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Tuesday 22 September 2020

Rwanda - L'éloge du sang - Les crimes du Front patriotique rwandais

Rwanda - L'éloge du sang - Les crimes du Front patriotique rwandais 

Judi Rever : « Je n'ai plus peur des menaces de Kigali !»

 

https://youtu.be/3vk8uNN7JhA

 

Rwanda - L'éloge du sang - Les crimes du Front patriotique rwandais (Essais-documents)



Ouvrage d'investigation époustouflant, réalisé par une journaliste au péril de sa vie, qui apporte un éclairage profondément troublant sur le génocide rwandais, où apparaît l'importance du rôle du Chef de l'Etat rwandais actuel Paul Kagame. "Un ouvrage indispensable dans un monde qui n'a reconnu que la moitié de l'histoire du génocide rwandais. Terry Gould, winner of the CJFE Tara Singh Hayer Press Freedom Award.

"C'est le récit sans faille d'une des catastrophes humaines du vingtième siècle les plus impitoyables et les plus cyniquement exploitées. Linden MacIntyre, award-winning broadcast journalist "Qui restera un ouvrage de référence sur le Rwanda pour les décennies à venir. Anjan Sundaram, journalist Le travail de Judi Rever repose sur des entretiens sans précédent avec des déserteurs du FPR, d'anciens soldats et des survivants d'atrocités, ainsi que sur des documents issus du Tribunal pénal international pour le Rwanda (TPIR.) Il permet de retracer l'histoire complète du génocide rwandais. Le livre a gagné le prix Mavis Gallant (Quebec Writer's Federation) et le Huguenot Society of Canada Award (Ontario Historical Society). Le livre a été finaliste pour le prestigieux Hilary Weston Prize, (Writers' Trust Canada)


Friday 11 September 2020

Rwanda: What is the real cause of arresting Paul Rusesabagina?

What is the real cause of arresting  Paul Rusesabagina ?

Paul Rusesabagina was arrested because the dictator Paul Kagame doesn't want to hear that there is any  Rwandan who could be considered as a hero. Paul Kagame is the only Rwandan hero because  the media claims that he stopped the genocide that he started.

So, Paul Rusesabagina being known as hero is a crime he will be punished for. Furthermore, Kagame has always claimed in the French media that there is not any other Rwandan who is available, able and ready to succeed him. Anyone trying to  find ways to replace  Kagame through political means will pay a heavy price.

All world dictators  worked and behaved in the same way !

Read more:

Rwanda: Rusesabagina Was Forcibly Disappeared

Violations of Prominent Critic's Rights Raise Fair Trial Concerns

Rwanda: Rusesabagina Was Forcibly Disappeared





Saturday 5 September 2020

Le silence de Jeune Afrique sur la situation du dictateur Paul Kagame confirme bel et bien que celui-ci est mort.

Le silence de Jeune Afrique sur la situation du dictateur Paul Kagame confirme bel et bien que  celui-ci est mort

Jeune Afrique,  étant la bouche de Paul Kagame et Mushikiwabo, n'a encore rien dit sur les rumeurs de la mort ou l'incapacité de Paul Kagame de remplir ses fonctions.  Si  Paul Kagame n'avait pas de problèmes, il est  tout à fait sûr que Jeune Afrique l'aurait dit  pour démentir les rumeurs. Jeune Afrique aurait  organisé une interview avec Kagame pour démontrer qu'il est vivant. Jeune Afrique ne sait  pas où se trouve  son patron Paul Kagame. Le deuil a déjà commencé chez Jeune Afrique et il durera très longtemps.

Pourtant tout ce qui est écrit sur le Rwanda qui ne plaint pas le régime de Kagame est considéré  par Jeune Afrique comme «  controversé ». Example : 'Paul Rusesabagina   opposant héros est controverse', 'le livre controversé de Judi Rever', etc, etc.

Jeune Afrique a toujours combattu l'opposition au régime de Kagame depuis la prise du pouvoir  par Kagame par des moyens meurtriers.  Le Président Habyarimana payait lui aussi Jeune Afrique pour des interviews officiels. Pour maintenir ces paiements il a fallu que Jeune Afrique combatte sans merci l'opposition au régime dictatorial de  Paul Kagame. Une autre raison :  Kagame  verse plus  d'argent que l'ancien Président Habyarimana. Voila comment le Rwanda a toujours nourri les enfants et les familles des employés de  Jeune Afrique.

Jeune Afrique a été le facilitateur de Kagame dans la dissémination  des fausses données économiques  sur  la Rwanda, en particulier dans  la propagande concernant  le miracle rwandais caractérisé par le développement  économique spectaculaire. Pourtant depuis 26 ans que Paul Kagame est au pouvoir, le régime de Kagame n'est même pas arrivé à 1/3 du développement économie que la Rwanda avait atteint avant la prise du pouvoir par Paul  Kagame.

 

 

 

 

Friday 4 September 2020

Detained Hotel Rwanda hero betrayed by SADC president

A man whose heroism was depicted in the Hollywood film Hotel Rwanda has been arrested on terrorism charges, Rwandese police have said.

Paul Rusesabagina, 66, was paraded in handcuffs in front of the media at the Rwanda Investigations Bureau in Kigali on Mondaym, financing terrorism, arson kidnap and murder", bureau spokesman Thierry Murangira said.

Rusesabagina was played by US actor Don Cheadle in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, which tells the story of how he sheltered Tutsis fleeing slaughter in the hotel he managed.

He moved abroad following the 1994 genocide and received international acclaim for his campaigning, and is a well-known critic of President Paul Kagame

Rusesabagina was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom – the highest civilian honour in America – by former US President George W Bush in 2005.

But back home he sparked outrage when he warned of another genocide – this time by the Tutsis against the Hutus.

The Watchdog understands that he was actually betrayed by a named president of a country in SADC. He was duped that he was being flown to meet this particular president in his country but was instead delivered to Kagame. The named president is believed to be funding rebels in Rwanda but is now trying to mend fences with Kagame


Wednesday 2 September 2020

Rwandan government accused of abducting Paul Rusesabagina

Rwandan government accused of abducting Paul Rusesabagina

 Inspiration for Hotel Rwanda film paraded in Kigali after allegedly being taken from Dubai

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/01/hotel-rwanda-activist-paul-rusesabagina-kidnapped-from-dubai

 Rwandan government accused of abducting Paul Rusesabagina

Inspiration for Hotel Rwanda film paraded in Kigali after allegedly being taken from Dubai

Paul Rusesabagina is detained in front of media in handcuffs in Kigali, Rwanda.
 Paul Rusesabagina is detained in front of media in handcuffs in Kigali, Rwanda. Photograph: Clement Uwiringiyimana/Reuters

The family of Paul Rusesabagina, a businessman whose role in saving more than 1,000 lives inspired the film Hotel Rwanda, have accused the east African country's authorities of kidnapping the 66-year-old from Dubai.

On Monday, Rusesabagina, who is an outspoken critic of President Paul Kagame, was paraded in handcuffs by Rwandan investigators before media in the capital, Kigali, accused of terrorism-related crimes.

Rusesabagina was the general manager of a luxury hotel in Kigali during the 1994 genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed with knives, clubs and other weapons. The vast majority of the victims were from the Tutsi minority, though some Hutu moderates also died.

The 2004 film told the story of how Rusesabagina, a middle-class Hutu married to a Tutsi, used both his influence and bribe ry to save the lives of 1,200 people who sheltered at the Mille Collines hotel in the capital during the worst of the massacres.

Rwand an authorities have said Rusesabagina was arrested on what they described as "an international warrant" and is accused of being "the founder, leader, sponsor and member of violent, armed, extremist terror outfits … operating out of various places in the region and abroad."

Rusesabagina's adopted daughter, Carine Kanimba, said she last spoke with him before he flew to Dubai last week but she did not know the exact nature of his trip.

Kanimba said his family was informed early on Monday that he was being held in Rwanda but they had not been able to speak to him.

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"We're hoping to secure his release quickly and safely," she said. "What they're accusing him of is all made up. There is no evidence to what they're claiming. We know this is a wrongful arrest."

Another daughter, Anaise, told BBC World Service radio that her father had last called them on Thursday from Dubai.

"I believe he was kidnapped because he would never go to Rwanda of his own will," Anaise told the BBC.

Rusesabagina lives in Belgium and the US, where he was honoured by a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honour, by the then president George W Bush in 2005.

He has been an increasingly outspoken critic of Kagame, and has been accused by Rwandan prosecutors of having links to rebel groups in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo which have been blamed by officials for cross-border attacks.

In 2010, Rusesabagina spoke out against the jailing of the opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, and four years ago he announced a political campaign against the government, which he called a dictatorship.

A statement from investigators described charges against him including terrorism, arson, kidnap and "murder perpetrated against unarmed, innocent Rwandan civilians on Rwandan territory". The details of his detention remain unclear.

Kagame maintains a close relationship with Dubai .

The government has previously been accused of hunting down dissidents overseas. South African investigators have said the government was directly involved in the killing of Patrick Karegeya, an outspoken critic, in Johannesburg in 2014.

Kagame said afterwards: "Any person still alive who may be plotting against Rwanda, whoever they are, will pay the price."

Rusesabagina has previously denied the government's claims that he funds Rwandan rebels, and has urged western countries to press the government to respect human rights.

Kagame is largely credited with the development and stability Rwanda has experienced since the genocide, but he is also accused of extreme authoritarianism .

In 2017, Kagame won a landslide victory in a presidential election, securing a third term in office with almost 99% of votes cast.

The Rwandan government disputes Rusesabagina's story about saving people during the genocide, and Ibuka, a Rwandan genocide survivors' group, has in the past said Rusesabagina, who runs a humanitarian foundation, exaggerated his own role in helping people escape the genocide.

Katrina Lantos Swett, the president of the Lantos Foundation for Human Rights and Justice, said: "I believe it is a travesty that a human rights champion like Paul Rusesabagina should be captured, detained and held in the way he is being held. This should raise a lot of deep concern and scepticism on behalf of a lot of people."








Fw: [uRwanda_rwacu] Paul Rusesabagina: UAE denies knowledge of Hotel Rwanda film hero's arrest - CNN


UAE denies knowledge of Hotel Rwanda film hero's arrest as family raise 'kidnap' fears

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(CNN)The United Arab Emirates has denied any involvement in the arrest of Hotel Rwanda film hero Paul Rusesabagina, saying he left Dubai legally last Friday on a private jet bound for the East African country.

After landing in Dubai on Thursday, Rusesabagina went to a hotel, said the official, before taking off five hours later from Al Maktoum airport just after midnight.

"Mr. Paul came and left legally," the UAE official told CNN.

A longtime critic of President Paul Kagame's rule, his travel immediately raises questions why he got on the jet, knowing he would face charges in Rwanda. 

Days after his departure from Dubai, the 66-year-old human rights activist surfaced in Rwanda, paraded in handcuffs, facing terror related charges.

A spokesman for the Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) Thierry Murangira, speaking from Kigali, would not go into details about how and where Rusesabagina was apprehended, saying that he has to answer "charges of serious crime.."

"This was done with international cooperation subject to an international arrest warrant," he said.

However, the UAE official confirmed that there is no agreement between the Gulf state and Rwanda to extradite criminals or wanted people.

They said that Rusesabagina had visited Dubai twice in the last few years and that he raised no suspicions from authorities in the UAE, because he wasn't on any wanted lists.

The RIB did not respond to queries about the apparent discrepancies.

Family kidnap fears

Rusesabagina's family told CNN that they believe he was kidnapped, but have no proof of this.

The new information coming from the UAE deepens the mystery of his arrest and raises new questions about claims made by Rwandan authorities. 

Rusesabagina, travelling on his own, arrived in Dubai on an Emirates flight from Chicago last Thursday evening, said the official. 

Sometime that same evening Rusesabagina checked in by phone with his wife and daughter, the family told CNN. 

"That is the last time we talked to him, that is the last time we heard from him and ever since, it has just been silence," said his son, Trésor Rusesabagina. 

He said he was surprised that his father had even ventured to the UAE.

Though his father did travel extensively, he had recently curtailed his trips because of the pandemic, and the family had long feared the formidable intelligence network of the Rwandan government. 

"I was shocked to hear he was in Dubai, that he was anywhere near Africa," he said. 

Rwandan agents have regularly followed Paul Rusesabagina for over a decade, invading his home and threatening his life, they claimed.

His family are also concerned for his health because he is a cancer survivor and heart patient who requires daily medication.

They have not had contact with him since his disappearance and have requested to visit him immediately.

The RIB and Rwandan leadership figures said earlier that the charges that Rusesabagina faces are unrelated to politics.

The RIB says he is accused of supporting terror groups, calling for violence, and involvement in specific acts of terror.

Pressed on those specifics, on Tuesday RIB spokesperson Murangira told CNN that the investigation centered around alleged crimes against civilians in two Rwandan districts in June and December 2018.

Murangira said that an investigator has 15 days to determine whether Rusesabagina should stay in custody, that he has the right to a lawyer, and the right to speak to his family.

Rusesabagina -- who gained prominence for saving 1,200 Rwandans during the country's genocide by sheltering them in the hotel he managed -- inspired the acclaimed 2004 Hollywood film starring Don Cheadle and Sophie Okonedo.
Rusesabagina and his supporters have long maintained that he became a target of President Kagame's government after sustained criticism of the regime and the conduct of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in ending the genocide in 1994.

Around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in the Rwandan genocide, which was led by Hutu extremists.

Opposition voices silenced

Rusesabagina also holds Belgian citizenship and a US Green Card, says his family and foundation. A US State Department official told CNN that they are aware of his arrest and are monitoring the situation.

He has not lived in Rwanda since 1996, when he survived an assassination attempt.

While widely praised for transforming Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide, Kagame has also faced widespread criticism for human rights abuses and silencing opposition voices.

Opposition politicians in Rwanda have often found themselves jailed on what they say are trumped-up charges for standing against Kagame in polls.

In one of the more widely publicized cases, Diane Rwigara and her mother were jailed when the former attempted to run for president in the same election as Kagame in 2017.

Rwigara was acquitted of all charges including insurrection and forging of documents in 2018.

Victoire Ingabire, the leader of the FDU-Inkingi party, was jailed in 2010 for charges that included collaborating with a terrorist organization, "divisionism," "minimizing the genocide" and "genocide ideology."

She had returned to the country from the Netherlands to contest in the 2010 presidential elections after years of living abroad but was barred from running, and served eight years of a 15-year prison sentence before receiving a presidential pardon in 2018.

Rusesabagina is the recipient of several human rights awards for his efforts during the genocide, including the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 and the Human Rights Prize by the Lantos Foundation in 2011, among others.

CNN's Stephanie Busari and Eoin McSweeney contributed to this report.



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