Monday, 9 November 2015

[AfricaRealities.com] How the International Community and Human Rights Organisations are supporting the genocide in Burundi as they did in Rwanda?

How the International Community and Human Rights Organisations are supporting the genocide in Burundi as they did in Rwanda?

What is happening in Burundi is just the exact repetition of the events that took place in Rwanda from 1990 to 1994. These events are currently supported by Kagame himself.

During the war against Rwanda that took place between 1990 and 1994, Kagame and his Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) had infiltrated many combatants and insurgents into the country. Then the former Government they were fighting against tried to combat RPF's insurgents who were creating insecurity in the country. These insurgents were killing innocent civilian populations through multiple and simultaneous grenade attacks in the whole country. Many politicians were killed by these RPF's insurgents. The insurgents were also harboured by local Tutsi who were supporting RFP's war. Many of these insurgents were arrested and imprisoned by the Police.

However, the International Community and Human Rights Organisations complained to the former Government that the insurgents were being unfairly arrested and that they should be released. Also, Rwanda was under IMF's remedies that created financial, economic and social instability that were beneficial to Kagame and RPF's continuation of war.

The former Government immediately released them. These insurgents returned to the community and resumed to kill innocent civilian people. This is now what is happening in Burundi.

At the same time, Kagame and RPF were advancing in the North committing daily massacres in Byumba Province. In addition to discrimination, apartheid and slavery that the Hutu Community experienced during more than 400 years under the Tutsi monarchy, the above events exacerbated an anti-Tutsi attitudes and tensions that were expressed through informal media and political settings.

The Hutu Community find themselves betrayed by the International Community which was supporting Kagame's war. Then, the Hutu Community decided to find ways of defending itself.

What followed these events supported by the International Community was the genocide. This International community remains the same that has been supporting Kagame during the last 20 years of a regime characterised by human rights violations, oppression of political opponents, mass massacres in DRC, and now in Burundi. Kagame has now been given green light to continue his reign indefinitely as nothing happened. After the additional remaining 19 years of on power, Kagame will again claim that Rwandan people want him and the constitution will be changed again for more years of reign.

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[AfricaRealities.com] Will the West create its next failed state in Burundi?

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Will the West create its next failed state in Burundi?

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KPFA Weekend News, 11.07.2015

Charles Kambanda told KPFA that the West is trying to create a failed state whose resources will then be easier to control.

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KPFA Weekend News Anchor Sharon Sobotta: After a failed coup attempt followed by six months of armed insurrection in the streets of Burundi's capital, Bumjumbura, the government issued an ultimatum, offering amnesty to insurgents who would lay down their arms by today, Saturday, November 7th. KPFA's Ann Garrison has the story.

KPFA/Ann Garrison: Burundi is a tiny, landlocked nation bordering Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Tanzania deep in the heart of Africa. Its Hutu-Tutsi-and-Twa social groupings mirror those of neighboring Rwanda and the two nations' political struggles have long been intertwined.

After Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza's ultimatum to insurrectionists to lay down their arms, US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, and the International Crisis Group, a think tank headed by Western military, government and corporate officials, warned of massacres like those in Rwanda in 1994. In contrast, Charles Kambanda, Rwandan American attorney and former professor at the National University of Rwanda, describes the conflict as political and its larger context as an East/West power struggle for resources.

Charles Kambanda: What is really happening in Burundi is no different than what happened in DRC, in Congo. We have these multinational corporations, Western corporations, fighting for natural resources in that region. The best way for these companies to conquer these natural resources is to create a situation where no government is in control. Burundi is now known for a type of natural resource called nickel and they say six percent of the world's nickel is in Burundi. And if we want to remember the geography of that region, Burundi borders with Congo, and Congo, the other side, is so rich in minerals. So we have these corporations fighting to control Burundi, to create a failed state in Burundi, so that they can get involved in illegal business in that region.

But also, it is known that the Burundian government signed a contract with a Russian corporation to exploit the nickel in Burundi. The U.S. corporations that were interested in this contract did not get it. So we have this fight now because some politicians who are sponsored by these corporations don't want their clients to lose that contract. On the other hand, Russia is saying "We cannot lose our resources in Burundi."

This difference on the ground is what we see at the UN, United Nations Security Council. The spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary General made it clear that the Council will never reach an agreement over Burundi issues because the superpowers are divided into two clear groups about Burundi, which is why the Western media is out there to present the government of Burundi as a failed government.

KPFA: President Nkurunziza and his government said that Burundian security forces would begin house to house searches for illegal weapons and insurgents who refuse to lay down their arms by today's end.

The International Crisis Group called for US and other donor nations to commit support for a quote/unquote: "African-led peace implementation mission" in Burundi, but the regional will for such a mission has thus far been lacking. The US and EU have succeeded in enlisting the African Union Peace and Security Council but not the East African Community or the South African Development Community.

Charles Kambanda also said that many in the region fear that if Hillary Clinton becomes president, she will instigate war and chaos in the region in the interest of US hegemony.

In Berkeley, for Pacifica, KPFA and AfrobeatRadio, I'm Ann Garrison.

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"Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate. Only Love Can Do That", Dr. Martin Luther King.

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