The United States notes with concern the decision by Rwanda's Parliament and President Paul Kagame to establish a Constitutional Reform Commission that may amend or remove executive term limits and permit President Kagame to seek a third term in 2017.
We respect the ability of any parliament to pass legislation that reflects the will of the people it is elected to represent; however, we continue to firmly support the principle of democratic transition of power in all countries through free, fair, and credible elections, held in accordance with constitutions, including provisions regarding term limits. We do not support those in positions of power changing constitutions solely for their political self-interest.
As President Obama has stated, "When a leader tries to change the rules in the middle of the game just to stay in office, it risks instability and strife – as we've seen in Burundi. And this is often just a first step down a perilous path."
President Kagame has repeatedly stated his commitment to respecting constitutional term limits and to mentoring a generation of leaders able to sustain Rwanda's remarkable economic growth and stability. The United States underscores the importance of these commitments.
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Protesters in Guatemala City on Thursday. (Photo: Esteban Biba/European Pressphoto Agency)
School of the Americas-trained Guatemalan President Otto Pérez Molina, who oversaw acts of torture and genocide during the country's decades-long civil war, stepped down just before midnight Wednesday disgraced by unprecedented corruption charges—and by a popular movement against impunity for the ruling elite.
Pérez Molina tendered his resignation just one day after Guatemala's Congress votedto strip him of immunity from prosecution for corruption, which includes fraud, receipt of bribe money, and a customs fraud scheme. His downfall follows that of numerous other government officials, including the country's former vice president, who is currently incarcerated as she awaits trial.
But many argue that it is the popular protest movement led by ordinary people—which some have called the "Guatemalan Spring"—that brought justice to the highest echelons of government. Adding to regular protests mounted since April, Indigenous people, workers, and students across the country staged a general strike in late August demanding the ouster of the president.
"They got him for corruption charges, but he is a war criminal."
—María Luisa Rosal, School of the Americas Watch
"The resignation is a victory for the people of Guatemala who have been on the streets, not just since April but for decades, struggling to build a counter memory to the impunity that exists in Guatemala," María Luisa Rosal, a field organizer for the rights group School of the Americas Watch, told Common Dreams.
Rosal is from Guatemala and her father was disappeared during the country's internal armed conflict in 1983. She declared: "This is the first time something like this has happened in Guatemala, a country that has been historically repressed through dictatorships and coups with U.S. backing, especially through the 36 years of internal armed conflict that ended in 1996—but also after, through free trade agreements."
La Prensa Librereports that as news of Pérez Molina's resignation broke Thursday morning, crowds gathered in the streets in front of the judicial palace to celebrate the "triumph of the people."
Pérez Molina, for his part, told Congress in a letter that he is resigning to "face justice and resolve my personal situation."
Many from within Guatemala's protest movement say that the push for Pérez Molina's resignation is just the beginning. "It's important that our citizens continue this movement with courage and with deep maturity," Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Indigenous rights campaigner who was persecuted during the civil war, recently declared.
"They got him for corruption charges, but he is a war criminal," said Rosal, who also turned her focus towards the United States.
"The United States has a historic and huge responsibility for human rights atrocities in Guatemala, not only because they trained and funded them, but there were people on the ground—CIA operatives in torture centers in Guatemala in the 1980s," said Rosal. "We need to begin holding U.S. leaders accountable for overt and covert roles in human rights violations."
The White House and U.S. embassy in Guatemala have so far remained silent on the former president's resignation.
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"THIS country is a hellhole. We are going down fast," says Donald Trump. "We can't do anything right. We're a laughing-stock all over the world. The American dream is dead." It is a dismal prospect, but fear not: a solution is at hand. "I went to the Wharton School of Business. I'm, like, a really smart person," says Mr Trump. "It's very possible", he once boasted, "that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it."
When Mr Trump first announced that he was running for president, he was dismissed as a joke. A wheeler-dealer with lots of experience of reality TV but none whatsoever of elective office wants to be commander-in-chief? Surely, sophisticates scoffed, no one could want this erratic tycoon's fingers anywhere near the nuclear button. But for weeks now he has led the polls for the Republican nomination, despite saying things that would have torpedoed any normal campaign. Americans are waking up to the possibility that a man whose hobby is naming things after himself might—conceivably—be the nominee of the party of Lincoln and Reagan. It is worth spelling out why that would be a terrible thing. Fortunately, the Donald's own words provide a useful guide.
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Mr Trump is not in thrall to the hobgoblins of consistency. On abortion, he has said both "I'm very pro-choice" and "I'm pro-life". On guns, he has said "Look, there's nothing I like better than nobody has them" and "[I] fully support and back up the Second Amendment" (which guarantees the right to bear arms). He used to say he wanted a single-payer health service. Now he is much vaguer, promising only to replace Obamacare with "something terrific". In 2000 he sought the presidential nomination of the Reform Party. A decade ago he said "I probably identify more as Democrat." Now he is a Republican.
Blowing his own Trumpet
In an interview this week (see article) The Economist asked Mr Trump why Republican voters seem willing to give him a pass on so many issues they normally hold dear. He took this to be a question about religion, since he is not much of a churchgoer and struggles to cite a single verse from Scripture. "I'm strongly into the Bible, I'm strongly into God and religion," he declared. But within a few seconds he appeared to grow bored with the topic and switched to talking about how he has "a net worth of much more than $10 billion" and "some of the greatest assets in the world", including the Trump Tower, the Trump Turnberry golf resort, and so on.
On one domestic issue, to be fair, he has staked out a clear, bold position. Alas, it is an odious one. He wants to build a wall on the Mexican border and somehow make Mexico pay for it. He would deport all 11m immigrants currently thought to be in America illegally. Apart from the misery this would cause, it would also cost $285 billion, by one estimate—roughly $900 in new taxes for every man, woman and child left in Mr Trump's America. This is necessary, he argues, because Mexican illegal immigrants are "bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists." Not only would he round them all up; he would also round up and expel their children who were born on American soil and are therefore American citizens. That this would be illegal does not bother him.
His approach to foreign affairs is equally crude. He would crush Islamic State and send American troops to "take the oil". He would "Make America great again", both militarily and economically, by being a better negotiator than all the "dummies" who represent the country today. Leave aside, for a moment, the vanity of a man who thinks that geopolitics is no harder than selling property. Ignore his constant reminders that he wrote "The Art of the Deal", which he falsely claims is "the number-one-selling business book of all time". Instead, pay attention to the paranoia of his worldview. "[E]very single country that does business with us" is ripping America off, he says. "The money [China] took out of the United States is the greatest theft in the history of our country." He is referring to the fact that Americans sometimes buy Chinese products. He blames currency manipulation by Beijing, and would slap tariffs on many imported goods. He would also, in some unspecified way, rethink how America protects allies such as South Korea and Japan, because "if we step back they will protect themselves very well. Remember when Japan used to beat China routinely in wars?"
Towering populism
Mr Trump's secret sauce has two spices. First, he has a genius for self-promotion, unmoored from reality ("I play to people's fantasies. I call it truthful hyperbole," he once said). Second, he says things that no politician would, so people think he is not a politician. Sticklers for politeness might object when he calls someone a "fat pig" or suggests that a challenging female interviewer has "blood coming out of her wherever". His supporters, however, think his boorishness is a sign of authenticity—of a leader who can channel the rage of those who feel betrayed by the elite or left behind by social change. It turns out that there are tens of millions of such people in America.
The country has flirted with populists in the past, but none has won a major-party presidential nomination since William Jennings Bryan in 1908. The closest any true firebrand has come was in 1996, when Pat Buchanan, whose slogan was "The peasants are coming with pitchforks", won the Republican primary in New Hampshire against a dull establishment candidate, Bob Dole. (Mr Dole later won the nomination.)
Mr Trump is far more dangerous than Pitchfork Pat, for two reasons. First, as a billionaire, he will not run out of money to finance his campaign. Second, he faces so many Republican opponents that he could grab the nomination with only a modest plurality of the vote. The smart money still says that Republicans will eventually unite behind a mainstream candidate, as they always have in the past. But the world cannot take this for granted. Demagogues in other countries sometimes win elections, and there is no compelling reason why America should always be immune. Republicans should listen carefully to Mr Trump, and vote for someone else.
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"Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate. Only Love Can Do That", Dr. Martin Luther King.
___________________________________________________ -Ce dont jai le plus peur, cest 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -To post a message: amakurunamateka@yahoogroups.com; .To join: amakurunamateka-subscribe@yahoogroups.com; -To unsubscribe from this group,send an email to: amakurunamateka-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com _____________________________________________________ -More news: http://amakurunamateka.blogspot.com
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-“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.”
