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Friday, 21 September 2012
Lettre au Vice-président de la Banque mondiale pour la Région Afrique concernant le Rwanda
Activists Urge US to Push Rwanda Help Bring Peace to DRC
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RDC/Rwanda:l’Allemagne veut imposer la solution politique
« Le gouvernement congolais vient de saisir les Usa et le Royaume Uni pour que les sociétés minières de leurs pays respectifs n'achètent plus les minerais au Rwanda qui sont le plus souvent pillés dans l'Est de la Rdc
L'attention de l'opinion nationale et internationale est focalisée sur le mini-sommet de New-York prévu le 27 septembre prochain sous la présidence du Secrétaire général des Nations Unies Ban Ki-Moon. Lequel mini-sommet débattra des problèmes du Kivu et des solutions à envisager pour une pacification définitive de la région des Grands Lacs.
Il ne reste plus que six jours jusqu'à l'échéance. Ces assises de New York risquent d'être une grosse déception pour le peuple congolais qui n'aspire qu'à la paix, à l'ordre et à la sécurité à l'intérieur de ses frontières. Ceci parce qu'au fil des jours, les propos de certains représentants des pays de la communauté internationale ne sont guère en faveur des thèses de Kinshasa. A travers ces propos, l'on sent que ces pays, bien que certains d'entre eux aient décidé de geler une partie de leur coopération avec le Rwanda, soutiennent mordicus que la solution politique pour l'Est de la Rdc soit prioritaire.
L'ambassadeur allemand à l'ONU dit non aux sanctions contre le Rwanda. Dans notre livraison d'hier, nous avions écrit que le Secrétaire général adjoint en charge des opérations de maintien de la paix Hervé Ladsous a présenté le rapport de son périple dans la région des Grands Lacs qui l'avait conduit successivement à Kinshasa, Goma, Kigali et Kampala. Outre le fait qu'il a condamné l'administration parallèle instaurée par le M 23, il a clairement déclaré qu' « il faut clairement rebâtir la confiance, en particulier entre la RDC et le Rwanda ».
Pour le diplomate allemand, « le dialogue, le renforcement de la confiance et de la coopération entre Kigali et Kinshasa sont nécessaires d'urgence pour traiter des racines du conflit ». Comme on le voit, certains pays ne sont pas favorables aux sanctions contre le Rwanda bien que les accusations à son endroit soient étayées par des faits réels et palpables.
Nous savons de tout le temps que le Rwanda n'est pas un pays minier. La nature ne lui a pas donné cette chance comme la Rdc ou les autres. Cependant, le Rwanda se retrouve curieusement parmi les grands pays exportateurs des minerais sans en produire. Moralité : tous ces minerais vendus pour son compte proviennent de la Rdc ; et le Rwanda les a par le biais des groupes armés qu'il finance du reste. La plupart des acheteurs sont des sociétés américaines et britanniques.
Ces sociétés minières en question obéiront-elles aux injonctions de leurs gouvernements respectifs ? Le gouvernement a agi, aux Usa et au Royaume-Uni de réagir. La balle est dans leur camp. Le Congrès américain a réagi à la pétition des chefs des confessions religieuses sur la guerre dans l'Est de la RDC.
En effet, le Congrès américain a convoqué et entendu tour à tour le Sous-secrétaire d'Etat américain aux Affaires africaines, le Vice-président de International Crisis Group et le Bishop Pierre Tambo, président des Eglises Méthodistes du Congo et co-initiateur de la pétition contre le Rwanda. A l'issue de cette audition, le Congrès américain va prendre une résolution que l'administration Obama devra appliquer… »
http://www.africatime.com/rdc/nouvelle.asp?no_nouvelle=693844&no_categorie=
Monday, 17 September 2012
Kinshasa:DRC Wants Lumbala Extradited from France
"Democratic Republic of Congo Information Minister Lambert Mende said the government of President Joseph Kabila will pay any price for the security of the country.
Mende said the DRC government wants to end impunity because Congolese have suffered so much from M23 atrocities.
"We want him to come to Congo, so that he will explain to the justice of his country about some information that we have had that he went to Rwanda to plot against the security of his country with those who are held responsible for the war that is killing and destroying the eastern part of Congo," he said.
"We were ready to ask South Africa or Burundi for his extradition, but due to the fact that the parliament was on leave and that they came back only yesterday, the justice of this country was waiting to be authorized by the parliament to proceed. So, in France, or in Burundi, or in South Africa, we need Mr. Lumbala back to justify his action because we would like to end impunity. Congolese have been killed a lot," Mende said.
He said his government has plenty of evidence against Lumbala, but Mende said the courts will decided his guilt after he has had his day before the justice system.
Mende said the DRC government plans to attend the New York meeting with the hope that the international community will impress upon Rwanda that there is a better way to live with its neighbors.
"They should prepare themselves in helping to have Rwanda back to a better way of living with a neighbor, stopping this policy of looting, this policy of bringing confusion and chaos in a neighboring country, and stopping this policy of military aggression to solve the economic problems of his [President Paul Kagame) country," Mende said."
http://www.voanews.com/content/drc-wants-lumbala-extradited/1509233.html
Sunday, 16 September 2012
Rwanda: Despotism is a Long Crime
http://www.salem-news.com/articles/september152012/despotism-crime-jf.php Sep-15-2012 22:55 Despotism is a Long CrimeJennifer Fierberg MSW Salem-News.com"He is the most unaccountable ruler Rwanda has ever known, and yet goes around claiming that people who oppose his criminal regime are unaccountable. Time is catching up with him." - Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
(WASHINGTON DC) - In another interview of President Paul Kagame Time Magazine sat with him and asked him questions ranging from all the current issues the President is dealing with today. Paul Kagame offered very frank answers but one question in-particular stood out like a glaring beacon of admission to a crime. The world knows His Excellency has many crimes to answer for, despite his denial, but it seems he has given himself up in a very public way. The following is the question and answer that President Kagame gave in response to opposition groups who oppose his rule: Time: Let me pick up on that, in a different context. You're firm. Opposition groups, exiles make allegations that there are assassination teams wandering around trying to kill them, that when it comes to opposition, whether it's expressed in journalism or politics, that Rwanda is a narrow space. Kagame: We have a very narrow space for people who feel they are not accountable. If there anybody who thinks they are above the law, who thinks they are not accountable to the systems and the laws of this country, and if somebody thinks they can use any means for their political ends, they discover very quickly that this is not going to work. Some of things that happened here will never happen again. Now, unfortunately, while I'm putting it this way, people build on it and say: 'He is saying something else. It's political space.' But let me say this. If you look at all these people who are outside – all of them who are active, whether it is in South Africa, a couple in the US, and the others – there is not a single one who does not have a serious case, a charge here in Rwanda. In some cases, not even political, outright criminal. If we are going to have people out there claiming persecution of some kind but actually it is somebody running away from a case of, say, corruption, how does that become lack of political space? Nobody here who tried to have a different political view was punished for that. This one in South Africa, [dissident General] Kayumba [Nyamwasa, former Rwandan army chief of staff, now living in self-imposed exile in South Africa, where two attempts have been made on his life] is saying in the press in South Africa, actually I was trying to make a coupe happen. If you have somebody out there saying 'I wanted to carry out a coup,' and later on he is shot, maybe he deserves it. Because a coup means he wanted to kill people here. You are really indicting yourself by saying 'I wanted to kill people in order to make a change happen.' It's like you are really declaring war on a country. Read the full interview here: http://world.time.com/2012/09/ 14/qa-rwandan-president-paul- kagame/#ixzz26YuCgehC Now, to the average reader not familiar with General Kayumba Nyamwasa's court case this would seem a plausible answer. Yet, to those who have followed this case it appears that General Paul Kagame, by his own admission in the above interview, was behind the hit squad sent to South Africa to execute Nyamwasa yet failed in two attempts. The most obvious reason that this is a glaring admission is that Kagame justifies the attempted assassination, which occurred in 2010, to a newspaper interview General Nyamwasa gave in July 2012. Why would he justify an attempt to kill an opponent two years before the opponent was supposedly attempting a coup? Or six months before the political party, The Rwanda National Congress, which Nyamwasa is a founding member of, was even announced? This justification does not add up. In regards to the accusation by President Kagame in this interview that General Kayumba Nyamwasa was planning a coup against him, as reported erroneously in City Press of South Africa in which Rwanda has financial stake in, General Nyamwasa had the following to say to this reporter, "I was misquoted, I am not plotting. RNC operates openly not plotting. The journalist tried to be sensational and used improper word. I belong to the RNC and the strategy is to effect change by peaceful means. Secondly, we are not plotting. Our objectives, strategies, meetings and publications are out in the public domain. People who are plotting do not publish what they intend to do including talking to the journalists. The fact that I talked about peaceful means including open demonstrations is a clear indication that we are firm on employing legal and democratic means. Furthermore, I said war is not one of our options and this is what distinguishes peaceful and violent change." The City Press article (Found here: http://www.citypress.co.za/ Politics/News/Newsmaker- Kagame-wants-me-dead-20120728# .UBaTqvvSCfg.facebook When this reporter contacted General Kayumba Nyamwasa regading the Time Magazine interview pertaining to the question about him and he told this reporter the following, "It is common knowledge that whoever calls for reform in Rwanda is branded corrupt if he/ she is Tutsi and genocidaire if he/ she is Hutu. It cannot be different for RNC leaders. DRC has many neighbours, why always Rwanda and Kagame? He should accept his role as a destabilizer and divisive individual. As regards attempted assassination on my life and others, I am glad he put it on record. The interview is punctuated by arrogance and insensitivity - an aggressor claiming victim. Kagame's lies and deceit cannot persist for ever. The interview gives an insight to all Rwandans and the international community of what a liability Rwanda has for a leader. As long as Kagame remains President, Rwanda will continue to pay a very heavy price." When asked if this interview to Time Magazine could be admissible in the ongoing court case against those who attempted to assassinate him in 2010 General Nyamwasa stated, "He has never denied that he is a serial killer. He demonstrated insensitivity and arrogance of the highest order. He is scheduled to meet President Kabila on 27th at the UN and yet addresses him in that manner. If DRC has had problems for decades, is that a justification for him to mess it further?" Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa also had the following to say to this reporter in regard to this admission by President Kagame: "President Paul Kagame is the most corrupt ruler in all of Rwanda's history. He has so much blood on his hands, (more) than any other ruler in Rwanda's history. He is the most unaccountable ruler Rwanda has ever known, and yet goes around claiming that people who oppose his criminal regime are unaccountable. Time is catching up with him. He has deceived most people all the time. Now the tide against his crimes is rising, and soon he will have nowhere to hide except in a hole or a pipe, as he awaits his day in a court of law." In light of the millions of dollars in foreign aid cuts to Rwanda over the last few months he may have considered his words more carefully. I am surprised and in admiration that he has finally admitted to this crime and believe this statement should be admitted into the ongoing court case in South Africa. _________________________________ Jennifer Fierberg is a social worker in the US working on peace and justice issues in Africa with an emphasis on the crisis in Rwanda and throughout the central region of Africa. Her articles have been published on many humanitarian sites that are also focused on changing the world through social, political and personal action. Jennifer has extensive background working with victims of trauma and domestic violence, justice matters as well as individual and family therapy. Passionate and focused on bringing the many humanitarian issues that plague the African Continent to the awareness of the developed world in order to incite change. She is a correspondent, Assistant Editor, and Volunteer Coordinator for NGO News Africa through the volunteer project of the UN. Jennifer was also the media co-coordinator and senior funding executive for The Africa Global Village. You can write to Jennifer at jfierberg@ymail.com. Jennifer comes to www.Salem-News.com with a great deal of experience and passion for working to stop human right violation in Africa. ______________________________________________________ |
-“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.”
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