THE UNITED STATES CALLS FOR WAR AGAINST RWANDANS
A Response to Ambassador Russ Feingold
Addressing citizens of Rwanda December 12, 2014, President Kagame promised an expensive war to proponents of freedom, human rights, justice and democracy in Rwanda, and peace in the Great Lakes region. Amplifying Kagame's belligerent remarks, Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo dismissed FDRL as "bandits" and such proponents of freedom and peace as "children selling candy".
On December 30, 2014, U.S. Special Envoy to the Great Lakes region, Ambassador Russ Feingold, told reporters that military action should be taken against the Rwandan armed group FDRL.
Ambassador Feingold added that the 'United States stands ready'to support such military action after the expiry of the January 2, 2015, deadline. Behind the scene there are frantic activities for Kagame and Museveni to by-pass SADC, and deploy the East African Stand-by Force, get Angola replace Tanzania and South Africa, thus qualifying for support by U.S. Special Forces.
Africa, you are forewarned of this new militaristic venture in our midst.
The United States is wrong again in supporting and spearheading a policy choice with grave and potentially catastrophic consequences for Rwandans and people of the Great Lakes region. As in 1994, when President Clinton and his advisers chose to ignore the plight of Rwandans, ushering in genocide and suffering in the Great Lakes region, now his fellow Democrat, President Obama is calling for war in DRC. Those who advised President Clinton against helping Rwandans in 1994 now hold even senior positions in the Obama White House, and have now decided that the best option for Rwanda now is to shoot Rwandans.
First, FDRL has called for dialogue with the Kagame regime while accepting to lay down its arms. The Kagame regime has categorically stated it will not negotiate with FDRL because it comprises of genocidaires ( despite the fact that over 20 years Rwanda has integrated thousands of such elements in its Rwanda Defence Forces). The United States echoes the Rwandan position whole sale, by not differentiating those who should account for their crimes, from the rank and file who have legitimate demands regarding marginalization of the Hutu in the post-1994 political dispensation. Accountability for crimes among those in FDRL who are responsible is an important principle that should be upheld. Equally, Kagame and his clique, responsible for horrendous abuses in Rwanda, DRC and across the globe should be equally held accountable.
Second, unlike the M23, FDRL is NOT fighting UN peacekeepers, Rwandan or Congolese armies. Why should the United States and Rwanda think that a war of annihilation against this group of Rwandans will be a viable and just effort this time?
Third, another war effort in DRC may once again turn regional and expensive, as Kagame wants and has promised, with humanitarian consequences to Congolese people and Rwandan refugees in DRC. The human toll on Rwandans and Congolese in DRC, largely due to Kagame's wars of impunity, enabled by US protective policies have left over six millions dead in the last two decades. There are over a quarter of a million Rwandan refugees languishing in the jungles of DRC. Is the United States ready to take responsibility of another and far worse humanitarian catastrophe?
Fourth, the main architects of the M23 defeat, notably South Africa, Tanzania and DRC are not keen on purely military solutions that do not take into consideration Rwanda's domestic repression that requires a peaceful dialogue, not only with FDRL but also with Rwanda's political opposition. Kagame has closed political space. He kills and imprisons his opponents. Unable to persuade SADC as to the rationale for war, the United States has resorted to big-sticks, a check book and gunboats to woo Angola and isolate Tanzania and. South Africa.
Fifth, the United States push for war risks inflaming an already fragile and polarized situation in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since Kagame has ruled out any dialogue with armed or political opposition to his brutal and repressive regime, and it's principal and powerful ally ( United States) calls for war, the voices for peaceful change will increasingly become marginalized as civil war becomes the only realistic option for regime change. As Kagame promised, this will be expensive for all Rwandans, including Kagame and his henchmen, for the Great Lakes region, and for international community. Just as President Clinton has lived with a guilt-laden conscience due to his failure to act in 1994, a U.S.-engineered Rwandan/DRC tragedy may indeed come to be included in President Obama's fateful legacy in Africa.
Rwandans, Congolese, SADC, Africans and peace-loving members of the international community should resist calls for war by the United States and President Kagame. Instead, let Rwandans, supported by SADC, the African Unity, and the international community, push for a dialogue for peace between the Kagame regime and the FDRL as well as with the political opposition.
The United States should move away from a dangerous militaristic Kagame-centric policy that supports a brutal regime with horrendous human rights abuses in Rwanda, DRC and across the world. Such a policy may look good in the short term, but in the medium to long term it is counter-productive to U.S. national interests. Most importantly, it runs against the foundational principles of freedom, equality and pursuit of happiness upon which the United States is built, and which even wretched Rwandans as human beings demand and deserve.
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Washington, D.C.
December 30, 2014
E-mail: ngombwa@gmail.com
*Dr.Theogene Rudasingwa was formerly Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States, Chief of Staff to President Paul Kagame, and Secretary General of the Rwanda's ruling party, the Rwandese Patriotic Front ( RPF). He is the Coordinator of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), and author of Healing A Nation, and Urgent Call.
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BASOMYI BANDITSI,Samuel na Kota baravuga ukuri.1.Ibyo Minisitiri Mushikiwabo avuga ngo amashyaka ya opposition ni nk'abana bacuruza bombo, uwamubaza AMAFARANGA atagira ingano basesagura muri za amabassades z'u Rwanda zitakigira umubare, ziyongera buri munsi, no muri za Rwanda Day no mu ba lobbystes hanze no mu kugura abanyamakuru mpuzamahanga mu rwego rwo kurwanya iyo opposition yasubiza iki urtse kwivuguruza no kubeshya rubanda!Nia opposition turi hobyo nkuko abibeshya abanyarwnda, ingufu we na Kagame na FPR bashyira muri ambassades no muri reseignements exterieurs bazishyiriramo iki? Uriya munyamakuru bavuganye azamubaze iki kibazo.2. Leta ya FPR imaze imyaka 2 iri mu kanama ka UN/ONU gashinzwe amahoro kw'isi.Iriya ni opportunite y'abanyarwanda Leta ya Kagame yapfushije ubusa kuko itaboneyeho ngo ikemure ikibazo cy'u Rwanda, itange inda ya bukuru ifata iyambere mu gutanga propositions concretes y'uburyo ibibazo by'u Rwanda byakemurwa yegera abagize iriya opposition ngo bavugane. Ahubwo Perezida Kagame, buri gihe uko yagiye afata ijambo, yahisemo gutuka abanyarwanda nka we bari muri iriya opposition abaziza gusa ko badafite ibitekerezo bya politi bimeze nk'ibye na FPR ye, atangaza ku mugaragaro ko we abereyeho GUHANGANA n'iyo opposition. Ko ari cyo yarahiriye kuri stade AMAHORO i Remera! Nyumvira nawe uwo muperezida, uwo ngo ni umukuru w'igihugu, watwawe n'urwango n'umujinya byubakiye kw'ivangurabwoko, udashobora guha inda ya bukuru u Rwanda n'abanyarwanda bose yitwa ngo arayobora!!! Muzakurikire mwotonze speeches za Perezida Kagame muzasanga afite ikibazo yihariye cya definition y'umunyarwanda/abanyarwanda. Mu mutwe we definition y'umunyarwanda ntabwo ari inclusive du tout, hari abanyarwnda bamwe batarimwo. Definition ya Kagame y'umunyarwnda, kubera ko twe mw'ishyaka PRM/MRP-ABASANGIZI tutayemera, ibyo biri mu byatumye twiyemeza kujya kwifatanya n'abandi banyarwanda mu mutwe w'ingabo COALITION FORCES FOR CHANGE IN RWANDA, CFCR-IMVEJURU kubera ko intego yawo ya mbere ihatse izindi zose ari INCLUSIVENESS, KUBAKA U RWANDA RW'ABANYARWANDA BOSE. (Gasana Anastase, umuyobozi wa PRM/MRP-ABASANGIZI, ishyaka rigamije gusangiza abanyarwanda bose ibyiza by'igihugu cyabo ntawe uhejejwe inyuma y'urugi).2014-12-25 15:11 GMT-05:00 Samuel Desire sam4des@yahoo.com [fondationbanyarwanda] <fondationbanyarwanda@yahoogroupes.fr>:Bavandimwe,Iyi mvugo ya Mushikiwabo twese turayimenyereye kandi nkuko mutabiyobewe byose aba ari guteka igihugu mu bwoba no gukomeza kurangaza abanyarwanda dore ko amahanga ibyo mu Rwanda batajya btabyitayeho.Iyo umuntu ategekesha igitugu ahorana ubwoba kuko aba azi ka hari benshi batamwishimiye cyahgwa ko hari abshak kumutwara ubutegetsi.1) Ubwo FDLR nta ngufu ifite kandi bikaba byaragaragaye mu myaka 20 yose, njye numva Kagame atagambye kuyitaho igihe. Nareke UN irangize ikibazo dore ko icyo kibazo kiri hanze y'imipaka y'u Rwanda. Ikindi kandi niba u Rwanda rwinubira ko UN ntacyo ikora, rwari rukwiye gushyikiriza ikibazo Conseil de securite kuko niyo irebwa n'icyo kibazo. Ahubwo umuntu yavuga ko umwanya u Rwanda rwari rufite ntacyo wagezeho muri Conseil de Securite kubera ko mandat yarwo yarangiye icyo kibazo kidakemutse. Ubu bakaba basigaranye gusa gusakuza. Kuki igihugu cyasakuza ku kibazo kireba Conseil de securite kandi gifite uburyo bwo kugiza kuri Iyo Consiel de Securite?2) Nkuko Kagame yabyivugiye nawe, iyo ingunguru irimo ubusa ivuza induru kurusha iyuzeyemo ibintu. U Rwanda ni agahugu gato kagendera ku mfashanyo, ntawe uyobewe ko amahanga yumva ibihugu hakurikijwe uko bingana n'uburemera mu bukungu bifite. Nkaba rero mbona izo nduru zose za Kagame ari impfabusa.3) Ibi uyu mudamu usa n'umupfakazi dore ko ntabwo ndabona ari kumwe n'awa munyamerika witwa ngo ni umugabo yongeye mu byo yavugiye i Dakar. Aa umuntu yakwibaza niba uwo mugabo we ari ikimuga ku buryo adashobora gusohoka mu nzu.Ibyo Mushikiwabo yavugie i Dakara, Kagame nawe yarabishimangiye askea bagenzi ko bakomye mu mashyi nyamara we atari hari. Ese hari ubusazi burenzi guseka umuntu wakomye mu mashyi ari mu nama utajemo ?Nyamara ari Francois Hollande, ari Kagame cynagwa undi mukuru w'igihu cya, nta kibabuza guhura nk'abakuru b'ibihugu nubwo haba hari ibiba byavuzwe kuri Afrika yose. Francois Hollande n'ubwo yatanze igitekerezo cye kuri Afrika ntabwo yigeze avuga ko n'uwakomeza gutsimbarara ku butegetsi batazahura ngo bavugane ibibazo birebana n'ibihugu byabo. Hari kandi abategetsi koko batsimbaraye ku butegetsi mu Afrika, kubyirengangiza ngo ntibuvugwe byba bimeze nko mu Rwanda aho tutemerewe kuvuga amoko mu Rwanda kubera ko abatutsi ari bake cyane.4) Kagame amaze iminsi avuga ko mu Rwanda hari ubwisanzure mu kuvuga, gukora amanama no kwandika. Ariko iyo urebye neza,usanga ibinyamakuru byose ari Kagame ubigenga, bipiganwa kandi bibyiganira kwandika inkuru nke ziba mu Rwanda, izo nkuru akenshi zikaba zibanda kuri Kagame.Umwanzuro:Ibyobyose maze kuvuga haruguru birerekana ko Kagame ategeka igihu mu bwoba , bikaka ngombwa ko yamagana n'ibibazo biri hanze y'igighu ke kand bitamureba, akamagana abatanze ibitekerezo kuri Afrika, akara adasinziriye kubera FDLR kandi iba mu kindi gihugu aho UN iiyicunga ijoro n'amanywa, agashyiraho ibinyamakuru byinshi bibyigana bivuga bimwe ku Rwanda cyane cyane biramya no gusingiza Kagame. Ibyo byose bikubiye mu gukomeza gutegekesha igitugu, mu kugota no kuniga abanyarwanda nk'uko inzoka zibigenza.
From: "Nzinink nzinink@yahoo.com [uRwanda_rwacu]" <uRwanda_rwacu@yahoogroups.com>
To: Nzinink <nzinink@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, 25 December 2014, 14:16
Subject: [uRwanda_rwacu] FDLR ni amabandi naho amashyaka ya opozisiyo ni nk'abana bacuruza bombo: Louise Mushikiwabo
FDLR ni amabandi naho amashyaka ya opozisiyo ni nk'abana bacuruza bombo: Louise Mushikiwabo
25/12/2014 17:35 AmakuruMu kiganiro n'itangazamakuru kuri uyu wa 24 Ukuboza 2014, Ministre w'ububanyi n'amahanga w'u Rwanda, Louise Mushikiwabo yongeye kugaragaza ko inzira ikiri ndende ngo amenye icyo diplomasi bivuze n'uburyo umudiplomate nyawe agomba kwitwara n'imvugo agomba gukoresha.Muri icyo kiganiro Ministre Mushikiwabo avuga ku mfashanyo ingana na Miliyoni 40 y'amayero yahagaritswe n'igihugu cy'u Bubiligi, yagize ati: "Mu gihe u Bubiligi bufashe icyemezo cyo guhagarika izi miliyoni zose 160 z'amayero, cyaba ari icyemezo cyabo, bakora uko babishaka. Ku Rwanda nta na kimwe kitubahirijwe mu byo impande zombi zemeranyijwe…U Rwanda rukora politiki yarwo uko rubyifuza kuko nta NGO ishobora gutegeka Leta y'u Rwanda uko ikora politiki yayo."Mu gihe Leta y'u Rwanda yari yatangaje ku rubuga nkoranyambaga rwa Twitter ko igihugu cy'u Bubiligi gifite uburenganzi bwo gukoresha amafaranga yacyo uko gishaka. Iyo nteruro yahise ikurwaho. Bigaragare ko ubwishongozi bugira aho bugarukira ko n'ubwo Perezida Kagame avuga ko nta mafaranga y'abaterankunga ashaka ariko bigaragare ko ayo mafaranga akenewe.Ministre Mushikiwabo ageza kuri FDLR yaseye atanzitse ubwo yagereranyaga uwo mutwe n'amabandi agira ati:"Icyo twifuza nk'igihugu ni uguteza imbere abaturage b'igihugu cyacu, ntabwo twifuza ko Abanyarwanda batuye ku mupaka wa Repubulika Iharanira Demokarasi ya Congo n'u Rwanda za Rubavu, Rusizi bananirwa gusinzira kubera ko FDLR iri hakurya. Turifuza ko icyo kibazo kirangira burundu, kugira ngo tubashe gukora ibintu bifatika. Ntabwo wagira umutwe w'amabandi umara imyaka 20 wicaye aho ngaho, abashaka kuwukoresha muri politiki bagashaka gukomeza kuwukoresha. Icyo ni cyo cyifuzo cyacu ariko, mugomba kwibuka ko uko FDLR yagiye muri Congo, abayishyigikiyeyo bibaza ko bagomba kuyikoresha kubera ko batishimiye Politiki cyangwa ubuyobozi bw'u Rwanda, izo ni zo politiki ziri aho ariko icyo nabizeza ntashidikanyaho ni uko FDLR nta kibazo kijyanye no kuvuga ko yatera u Rwanda ikabuza Abanyarwanda amahoro. Cyo ntigishoboka, icyo ni cyo cyangombwa."Mu gihe FDLR itumira ibihugu n'imiryango mpuzamahanga kwitabira umuhango wo gushyira intwaro hasi kuri uyu wa 28 Ukuboza 2014, Ministre Louise Mushikiwabo we ntashishikajwe n'iyo ntambwe ahubwo we ashishikajwe no kubona FDLR iraswaho gusa ndetse akiha gutekerereza FDLR na MONUSCO aho yemeza ko nta kizakorwa mbere ya tariki 2 Mutarama 2015.Ministre Mushikiwabo kandi yagereanyije Opposition ngo na ba bana bacuruza bombo ku muhanda babona polisi bakiruka (mayibobo) aho yemeje ko Opposition nta gahunda nzima igira, nta ngingo zifatika ishingiraho inenga ubutegetsi ahubwo ari ukwirirwa ivuga Perezida Kagame gusa.Yanavuze ko Leta y'u Rwanda atari yo ituma opposition itagira intege ahubwo ngo n'ubundi iyo opposition nta ntege ifite. Ibi ariko benshi akaba atari ko babibona kuko uko bigaragarira amaso y'abantu opposition n'ubwo umuntu atavuga ko ishyize hamwe ariko ibikorwa byayo biragaraga ndetse bimaze no gushegesha Leta ya FPR mu buryo bumwe na bumwe.Muri iki kiganiro, Ministre Mushikiwabo yitwaye nka Ministre w'ingabo ashaka kwerekana ingufu ingabo za RDF zifite ndetse anemeza ko FDLR idateye ubwoba na buke. Ariko aha umuntu yakwibaza impamvu birirwa batesha abanyarwanda umutwe babafunga umusubizo ngo bakorana na FDLR Ese niba badatinya FDLR kuki badaha abaturage amahoro ahubwo bagashaka gukoresha FDLR mu kwikiza abo bakorana nabo baba barambiweEse ubundi FDLR itabayeho bajya babwira cyangwa bakangisha iki abanyarwanda? Bajya batera Congo bitwaje iki?UbwanditsiThe RwandanEmail: therwandan@ymail.com###"Aho kwanga no guhora dutuka Abakotanyi n'Umutware wabo, dukwiriye kubasabira ngo Imana ibavane mu bikohwa by'Ibinyabubasha (ibyo ku isi n'iby'ikuzimu) byabigaruriye bikabagira abacakara babyo", Mwarimu Rewoporidi MUNYAKAZI.
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