Monday, August 25, 2014
Who is afraid of President Paul Kagame and his guards?
“20 years after Rwanda Genocide, people are still asking for freedom”
A tall man, well presented and athletic, Wearing the right clothes bought from the world of best designers, and otherwise seeming to hold himself well and convey the right messages, President Paul Kagame inadvertently leads everyone around him to think he is brilliant, well connected, a great lover and father, a worthy leader to the great men of our time, and, in the end, is even considered by some to be an exemplary president on the whole continent of Africa.
When he does speak, it is about the only thing he knows, which is killing his political opponents. People around him imagine that he is speaking in high-level metaphors. This happens in private and even on national television. He rises to such social heights that he is beyond negative judgment. Those Rwandans who know the truth decide not to reveal it because to do so would be a fatal mistake that would end up them in the grave or in jail.
Much of our perception of the relative weight of President Kagame’s words is due to the significance of how he uses them. How else can we explain how the president of 12 million people gets away with giving several speeches and testimonies per week that consist of nothing but long strings of platitudes, buzzwords, and long-refuted fallacies?
Remember a government official daring to stand up and raise his hands and ask for forgiveness for million people who were murdered during the genocide? And it is the same with every head of every main government agency who thinks that asking for forgiveness means everything as long as they keep their job and in the government payroll. They confess their guilty to a heinous crimes and they get away with that. They only get away with that because the media play along; never really ask serious questions that deal with fundamental issues. The unstated rule among those covering Kigali is to never challenge the stupidity of big government itself. This pertains in those so called Rwanda’s political forums, in national dialogues, or in any press conference.
On each Rwandan hill, the song is the same for nearly two decades “Vive Kagame, you are a visionary leader, intelligent and you have awaken me from the dead people, you have triggered my both current fortune and pride” Some Rwandans have even gone on to ask the President to lead them for life and they talk about his “vision” for Rwanda as if one man can remake a country in his own image merely upon being sworn in. And yet people cling to these visions as if the president alone can somehow become a conduit for realizing all their likes and dislikes throughout the whole of Rwandan society.
Have a look at the social media accounts of Rwanda’s government officials; all you will notice is that none of them can say anything without quoting Kagame for the good he did or said.In this sense, every government official is President Paul Kagame— a complete fake fanatism to protect one’s self-interests be government jobs or any other opportunity that government can offer and that praise is anything but what it is and it demonstrate that Rwanda Government is an agency of force that enables Rwandan people to legally steal from each other or to legally kill one another in the name of opponents. For the recent development, jailing peace devotion activists such as Kizito Mihigo, a desapearing of armed civilians and citizen, admitting to killing political opponents abroad in their refugee camps, It shows RPF Government is not wise, it is not compassionate, it is not a creator of anything. It is a stupid, clumsy, and malevolent agent of legal compulsion, and nothing more.
For the President Kagame, Killing is among his best tricks in his daily politics and those tricks to provoke fear among Rwandan society has earned him the chair in presidential office for the past 14 years. He enjoys challenging without being politically challenged and that has made him who he is today; a great dictator and nothing more, nothing less. He is a man who does not talk about building schools, Hospitals, public roads and energy so often. His preach is how to obey his set of rules and regulations and that must include praising him and wearing a shirt bearing his own picture on it means more life and prosperity in his government.
If President Kagame talks about saving lives through medical research, Improving infrastructure, allow the people of Rwanda liberty and freedom to self-expression, Give freedom and liberty to people of Rwanda to join any political party of their choice as per Rwanda’s constitution and so on without any linked political consequences, President Kagame would surely dedicate himself to being part of the flow of real life, not becoming a mime in the mythical world of politics, where both the president and his ruling political party RPF pretend to hold all Rwandans together through legislation and regulation while all Rwandans pretend to believe in their ghastly “visions” for how they should manage their lives.
Everyone in RPF government does not really understand what Freedom and liberty mean for Rwanda and her people hence shutting eyes and ears and raise sword and bullets against those Rwandans who seek to be free. Some Rwandans, if not all; have serious fear for their lives. Lastly, RPF government is struggling to retain people with neither vision nor distinctive intelligence, and, institutionally, RPF government lacks the means to rule a Rwanda of 12 million people with their own ideas of how to conduct their lives.
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