Rwanda: Who’s denying genocide?

Rwanda: Who's denying genocide? May 9, 2011 (http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-whos-denying-genocide/) Select LanguageAfrikaansAlbanianArabicBelarusianBulgarianCatalanChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)CroatianCzechDanishDutchEstonianFilipinoFinnishFrenchGalicianGermanGreekHaitian CreoleHebrewHindiHungarianIcelandicIndonesianIrishItalianJapaneseKoreanLatvianLithuanianMacedonianMalayMalteseNorwegianPersianPolishPortugueseRomanianRussianSerbianSlovakSlovenianSpanishSwahiliSwedishThaiTurkishUkrainianVietnameseWelshYiddish Powered by Translate by the International Humanitarian Law Institute (IHLI) The 2010 U.N. Mapping Exercise Report, U.N. Prosecutor Del Ponte's 2009 exposé of Rwandan Patriotic Front crimes, and the 2008 Spanish genocide indictment of President Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front tell the real story Rwandan Chief Prosecutor Martin Ngoga – Photo: AFP St. Paul, Minn. – In a May 2 statement reported by the Associated Press, Rwandan Prosecutor Martin Ngoga renewed the false "genocide denial" charges against International Humanitarian Law Institute Director and William Mitchell College of Law Professor Peter Erlinder for his U.S.-authored academic writings, reporting evidence and documents in the record at the U.N.'s International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda, or ICTR. Rwanda declared Erlinder "suicidal" while he was incarcerated in Rwanda, in May and June 2010, after he traveled there to consult with opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, facing "genocide ideology" charges brought against her for challenging the official history of the Rwanda Genocide, which has been re-characterized as a "Tutsi genocide." Upon her return to Rwanda in January 2010, Ingabire had gone to the genocide memorial in Kigali and asked why the Hutu people who died during the genocide were not commemorated as well as the Tutsis. Erlinder was released for medical reasons after an international campaign to free him and intervention by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The International Humanitarian Law Institute (IHLI) is authorized to issue the following statement on Professor Erlinder's behalf: Professor Erlinder has publicly stated, on numerous occasions, that he does not deny that tens of thousands of Rwandan Tutsis perished between April and July 1994, in circumstances that fit the definition of the 1948 U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Nor does he deny U.N. reports that tens of thousands of Hutus were also victims, during and after April-July 1994. IHLI research notes this evidence in the public record: • Former ICTR prosecution expert witnesses, Professor Allan Stam of the University of Michigan and Professor Christian Davenport of Notre Dame, analyzed all reports from the Rwandan government, NGOs and the U.N. and found twice as many Hutus were killed as Tutsis between April and July 1994, http://www.genodynamics.com/; • The ICTR Military-1 Judgment (full version: Feb. 8, 2009) found insufficient evidence to convict the former military leadership of a long-planned conspiracy to commit genocide against the Tutsis or a long-planned conspiracy to commit any other crimes; • The U.S. ambassador to Rwanda and declassified U.S. documents from 1994 establish that: (a) the assassination of the President of Burundi in October 1993 triggered a "genocide of 150,000 Burundian Hutus;" (b) hundreds of thousands of Burundian Hutu refugees then poured into Rwanda; (c) Rwandan Patriotic Front military aggression displaced 1.5 million Rwandans in early 1993; and (d) the Rwandan Patriotic Front assassinated the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi in April 1994. And that these were the actual causes of the Rwanda Genocide. The U.S. Ambassador to Rwanda personally warned Kagame in November 1993 that, if he resumed the war, he would be responsible for mass violence in Rwanda in 1994 like that in Burundi in 1993. This was confirmed by cables from the State Department on April 7, 1994; • U.N. documents show that the RPF was militarily dominant as of February 1993 and, according to U.N. Gen. Dallaire's cables to the U.N. in April-June 1994, Kagame refused to stop the violence because he was winning; • Former ICTR Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte's 2009 memoirs document then-Gen. Kagame's culpability for the assassination of the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi of April 6, 1994, that began the Rwandan Genocide, as does the 2008 indictment issued by Spanish Judge Fernando Abreu Merelles and the 2006 indictment of French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière; • The Spanish indictment also describes, prefecture-by-prefecture, 325,000 murders of Hutus and Tutsis for which Kagame and the RPF are responsible, not including the massive killing after 1994, in both Rwanda and neighboring Congo; • Shortly after Erlinder's release, the U.N. issued the 600-page "Mapping Report" documenting the Rwandan Patriotic Army's genocidal massacres, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Democratic Republic of Congo between 1993 and 2003. U.N. Security Council Reports document RPF resource rape of the Congo in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2008 of at least $250 million per year, resulting in millions of deaths. In October 2010, President Kagame issued orders to RPF leaders for Professor Erlinder's return to Rwanda "dead or alive." Given the hundreds if not thousands of assassinations and disappearances of his opponents, there is little doubt Kagame would add his name to that list if he could. Professor Erlinder has been under medical treatment for post-traumatic stress syndrome since he returned from detention, and this is a matter of record in the ICTR, although the Appeal Chamber chose to ignore his medical condition. His doctors and lawyers will determine the proper response, should he be summoned to return as Ngoga threatened. Click here to download Professor Peter Erlinder's analysis and documentation published in the DePaul University Law School Journal of Justice: "The United Nations Ad Hoc Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR-TPIR): International justice or judicially-constructed victors' impunity?" You may also like - Rwanda Genocide: Erlinder v. Kagame in the court of public opinionRwanda Genocide: Excuse for predator drones over Africa?Kagame's prisons, courts and killing spots: Ingabire, the Netherlands and the West Related Posts Rwanda Genocide: Excuse for predator drones over Africa? Rwanda Genocide: Erlinder v. Kagame in the court of public opinion Kagame court again denies bail to Victoire Ingabire Law Professor Jwani Mwaikusa: Martyr for truth at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR)? Ingabire's appeal: Stand with Rwanda as with Prof. Erlinder __._,_.___

UK-Monster behind genocide and rape squads - By Ian Birrell

Who is Andrew Mitchell?

UK Foreign aid, Rwanda, Andrew Mitchell and David Cameron.

Andrew Mitchell is the UK Secretary of State for International Development who has no experience in international development and economic development.  This man   knows Rwanda only.  Every year he takes his summer holiday in Rwanda. In November 2008, Andrew Mitchell said on BBC that there were no Hutu refugees massacres in Congo Democratic Republic.  Andrew Mitchell said that refugees were killed by hunger and diseases while they were Congo Democratic Republic. This is a man who has no empathy toward the poor, the weak and the disadvantaged.  This means that Andrew Mitchell dismisses the UN Mapping Report findings about human rights abuses, genocide and massacres of refugees who fleeing Kagame.

David Cameron and Andrew Mitchell know that Britain's influence is diminishing around the world. They only option that they have to keep some British influence is foreign aid.  Their foreign aid has becomes the tool for advancing British influence and interests around the world. PM David Cameron has consistently said that British Foreign aid helps Britain to advance   British interests.

In Rwanda, British foreign aid is for bribing Kagame to continue to help Britain in promoting British linguistic interests in African Great Lakes Region.

So, Is UK foreign for helping the poor in developing countries or for advancing British interests in these countries?

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Monster behind genocide and rape squads

By Ian Birrell

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Kagame has created what one observer calls a well-managed ethnic, social and economic dictatorship

Women and children – desperately sick and weak after months on the run – were finally caught by Rwandan army commander Papy Kamanzi.

He told them he would give them food and then send them home.

But he now admits he was lying and says: 'We took them instead into the forest and killed them with a small hatchet.'

Kamanzi despatched scores with a blow to the back of the skull. As the bloodbath went on, his soldiers' methods became cruder. 'We could kill more than 100 a day,' he said.

'We used ropes – it was the fastest way and we didn't spill blood. Two of us would place a guy on the ground, wrap a rope around his neck once, then pull hard.

'The victim's windpipe would break and they would be strangled silently to death.'

The reason this young commander in an elite unit and father of two young children carried out these horrific massacres of Congolese is simple.

In a chilling refrain, so familiar from the darkest deeds in history, he says: 'We were ordered to do it.'

Kamanzi's story should be heard by all Western apologists for the suspected architect of these atrocities, Rwanda's brutal autocratic ruler, President Kagame.

This includes Britain's International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell.

For while world leaders and the aid lobby fawn over Kagame the reality of his repressive regime is becoming clearer by the day.

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Handshake: Andrew Mitchell and Paul Kagame at a previous meeting

This is a man who launched a war with neighbouring Congo in 1996 which led to more than five million deaths and tore Congo apart – and has used British taxpayers' money to silence his critics.

Papy Kamanzi's death squad was operating in the Congolese jungle, where it was guilty of acts of genocide.

His story is told in Dancing In The Glory Of Monsters, a brilliant new book about the collapse of the Congo by an American author who has spent ten years in the country.

A United Nations investigation found Kagame's army and its allies killed tens of thousands of innocent refugees.

This is a terrible indictment of the Rwandan president who came to power by ending his own country's bloody civil war in 1994 between the Hutus and Tutsis.

Following the slaughter of a staggering one million mainly Tutsi civilians in less than a year, Kagame led the army which overthrew the Hutu militias responsible for the genocide and seized power.

At the time he was seen as a liberator. Ever since, he has skilfully exploited international sympathy for Rwanda's tragic recent history to stifle dissent at home and win friends, influence and money abroad.

As huge amounts of foreign aid poured in, he has overseen impressive economic growth, promoted the interests of women and eradicated corruption.

This is the Rwanda that so beguiles visiting Western politicians and aid agencies – the lush land of a thousand hills, of gourmet coffee, gorilla tourism and hi-tech ambitions.

They believe this nation's 'success story' could be the answer the swelling chorus of critics who question what has been achieved for all the billions of aid money.

But this desperate desire for good news out of Africa has ensured that for too long, too many people who should know better have ignored grotesque human rights abuses. The whiff of hypocrisy hangs heavy in the air.

First and foremost on the charge sheet is Rwanda's long involvement in neighbouring Congo. It has twice invaded, fought proxy wars with brutal militias and profited from the proceeds of stolen minerals.

Mass rape was commonplace. The gruesome lexicon now includes words such as 're-rape' – for women who have been repeatedly raped – and 'auto-cannibalism' – where victims are forced to eat their own flesh.

President Kagame should no longer be able to avoid blame despite protestations that his regime was merely tracking down remnants of mass-murdering Hutu militias.

Kagame has created what one observer calls 'a well-managed ethnic, social and economic dictatorship'. People speak of a climate of fear, where the wrong words can lead to incarceration – or worse.

Last year's election was a sham, with the regime jailing political rivals and closing newspapers, using institutions shamefully funded by British aid to win with 93 per cent of the vote.

One opponent was beheaded shortly before the election.

Tony Blair :Advises the Rwandan government and uses Kagame's private jet - he sent the president a note of congratulations

Despite widespread international concern, Tony Blair – who advises the Rwandan government and uses Kagame's private jet – sent the president a note of congratulations.

As for the Tories, they invited Kagame to address their party conference four years ago after Mr Mitchell had taken a group of party volunteers to Rwanda.

Now, as international development minister, he remains among the regime's most fervent supporters.

What makes Mr Mitchell's visit so shocking is that it comes just weeks after Scotland Yard warned two Rwandan dissidents living in Britain that their lives were in danger from hit squads sent by Kagame's government.

One of those targets is Rene Mugenzi, a Liberal Democrat activist. He says the Rwandan government 'wants to kill' him and he feels betrayed because the British government both refuses to condemn the threat to his life and continues to send aid.

'Now Mr Mitchell goes out there as if nothing has happened,' he says.

Meanwhile, there have been persistent reports of murders and assassination attempts of people who have fallen out with Kagame.

Paul Rusesabagina, a heroic Rwandan hotel manager who saved 1,268 people amid the hell of genocide, is one of those who has been declared 'an enemy of the state'.

He says: 'I'll continue to speak out about the need for genuine reconciliation and real peace in our country.'

Brave words that shame Andrew Mitchell as he is the guest of a man accused of sending death squads to kill British citizens.

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Kagame threatens UN withdraw "his own army" as he did on Karenzi's case in Darfour last year

28 August 2010 Last updated at 23:11 GMT, Why is Kagame's gvment re-threatening UN to withdraw army and police? Instead of discussing the truth in substance containing in "UN report" !, Kigali could affront in law the case if they  are clean. Are soldiers and police children(or slaves) of Kagame him self? or of the state ? Do you Remember that,when UN pressured in Karenzi Karake's case accused of war crimes(in France,Spain) ,the former second chief commander in Darfour, Kagame and his governement threatened to withdraw rwandese army from Soudan. The game has gained,UN pulled down and waites the end of his mandate, than the scene begins again in favour of great impunity, world injustice instead of the universal justice. Fortunately, RPF Kagame's regime does big business in UN Mission Darfour,for ex : they drink "TRISTAR/RPF's water Inyange"from Kigali, they took 1/3 of all employee,soldier salary from UN Mission !!! Why does Kagame  fears free and fair justice ???? L'histoire est têtue et rattrapera quiconque! Share News: Rwanda threatens UN over DR Congo 'genocide' report Rwandan and Congolese troops are accused of slaughtering Hutu refugees Rwanda has threatened to withdraw co-operation with the UN if a draft report criticising its army is published. Kigali said it would reconsider its contributions to UN peacekeeping missions, dismissing claims in the UN report as "insane". The document accuses Rwanda's Tutsi-led army of killing Hutus in Democratic Republic of Congo in the 1990s - acts it says may amount to genocide. Extremist Hutus killed an estimated 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda during 1994. But the UN draft report, which was leaked on Friday, says in the years following the genocide, the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan army went into neighbouring Zaire (now DR Congo) and killed tens of thousands of ethnic Hutus - including women, children and the elderly. Continue reading the main story Troublesome neighbours April-June 1994: Genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda June 1994: Tutsi rebels take power in Rwanda, Hutus flee into Zaire (now DR Congo) Rwanda's army enters eastern Zaire to pursue Hutu fighters 1997: Laurent Kabila's AFDL, backed by Rwanda, takes power in Kinshasa Analysis: Defining genocide Q&A: DR Congo conflict Profile: Rwanda President Kagame UN urges action over Congo rapes It emerged on Saturday that Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo had responded to the report earlier this month, sending a strongly worded letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. In the letter, obtained by journalists in the US, she criticised the sourcing and methodology of UN investigators. She concluded: "Attempts to take action on this report - either through its release or leaks to the media - will force us to withdraw from Rwanda's various commitments to the United Nations, especially in the area of peacekeeping." Rwanda contributes thousands of peacekeepers to the joint UN-African Union mission in the Sudanese region of Darfur, and the commander of the force is a Rwandan. Analysts say the possible withdrawal of these troops would be a massive blow, especially as it comes at a time of increased violence in Darfur. Rwandan officials have always said their forces entered the former Zaire, now DR Congo, to pursue the Hutu militias responsible for carrying out mass killings of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Rwanda's Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama told the BBC's Network Africa programme that there was no way Kigali's troops had killed civilians. "Anybody who would suggest the RPA [Rwandan Army] could do something close to genocide, would be called in this country... mad, insane," he said. The government was considering what action to take, said Mr Karugarama, who labelled the report a "stab in the back". The UN report covers the wider conflict in DR Congo, which dragged in several neighbouring countries in what has been called "Africa's world war". The document lists alleged rights violations by security forces from all the countries involved. It accuses Congolese troops of involvement in the slaughter of ethnic Hutus - both Rwandan refugees and Congolese Hutus. The final UN High Commission for Human Rights report is due to be made public in the next few days.

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Rwandan butcher Kagame wins a round (http://www.africandictator.org/?p=3387) July 26, 2011 | Filed under: Features | Posted by: Herman As the British say, wonder never cease. The UK International Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, yesterday (25 July 2011)landed in Rwanda to join fellow conservatives on annual voluntary work in Rwanda. Amazing! We had put a bet of one cow if Andrew Mitchell went to shake hands with the devil, the butcher of Rwanda General Kagame. We reasoned that the Butcher of Rwanda is beyond redemption given his near-total isolation due to his recent actions. We lost the bet. The Kagame sycophants who taunted us that Mitchell will visit their hero the butcher of Rwanda can now collect their cow. You win some you lose some. The Rwandan dictator will no doubt claim this visit as an endorsement to his murderous regime. But Mr Dictator, as you continue your charm offensive, the voices committed to exposing your true colours will not cease. These voices include Rwandan Diaspora in UK that was recently warned by Scotland Yard of imminent danger posed by Kagame kIlling machine. We read from http://www.umuvugizi.com/ that Uganda's Kaguta Museveni you have been desperately attempting to win over will also visit you shortly. No doubt you will claim his visit too as a victory and an endorsement to your crazy agendas – if he lands in your shiny Capital City, Kigali. Gloat as you wish. But as we pay our one cow bet, we would make another bet that you don't sleep in one place. You are a haunted man. The people you harass, intimidate and kill are haunting you. Superficially the visits of Andrew Mitchell and President Museveni will allow you and your sycophants to claim a victory in your propaganda war. You will sing loudly that you are an African 'leader'. You are not. And they know it. Paul Kagame, you recently declared yourself to be an unstoppable elephant that bulldozes its way to the water. In this scenario of yours, those who try to engage you to stop your excesses are useless noise-making frogs. The silver lining is that these guests, no matter their own agendas, bring warnings to you Mr Dictator that if you go on with your killing rampage, the over-confident and powerful elephant might meet an unexpected end. Thanks to the persistent frogs' noise that alert the entire animal kingdom to rebel against the murderous bully. History shows many such examples Mr Elephant Sir – including your predecessor, Dictator Habyarimana. Related posts: Dictatorship is a Family Business Is Bingu wa Mutharika the latest African Dictator? President Kagame: Mr. Clean or Conman? British Snub for Butcher of Rwanda (1.000) Forget Gaddafi. Blair's NEW best friend is a despot guilty of even bloodier slaughter (0.059) Rwandan Constitutional Law & Oppression of Political Opposition & Dissidents (0.059) Who is Paul Kagame (0.059) Why do they soil themselves with African Dictators? (0.059) Shortlink:

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OPJDR expects the UNHCHR report on Human Rights abuses in DRC between

His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon September 2, 2010

UN Secretary-General Nº 29/J/PK/910

760 United Nations Plaza,

Manhattan, NY 10017

New York, NY 10017

Re: OPJDR expects the UNHCHR report on Human Rights abuses in DRC between

March 1993 and June 2003 to be officially released as it was drafted without any

distortion on the content and that a genuine action be taken thereafter.

Excellency,

The Organization for Peace , Justice and Development in Rwanda (OPJDR), Inc; a

human rights organization based in US with area of interest being the Great Lakes region

of Africa, has just read the draft of the report from United Nations High Commission for

Human Rights (UNHCHR) detailing serious violations of human rights and international

humanitarian law, including crimes of genocide perpetrated by the current army of

Rwanda, Rwanda Patriotic Army, against Hutu refugees in DRC between 1996 and 1998.

OPJDR welcomes this report but was disturbed by the information that the Government

of Rwanda has for months being busy pressuring you personally and the whole UN

system to dismiss the entire report or at least to water it down by removing the term

"genocide". This information has been confirmed by the French daily newspaper Le

Monde in its edition dated August 26, 2010, an official letter sent to you on August 3,

2010 by Mrs. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs and finally by

statement of the government of Rwanda dated August 27, 2010 where it threatens to

withdraw its forces from African Union- United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) if

its demands were not met.

Reports and testimonies about the atrocities that have been committed by the RPA are not

new in the UN offices but unfortunately, all of them have been dismissed under the

pressure of Kigali and its lobbies. OPJDR recalls a few of them.

1. On April 6, 1994, the presidential aircraft carrying the then Presidents Juvenal

Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, has been shoot

down when preparing to land at the Kigali International Airport. All 13 persons

on board perished. Despite the fact that the airport was under the control of the

United Nations Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), UN did not dare to conduct any

genuine investigation and the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

(ICTR), refuses to look at the issue even though it states that this terrorist act

sparked the Rwanda genocide. French and Spanish judges, who investigated the

incident, concluded that the RPF/RPA was responsible of the aircraft shooting.

2. In April 1994, when it was clear that the genocide was underway, the UN

preferred to walk away by pulling most of its peacekeeping force of UNAMIR.

People of Rwanda and friends of Rwanda will never forget that moment.

3. In October 1994, Mr. Robert Gersony, consultant to the United Nations High

Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), after a four week long investigation

inside Rwanda and Tanzania, concluded that the RPF regime has murdered at

least 30,000 Hutus since July 1994. Kigali regime threatened to terminate the

operations of the UNAMIR, if the report was validated. The UN, represented in

Rwanda by Shaharyar Khan, succumbed to the pressure and sealed the report.

4. On April 22, 1995, the Rwanda Patriotic Army (RPA) massacred internally

displaced people (IDP) in Kibeho, South West of Rwanda in the presence of

Australian and Zambian UN peacekeepers from UNAMIR. More than 8000

refugees Hutu perished that day and UN kept silent as of today.

5. In 1997, the Special Reporter of the UN commission in charge of human rights in

DRC, the Chilean Roberto Garreton, released a report on crimes committed by the

RPA against the Hutu refugees in DRC. The Rwanda government put an intensive

pressure to suppress the report and managed to block a UN mission that was set to

confirm the results of the Garreton's mission. The public did not hear about this

mission since then.

6. The selectively ethnic killings started in February 1991 in the Byumba and

Ruhengeri prefectures when RPF staged a major attack in several communes of

the Provinces of Ruhengeri and Byumba, selectively killing as many Hutus as

42,200 Hutu populations

7. UN HCR team report of September 12, 1994 "New Human Rights Abuse in

Rwanda" led by George E. Moose concluded that RPF and Tutsi civilians killed at

least 10,000 Hutu civilians per month with a purpose of ethnic cleansing intended

to clear certain areas in the south of Rwanda for Tutsi returnees' habitation. The

killings also served to reduce the population of Hutu males and discouraged

refugees from returning to claim their lands".

8. These are few UN official reports but numerous eyewitnesses, most of them

survivors of these pogroms are available around the world and would be more

than happy to testify.

OPJDR urges the UN not to fail once again the people of Rwanda by dismissing or

altering this genuine report. People of Rwanda has suffered so much in the hand of war

mongers and other criminals that it needs now to know exactly what happened and who

did what, so it can start the long process of healing and reconciliation based on a solid

foundation of truth and justice.

The fact that the Kigali regime threatens to withdraw its troops does not hold at all. First,

that mission in Darfour is not founded by Rwandan taxpayers, so other countries will be

ready to provide necessary troops. Second, UN is setting a very bad example by

employing troops from Rwanda suspected to have committed genocide in peacekeeping

missions as in Darfour where the International Criminal Court (ICC) has concluded that

crimes of genocide took place.

OPJDR believes that justice will prevail and that this report will be officially launched

and that genuine actions will be taken thereafter such as the creation of a special tribunal

for Congo or by the amending the status of the ICTR or ICC to prosecute those who will

be found responsible of those crimes. It is only that way that the impunity will be

eradicated in the Great Lakes region of Africa.

Due to this report, once again OPJDR asks to the UN Security council and the President

of the ICTR to stop sending cases of detainees in Arusha to Rwanda to be prosecuted by

their war opponents. OPJDR reminds you that, in the resolution 955 creating the ICTR,

the UN Security Council concluded that both parties to the conflict, namely RPF and the

government forces, have been involved in genocide and other crimes against humanity

and should respond before the created tribunal. Therefore, the current government in

place in Rwanda led by RPF doesn't have the moral authority to prosecute anybody else

for the crime they are themselves accused for.

In conclusion we would like to recall this quote from Albert Einstein work "The world

will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but those who look and refuse to act."

Sincerely;

Pascal Kalinganire

Coordinator General

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