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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: March 24, 2020, 9:50 am
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Canadian RPF-supporter, UNAMIR commander Roméo Dallaire, has
claimed that on 17 February 1994 he learned of a plot to
assassinate Joseph Kavaruganda and Lando Ndasingwa.
In response UNAMIR (United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda)
dispatched 5 Ghanaian soldiers to “protect” Kavaruganda's house
(just like Agathe Uwilingiyimana!).
On 7 April 1994, militia members arrived at, broke down the
doors of Kavaruganda's home and took him away. He was killed
later that day.
According to his wife, Annonciata Kavaruganda, the Ghanaian
UNAMIR soldiers were friendly with the Rwandan militiamen who
took Kavaruganda and beat her and her children.
Reportedly one of the uniformed soldiers was a member of the
presidential guard, Captain Kabera, Habyarimanas Aide-de-Camp.
At the time, 2 other opposition ministers, Faustin Rucogoza
(information) and Landoald Ndasingwa (Social affairs), had
already been arrested. They were also murdered on 7 April:
HTML https://www.justiceinfo.net/en/hirondelle-news/17753-en-en-wife-of-former-head-of-constitutional-court-testifies-on-his-death85198519.html
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HTML http://archive.is/K5bKO)
The widow of Joseph, Annonciata Kavaruganda, has filed charges
against the UN for not protecting them and socialising with the
militia that murdered her husband.
A second woman, Louise Mushikiwabo, brother of the also murdered
(not protected) Tutsi minister Lando Ndaswinga, joined the law
suit with similar accusations:
HTML http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/597198.stm
The widow of Boniface Ngulinzira, Florida
Mukeshimana-Ngulinzira, has accused the UN for not only not
protecting them, but keeping them imprisoned long enough for the
murderers to arrive, after Belgian blue helmets escorted them to
the Official Technical School of Kicukiro on 7 April. Her
husband tried to go to the airport but the UNAMIR forces for
some reason didn’t want him to escape from the killers:
[QUOTE]The Belgian Blue helmets evacuated us to the technical
school of Kicukiro, and the 11th April, they dropped us. And
this, I can't accept. Why ? And then, why did they keep us there
? Why did they evacuate us at all ? At some point, when the
Belgian blue helmets refused to take us out, my husband asked
them to brought us back home, so we could die at home. They
refused.[/QUOTE]
On 11 April, the UNAMIR forces suddenly left the school
unprotected after which 3000 people were murdered, including
Boniface Ngulinzira and her 4 children.
Mukeshimana-Ngulinzira doesn’t know if Bernard Ntuyahaga is
guilty or not:
HTML https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/192845
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HTML http://archive.is/w3CgI)
On 5th June 1994, RPF soldiers killed almost all the staff of
the Kabgayi diocese at Gakurazo; 3 bishops, 9 priests, 1 brother
and 2 children.
Following is the testimony of the sole survivor of this
massacre, Emmanuel Dukuzemungu.
Hope Mukashema identified General Innocent Kabandana as one of
the masterminds of the murders of Gakurazo.
In 2015, Kabandana was working as Chargé d'Affaires at the
Embassy of Rwanda in the US:
HTML http://lamarchedupeuple.blogspot.com/2015/04/assassination-gakurazo-english.html
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HTML http://archive.is/2Hm4d)
Before the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana there
had already been (political) executions in Rwanda.
On 8 May 1993, shortly before the Arusha Peace Accords, Emmanuel
GAPYISI, an active member of the Republican Democratic Movement
party called for a coalition movement against the RPF and the
then ruling political party in Rwanda, the National Republican
Movement for Democracy and Development (MRND). On 18 May 1993,
Gapyisi was shot dead in front of his home in Kigali.
On 25-26 August 1993, Fidèle RWAMBUKA, the mayor of Kanzenze and
member of the central committee of the then ruling party MRND,
was murdered at his home.
Felicien GATABAZI declared that the Social Democratic Party
(PSD) won’t be “a valet” of the RPF. On 21 Feb 1994, a few days
later, he was shot dead in Kigali.
On 22 Feb 1994, an angry mom of members of PSD attacked and
killed Martin BUCYANA, leader of the Coalition for the Defence
of the Republic (CDR) a political party that supported the
regime.
After the assassination of President Habyarimana there were many
more (political) executions in Rwanda.
On 6 April, the presidential guards broke into the residence of
President of the PSD, Agriculture Minister Frederic
NZAMURAMBAHO.
After that group left, they (?) immediately came back and shot
Nzamurambaho, his wife, their 2 children and all witnesses at
the residence. Only 2 children survived.
On 12 April 1994, Emile NYUNGURA of the PSD and his family were
killed by RPF soldiers disguised as government troops. Only one
of his children, Corneille Nyungura, survived.
Catalan priest Joaquín VALMAJÓ I SALA had denounced the crimes
by the RPF.
He was last seen driving his car, accompanied by an armed
soldier, before being killed in Byumba on 26 April 1994.
After the genocide supposedly stopped after the RPF was
installed in power of Rwanda the (political) executions
continued.
Former mayor of Karengera Anne Marie MUKANDOLI protected the
population against crimes against humanity by RPF soldiers.
On 10 May 1996, a mercenary in military uniform shot her 9 times
in the chest.
On 16 May 1998, Seth SENDASHONGA, minister of interior in the
RPF government, and his driver were shot dead in Nairobi
(Kenya).
Sendashonga had challenged some of the RPF’s human rights
abuses, resigned from the cabinet and fled to Kenya in August
1995, where he founded an opposition group.
Three men (one Rwandan and two Ugandans) were arrested and
charged for his murder. One of them worked at the Rwandan
embassy in Nairobi, but Kenyan authorities had to release him
because of diplomatic immunity.
On 6 October 1996, Colonel Theoneste LIZINDE, former RPF member
and member of the intelligence services under President Juvénal
Habyarimana, and businessman Augustin BUGILIMFURA, were shot
dead in the Nairobi (Kenya).
On 31 October 1996, Servando Mayor GARCIA, Julio Rodriguez
JORGE, Miguel Ángel Isla LUCIO and Fernando DE LA FUENTE DE LA
FUENTE, who administered the Nyamitangwe (RDC) Refugee Camp
School, were murdered in Bugobe (in Congo).
Flors Sirera FORTUNY, Manuel Madarazo OSUNA and Luis Valtuena
GALLEGO were aid-workers of the NGO MSF, who witnessed earlier
the RPF massacres in Kabere.
On 18 January 1997, a couple of days later, they were murdered
during an attack on international organisations in Ruhengeri.
On 5 March 2000, Assiel KABERA, advisor to both Presidents
Bizimungu and later Paul Kagame, was gunned down at his home in
Kigali.
On 10 June 2000, Isidro Uzcudun POUSO, missionary of Donosti,
was assassinated in Mugina because he had denounced the
massacres by the RPF.
On 23 April 2003, Lt. Colonel Augustin CYIZA, former
(vice-)president of the Supreme Court, was taken by Directorate
of Military Intelligence (DMI) to the Kami military camp outside
Kigali, where he was murdered.
Juvénal UWILINGIYIMANA had been Commerce Minister and head of
national parks. On 21 November 2005, he disappeared, and on 17
December 2005 his badly decomposed body was found in the
Brussels–Charleroi Canal.
On 5 November 2005, Uwilingiyimana had written a letter to the
ICTR prosecutor, in which he complained that he had been
threatened to be killed by ICTR investigators, if he refused to
give a false testimony in order to incriminate others.
On 24 June 2010, Rwandan journalist Jean-Léonard RUGAMBAGE was
shot dead in front of his home in Kigali.
Shortly before being murdered, Rugambage had published an
article on the attempted murder of Lieutenant-General Faustin
Kayumba Nyamwasa.
On 14 July 2010, André Kagwa RWISEREKA vice-chairman of the
opposition political party Rwanda Democratic Green Party (RDGP)
was found murdered in Butare.
On New Year’s Eve of 2014, Colonel Patrick KAREGEYA, former head
of Rwandan intelligence, who became a critic of President Paul
Kagame, was found dead in a hotel room in Johannesburg (South
Africa).
On 4 February 2015, Assinapol RWIGARA, a key financial backer of
the RPF, was killed in Gacuriro, Kigali.
Rwanda Police said he was instantly killed after his E-class
Mercedes-Benz was knocked by a heavy truck on the right side.
Rwigara’s family believes he was murdered by the cops, as they
saw him alive him before the police rushed him away.
Other victims of political assassination include:
Pierre Claver RWANGABO; Placide KOLONI; Evariste BURAKARI;
Alphonse Marie NKUBITO; Emmanuel MUSIRIKARE; Chadrac NIWUNGIZE;
Jérôme NDAGIJIMANA; Major John SENGATI; Alfred NSENGIMANA;
Charles INGABIRE; Appolos HAKIZIMANA; Jean Marie HATEGEKIMANA;
Théogène TURATSINZE; Gustave MAKONENE; Toy NZAMWITA; Jean de
Dieu MUCYO; Muhammad MUGEMANGANGO; Gérard (Nyamihirwa)
NIYOMUGABO; Fr Evariste NAMBAJE; Vénuste RWABUKAMBA; Emmanuel
GASAKURE; Jean Damascène HABARUGIRA:
HTML https://www.jambonews.net/en/actualites/20180402-honouring-all-assassinated-political-figures-a-step-towards-achieving-a-solid-reconciliation-in-rwanda/
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: March 25, 2020, 10:41 am
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One of the whistleblowers on the crimes by Paul Kagame's Rwandan
Patriotic Front (RPF) and its military Rwandan Patriotic Army
(RPA) is Abdul Ruzibia (a Tutsi).
Ruzibia is by no means pro-Hutu by the way; he also points out
crimes of the government of President Juvenal Habyarimana…
The following is his testimony from 14 March 2004.
The government of President Habyarimana made lists of Tutsi AND
Hutu people to be killed because they (or their relatives) were
fighting for or collaborating with the RPF Inkotanyi. This
differs significantly from the claim that all Tutsis inside
Rwanda had been listed for elimination.
The RPA killed people from all ethnic groups. Killed Hutus were
buried with Tutsis in mass graves (all counted as Tutsi
victims).
The RPF had a target list, which specifically called for the
elimination of Hutus AND Tutsis that were considered a threat.
The RPF/RPA could have stopped the genocide. Tutsis that joined
the RPA were prevented from helping people being massacred.
In Uganda, before the invasion of Rwanda by the RPA/RPF, most
important positions in the government were taken by Rwandans.
On 2 October 1990, leader of the RPA Fred Rwigyema was killed by
his own men (intentionally orchestrated?). Ugandan President
Yoweri Museveni then selected Paul Kagame to take the leadership
of the RPA army.
The mass murders by the RPF side began on 4 October, 2 days
after Rwigyema was killed.
When the RPF attacked areas in Rwanda, they opened fire on
villagers indiscriminately. RPF troops raped local girls, and
then killed them afterwards. The RPA stole the farm animals and
ate their crops, which forced the villagers into starvation. The
RPA even destroyed many houses and sold the roofing sheet metals
to Ugandan villagers.
The RPA killed any villager for fear of them reporting the RPA
mercenaries to the Rwandan authorities. In short the RPA was
ordered to kill the population without pity.
The centrepiece of Kagame’s plan was to use the offensive in
1992, 1993, and 1994, so he could “prove” to the international
community that the Rwandan government was killing people in
flagrant violation of human rights. Kagame first targeted and
killed politicians or Tutsis, and then blamed the ruling MRND
party (of course the MRND was really behind some of the
murders).
When peace talks were already under way, and a ceasefire was
agreed upon, Kagame and his RPA army put together a special
battalion to continue hostilities while peace talks were
on-going. This battalion under direct supervision of Kagame,
assisted by Kayumba Nyamwasa, James Kabarebe, and Charles
Kayonga was known under different names, including: NETWORK,
NETWORK COMMANDO, TECHNICIANS, or CDR COMMANDO.
This special battalion had the following goals:
[quote]a. Using this battalion to spread terror and insecurity
inside the country through criminal acts and impute them to the
government as a pretext to resume fighting.
b. Setting off bombs throughout the country in a more
coordinated manner than was done up until that time.
c. Planting small RPF cells throughout the country, recruiting
and training infiltrators throughout the country, poisoning
water used by war-displaced people in camps, following closely
and passing information from behind enemy lines, etc.
d. Carrying out targeted killings of individuals unwanted by the
RPF, etc.[/quote]
Paul Kagame was responsible for shooting down Habyarimana's
plane. The plan included killing people on a hit list; most of
them were killed within the first 3 days of Habyarimana's death.
Parti Liberal leader Landoald Ndasingwa was on this hit list
(was he assassinated by the RPF?).
The following individuals were involved in shooting down the
presidential airplane or transporting the missiles first to
Kigali and then to the firing site in Masaka on Kagame’s orders:
Major RUZAHAZA (Captain at the time); Eugene SAFARI (Demobilized
Warrant Officer); Sgt Moses NSENGA (Corporal at the time); Sgt
Didier MAZIMPAKA; Captain Frank NZIZA: Eric HAKIZIMANA (former
Cpl, now Lt); and Sgt Aloys RUYENZI.
The RPF only allowed journalists in their zones if they would
right positive propaganda on the RPF/RPA. Some journalists
received bribes from the RPF, like Hussein Abdou Hassan of the
BBC.
Anyone who tries to speak out against President Kagame is
quickly eliminated.
For the last 10 years, Rwanda has been a police state run by a
leadership educated in the bush:
HTML http://hungryoftruth.blogspot.com/2009/01/testimony-of-abdul-ruzibiza.html
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HTML http://archive.is/QbhyN)
Following is the complete report by French Judge Jean-Louis
Bruguière, who concluded that the RPF shot down the plane with
President Habyarimana. I don’t think that it’s a good document
though; it’s practically unreadable because of its length
without structure (like chapters or a good introduction and
conclusion).
I sometimes find it hard to find what “evidence” is presented
(and how reliable it is) for the allegations in the document
(which is one of the most important things in a legal document).
The following is interesting (but I think the testimony of Abdul
Ruzibia in the previous link is the much better read)…
[quote](157)That as to these missile-launchers, Abdul RUZIBIZA
stated that while he was at the R.P.F. headquarters in Mulindi
he learned that the SAMs, which had come from the Ugandan
arsenal in the beginning of January 1994, had been introduced
into the C.N.D. in Kigali hidden on board a Mercedes truck
transporting firewood; and, he added, that he had heard talk
about a training program in Uganda in January 1993 for R.P.A.
personnel, which included enlisted men Eric HAKIZIMANA, Stevens
TWAGIRA and Andrews NYAVUMBA, all members of the ‘Missiles
Section’ under the command of Lt. Alphonse KAYUMBA and his
adjutant Lt. Franck NZIZA; and
(158)That, in discussing the final stage of the operation, he
went on to state that, knowing the approximate time of arrival
of the President’s flight and identifying the Falcon 50 by its
characteristic engine noise, Eric HAKIZIMANA fired the first
missile, which missed the target, and that it was the second
missile fired by Franck NZIZA that hit the plane and caused it
to explode in flight; and he added that at the end of this
operation the hit-team fled, leaving the two empty
missile-launcher tubes behind; and
(159)That furthermore, Abdul RUZIBIZA learned that around 5:30
pm, Lt-Col. Charles KAYONGA received a call from Paul KAGAME
alerting him to the return of the President’s plane and that he
must not miss this operation, and that at the moment of the
attack, Charles KAYONGA, who was posted on the top floor of the
C.N.D., saw the plane explode; and
(…)
(281)Considering that the R.P.F.’s possession of Soviet-made SAM
14 and 16 ‘IGLA’ missiles is not only attested to by a number of
witnesses who are former members of the R.P.F. or soldiers in
the R.P.A., such as Christophe HAKIZABERA, Jean-Pierre MUGABE,
Sixbert MUSANGAMFURA, Denis KAGIRANEZA and Abdul RUZIBIZA, who
specified that the members of the ‘missile section’ were trained
in Uganda or by Evariste MUSONI, but also by elements of the
investigation into the Ugandan military arsenal; and
(…)
(314)That Belgian Crpl. Johnny BOREUX, who took part in
escorting the R.P.F. battalion to its encampment in the C.N.D.
on 28 December 1993, stated in his testimony of 15 December 1996
in Brussels, that he noted that the system put in place
‘permitted [R.P.A.] soldiers in civilian clothes to infiltrate
KIGALI and commit attacks’; and
(…)
(320)That it is also important to remember that Abdul RUZIBIZA,
a former Captain in the R.P.A., and a member of the ‘Network
Commando’, specified that the two missiles used in the attack
were brought onto the grounds of the C.N.D. during the month of
March 1994; and
(…)
(361)That this evaluation was confirmed in the testimony, on 18
December 2003, of Balthazar NDENGEYINKA, former R.P.A. Colonel,
who stated in a face-to-face discussions with Col. Charles
MUHIRE, then Chief of the Operations Bureau of the R.P.A.
General Staff, MUHIRE acknowledged that ‘they’ (R.P.F.) had shot
down the presidents’ plane and that the meeting which the
President attended in DAR-ES-SALAAM was, in fact, nothing more
than a pretext to get him out of Rwanda, that his return into
KIGALI had been purposely postponed so as to force a night
flight and that the hour of Falcon 50’s take-off from the
airport in DAR-ES-SALAAM was communicated by telephone to the
general headquarters of the R.P.A. in Mulundi; and
(…)
(435)That the final order to shoot down the President’s plane
was given by Paul KAGAME, himself, during a meeting held in
Mulindi on 31 March 1994, with the planning and the operational
phase being entrusted to Col. James KABAREBE, who was
specifically charged with the formation of a team specialized in
the use of surface-to-air missiles furnished by Uganda;
and[/quote]
HTML http://cirqueminime.blogspot.com/2007/10/completed-bruguire-report-translated.html
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: March 26, 2020, 9:53 am
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I have my doubts about the following article from the Lyndon
LaRouche organisation. One of the reasons I’m suspicious is that
while LaRouche blames the RPF (which I can agree with), he
blatantly ignores all the evidence that the Rwandan Patriotic
Front (RPF) was armed, trained and supported by the US and UN,
and instead blames the British Crown and the World Wildlife
Fund. This looks like he was defending the Clinton
administration and the UN...
My main reason for posting a summary of this essay from November
1994 is that it’s an interesting story on the eugenics and
geopolitics policies of the WWF.
The Rwandan genocide was ignited by trained soldiers from
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's army. These RPF soldiers
were trained in camps set up under the guise of WWF
gorilla-protection programmes. As the British Overseas
Development Agency Minister Lady Lynda Chalker "controls"
Museveni, the troops were little more than proxies for the
British.
Since 1990, the WWF has managed 1) Gorilla Park in Uganda on the
Rwanda-Zaire border; 2) the adjacent Volcans Park on the Rwandan
side of the border; 3) Zaire's Virunga Park; and 4) the Akagera
Park in Rwanda on the Kenya-Uganda border. These 4 parks served
as training bases, staging areas, and arms depots for the
invading “rebels”
The leaders of the RPF came from the top echelons of the Ugandan
Army: Paul Kagame who became defence minister of Rwanda was head
of intelligence and counterintelligence in the Ugandan Army; the
RPF's David Tinyefuza was Ugandan minister of state for defence;
the RPF's Chris Bunyenyezi was the commanding officer of the
NRA's 306th Brigade (notorious for the atrocities committed
against Uganda's Teso).
On 1 October 1990, the RPF first invades Rwanda through Akagera
Park.
In 1991, the RPF invades again from Virunga Park, causing a
massive over 200,000 refugees.
RPF then pulls back to the Virunga Park, and continues artillery
barrages onto the Rwandan plain.
By late 1992, Ugandan President Museveni was prepared to give
logistical and political support to insurgencies aimed to
overthrow the governments of Rwanda, Kenya, and Sudan.
Attending the meeting, besides Museveni, were Col. John Garang
of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, commanders of the RPF,
and representatives of the Kenya Democratic Party opposition to
Kenyan President Daniel arap Mo.
Prince Bernhard had to resign as chairman of the WWF, and was
replaced by Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, who was
replaced as WWF-UK head by Princess Alexandra, first cousin to
Elizabeth.
The World Wildlife Fund since it was founded has actively
orchestrated genocide against the population of sub-Saharan
Africa.
WWF and UN parks serve 2 main purposes (this doesn’t include
protecting nature or endangered species):
Taking land out of circulation for economic productive purposes.
Staging grounds for insurgencies.
In January 1961, Prince Philip accompanied Queen Elizabeth on a
royal tour of India. Among the attractions for the royal party
was a tiger hunt. Philip and his troop shot several Indian
tigers that day.
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On the Indian trip Philip also shot and killed a very rare
Indian rhinoceros, according to the WWF's Ian MacPhail.
In 1964, some 108 rhinos had been individually identified.
Because of the WWF program was to "save" them by 1981 there were
only 20 left. Not one poacher had been caught by the
anti-poaching teams in years.
In 1981, an eyewitness wrote to the offices of the African
Wildlife Leadership Federation in Nairobi, on WWF-financed game
guards, shot dead 2 rhinos and wounded another "in broad
daylight", so there isn’t much of a mystery, who the real
“poachers” were.
Under the guise of protecting endangered species, WWF park
rangers carry out assassinations and other attacks against
so-called “poachers”, who in many cases were local patriotic
political leaders or farmers who refuse to abandon their land to
the WWF's land confiscation.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the Soviet KGB trained several
"liberation movements" of southern Africa in national parks in
Uganda and Zaire, including the Zimbabwe People's Union (ZAPU),
South African National Congress (ANC).
Funded with 1 million Swiss francs and coordinated with
Operation Lock, Operation Stronghold was supposedly to save the
700 black rhinos left in the Zambezi Valley.
On 10 November 1988, Chief Game Ranger Glen Tatham and 2
assistants were brought before a court in Zimbabwe and charged
with murder of 70 “poachers” since early 1987. A law was rushed
through parliament, which gave game guards immunity from civil
and criminal prosecution for killings or woundings carried out
in the course of their duties.
From 1984 to 1991, some 145 "poachers" were killed. Of the 84
killed in the Zambezi Valley, most were shot from helicopters
paid for and manned by WWF and manned by WWF contractors. Of the
228 people killed or taken prisoner, only 107 guns were
recovered.
Operation Lock was also a supposed attempt to save the
endangered rhino by sending an elite squad of British Special
Air Services (SAS) operatives into southern Africa to
“neutralise” the illegal wildlife smuggling cartels. The SAS
team was led by Col. David Stirling, the legendary founder of
Britain's SAS regiments during World War I, and organised into a
company named KAS Enterprises Ltd.
Prince Bernhard financed Operation Lock with £500,000 he
received from selling paintings he had been gifted. One Lock
participant wrote that among Lock's financial backers was the
Queen Mother. Another Lock financer was Laurens van der Post,
the tutor to Prince Charles and at the time Margaret Thatcher's
chief adviser on Africa policy.
Apparently KAS Enterprises started dealing in rhino horn and
ivory, besides the rising death tolls of "poachers"!
In 1986, former Rhodesian bush fighter Clem Coetzee of Zimbabwe
was awarded the WWF Conservation Award by Director General de
Haes for overseeing a campaign in which 44,000 elephants were
killed. According to the WWF, this was necessary "to protect the
environment" of Zimbabwe's "overcrowded" national parks.
In 1989, the WWF rang the alarm bells in the "Year of the
Elephant" to save the elephants of Uganda, for which it set up a
camp near the Mountains on the Moon on the Rwandan border,
despite the fact that there were virtually no elephants here. It
was from this area that the RPF invaded Rwanda a couple of years
later.
On 12 December 1981, Prince Philip explained: [quote]Human
population growth is probably the single most serious long-term
threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't
curbed - not just for the natural world, but | for the human
world. The more people there are, the more resources they'll
consume, the more pollution they'll create, the more fighting
they will do. We have no option. If it isn't controlled
voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase
in disease, starvation and war.[/quote]
HTML https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_blacknobil12.htm
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: March 27, 2020, 11:01 am
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The information in this post was actually how I started
investigating this topic. I found it interesting in that it
showed that the Hutu regime was supplied with weapons from
France that made the massacre possible (we were told that the
Tutsi population was chopped up with machetes).
In retrospect it isn’t so strange that the Hutu regime was
arming itself as it was invaded by the RPF army. It was only
later that I dug deeper and found the more damaging information
on the international community supporting the murderous RPF
(that was instrumental in orchestration the genocide)…
With an invasion of Rwanda in mind, the predominantly Tutsi
Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) was formed in 1987.
France, Egypt and South Africa supplied the majority of weapons
to arm the huge expansion of the Rwandan army.
France was the largest arms supplier to Habyarimana’s regime in
Rwanda. Between February 1990 and April 1994, it exported 136
million French francs worth of weapons to Rwanda.
Immediately after the RPF launched its offensive on 8 February
1993, the number of French soldiers swelled to at least 680.
Sources in Rwanda told the Arms Project that French soldiers
provided artillery support for Rwandan infantry troops both
before and during the February 1993 offensive.
While France claimed that these French soldiers were protecting
French citizens, French troops were also deployed at locations
were no French citizens or other western expatriates were
living.
France also sent military advisors to provide training,
preparing them for the massacre, to Rwandan troops.
France was “[I]directly responsible, through arming and
training, for the exponential growth of the Rwandan Government
Army (FAR)[/I]”.
France also played a major role in securing the arms from South
Africa and Egypt.
The $6 million in Egyptian weapons were paid for with a bank
guarantee from the French Crédit Lyonnais bank.
France, who had been secretly supplying the apartheid regime for
a long time, also acted as an intermediary for the South African
arms:
HTML http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3ae6a7fc8.html
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HTML http://archive.is/JxKeX)
The follow-up selected for UN Secretary-General after
Boutros-Ghali, Kofi Annan, was also involved in letting this
genocide happen…
Kofi Annan was head of UN peacekeeping in 1994 and as such
responsible for ignoring repeated warnings that the genocide was
coming. Roméo Dallaire warned of the plan to kill 1,000 Tutsis
every 20 minutes in Rwanda (while he was really supporting the
RPF).
When the order came to take the UN “peacekeepers” out of Rwanda,
UN political adviser in Kigali, Shahryar Khan, didn’t agree:
“[I]Ten Belgians are dead, so you don't give a damn that
thousands of Africans are about to be slaughtered[/I]”.
The Belgian commanding officer in Rwanda Colonel Luc Marchal
later recalled the pull out: “[I]We were perfectly aware of what
was about to happen. Our mission was a tragic failure. Everyone
considered it a form of desertion. Pulling out under such
circumstances was an act of total cowardice[/I]”.
Lieutenant Luc Lemaire was in command of a contingent of Belgian
troops ordered to abandon a school with about 2,000 Tutsis in
Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. As the Belgian soldiers drove off,
Tutsis rushed their vehicles for help. The Belgians fired into
the air to drive them back. The Tutsis were caught by the Hutu
militia and diverted to a gravel pit, with very few survivors.
Even where Tutsis were able to climb on board UN lorries, the
interahamwe pulled them off at roadblocks and butchered them in
front of French or Belgian soldiers, who said they had no
“mandate” to intervene.
Once the UN abandoned Rwanda, the killing spread rapidly.
Dallaire later said he could have stopped the genocide in Kigali
with 5,000 troops and could have prevented it spreading.
Representative of the RPF Gerald Gahima, tried to lobby UN
ambassadors to take action, including Britain's representative
on the Security Council Sir David Hannay, and said “[I]I didn't
get the impression he cared at all. We might have been talking
about slaughtering chickens[/I]”:
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/dec/19/theobserver3
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: March 28, 2020, 9:12 am
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During the 100 days massacre, UN forces watched the Rwanda
genocide happen, under direct orders not to interfere.
Declassified documents show that the Clinton White House had
advance knowledge of the Rwandan genocide before it started.
Sixteen days before the killings began, Bill Clinton was
informed that the Hutus had planned a “[I]final solution to
eliminate all Tutsi[/I]”. Clinton received several reports
describing their plan as “genocide”.
The US government knew what was going to happen more than two
weeks before it started, but they made a decision to let it
happen on purpose. Clinton justified his decision with
“[I]Whether we get involved in any of the world’s ethnic
conflicts, must depend on the cumulative weight of the American
interests at stake[/I]”.
Members of the UN were forbidden to sell weapons to Rwanda but
companies from France, Belgium, Egypt, Ghana, and the UK
continued to supply weapons to the Hutu extremists.
About three months before the genocide started, a French plane
was caught illegally delivering weapons to the Hutu extremists
that would later be used in the genocide, in direct violation of
the Arusha Peace Accords that had ended the Rwandan Civil War.
UN Force Commander, Roméo Dallaire, reported it to his superiors
and warned that violence was coming, and asked for action to
prevent this.
The UN did nothing…
At a time that thousands a day were killed and Hutu extremists
were calling for the extermination of every Tutsi in the country
on Rwanda’s radio, the UN Security Council discussed what to do.
The US and France used a hidden veto to keep the world out of
the conversation. They were threatening to veto any action in
Rwanda. They didn’t allow letting the UN use the word “genocide”
in any resolution about it.
Already in September 1993, National Coordinator for Security in
the USA Richard Clarke wrote a memo that the UN shouldn’t send
more “peacekeepers” to Rwanda and wrote: “[I]If as USUN reports,
a Rwanda resolution has 10 votes in the UNSC, we may have to say
no with a veto[/I]”.
Declassified records show that 2 days after the massacre had
started, on 9 April Richard Clarke wrote in an e-mail: “[I]We
should work with the French to gain a consensus to terminate the
UN mission[/I]”. When the genocide started, there were about
2000 UN Peacekeepers in Rwanda that weren’t allowed interfering.
While Roméo Dallaire asked for more troops to do something about
it, the UN pulled most of its troops out instead (leaving only
270).
When they started pulling the UN forces out, member of the US
National Security Council Eric Schwartz warned the White House
that if the UN “Peacekeepers” were pulled out, this would turn
into a full-scale genocide.
When the UN finally started sending peacekeepers back into
Rwanda, when the genocide was almost over, France set up one of
the biggest relief programs “Zone Turquoise” that covered
one-fifth of Rwanda. There is some debate over who the French
were trying to protect. Many Rwandans thought the French weren’t
there to stop the killings.
The French never arrested the people behind the genocide or shut
down the Hutu propaganda station Radio des Milles-Collines that
was supporting the murders. Radio des Milles-Collines,
celebrated the coming French “allies”, telling Hutu girls to
“[I]wash yourselves and put on a good dress to welcome our
French allies. The Tutsi girls are all dead so you have your
chance[/I]”.
Shortly after Paul Kagame and the RPF were installed into power
of Rwanda, Kagame claimed that the French government had a
“[I]direct role in the preparation of the genocide[/I]”.
Kagame pointed to Operation Noroît, which armed and trained Hutu
fighters. Kagame claims that France even helped plan the
logistics of the slaughter. Kagame even claims that French
soldiers assassinated people who were hiding Tutsis and were
involved in rapes.
After Rwandan President Habyarimana’s plane was shot down,
French troops airlifted his wife Agathe Habyarimana, gave her
230,000 Francs and let her live in Paris. According to the
Rwandan government, Agathe Habyarimana could have been one of
the key players involved in planning the Rwandan genocide. The
French State Council actually agrees and stated that there are
“serious reasons to suspect” her.
Kagame wanted her extradited to Rwanda, but France refused.
There is an international warrant for her arrest on charges of
genocide, but she is safe in France.
In 1990, none other than Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Boutros Boutros-Ghali had secretly sent Hutu militia a massive
$26 million shipment of weapons. Boutros-Ghali had actively
convinced Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to sell these arms.
To keep the arms sale secret, Boutros-Ghali labelled them
“relief materials”.
The Rwandan ambassador sent Boutros-Ghali a thank you letter:
“[I]The personal intervention of Boutros-Ghali, was a
determining factor in the conclusion of the arms contract[/I]”.
Was this THE reason that Boutros-Ghali was selected for UN
Secretary-General?!? In 1994, then Secretary-General of the UN
Boutros Boutros-Ghali did nothing to prevent the genocide from
happening.
By common consensus, shooting down the plane with the presidents
of Rwanda and Burundi triggered the genocide. It is still not
entirely clear who shot the plane down.
After the UN let the genocide happen, it formed the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). An ICTR team,
led by attorney Michael Hourigan, found evidence that suggested
Kagame — who later became President of Rwanda — was behind it.
ICTR Chief Prosecutor Louise Arbour ordered him to stop the
investigation.
In 2002, when new chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte took over,
she tried to reopen the investigation. She was immediately fired
by the UN — and she thinks that the US and the UK demanded her
dismissal.
Some claim that Israel continued to provide the Hutu extremists
with weapons from 1990 to 1995 — even while the genocide was
ongoing.
Some Israeli citizens filed a Freedom of Information request for
the documents that went to the Israeli Supreme Court on these
arms sales. The Supreme Court wouldn’t have refused the request
without good reason:
HTML https://listverse.com/2017/04/06/10-horrifying-ways-the-un-is-to-blame-for-the-rwandan-genocide/
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HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20170406175131/https://listverse.com/2017/04/06/10-horrifying-ways-the-un-is-to-blame-for-the-rwandan-genocide/)
Queen Elizabeth’s government, with at the time John Major as PM,
was also warned.
On 11 January 1994, the commander of the UN peacekeepers sent a
cable outlining a genocide plot. This was just one of dozens of
warnings.
Is Belgium the “hero” in this disaster?!?
In the weeks before the genocide, the Belgian ambassador to the
UN tried to persuade the permanent members of the Security
Council that something had to be done to prevent the coming
massacre in Rwanda:
HTML https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/05/rwanda.comment
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It has been carefully kept secret that British companies sold
arms to Rwanda before and after the UN embargo of 17 May 1994.
The British Mil-Tec Corporation Ltd supplied the Rwandan army
with over $5.5 million worth of arms from mid-April 1994 until
mid-July 1994 – the exact period of the genocide.
Mil-Tec was run by Anoop Vidyarthi with an office in north
London:
HTML https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/bloody-trade-that-fuels-rwandas-war-1353751.html
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: March 29, 2020, 9:07 am
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The RPF and the US government did not want an international
intervention force to obstruct its victory.
23 days into the genocide, the RPF wrote to the UN that “[I]the
time for UN intervention is long past. The genocide is almost
completed. Most of the potential victims of the regime have
either been killed or have since fled[/I]”.
According to the official narrative, the genocide lasted 100
days, with all murders blamed on the Hutus…
Since the moment Kagame seized power in Rwanda, the US and
Britain have provided him with undiminished financial and
military aid. The Rwandan army has grown into a formidable force
that played a prominent role in UN “peacekeeping” operations,
notably in Sudan and the Central African Republic.
Only in 2010, there was a brief stop after the UN documented RPF
atrocities in the Congo, during the 2 Congo wars of 1996-97 and
1998-2003. It also indicated that Rwanda was backing the
notorious M23 group in Congo. Britain suspended aid to Rwanda,
but resumed it in 2012.
President Kagame explained that he has won presidential election
by almost 100% per cent, by the ”[I]uniqueness of the country as
well as the citizens’ voice about their governance[/I]”.
In August 2010, the French newspaper Le Monde reported on a
draft UN report on human rights violations in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo from 1993 to 2003. The report described
that the RPF since its takeover of Rwanda in 1994 proceeded to
carry out “[I]systematic and widespread attacks[/I]” against
Hutu refugees who had fled to Congo that “[I]could be classified
as crimes of genocide[/I]”.
[quote]Significant areas… have been the scene of systematic and
sustained killing and persecution of the civilian Hutu
population by the Rwandan Patriotic Front…
These actions were consistently reported to be conducted in
areas where opposition forces of any kind – armed or unarmed, or
resistance of any kind … were absent. Large scale indiscriminate
killings of men, women and children, including the sick and
elderly were consistently reported.[/quote]
I couldn’t find these sections in the definite version of the
report…
Britain set up the Umubano Project to develop Rwanda. Kagame
praised the UK with: “[I]We have received support from many
countries but our partnership with the United Kingdom has been
very significant[/I]”.
Former British PM Theresa May wrote in a message “[I]I am proud
of what the United Kingdom and Rwanda have achieved together as
partners and as friends thanks to the cooperation and vision of
President Kagame who I congratulate on his re-election. Today,
Rwandans have the best life chances they have ever had[/I]”.
In 2016, Leopold Munyakazi, a Rwandan linguist teaching in New
Jersey, suggested that what happened in Rwanda was not genocide,
but a civil war over state power. Rwanda issued an international
warrant charging him with genocide, and the Obama administration
deported him.
Munyakazi was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to life
imprisonment, which was reduced to 9 years. Munyakazi was
injected with a psychotic drug in prison, which made him
“deranged” for years now.
In January 2018, US President Donald Trump met Rwanda's Paul
Kagame at Davos at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland,
where he praised the new head of the African Union with:
"[I]It's an honour to have you as a friend[/I]":
HTML https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/05/03/rwanda-25-years-on/
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HTML http://archive.is/Tt2Ov)
Christian Davenport and Allan Stam of the Universities of
Michigan and Virginia were hired by the ICTR to investigate the
Rwanda genocide. When they started they completely believe the
official narrative that the “extremist” Hutus were solely to
blame.
In November 2003, Stam and Davenport presented some of what they
had found out so far at a conference in Kigali. They showed that
comparing the 800,000 to 1 million to have been killed, to
official census data from 1991 of a total of approximately
600,000 Tutsi in the country in 1991 with about 300,000
surviving the 1994 massacre, that only about 300,000 of those
killed were Tutsi, and more than that – 500,000 to 700,000 –
Hutus were killed.
When they showed this obvious conclusion, a military man stood
up, interrupted the presentation and forced them to stop. They
were forced to leave Rwanda at once and labelled “genocide
deniers".
Under the Rwandan constitution, "revisionism, negationism and
trivialisation of genocide" are criminal offences for which
hundreds of people have been tried and convicted for.
Five have been sentenced to life imprisonment, another 5 were
sentenced to more than 20 years in jail, 99 were sentenced to
10–20 years in jail, 211 received a custodial sentence of 5–10
years, and the remaining 169 received jail terms of less than 5
years for genocide denial.
In 2010, the American law professor and attorney Peter Erlinder
was even arrested in Kigali and charged with genocide denial,
when he was defending presidential candidate Victoire Ingabire
against charges of genocide.
It is impossible to know how many ethnic Hutu or Tutsi died in
the genocide, because there is no observable difference between
the “typical” Hutu Rwandan and the typical Tutsi Rwandan.
It could be of course that the scale of the killing was smaller
than reported.
Following the Kigali conference, the ICTR prosecution teams of
Webster and Mulvaney told Stam and Davenport that they had no
further use for them, because their findings at the Kigali
conference had made their efforts “superfluous”.
In 1996, the ICTR started its “investigation” by interviewing
12,000 witnesses. The witnesses represent a highly biased
sample; the ICTR simply “forgot” to interview many people who
could implicate members of the ruling RPF.
Stam and Davenport couldn’t ignore that the Rwandan Patriotic
Front (RPF) was responsible for many of the killings.
Stam and Davenport found it striking that the extreme killing
sprees escalated where RPF forces were located. Stam and
Davenport twist this into explaining that the closeness of the
RPA forces forced the extremist Hutus to go on a murder spree.
A simpler explanation is that the RPA murdered many of those
victims, for which the Hutus (FAR) have been blamed:
HTML https://psmag.com/social-justice/what-really-happened-in-rwanda-3432
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: March 30, 2020, 8:48 am
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By common consensus it was really the Hutu Interahamwe that
massacred some 800,000 of the Tutsi minority over the course of
some 100 days. I’ve been searching and searching and searching
for who really controlled the Interahamwe.
The following 3 part story, that for some reason was deleted
from the internet, makes a strong case that the Hutu militias,
particularly the Interahamwe, were controlled by double agents
of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)!
The Interahamwe militia was founded by the Tutsi Anastase
Gasana. Gasana was a member of the ruling Hutu party MRND; he
joined the MDR and became advisor to (Hutu) Prime Minister
Nsengiyaremye before becoming foreign minister in the government
of Uwilingiyimana. Gasana wasn’t put on trial by the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) for his role
in founding the Interahamwe.
In July 1994, Gasana instead joined the RPF and became a
minister in the first government formed after the military
victory of General Paul Kagame.
The first and second vice-president and treasurer of the
Interahamwe were also Tutsi.
Former RPA officer Abdul Ruzibiza explained that many in the RPA
resembled the ethnic Hutu, and: [quote]Among the demonstrators,
there were soldiers of the RPF infiltrators as Lieutenant
Kiyago, Lieutenant Jean-Pierre Gatashya, Captain Hubert
Kamugisha, Sergeant Mugisha, aka Interahamwe, and others. The
goal was to heat the head, sow chaos and destruction throughout
the country.[/quote]
A former Interahamwe Tutsi told that most Hutus that evolved to
high position in the Interahamwe had been recruited by the
former president of the RPF, Alexis Kanyarengwe (a Hutu from
Ruhengeri), and trained in camps in Uganda before being
“injected” into the Interahamwe.
Another striking thing is that the Interahamwe exterminated
Rwandans (mostly Tutsis) near areas controlled by Kagame’s men.
Luc Marshal, who commanded the Belgian mission of the United
Nations in Rwanda (UNAMIR), stated that “[I]Not once the RPF had
tried, despite the numbers they had in place, to secure areas
for Tutsis to allow them to find refuge[/I]”:
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20160415220117/http://www.theproxylake.com/2010/10/genocide-of-tutsis/2/
Important “evidence” on which the Hutus were convicted for
genocide in Rwanda included a fax to the UN by the informant
“Jean-Pierre” on weapons caches. “Jean-Pierre”, who worked with
the Interahamwe, was really double agent Turatsinze Abubakar,
who worked closely with the RPF of Paul Kagame. Abubakar’s
testimony demonised the Habyarimana government, accusing it of
planning genocide against the Tutsis.
A former UNAMIR provided a document that Turatsinze Abubakar was
in constant contact with the liaison officer of the RPF, Karenzi
Karake.
Abubakar’s wife confirmed at the ICTR that her husband had
worked for the RPF in Mulindi, before he was killed by Kagame’s
men.
Jean Kambanda is the only one of the supposed responsible for
the genocide that was convicted on “hard” evidence – his
“confession”.
Kambanda was effectively put through 9 months of psychological
torment before he “confessed”. He was kept isolated in a hotel
for 9 months, was denied the right to see a lawyer and was
denied contact with his family or friends.
During those 9 months, former Canadian cops threatened him and
his family daily if he did not cooperate. One of the lawyers
involved in the “questioning” is the notoriously corrupt Pierre
Duclos.
The “confession” document Kambanda signed after those 9 months
was in English, which is not his first language, he didn’t
understand that he “confessed” responsibility for genocide.
After Kambanda had signed that document, he was finally taken to
Arusha to appear before a judge and assigned a lawyer. This
lawyer was the best friend of the Prosecutor, who tricked him
into pleading guilty.
On 23 September 2003, Kamanda defended himself with a statement
that includes: [quote]At no time, during the exercise of my
function as Prime Minister, did I have any knowledge of the
conception of any plan for these massacres, neither before nor
after the assassination of President HABYARIMANA.
(...)
The role of the crisis committee was limited to taking the first
security measures and to ask the advice of the representative of
the Secretary-General of the UN. General DALLAIRE, Commander of
UNAMIR, as well as Colonel MARCHAL, participated in all the
meetings in which those decisions were made. It was unthinkable
to plan the taking of power or genocide and to invite foreigners
into the meetings held for such a thing. General NDINDILIYIMANA
made a complete report to me of the unfolding of the events up
to my entry into office.
(...)
[B]I also swear also that the spread of trouble over the entire
Rwandan territory was not caused by the government or by the
FAR. The infiltrators of the RPF are responsible for that.
We succeeded in capturing their plans, the names of their
agents, and their arms caches in Kigali, Bisesero, Kibungo, etc.
The mass graves dug deep by the accomplices of the RPF were
discovered in many places.[/B] The terrorised population knew of
this and considered it as a threat to their lives.
The government, I at the head, never stopped to explain to the
population that they cannot confuse the Tutsi and the RPF and
that their accomplices must be arrested and brought before the
authorities.[/quote]
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20160416120227/http://www.theproxylake.com/2010/10/genocide-of-tutsis/3/
The following is really the first part of this excellent
investigative reporting...
It sheds some more light on Paul Kagame’s responsibility for
bringing down the plane with Rwandan President Juvenal
Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 (which was the “start” of the mass
murder).
In March 2000, the “National Post” (from Canada) revealed that
the United Nations had a confidential investigation report from
1994, in which former intelligence officer in the Office of the
G2 Rwandan Patriotic Army, Jean-Pierre Mugabe, confirmed that
Paul Kagame was responsible for the attack on the Falcon 50 of
President Habyarimana.
Former US Senator from Georgia, Cynthia McKinney, Bill Clinton’s
special envoy to Central Africa, interpreted the withdrawal of
the defamation lawsuit against Cameroon journalist Charles
Onana, who had accused Kagame for killing Habyarimana, by the
Rwandan authorities as a guilty plea:
[quote]In 2001, I organized as a member of the International
Relations Committee U.S. Senate, a panel discussion on the
attack. I invited CIA analysts, investigators of the ICTR, a
former collaborator of Paul Kagame and several international
experts on terrorism. It became clear during this meeting that
Paul Kagame and members of his army, the Rwandan Patriotic Army
(RPA), were involved in the attack.
When Paul Kagame has waived the trial that he had filed against
Charles Onana, I interpreted this as an admission of guilt.
There is therefore a [NO?] shadow of a doubt that the sponsor of
this despicable and evil act is Paul Kagame.[/quote]
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20160416055717/https://theproxylake.com/2010/10/genocide-of-tutsis/
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: March 31, 2020, 9:33 am
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This is my first post on the second main topic in this thread –
plundering Congo.
The real motive for the Rwandan genocide was installing the RPF
Tutsi puppet regime so that Zaire could be invaded and another
puppet regime could be installed in Zaire, which was renamed to
the “Democratic” Republic of Congo. Many experts describe the
Congo as the richest country in the whole wide world in natural
resources. So that is THE motive!
In 2005, Keith Harmon Snow wrote:
[quote]Paul Kagame 'S Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA)
invaded Rwanda from Uganda in 1990, launching a four-year
campaign of guerrilla warfare. Open support for Rwanda's
then-Hum-led government from French paratroopers failed to
prevent the RPA victory of August 1994, following the
coordinated genocide of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsis
by hard-line Hums (FAR) and affiliated Interahamwe (Hutu)
militias from April to July.
(…)
Paul Kagame, who was trained by the U.S. military at Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, has been a regular visitor at Harvard
University, the James Baker III Institute in Houston, Texas, the
White House, and the Pentagon. U.S., European, and South African
military interests have continued to support various factions in
Central Africa, arming militias and rebel groups through proxy
armies from Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Sudan People's
Liberation Army (SPLA) in south Sudan. France's presence in
Central Africa is based out of Gabon, the major point of French
military penetration on the continent.
(…)
It is important to note that the conflict in Central Africa
revolves not around "governments" so much as militarized power
blocks and multinational corporate alignments which are
transnational. Thus while powerful U.S. government interests may
back the Kagame and Museveni regimes in support of
destabilization of Central Africa and the annexation of the Kivu
and Orientale provinces, other powerful interests-such as the
International Rescue Committee -maintain a constant
international media presence that appears to be in conflict with
that agenda, but which nevertheless exists as a major lobby in
support of or defense of certain interests at the expense of
certain others. Notable personalities on the IRC's Boards of
Directors and Overseers include Morton Abramowitz, Tom Brokaw,
and Henry Kissinger.
(…)
Rwanda and Uganda continue to benefit from high-level military
arrangements with the United States. Entebbe, Uganda is a
forward base for U.S. Air Force operations in Central Africa.
According to the Global Policy watchdog, there are 11 U.S.
service people permanently stationed in Entebbe. Sources in
Uganda and the DRC confirm that weapons move freely through
Entebbe airport from U.S. interests. The BBC reported March 23,
2004 that U.S. General Charles Wald confirmed that the U.S. is
directly involved in the fight against the Lord's Resistance
Army (LRA) in Uganda. "I have met with [Uganda's] President
Museveni,' Wald reported on the BBC. "I have heard personally
that he is very pleased with the support we are giving him ....
Its not just moral support .... But many things need to be kept
a bit more private."
In July 2004, members of the DRC military flew to Tampa, Florida
to participate in an unfolding U.S. "anti-terrorism" military
program called Golden Spear.
The Canadian mining firms Barrick Gold and Heritage Oil & Gas
arrived with the Ugandan and Rwandan military during the "war of
aggression" to exploit mining opportunities in the north.
Barrick principals include former Canadian premier Brian
Mulroney and former U.S. president George H.W. Bush. Heritage
has secured contracts for the vast oil reserves of Semliki
basin, beneath Lake Albert, on both the Congolese and Ugandan
sides of the border. Heritage is reportedly tapping the Semliki
petroleum reserves from the Ugandan side, where a huge pipeline
to Mombasa, Kenya, worth billions of dollars, is now in the
works.[/quote]
HTML http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Africa/Rwanda_Secret_War.html
See Paul Kagame at the US military training camp, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas, 1990.
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It shouldn’t be surprising that the largest gold company in the
world, the Canadian Barrick Gold, founded by the late Peter Munk
(the skiing partner of Prince Charles) and Adnan Khashoggi, with
Nat Rothschild’s on its advisory board is plundering the Congo…
In 2007, Keith Harmon Snow wrote:
[quote]The UPDF Army barracks at Masindi and airstrip at Gulu,
both in Northern Uganda, served as the staging grounds for the
U.S. invasion of Zaire.
(…)
On November 6, 1996, Bill Clinton was elected. Around 10
November 1996 an armored 4×4 Humvee (HUMMWV)—heavily rigged with
sophisticated communications equipment inside and out—was
encountered carrying two black U.S. special forces in the
Murchison Falls region: the soldiers were wearing UPDF uniforms.
Two busloads of black U.S. Special Forces were encountered at a
UPDF checkpoint on the Karuma-Pakwach road; wearing civilian
clothes, with duffel bags, the muscled and crew cut “civilians”
showed U.S. passports and claimed they were “doctors” heading to
the tiny Gulu hospital. From November 21-23 Boeing C-130
military aircraft passed over the region every 30 minutes, 24
hours a day, heading both north and south. The C-130’s
apparently landed at Gulu airstrip—closed by the Museveni
government for a two-week period—and offloaded military
equipment then moved by roads—closed by the UPDF—to the border.
Some C-130’s were charted on a course believed to take them to
Goma, Zaire. From mid-November to February 1997 access to
northwestern Uganda regions was highly restricted. On 1 March
1997 another wave of C-130’s passed over the region. The UPDF
used the LRA threat as cover for massive military operations
involving the invasion of Zaire for the United States of
America.
(…)
The people most responsible for atrocities in the
region—unprecedented human bloodletting, war crimes, crimes
against humanity, and genocide—are protected. These include
Yoweri Museveni, Salim Saleh, Paul Kagame, James Kazini, Moses
Ali, James Kabarebe, Taban Amin, Jean-Pierre Bemba, Laurent
Nkunda, Meles Zenawi… a long list of people whose culpability is
without question, many of whom have been named for atrocities
again and again. U.S. Special Operations forces know what
happened and should be deposed under oath in a legitimate
International Criminal Court, which at present does not exist,
and is not in the making. Ditto for Madeleine Albright, Anthony
Lake, Thomas Pickering, Susan Rice, John Prendergast, General
William Wald, General Frank Toney, Walter Kansteiner, Dick
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Holbrooke, Roger Winter, Frank
G. Wisner, Andrew Young… another short
list.[/quote]
HTML https://dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/darfurism-uganda-and-the-us-war-in-africa/
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See Paul Kagame with Royal Dutch Shell directors in Rwanda.
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In 2000, Lindy de Hoyos, writing for the Executive Intelligence
Review of Lyndon LaRouche, wrote:
[quote]The version presumed in the UN report is false.
Habyarimana was killed by those who intended the full takeover
of Rwanda, to use it as a launching pad into Zaire.[/quote]
The operation began in 1990, with the invasion of Rwanda by the
combined forces of the National Resistance Army of Uganda (of
President Yoweri Museveni); the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF);
and other mercenaries like the Sudanese People’s Liberation and
the African National Congress.
A coalition government in Rwanda, as called for by the Arusha
Accords, was against the plans to takeover the mineral-rich
Zaire (renamed the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
The Rwandan government of President Juvenal Habyarimana had to
be replaced by the militarist Tutsi RPF, so that Rwanda, along
with Burundi and Uganda, could invade Zaire.
RPF’s leaders were coming from the Ugandan military command
structure, RPF leader, and later Rwandan president Paul Kagame
was deputy director of Ugandan military intelligence.
In 1998 and 1999, Human Rights Watch reported on the brutal
treatment of large sections of the Rwandan population.
Diplomats concluded that 100,000 to 250,000 persons were
unaccounted for out of a population of some 1,500,000 in the
districts of Gisenyi and Ruhengeri.
The biggest funders of the genocidal RPF regime of Rwanda were
the World Bank with $80 million of funding; the United Kingdom
which pledged $70 million of funding; the US provided $13
million; the Netherlands contributed $6.7 million:
HTML https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2000/eirv27n05-20000204/eirv27n05-20000204_045-the_hoax_embedded_in_the_un_inqu.pdf
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 1, 2020, 10:46 am
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After the UN had been supporting the genocidal RPF militia that
was subsequently installed as the puppet regime, the UN
continued the propaganda against the Hutu extremists that had
fled into Zaire.
The United Nations reported in November 1998, originally from
Reuters, that: [quote]Fighters from the former Rwandan Hutu army
and its militia supporters have become significant players in
the Democratic Congo, battling alongside President Laurent
Kabila's forces, a new U.N. report said.
Many soldiers from the former Rwandan army, known as ex-FAR, and
their Interahamwe militia allies, were implicated in the 1994
genocide in Rwanda in which more than 500,000 Tutsis and
moderate Hutus were massacred.
(…)
Some of the money also came from drug trafficking. The report
said the Rwandans appeared to be involved in smuggling mandrax,
an hallucinogenic drug, to South Africa from India and other
Asian nations via Kenya.[/quote]
HTML https://reliefweb.int/report/democratic-republic-congo/rwanda-hutu-army-rearms-kabilas-congo-un-says
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The previous report reads like a call to bring “democracy and
peace” to Zaire, of course by starting a brutal war and
installing a puppet regime and calling it, the “Democratic”
Republic of Congo!
While a huge amount of media attention was given to those Hutu
extremist mass murdering innocent Tutsis, I can’t remember
(m)any story on what is now called Africa’s World War
(1998-2003), which involved 9 African countries and resulted in
an estimated 5 million dead people in the Congo.
In January 2001, Dictator Laurent Kabila, who led the guerrilla
movement that overthrew the 32-year regime of Zairian dictator
Mobuto Sese Seko in 1997, was assassinated and his son, Joseph
Kabila, became head of state of the Congo.
Joseph Kabila was “democratically elected” president in 2006 and
2011.
The presidential elections, which should have been held in 2016,
only took place in December 2018. President Kabila was
prohibited from running for a third term under Congo’s
constitution (after he had been head of state for more than 17
years).
Kabila’s Congo signed a bilateral investment treaty with the US.
The US exported pharmaceutical products, poultry, machinery,
used clothing, and wheat to the Congo.
The leading products imported by the US from the Congo are
copper, antiques (what?!?), diamonds, coffee, propane, and
tantalum:
HTML https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-democratic-republic-of-the-congo/
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The next president of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, was accused
of an "electoral coup" by runner-up Martin Fayulu, a former oil
executive, while the Catholic Church said that the result did
not match election polls by its election monitors.
According to the following analysis the chance that the election
results were rigged is 100%, and Fayulu was the real winner in a
landslide:
HTML https://africanarguments.org/2019/01/10/drc-election-results-analysis-implausible/
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And the motive for wanting control of Zaire (Congo) is easy to
find (still lots of people find Syria and Venezuela more
interesting), the Democratic Republic of Congo is widely
considered to be the richest country in the world in natural
resources; estimated to be worth in excess of $24 trillion.
Congo has almost limitless water, from the world's
second-largest river, the Congo, a benign climate and rich soil,
while beneath the soil are abundant deposits of copper, gold,
diamonds, cobalt, uranium, coltan, iron ore, oil and natural
gas.
According to the Congolese government, in 2010 petroleum
products accounted for roughly 90% of the nation’s exports.
Most of Congo’s oil is exploited by foreign corporations, like
Aiteo and Perenco.
The Congo has an estimated 7 billion tons of iron ore located
close to the city of Zanaga; owned by the Xstrata Corporation.
When tires became much used for cars and bicycles, the rubber
came from the Congo.
During World War I, 75% of the copper in bullet casings came
from the Congo.
The uranium for the 2 nuclear bombs dropped on Japan in World
War II, came from the Congo.
The West made Mobutu’s regime borrow billions, which was then
stolen and Congo still has to repay these loans.
In 1997, an alliance of African states, led by Rwanda’s puppet
regime invaded, with millions of victims as a result.
Rwanda's puppet, Laurent Kabila, refused to follow orders, so
Rwanda again invaded, and the African allies now turned on each
other and plunged Congo into a terrible “world war”:
HTML https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-24396390
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Re: Rwanda genocide, Kagame, the RPF and looting the Congo
By: Firestarter Date: April 2, 2020, 10:21 am
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Chinese investment skyrocketed from $1 million in 2000 to $1.6
billion by 2008. China has become a major player in Congo; its
influence is primarily exerted through infrastructure projects
and acquisitions and has formed partnerships with DFID and
delivered loans to Congo’s government.
Former president Joseph Kabila was trained at the military
academy in Beijing.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank
declared Congo bankrupt in 1994 and forced it into
“liberalisation” in the early 2000s.
Congo’s economic crisis forced the government to sign the
Millennium Initiative,
Liberalisation has removed control of economic resources from
Congo, which through offshore companies made it possible for the
elite to loot Congo of its valuable resources, while bribing
politicians and funding violence to keep the population under
control. Liberalisation has extended Kabila’s tenure and as such
was anti-democratic. Kabila provided a favourable environment
for foreign investments (and made a bundle in the process).
Mineral sales contributed heavily to the (second) presidential
campaign in 2011 that cost over $1 billion. Most of the funding
came from Congo, with 40% coming from international donors. The
elections were decried by international observers and Joseph
Kabila won from Etienne Tshisekedi.
The third presidential election cost an estimated $1.4 billion.
In May 2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry (of Skull & Bones),
promised $30 million for the campaign on the condition that
Kabila did not run for a third time.
In 2010, US Congress passed the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform
and Consumer Protection Act, article 1502.
The act imposed that potential buyers report egregious minerals
– like tin, tantalum and tungsten - to the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC), instead of a penalty.
The Act also required supply chain due diligence. The
non-governmental organisation (NGO), Pact, funded by USA Aid
(USAID) described the due diligence approach: [quote]In the
mining sector, Pact works in partnership with government,
industry and civil society to help ensure that minerals make it
to international markets without interference, promoting
development rather than conflict.[/quote]
DFID’s position became more overt; its plan for Congo for
2011–2016 stated: [quote]the portfolio of our projects is
already shifting to deliver a more coherent, focused and
ambitious approach to economic development. We are helping to
build strong and investable business environments in developing
countries and improving access to finance for
entrepreneurs.[/quote]
While the international community has spoken on the tremendous
corruption in the Congo, it has “forgotten” to address the
secrecy of international trade, without which this wouldn’t be
possible on such a large scale.
Global Witness’s “Out of Africa” report estimates that Congo
suffered $1.36 billion in lost revenue during the last election
cycle, which were routed out of Congo through British tax
havens, with several companies involved listed on the London
Stock Exchange.
British Member of Parliament Eric Joyce published a list of 59
shell companies operating in Congo in 2011; 47 of them were
registered in the British Virgin Islands. The Panama Papers
confirm that offshore companies have been widely used in Congo.
The most reported profession in the Panama Papers is
“politician”…
Kabila and his aide Augustine Katumba Mwanke (now deceased) were
increasingly associated with Israeli businessman Dan Gertler,
who is named in more than 200 files in the Panama Papers.
Gertler bought Congolese mining assets and sold them at profits
of thousands percentage points to companies registered in the
British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.
In 2005, Gertler formed Global Enterprises Corporate (GEC),
owned through a company registered in the Isle of Man, the chief
assets of which were 75% of 2 huge copper mining projects in the
province of Katanga (with 25% for Congo’s defunct state company
Gécamines). Gertler’s investment of £3 million was valued at
more than £1 billion.
In 2010, Kabila signed a presidential decree granting oil
concessions in Lake Albert to Caprikat and Foxwhelp, both
associated with Gertler and registered in the British Virgin
Islands by Mossack Fonseca.
Since his arrival in Congo in 1997, Gertler has built an
estimated $2.5 billion empire.
In October 2016, the US Justice Department and SEC fined the
hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Company under the US
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on bribery charges. The company’s
front man in Congo, Dan Gertler, alongside Kabila and his aide
Katumba Mwanke received over $100 million in bribes.
Barnabe Kikaya Bin Karubi responded: [quote]For us an attack on
[Gertler] is an attack on the Congo … Mr. Gertler’s businesses
are legitimate. He pays his taxes, making a good contribution to
our government in monetary terms.[/quote]
Och-Ziff has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $412 million
fine:
HTML https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436597.2018.1447373
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