Forces armées de la République Démocratique du Congo (FARDC) au mois d'Octobre 2013, plusieurs combattants sont en train de se rendre venant de différend groupes armés, ces derniers temps le mouvement rebelle d'origine rwandaise FDLR (Forces Démocratiques pour la Libération du Rwanda) est prêt à quitter la RDC, pour un dialogue inter-rwandais avec le régime du Président Paul Kagame.

Cette affirmation est du Secrétaire Exécutif de ce mouvement, le Colonel Wilson Irategeka.

Ce dernier dit, pour rendre possible cette initiative possible de quitter la RDC, il demande de la part du Gouvernement Congolais et de la Communauté Internationale « d'accepter d'abord qu'il y est un dialogue inter-rwandais et que le Gouvernement Congolais plaide pour l'assistance, la protection et à la reconnaissance des réfugiés Rwandais abandonnés à leur triste sort surtout ceux se trouvant à l'Est de la RDC »

Quant aux opérations militaires en cours, celle de la sensibilisation des ADF-NALUet bientôt c'est l'offensive par les forces loyalistes. Les FDLR disent ne pas être concerné car elles ont déjà déposées les armes  et attendent les négociations.Pour eux la brigade d'intervention de la MONUSCO issue de la résolution du conseil de sécurité 2098 est là pour les protéger et  non pour les combattre.

A la question de savoir si leur place ne se trouve pas devant les juridictions rwandaises, le Secrétaire de ce mouvement dit «que c'est la politique de Kigali d'étiqueter les FDLR Génocidaires enfin de les écarter » pour eux si le Gouvernement Rwandais accepte leurs revendications de dialoguer, la première chose qu'ils demanderaient, c'est que la démocratie soit accepter au Rwanda, mais aussi la justice soit rendue « non pas la justice des vainqueurs sur les vaincues, affirme-il » aussi la liberté d'expression et à fin, que le régime accepte le partage de la gestion de la chose publique avec tous les Rwandais.

 

 

Source : congo24.net

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Ex-Rwandan Spy Chief Killing Alights Allegations - NYTimes.com

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Ex-Rwandan Spy Chief Killing Alights Allegations

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

January 5, 2014

LAGOS, Nigeria — The killing of Rwanda's former spy chief in South Africa has critics revisiting serious allegations against Western-backed President Paul Kagame that go back to the Central African nation's 1994 genocide.

Former Col. Patrick Karegeya, a wartime ally from Kagame's days as a rebel leader, was found dead last week in a bed in Johannesburg's prestigious Michelangelo Towers hotel. Police said he was possibly strangled.

Karegeya's friends and fellow dissidents accused Kagame of ordering the assassination, pointing to a pattern of alleged killings of his opponents at home and abroad. Karegeya fled to South Africa in 2007.

Officials in Kigali, the Rwandan capital, have not responded to requests for comment. But the Rwandan high commissioner in South Africa, Vincent Karega, told local broadcaster eNCA that talk of assassination is an "emotional reaction and opportunistic way of playing politics."

South African police say they are investigating the case but no arrests have been made.

The killing comes five months after Karegeya claimed to have incriminating evidence that would prove Kagame, who is lauded by Western leaders for ending Rwanda's genocide, actually provided the catalyst for the mass killings.

In a July interview with Radio France International, Karegeya charged that Kagame ordered the downing of a jet that killed the Hutu presidents of Rwanda and neighboring Burundi, the event that triggered the genocide in which some 800,000 Tutsis and some moderate Hutus were killed over three months.

Karegeya said on RFI that he was willing to hand his evidence to a court in France that is investigating because the plane's pilots were French.

A long-suppressed U.N. report published in 2010 noted that Kagame in 1994 refused to have peace talks as thousands of mainly Tutsi Rwandans were being killed, buying the time that allowed his forces to reach Kigali and take control.

It accused Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front of then going on to massacre Hutus in Rwanda, including at Kibeho refugee camp in April 1995 before the eyes of Australian and Zambian U.N. peacekeepers, an attack allegedly led by Karegeya.

The same report, which carried a lengthy denial from Kagame's government, accused the Rwandan-led forces of "a possible genocide" of Rwandan and Congolese Hutus in eastern Congo in the mid-1990s.

Rwandan experts have said the U.N. failure to publish an earlier 1994 report on RPF massacres gave Kagame a blank check to continue the killings.

Defense lawyers at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the court for perpetrators of the genocide based in Tanzania, long have contended that the court has provided "victor's justice" by ignoring massacres by Kagame's forces.

Kagame is feted by current and former U.S. and British leaders who point to how he has transformed an impoverished and war-ravaged nation into an efficient technology hub with some of the highest rates for literacy and health in Africa. That has come at the cost of a dictatorship that ruthlessly suppresses opposition and routinely jails, disappears and kills opponents, according to critics.

Analysts say the West panders to Kagame because of its great guilt over not ending the Rwandan genocide. And Kagame, who blames French troops that allowed perpetrators of the genocide to escape into Congo, played to British and American interests in diluting French influence in Central Africa when he changed Rwanda's official language from French to English. That put Tutsi exiles who grew up in English-speaking Tanzania and Uganda at a great advantage over French-speaking Hutus. Rwanda's other official language is Kinyarwanda.

Initial opposition to Kagame came, predictably, from members of the Hutu tribe, but in recent years it has come increasingly from former Tutsi allies like Karegeya and others who fear the brutal suppression of Rwanda's majority people, the Hutu, might lead to another genocide.

About 85 percent of Rwandans are Hutu who were held in serfdom by Tutsi royalty in the 18th century. After World War I Rwanda fell to Belgian colonizers who entrenched divisions by ruling through the Tutsi monarch and educating only Tutsi males. Hutus who revolted had limbs amputated by Tutsis, on the order of the Belgians.

When independence and free elections came in 1961, they were won by Hutus. The first Tutsi attempt to regain power came a year later, with an invasion from Burundi. The Hutu government responded with brutal reprisals against Tutsi civilians.

Under Kagame, Hutu politicians have been killed or jailed in Rwanda. Journalists and judges also have been killed and imprisoned with the most fatal year being 2010, when Kagame was re-elected in polls that human rights activists called greatly flawed.

Kagame, who says many of his enemies deny the genocide, recently has taken to demanding that the children of Hutus apologize for the genocide that occurred before they were born.

"Kagame is actually blowing the country in the path of another genocide," said former Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa. He was Kagame's army chief of staff until 2010 and has survived two assassination attempts that are the subject of a South African court case and that left him with a bullet lodged in the base of his spine.