On Saturday, 19 October 2013, 12:55, Jean Bosco Sibomana <sibomanaxyz999@gmail.com> wrote:
Paul Kagame: the Pol Pot of Africa?
Kagame's rule is characterized by human rights abuse, political
repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings, nepotism, and
Corruption. Kagame's forces are believed to have committed horrible
war crimes that can amount to a genocide.
It's like all dictators learn from the same school, the same teacher.
Dictators' actions are always history repeating itself. In this
article, I am going to analyze striking resemblances between Paul
Kagame and Pol Pot.
A little background about Pol Pot:
Pol Pot ( guerilla name) was born Saloth Sar. He is seen here in this
undated photo giving a speech.
Until his death, Pol Pot was the leader of a movement known as the
Khmer Rouge. Pol Pot became the leader of Cambodia after a guerilla
war, his rule was a dictatorship, by the time he was deposed, he had
already killed around 2,000,000 people through extrajudicial killings
and through horrible, ill conceived policies.
Pol Pot versus Paul Kagame
1) They both took power by force.
These two men, Pol Pot and Paul Kagame, become leaders of their
respective countries after a guerrilla war. Pol Pot led a movement
called the Khmer Rouge, this movement consisted of teenage peasant
guerillas. Paul Kagame led a movement called the RPF-Inkotanyi, a
movement that took power in a bloodbath.
Khmer Rouge fighters celebrate as they enter Phnom Penh, capital of
Cambodia, on April 17, 1975.
Khmer Rouge. Notice how young they look!
Kagame's troops in the jungle. After four years of a brutal war in
which his troops killed everything that breaths on their way, humans,
cattle and sheep alike, Kagame took over the leadership of Rwanda in
1994. He reigned in a rule of terror ever since. Kagame rules Rwanda
with the same brutality he used while in the jungle.
2) They reigned in a rule of terror.
Pol Pot adopted a form of communism based on Maoism and Stalinism,
then carried it to extreme. He wanted Cambodia to be an agrarian
society that is pure, free of foreign influences. At gun point, Pol
Pot emptied the cities and forced people young and old alike, to work
in the fields under harsh conditions. He outlawed religion, schools,
money etc, he closed his country to the outside world. Doctors were
killed, as were most people with skills and education that threatened
the regime.
Trucks came and took away crops. Under Pol Pot, people died from
exhaustion, starvation, and diseases. But many people died from
extrajudicial killings for Pol Pot did not tolerate any opposition.
Pol Pot is notorious for his « Killing Fields », places where those
suspected of disloyalty were executed.
Pol Pot especially persecuted members of minority ethnic groups (the
Chinese, Muslim Chams, Vietnamese and Thais who had lived for
generations in the country, and any other foreigners) in an attempt to
create a »pure » Cambodia.
Before he invaded Rwanda, Paul Kagame must read the biography of Pol
Pot and drew a lot of lessons from it. Paul Kagame does not tolerate
dissent and has his own « Kiling feilds » . His notorious secret
services best know as DMI hunts Kagame's critics day and night, inside
and outside Rwanda. They use any means necessary including torture,
poison etc.
Paul Kagame has outlawed political parties (only those that do not
pause a treat are allowed). People in Rwanda are not allowed to
criticize or voice their opinions or their concerns. The media is
censored; no journalist can work freely in Rwanda.
Jailed opposition leader Umuhoza Ingabire
Paul Kagame introduced his own extreme agrarian reform. Peasants are
forced to grow one crop dictated by officials. This policy is creating
headaches for peasants, for there in no enough customers to buy what
they grow, if they get lucky and find customers, the money they make
is not worth the trouble. They do not make enough money to buy other
foods they need. Any resistance to that policy is dealt with
ruthlessly. Though Kagame is not trying to take the country back in
medieval days and actually welcomes western investors with open arms,
his development plans benefit him and his immediate entourage. Kagame
and his close friends have become extremely wealthy while the rest of
Rwandans got poorer and poorer.
Paul Kagame is persecuting ethnic Hutus. No Hutu can hold a high post
in the administration or in the army. Hutus are brutalized,
humiliated, jailed, tortured day in and day out. They are sent to
prison on trumped up charges, they are denied jobs simply because they
are Hutus.
Forced labor. Hutus are jailed on trumped up charges. Conditions in
Rwanda prisons are inhuman. Genocide against the Hutu population is
underway in Rwanda today
Kagame purged Rwanda of all educated Hutus who could have threatened
his dictatorship. Doctors, teachers, ex soldiers, politicians,
business persons were shot, bombarded en masse, tortured, killed by
worn out hoes, akandoyi, cut out with bayonnettes or simply left to
rot in prison on trumped up charges. Hutus are not allowed to mourn
their loved ones who perished under kagame's dictatorship and
extrajudicial killings. Just like the Khmer Rouge, kagame's Inkotanyi
killed even hutu kids. One of the methods used was Just like Khmer
Rouge, to hold a child by the legs, and smash the head against a wall
or against a tree. Hutus have been marginalized and many have been
forced to free the country. Kagame sends killing squads on foreign
soil to hunt Hutus and all opponents.
The notorious kami prison is one of Kagame' s many killing fields.
Defectors claim that the nyungwe forest is also another killing
fields. Many people suspected of being a treat to the Kagame regime
are believed to have been killed there, then burned.
Akandoyi is a method of torturing someone. The victim's arms are
tightly tied behind his back, so tight that the victim's bones crack.
Agafuni ( a worn out hoe ) a preferred killing tool of Paul Kagame and
his Inkotanyi. The victims head is smashed with a hoe. This was a
preferred method because it saves bullets and it hurts the victim and
makes him die a really horrible death.
3) Getting away with their horrible crimes and US support despite
obvious poor human rights record
Pol Pot in his last days. Pol Pot got away, he died without being held
accountable for his gross human rights violations.
Interestingly, despite obvious human rights violations, Pol Pot
enjoyed considerable support fro the United States. Pol Pot was enemy
with Vietnam so were Americans. Americans looked the other way and
ignored his crimes.
Kagame is getting away with murder thanks to his western supporters
the US and the UK being at the forefront
Paul Kagame enjoys considerable support from the Americans as well.
The motives behind the Americans supporting such a monster ( they must
know about his killing fields and his war crimes ) is unknown. We can
only speculate that they are after Congo's natural resources. But why
allow such human rights violations? There has to be another way to get
to Congo, other than a bloodbath and genocides.
Kalimikashyari
http://gahunde.rw-leaks.org/?p=314
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