European Union challenges Rwandan heavy handed leadership
Posted on May 29, 2013
Although Rwandan President Paul Kagame has powerful friends like Tony Blair, former British Prime Minister, Bill Clinton, former US President, and Rick Warren, a American evangelical Christian Pastor, just to name a few, who believe in and support Kagame's constitutional dictatorial regime, his victims have powerful friends who believe in democracy and freedom as the basis for lasting peace and prosperity in Rwanda.
The European Union (EU) is the latest body outside Rwanda to challenge the man on his heavy handed leadership. In a resolution which only focuses on the case of the opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who was arrested on October 14, 2010 and has been in jail ever since, the European Union cracks open the door for the world to see just a very small aspect of what Kagame's powerful friends and publicists do not want you to know. The resolution declares that: "the consolidation of democracy – including ensuring the independence of the judiciary and the participation of opposition parties – is crucial, particularly in view of the 2013 parliamentary elections and the presidential election to be held in 2017." It also acknowledges that "the Rwandan genocide and civil war of 1994 continue to have a negative impact on the stability of the region"
As recent as On May 18, 2013 Oxford University distanced itself from President Kagame's presence on its campus calling him a "controversial figure" and called on those who attended the event he was invited to "to challenge him as appropriate." Read the resolution here. Download PDF file
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