Former Rwandan Official Worries That Kagame's Adminis­t

When Burundian fishermen first discovered bodies in Lake Wreru on the border of Rwanda this July, the Rwandan government quickly denied involvement in the apparent murders.

Months later, up to 40 bodies remain unidentified, and more have turned up, prompting the State Department on Thursday to call on the two African governments to launch a thorough investigation into where the bodies came from and who they are.

Rwandan officials insisted that since the bodies were found in Burundi, they are Burundi's responsibility. But some Burundian officials argue that the mainly decomposed bodies, some of which were wrapped in plastic bags, likely traveled through the Akagera River downstream from Rwanda to the border lake where they were discovered.

Despite claims by the Rwandan government that there are no reports of missing people in Rwanda, David Himbara, a former top aide to Rwandan President Paul Kagame, said Kagame's harsh crackdown on political dissent has scared Rwandans into keeping quiet about missing family members and friends.

"The population of Rwanda are prisoners of Kagame," Himbara told Foreign Policy while on a trip to Washington. "You have 11 million prisoners. You can't say anything. Wife, husband in the bedroom, you don't talk."

Himbara, who worked from 2000 to 2002 as Kagame's personal secretary and from 2006 to 2010 as his head of strategy and policy, said the Lake Wreru bodies could be Kagame administration victims.

In late August, four Rwandan nationals were found guilty of shooting former Rwandan army general Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, who was living in exile in South Africa when he was killed in 2007.

Last January, Patrick Karegeya, a former Rwandan intelligence chief who was stripped of his title of colonel and living in exile in South Africa, was murdered in his hotel room in Johannesburg.

Himbara, who was also living in South Africa until last January, was informed by the South African police that he was the target of an assassination attempt earlier that year and should fear for his safety. Himbara, who was visiting Canada at the time of Karegeya's murder, decided to stay there.  Kagame spent 30 years as a refugee in Uganda before returning to Rwanda in 1990, but Himbara spent only 10 years in Uganda before his family relocated to Canada. He didn't move to Rwanda until he joined Kagame's administration in 2000. Now the Canadian citizen has been living in Toronto since Karegeya's death. And in the past few months, three of Himbara's family members who stayed in Rwanda have been arrested amid accusations they spread rumors against the state.

In March, South Africa expelled four Rwandan diplomats amid claims they had ties to the Nyamwasa and Karegeya murders.

But other than the South African murder trial, the international community is ignoring the  claims that Kagame's is a murderous and corrupt administration. In fact, Kagame has even been honored by the Clinton Global Initiative and UNICEF for his reconciliation efforts in the two decades after the genocide of the 1990s. Last week he addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York, saying Rwanda has "focused on building accountable governance institutions, and renewing our dignity as a nation."

Hailed by some as the savior of Rwanda, Kagame led the rebel group that ended the world's most brutal genocide that decimated millions of Tutsis, members of his ethnic group, between 1990 and 1994. Kagame later served as vice president and minister of defense until 2000, when his predecessor, President Pasteur Bizimungu, stepped down. Kagame was elected to a seven-year term in 2003 and re-elected with 93 percent of the vote in 2010. Though he faced some international criticism in 2012 over Rwandan funding of Congolese rebel group M23, Kagame's domestic policies have mostly flown under the radar. This spring, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) suggested cutting aid to Rwanda over the string of assassinations in South Africa, but didn't garner enough support from his colleagues to carry out his proposal.

"There's a lot of guilt over having not acted during the genocide, and people like the fact that Rwanda appears to have made social and economic progress since the genocide," said Rona Peligal, deputy director of the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch. "There's been surprisingly little criticism or outrage at Rwanda's domestic practices."

To the outside world, Kagame's first presidential term was a tenure worthy of celebrating. The capital city of Kigali appears, from the outside at least, to be a hub of urban development. The streets are clean and safe; women compose more than 60 percent of Parliament; and Kagame ran on a campaign of national unity. In modern-day Kigali, many Rwandans refuse to identify themselves as Hutu or Tutsi, which could signal a push away from the ethnic divide that kicked off the genocides.

But according to Himbara, Kigali's physical appearance is a metaphor for Kagame's time in office.

"Kigali is beautiful, pro-environment, no plastic bags, but Kigali is a city of 1 million with no sewage system," Hiramba said. "You see a building but you don't see what's underneath."

"He knows the game so well. Go in Parliament and 62 percent are women. But women of what kind of Parliament? It's a dead Parliament."

And, Himbara said, Rwandans refuse to identify their ethnic group not out of hope for reconciliation but out of fear of retaliation from the government.

"It's one thing to talk about reconciliation but people cannot even talk about the issue, because if you try to talk about Hutu or Tutsi in Rwanda, they say you are inciting genocide ideology," Himbara said. "There's no room for debate."

From 2006 to 2010, Himbara worked side-by-side with Kagame, revamping the country's weak economy and working to improve Rwanda's marketability to outside investors. However, as the economy strengthened and plans for sustainable development began taking hold, newspapers and non-governmental organizations were shut down, free speech was suffocated, and Kigali was wiped clean of outward political dissent.

But it wasn't until Himbara witnessed Kagame brutally beat two of his own staff members over a small dispute about his office curtains that he decided it was time to leave the administration altogether.

"I decided right then that I would never, ever, ever have anything to do with him again," Himbara said. "We used to hear these things, but it's the first time I saw with my own eyes."

According to the Rwandan constitution, Kagame should not seek a third term in 2017. But having experienced the brutality of Kagame's administration, Himbara is inclined to believe the bodies in Burundi could be yet another signal that Kagame thugs are murdering activists to stifle political resistance and pave the way for Kagame to remain in power.  

With no one inside Rwanda calling for transparency and accountability, Himbara said Rwanda needs the rest of the world to demand it. The United States speaking up and calling for a more thorough investigation is one of the first steps toward accountability, he said.

"We need more voices; we are hoping for more voices," he said. "The U.S. can make a difference."

But even the State Department's call for an investigation resisted pointing fingers directly at Kagame or even Rwanda, calling instead "on the Burundian and Rwandan governments to conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial and concerted investigation of these deaths."

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Military Purges in Rwanda Expose Cracks in Kagame Regime

Rwandan President Paul Kagame speaking at the London Summit on Family Planning, July 11, 2012 (U.K.

Last month, three high-ranking Rwandan military figures close to President Paul Kagame were arrested and charged with so-called crimes against state security. The military purges have fueled fears of a political crisis for Kagame with dissension among the ranks of his party and backers in the army. Although officers have been arrested in the past and former Kagame supporters have fled the country and openly opposed him, last month’s detentions reveal growing insecurity within the regime, particularly when viewed in conjunction with a crackdown on other internal suspects of what the government considers “subversion.”

Kagame’s Tutsi-dominated regime, which came to power in 1994 after winning a civil war and ending a genocide, has all the appearances of a solid autocracy. The Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) established and maintained hegemony by closing the political landscape, organizing fraudulent elections, eliminating the political opposition and civil society, violating human rights and victimizing the Hutu ethnic majority. With a solid army and omnipresent intelligence services that operate at home and abroad, it seemed an unassailable “securocracy” for most of the past two decades.

But cracks in Kagame’s regime began to become more visible in 2010. During the presidential election that year, former close associates of Kagame who had gone into exile abroad—including the former army chief of staff, head of external intelligence, head of the president’s office and general prosecutor—founded the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) to openly oppose Kagame. Having occupied high functions in the state and the military, this group of “renegades,” as they were called in Kigali, knew the regime’s security details and other secrets.

The regime has dealt radically with this threat. There were at least three attempts on the life of one renegade, Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa; a second one, Col. Patrick Karegeya, was killed in Johannesburg in January. These operations had Kigali’s fingerprints all over them, and South Africa expelled Rwandan diplomats in retaliation for their apparent connection to Karegeya’s death.

In August 2014, a South African judge found that the attempts on Nyamwasa’s life were politically motivated and “came from a certain group of people from Rwanda.” Death squads suspected of ties to Kagame are also active in Uganda, where several exiled former military officers and journalists have been harassed, killed or abducted. Dissident refugees are even threatened in Europe: In May 2011, Scotland Yard issued a “Threats to Life Warning Notice” to two British citizens of Rwandan origin, and a Rwanda diplomat was expelled by Sweden in early 2012 for harassing a Rwandan journalist critical of the regime.

The fact that many of the opponents abroad are Tutsis who once belonged to the regime’s inner circle has created an almost paranoiac fear among the regime that they have created an opposition network inside Rwanda to topple Kagame. Since 2010, many high-ranking military officers have been arrested or put under house arrest, but most were later released and reinstated, or even promoted.

This creates a great deal of uncertainty and puts those suspected of connivance or even simple contact with opponents abroad in a vulnerable position. In addition to last month’s high-profile arrests, another former member of the Presidential Guard, Lt. Joel Mutabazi, who was illegally transferred from Kampala to Kigali, is being tried with 15 others for acts of terrorism and suspected alliance with the RNC. Kizito Mihigo, a Tutsi genocide survivor, was arrested with three others in April for having maintained links with the RNC and plotting assassinations and terrorist acts. The recent arrests may well be based on intelligence gathered through the seizure of Karegeya’s cellphones by his assassins.

All the detained military officers and targeted opponents have two things in common: they are Tutsi, and they live inside the country, a sign that the perceived threat is now seen as domestic, in league with external forces. This was again confirmed during an RPF political bureau meeting chaired earlier this month by Kagame, during which several high-profile party cadres were mentioned by name as “straying from the party line” and “spreading dangerous propaganda against the government.” Even more ominously, Kagame said, “some of them are involved in activities that can lead to serious crimes, which can amount to conspiracy against the state.”

All this creates fear in the minds of many people who were once Kagame’s most reliable supporters. In a country where rumors are widely used for strategic gains, both in high politics and in daily life, it is not too difficult to turn someone into a suspect, if only to settle personal scores. Although Kagame has stated on several occasions that a coup d’etat is impossible, the mere fact that he needs to make that kind of assurance shows his concern.

Both within the RPF and among the army and intelligence services—which are the military basis of a regime that appeared solid and coherent, at least from the outside—more cracks are appearing. But given the existence of a formidable intelligence and repression apparatus, this unraveling may take time. It is impossible to predict what form a major challenge to Kagame’s rule could take: an attempt on his life, a palace revolution, a change of regime by a coalition of the malcontent—all these scenarios are possible.

It is also impossible to forecast what the consequences of a potentially violent takeover would be. Indeed it could unleash domestic and regional dynamics that have been hidden under pervasive structural violence during the past two decades. Straddling the Rift Valley, the metaphor that naturally comes to mind about Rwanda is that of a volcano waiting to erupt.

U.S. Urges Burundi and Rwanda to Investigate Deaths

The United States expresses its deep concern regarding the discovery of a number of corpses in July and August of this year, some bound and wrapped in plastic, in Lake Rweru, which borders Burundi and Rwanda. We note that several countries also raised their concern about these deaths during the Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances that was held in conjunction with the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 12.
We urgently call on the Burundian and Rwandan Governments to conduct a prompt, thorough, and impartial and concerted investigation of these deaths with the assistance of independent, international forensic experts.
We firmly believe that these victims deserve to be identified, their families deserve to know their fate, and those responsible should be brought to justice.

Kagame Started the Genocide in Rwanda, then Congo

Kagame Started the Genocide in Rwanda, then Congo

To the City of Atlanta, former Mayor Andrew Young and Bernice King:
Individuals and organizations listed below have come to know that the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, is organizing what he calls Rwanda Day, a meeting with the Rwandan Diaspora and the American public in the city of Atlanta.
We, the Congolese and Rwandan Diaspora, indigenous of the Congo and Rwanda, together with friends of these two countries, denounce and strongly condemn the fact that the president of Rwanda is allowed to organize such a meeting on American soil with the blessing of the authorities of the City of Atlanta.
Our condemnation is based on the fact that the people of the African Great Lakes regions have suffered from the abuses committed by Paul Kagame and his government for 24 years now.
We would like to bring the following basic facts about Paul Kagame to the attention of all Americans who are committed to peace and social justice:

• In 1990, Gen. Paul Kagame invaded Rwanda heading a detachment of the Ugandan army dominated by Rwandan Tutsis like himself. He destabilized the country and committed numerous mass murders in the north of Rwanda.
• In 1994, when the city of Kigali was surrounded by camps filled with desperate refugees fleeing Kagame’s army in the north, President Kagame pushed the country into a state of panic, terror and genocidal violence by ordering the assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents as they returned from peace talks in Arusha, Tanzania, which were meant to end the conflict.

Image: Rwandans and Congolese joined forces to protest the first Rwanda Day, held in Chicago, Illinois, in 2011, and at each Rwanda Day since.

• In 1996 and 1998, Gen. Paul Kagame joined Gen. Yoweri Museveni in invading the Democratic Republic of the Congo, creating havoc in the country which resulted in deaths that the International Rescue Committee estimated to be as high as 5.4 million between January 1997 and January 2008. Since at least seven years of war and conflict were not counted in the IRC’s epidemiological study, the death toll is no doubt much higher.
• Gen. Paul Kagame has never stopped plundering the Democratic Republic of the Congo since his first raids and today Rwanda is a major exporter of coltan (ore used in the manufacture of mobile phones, playstations and military electronics), although Rwanda itself has no coltan reserves.
• Gen. Paul Kagame has fueled wars in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by creating and supporting proxy militias such as the M23 that have helped him cover up his plundering of the country.
• Gen. Paul Kagame rules Rwanda with an iron fist. Political space is locked down favor of a minority. Nonviolent political challengers to Kagame, including Victoire Ingabire and Deo Mushayidi are incarcerated.

Image: A protester at Rwanda Day in Boston in 2012 held up a poster calling for the freedom of Rwandan political prisoner and opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza.

• Gen. Paul Kagame does not hesitate to resort to political assassination inside and outside Rwanda’s borders. In 2010, journalist Jean Leonard Rugambage was gunned down in the streets of Kigali, after letting the editor of the publication he wrote for know that he was about to release evidence of Kagame’s complicity in the attempt to assassinate his former general, Kayumba Nyamwasa, in Johannesburg, South Africa. Kagame’s former intelligence chief, Patrick Karegeya, was the last known to pay with his life for becoming a critic of the Kagame regime. Karegeya was found hanging in a Johannesburg hotel on New Year’s Day this year. This case is still under investigation, but Kagame’s response to the murder was to warn Rwandans, in a public speech, that “you can’t betray Rwanda without paying the price.”

All statements mentioned above have been duly documented by various U.N. reports, documented news reports including video footage, and legal judgments:

• In July 16, 1997, the U.S. House of Representatives hearings before the Committee on International Relations about the Democratic Republic of the Congo revealed that Paul Kagame’s RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) had invaded Congo-Zaïre and that it was assassinating Hutu refugees in Eastern Congo-Zaïre. In 2006, President Obama, who was then a senator from Illinois, authored the Congo Relief Security and Democracy Promotion Act. Section 101(5) and (6) of Obama’s 2006 Congo legislation reads:“(5) The most recent war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which erupted in 1998, spawned some of the world’s worst human rights atrocities and drew in six neighboring countries.“(6) Despite the conclusion of a peace agreement and subsequent withdrawal of foreign forces in 2003, both the real and perceived presence of armed groups hostile to the Governments of Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi continue to serve as a major source of regional instability and an apparent pretext for continued interference in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by its neighbors [Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi].”

Image: Rwanda Day protest, London 2012

• In 2008, The Spanish National Court indicted 40 Rwandan officers on charges of mass murder, crimes against humanity, terrorism, genocide against Rwandans, Congolese and Spanish citizens in the aftermath of the 1994 Rwanda genocide. Judge Fernando Andreu of Spain’s National Court also declared that he had sufficient evidence to implicate current Rwandan President Paul Kagame, but he also added that he could not indict him because of his presidential immunity.
• The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNOHCHR) issued a report on the Congo called “The United Nations Mapping Exercise Report.” This report affirms that the Rwandan government is responsible for the most serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law in the Congo. Moreover, the observation of some of the crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has led investigators to say that some elements “if proven before a competent court, could be characterized as crimes of genocide.”
• On April 15, 2013, the Report of Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) expresses concerns about the political space in Rwanda. It observes that there are many political constraints and that freedom of association and expression is not guaranteed. It also raises the question of the imprisonment of opposition leader Madame Victoire Ingabire.
• In a letter dated Dec. 12, 2013, from the Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo addressed to the chair of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to Resolution 1533 (2004) concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the U.N. experts argue that Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe was commanding the M23 militia then terrorizing DR Congo and that Rwanda provided continuous support to M23 from Rwandan territory. The most consistent forms of support were through recruitment and provision of arms and ammunition, particularly during periods of combat. M23 also received troop reinforcements directly from the Rwandan army in August. During the October fighting, Rwandan tanks fired into DRC in support of M23.
• On Sept. 10, 2014, Magistrate Stanley Mkhari sentenced four men each to eight years in prison in a South African court, saying that they had been proven guilty of a ‘‘politically motivated’’ attempt to assassinate Kayumba Nyamwasa, Paul Kagame’s former defense chief, in June 2010. The plot, the judge wrote, originated in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.

Image: Kagame Day protest, Toronto 2013
The United States, which takes pride in its democratic history, and the City of Atlanta, which played such a proud role in the American Civil Rights Movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King, cannot want to appear to the world as supporters of dictatorship and mass murder, but allowing Paul Kagame to organize “Rwanda Day” in Atlanta tells the world that they are.
The violation of human rights is no more acceptable in Africa than in the United States or anywhere else in the world. We like to believe that human beings, wherever they are, are entitled to justice and that it is a denial of justice to host an event created to let a regime with bloody hands promote itself, while the millions it killed remain compelled to silence in death because we do not have the courage to speak for them and say enough is enough.
A message from a Congolese citizen, Philippe Lomboto Liondjo: “Please do not insult Martin Luther King’s memory and the spirit of the honorable struggle for Civil Rights by allowing a killer such as Gen. Kagame to organize his Rwanda Day in Atlanta.”

Coalition
BK Kumbi, spokesperson, Don’t Be Blind This Time (Switzerland-DRC)
Don’t Be Blind This Time, Swiss citizen movement
Bruce Dixon, Managing Editor, Black Agenda Report (USA)
Glen Ford, Executive Editor, Black Agenda Report
Milton Allimadi, Editor-in-Chief, Black Star News (USA)
Frank LeFever, retired neuroscientist, Pacifica WBAI Local Station Board member (USA)
Ann Garrison, Journalist and Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Winner (USA)
Maurice Carney, Executive Director, Friends of the Congo (USA)
Kambale Musavuli, Student Coordinator and Mining Researcher, Friends of the Congo (USA-DRC)
Kweku Lumumba, Secretary General, World African Diaspora Union, Georgia (USA)
Christopher Black, ICTR Defense Counsel (Canada)
David Peterson, co-author of the upcoming book, “Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later” (USA)
Claude Gatebuke, Rwandan Genocide survivor, Executive Director, African Great Lakes Action Network
Theophile Murayi, Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Rwanda
June Terpstra (USA)
Lisanga, Congolese political association (France)
La LUCHA, mouvement citoyen RD Congo
Soledad Mora, Comités Umoya-Madrid (Spain)
Magloire Mpembi, doctor and novelist (Canada-DRC)
Jean-Mobert N’Senga-la, LUCHA, (DRC)
Momi M’Buze Noogwani Ataye Mieko, Congolese writer and activist
Monique Mbeka, Congolese film maker (Belgium-DRC)
Philippe Lomboto Liondjo, Congolese performer, actor and activist (Switzerland-RDC)
Olivier Mukuna, Journalist (Belgium)
Lopango Ya ba Nka, Congolese music band (Germany-RDC)
Willie Ratcliff, Publisher, San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper
Mary Ratcliff, Editor, San Francisco Bay View National Black Newspaper
JR Valrey, Producer, Block Report Radio, Associate Editor, SF Bay View (USA)
Anne Onidi, Journalist (Switzerland)
Nicolas-Patience Basabose (RSA)
Elengo (Switzerland-DRC
Victoria Dimandja (GB-DRC)
Youyou Muntu-Mosi (France-DRC)
Nadine Bena (France-DRC)
Jean-Jacques Tadoum (USA)
Leopold Mbala (USA-DRC)
Ekutsu Mambulu (DRC)
N’siala Kiese Patrick (Belgique-Drc)
Meta Nabou Cisse (Belgique)
Derrick Onyeri (Denmark-Uganda)
Nadia Nsayi (Belgiques-DRC)
Jean-Baptiste Paul (France-Haïti)
Rosa Moro, Journalist (Spain)
Flavia Garrigos Cabanero (Spain)
Dina Martinez (Spain)
Damiàn Socías Picornell (Spain)
Pedro Espinosa Bote (Spain)
Ana María Martínez Rodamilans (Spain)
Fuencisla de Andrés (Spain)
Ana Espinosa González (Spain)
Pedro Espinosa (Spain)
Maite Cobas (Spain)
Jaime Lara (Spain)
José Hernández (Spain)
Mingu Haro (Spain),
Marlene Ibarra (Ecuador)
Nella Azana (GB-DRC)
Vincent Conrad Ball (GB)
Kibsoo Diallo (Egypt)
Djallil Saada (Switzerland)
Benjamin Itzkovich (Switzerland)
Dieudonne Aoche (USA-DRC)
Lucie N’goma (France)
Paul Alain (France)
Judith Bass (Switzerland)
Juan Carlos Hernandez (Switzerland)
Mang Holenn Christian (RSA)
Leslie Luboloko Lusinda (RSA)
Patrick Kegbia (RSA)
Billy Lukinu (Angola)
Stacey Koyenyi (GB)
Kitondua Diasivi (France)
Ive Mass (GB-RDC)
Matondo Kapella (RDC)
Gloria Omoyi (France-RDC)
Gugu Ngwenya (RSA-RDC)
Owandji Olenga Lokolo Lopaka (RDC)
Sosthene Banda Badou (Poland-Tchad)
Bebelle Dembo (North Irland)
Anthea Harris (GB)
Claudine Mamona-Cullin (Austria)
Sala Naambwe (Canada)
Demunga Hassani (Canada)
S. Mathieu Gnonhossou (USA-Rwanda)
Philippe Faradja Byaombe , Congolese Student Organisation-Pretoria (RSA)
Aimant Lutonadio (Germany-RDC)
Sophie Teuwen (Senegal)
Ibrahim Touré (Algeria-Mali)
Dadao Mupulu (RDC)
Kalengula Wha Kalengula (USA-RDC)
J.L. Bondoko Ekolonga (RDC)
Motaouakkil Abdellatif (Morocco)
Paul Otshudi Loma (GB)
Dolly Kimpiatu Fofo Lukata (USA-DRC)
Raphaël Berland (France)
Beatrice Léonard Lomami (USA-DRC)
Freddy Aigle (DRC)
Ambrose Nzeyimana (GB-Rwanda)
Dady Dalla (USA-DRC)
Dalila Choukri (France)
Kakiese Nicole (Belgium-DRC)
Dominique Diomi (USA-DRC)
Joachim Mbala (GB-DRC)
Patience Ngoba-Mushidi (Germany-DRC)
Joyce Mbaya (USA-DRC)
Yiokito Ilangwa (RSA-DRC)
Patricia Athena (Sweden
Yaa-Lengi Ngemi, President, Congo Coalition
Nii Akuetteh, Founder, The Democracy & Conflict Research Institute (DCRI)
Ed Herman, co-author of the upcoming book, “Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later”
Keith Harmon Snow, human rights investigator and war correspondent, Conscious Being Alliance
Robin Philpot, Baraka Books Publisher, author of “Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa”
Kevin Alexander Gray, author of “The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama,” contributor to Counterpunch and The Progressive
Nita Evele, Congo Coalition – Stop the Genocide in Congo-Zaire
Phil Taylor, Taylor Report Producer and Host, CIUT 89.5 FM, University of Toronto, former defense investigator for the ICTR
Kumbi Bénédicte Ndjoko, historian and activist, Don’t Be Blind This Time
Jean Nepomuscene Manirarora, Secretary-General, Foundation for Freedom and Democracy in Rwanda
Jennifer Fierberg, Contributor, African Global Village
For more information, contact Friends of the Congo, 202-584-6512 or 718-865-6512 and Committee for Unity of Black Immigrants and Americans, 404-401-8817.

FDLR WANTS PEACE NEGOCIATION WITH RWANDA GOVERNMENT BUT FDLR WILL DEFEND ITSELF IF KAGAME CONTINUES TO TRY TO KILL RWANDAN REFUGEES IN CONGO

FDLR IS SEEKING PEACE TALK WITH RWANDA GOVERNMENT

INTAMBARA Y’AKARERE MUBIYAGA BIGALI : IBIMENYETSO BIRAGENDA BYIYONGERA.

Kabila na Kagame bakomeje kwitegura intambara

Yasohotse mu kinyamakuru Ikaze Iwacu twavugaga ko intambara y’akarere ishobora kuba itari kure. Mu y’indi nyandiko yacu nanone nayo yasohotse mu rurimi rw’igifaransa: Région des grands lacs: FDLR au centre du ballet diplomatique dans la région yasohotse ku rubuga rw’ikinyamakuru Ikaze Iwacu, (http://ikazeiwacu.fr/2014/09/11/region-des-grands-lacs-fdlr-au-centre-du-balllet-diplomatique-dans-la-region/ ) twagaragaje urujya n’uruza rw’amanama n’abadiplomates byari bimaze iminsi mu karere k’ibihugu by’ibiyaga bigari byose bivuga ibya FDLR.
Izo nyandiko zombi uzishyize hamwe, muri make icyo zitubwira nuko intambara ikomeye ishobora kuba igiye kuba mu karere. Iyo ntambara ikaba izaba irimo u Rwanda, Uganda na Kenya ku ruhande rumwe, ku rundi ruhande hakaba hari FDLR, RD Congo n’ibindi bihugu bishobora kuba byabatera inkunga. Impanvu RD Congo izitabaza ibihugu by’inshuti zayo kuyitabara, nuko mu by’ukuri RD Congo na Prezida Kabila bamaze gusobanukirwa ko, iyo u Rwanda n’u Buganda rutera RD Congo rugira urwitwazo FDLR ariko mu by’ukuri ibyo bihugu byombi, umugambi wabyo nyamukuru akaba aruwo gufata ubutegetsi muri RD Congo noneho bigashyiraho ubutegetsi buyobowe n’abarwandophone b’abatutsi bo muri Congo, bityo empire Hima-Tutsi ikaba igenda igendwaho.
Hari ibindi bimenyetso bigaragaza ko intambara iriho itegurwa tugira ngo tugeze ku banyarwanda n’abandi bakurikiranira hafi ibibera muri aka karere k’ibihugu by’ibiyaga bigari muli Africa:
1. Mu nkuru yasohotse ku rubuga rw’ikinyamakuru Rushyashya muri uku kwezi kwa Nzeri: « M23 yihanangirije Kabila bwa nyuma bitaba ibyo ikagaba igitero.» (http://m.rushyashya.net/amakuru/mu-rwanda/m23-yihanangirije-kabila-bwa-nyuma.html ). Muri iyo nyankiko “Bertrand Bisiimwa umuyobozi wa M23 mu itangazo yageneye abayobozi b’aka karere k’ibiyaga bigari ryasohotse ku itariki ya 8 Nzeri 2014 yongeye kuvuga ko igihugu cya RD Congo kirengagije nkana gushyira mu bikorwa amasezerano agamije kugarura amahoro ku barwanyi b’umutwe wa M23 ndetse banirengagiza andi masezerano yasinywe mu 2009 hagati y’iki gihugu n’icyahoze ari umutwe wa CNDP na leta ya RD Congo. »
Umuyobozi wa M23 yunzemo avuga ko: « kutubahiriza iri tegeko bishobora gutuma aba bagenerwaga imbabazi n’iri tegeko bishobora gutuma basubira mu ntambara bitabaturutseho ndetse ko baramutse bayisubiyemo nta rutangira ishobora kuboneka yatuma bayihagarika kandi ko batagirira impuhwe ubutegetsi bwa Kabila. »
Kuri ayo magambo yavuzwe na M23, iyo hiyongereyeho ko abarwanyi ba M23 bari barahungiye mu Rwanda no muri Uganda, ubu baburiwe irengero, kuburyo MONUSCO ubu yatangiye kubikoraho iperereza; ntagushidikanya ko abo barwanyi bagiye kongera kwisuganya kugira ngo noneho bagabe ibitero simusiga nkuko babyivugiye. Ibyo rero bishobora kuba mu mezi ari imbere, bashyigikiwe na Leta y’u Rwanda niya Uganda; cyane cyane ko Leta y’u Rwanda izaba yitwaje ko FDLR yanze gushyira intwaro hasi.
Iyo ipoteze (hypothèse) yo kongera kubura imirwano, ikaba nanone ishimangirwa n’inkuru ikinyamakuru Ikaze Iwacu kimaze iminsi gitangaza mu minsi yashize kivuga: ubuhisho bw’intwaro nyinshi za gisirikari buherutse kuvumburwa muri Kivu, n’abacengezi ba M23 cyangwa b’abanyarwanda baherutse gufatirwa muri biriya bice bya Masisi ho muri Nord Kivu.
2. Inkuru yatangajwe n’ikinyamakuru cyo muri Uganda Chimpreports mu cyongereza (http://chimpreports.com/museveni-kagame-kenyatta-to-discuss-drc-turmoil.html ) ikavugwa mu kinyarwanda n’ikinyamakuru Rushyashya (http://m.rushyashya.net/politiki/kagame-museveni-kenyatta-mu-nama.html ) yatumenyesha ko mbere y’uko batangira inama rusange ya Loni yabereye i New York kuva kuri 22 Nzeli 2014, aba Perezida, Museveni wa Uganda, Kagame w’u Rwanda na Kenyata wa Kenya, bahuye mu nama y’umutekano yo mu rwego rwo hejuru biga ikibazo cy’umutekano muri RD Congo no ku kibazo cya FDLR. 

Amerika nayo ntirashirwa

Aha twibutse ko Museveni yari aherutse mu ruzinduko muri Tanzaniya aho yabonanye na Prezida wa Tanzaniya Jakaya Kikwete. Abakuru b’ibihugu batatu bari kwiga ku kibazo cy’umutekano muri RD Congo ariko nyirubwite Perezida wa Congo atari mo! Aha biteye kwibaza. Twe turabona ko muri iyo nama bariho barebera hamwe aho ingabo zabo zigeze mu myiteguro yo gutera RD Congo na FDLR.
3. Loni na Leta z’unze ubumwe z’Amerika bikomeje kotsa igitutu FDLR bavuga ko byanze bikunze igomba kugambwaho ibitero igihe tariki ntarengwa ya 2 Mutarama 2015 izaba itararangiza gushyira intwaro hasi. Ibyo byongeye kuvugwa n’umunyamabanga mukuru wa Loni Bwana Ban Ki Moom (http://chimpreports.com/fdlr-threat-takes-centre-stage-at-un-meeting.html) 
Hagati aho ariko, inkuru yatangajwe n’ikinyamakuru Umuseke (http://www.umuseke.rw/tanzania-ntishyigikiye-ko-fdlr-iraswaho-igiye- yahawe-kitageze/ ) iyikesha ikinyamakuru cyo muli Tanzaniya cyitwa The Citizen, ivuga ko, nkuko byatangajwe n’umwe mu bayobozi bo muri Tanzaniya utarashatse ko bamuvuga izina yatangaje ko: « Uruhande turiho (Tanzaniya) ni uko tudashyigikiye ingufu za gisirikare (mu kurwanya FDLR) mbere y’igihe ntarengwa cyashyizweho…nyuma y’icyo gihe tu (Tanzania) zafata undi mwanzuro».
4. Ihinduka rikomeye ryabaye mu myanya hafi ya yose y’ubutegetsi mu ngabo za RD Congo, mu cyumweru gishize, nayo n’ikindi kimenyetso kigaragaza ko na RD Congo ishobora kuba iteganya ko hagiye kuba imirwano ikomeye mu gihugu cyabo. Intambara iyo ari yo yose izaba muri RD Congo mbere y’amatora ateganijwe muri icyo gihugu muri 2015, Perezida Josefu Kabila ayifitemo inyungu, kuko izatuma ahagarika processus ya demokarasi y’amatora yitwaje ko igihugu kiri mu ntambara. Ibi ni nako byagenda i Burundi igihe u Burundi bushobora kuba nabwo bwaba buri muri iyi ntambara y’akarere. 
5. U Rwanda rwo rero urareba ukabona ko iyi ntambara rwayiteguye kuva cyera. Dore ibimenyetso:

• U Rwanda ruvugwa ko ari kimwe mu bihugu bifite ingabo zirwanira ku butaka zikomeye muri aka karere. Ntabwo twashoboye kumenya umubare w’abasirikari u Rwanda rufite cyangwa ibikoresho bya gisirikari rufite. Ariko kubera igihugu kimaze imyaka n’imyaka mu ntambara, kuva muri 1990, ntabwo bitangaje ko u Rwanda rufite abasirikare bamenyereye kurwana.

• U Rwanda rwari ruherutse gukubura inzego za gisilikari. Abakekwaho kuba badashigikiye FPR bahabwa amaruhuko.
• Indege za gisirikari za kajugujugu zagiye zigurwa muri iyi myaka ishize
• Ihindurwa rya Premier Ministre na Gouvernement riherutse kuba

6. Ku byerekeye Uganda, kwitegura intambara nabyo byatangiye cyera. Muli 2012, ikinyamakuru The independent cyigeze kubaza giti : Kuki Museveni ari mu kubaka igisirikari gikomeye kurenza ibindi mu karere? Why is Museveni building region’s strongest army? (http://www.independent.co.ug/cover-story/5554-why-is-museveni-building-regions-strongest-army) 
Igisubizo cy’iki kibazo ntabwo tuzatinda kukibona. Iki kinyamakuru kivuga ko Museveni muri 2011, Uganda yatambutse Kenya ku mafaranga agura intwaro. Kivuga ko, ku nshuro ya mbere, Uganda yatambutse Kenya, aho yakoresheje (Uganda) amadollars 1.02 miliyali mu kugura intwaro mu gihe Kenya yo yakoresheje amadollars miliyoni 735. Ibyo bimenyetso byose biragenda bitwereka ko intambara iri mu gututumba muri aka gace k’ibiyaga bigari, ariko ntawushobora kumenya uzayitsinda, cyangwa uko izarangira. Uko biri kose izasiga ihinduye ibintu byinshi, kandi ihitanye n’abantu benshi birunvikana.
Tuzakomeza kugenda tubagezaho uko ibintu bigenda bihinduka mu karere k’ibihugu by’ibiyaga bigari, n’ingaruka bishobora kugira ku banyarwanda muri rusange ariko cyane cyane ku bavandimwe bacu b’impunzi ziri mu mashyamba ya Congo.


Jotham Rwamiheto
Montréal, Canada
Impirimbanyi ya Demukarasi: Imbunda yanjye ni ikaramu, amasasu yanjye ni ibitekerezo.

Ni nde uwushaka ibiziga vyatowe mu Rweru?

 

Ibiziga vyagaragaye ku kiyaga Rweru, vyari mu mifuko biboshe.

Umunyezamu akorera ku cambu ca Dagaza, hafi y'ahahambwe ibiziga bine vyagaragaye mu kiyaga Rweru mu kwezi guheze, yabwiye BBC ko yabonye abantu baje n'ubwato bubiri bufise imoteri.

Ngo yagerageje guhamagara abari muri ubwo bwato ntibamwishura, niko kuca arya akara umukuru w'icambu, hari nk'isaha indwi z'ijoro.
Uwo munyezamu avuga ko abo bantu babonye abasirikare b'Uburundi barwanira mu mazi b'Inzove, berekeje iyo bari, baca bafata ubwato bajemwo basubira inyuma.
Muri ico kibanza kirimwo imva bahataye ibikoresho birimwo, ishitingi, umuringoti n'umuhini.
Abo bantu ngo bageze ahitwa ku Mwugo aho uruzi Akagera rumenera kuri Rweru, baca batsa imoteri, nayo abasirikare bo muri "Marines" Inzove bakomeza kubakurkira.
Biragoye kumenya iyo abaje gushaka kuzura ivyo biziga bazananye.
Ico bikoze ariko, abarovyi bakorera aho ku kiyaga Rweru bemeza ko baheruka kubona umuntu yaje aturuka mu Kirundo, yafashe amafoto y'aho ivyo biziga vyahambwe, n'aho ibirindiro vy'abasirikare b'iBurundi biri.
Uwo muntu mu nyuma ngo yaciye afata ubwato bwamujabukanye hakurya mu Rwanda, nk'uko abamutwaye bavyiganiye umunyamakuru wa BBC, Cyriaque Muhawenayo.
Ku kibazo c'uko hoba hari amatohoza yo kumenya abashaka ivyo biziga, ntibiramenyekana ko hari amatohoza arakorwa.
Ariko hari ingingo zaciye zifatwa uno munsi, harimwo gushira ikirindiro c'igisirikare iDagaza, ahari imva zashinguwemwo ibiziga bine vyatowe aho mu Rweru.
Hashinzwe kandi itegeko ko ata muntu n'umwe asubira kwinjira mu mazi inyuma y'isaha 12 z'umugoroba.
Abategetsi bo mu ntara ya Muyinga barimwo Bulamatari w'intara, umukuru w'igipolisi w'intara, n'umukuru w'akarere ka kane gisirikare, biriwe muri ako gace.
Ibiziga vyatanguye kuboneka mu mezi aheze bireremba muri ico kiyaga Rweru gushika ubu akaba atawuramenya icese iyo vyazananye hagati y'uburundi n'Urwanda.
Ariko ku ruhande rw'Uburundi bavuga ko vyamanukanye uruzi Akagera rutemba ruva mu Rwanda.
Bine muri ivyo biziga vyahavuye bivanwa mu mazi n'abategetsi b'intara ya Muyinga mu Burundi birahambwa, ari navyo vyoba vyagira bizurwe.

Rwanda Militia Commander 'Tired Of War'

A commander involved in one of Africa's longest running conflicts tells Sky News they can't give up fighting without foreign help.

By Alex Crawford, Special Correspondent

The commander of one of the Rwandan militia hiding out in the eastern Congolese mountains has told Sky News his men will not disarm without guarantees for their safety.

Colonel Bonheur - as he called himself but which is almost certainly not his real name - said his band of soldiers would be forced to continue fighting unless a political solution can be found.
Speaking from his mountain hideout, he said: "We are tired of war. We want peace. But we need the international community to step in and mediate.
"They know what they have to do and they know very well how to solve the problem. They need to pressurise Rwanda."
He said he and his men want to return to Rwanda and reform the militia as a political party.

The militia soldiers are living in straw huts in the Congolese mountains

That is unlikely to be accepted by the current President Paul Kagame, who they want to unseat.
The colonel and his unit - which he called the Tigers - are a branch of the FDLR (The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda) - and are wanted by the United Nations for war crimes.
They are accused of being among those who tried to wipe out the Tutsis in Rwanda way back in 1994.
The genocide then has been the backbone of the region's woes ever since. Wars have led to an estimated four million people losing their lives over the past 20 years.
The FDLR militias have been blamed for continued mass killings and rapes inside the Congo ever since and their existence has led to the creation of an estimated 30 Congolese armed groups who are also responsible for atrocities, as all the different armed groups battle for control of the region.

Colonel Bonheur says the international community must intervene

Military action against the FDLR was threatened by the UN, but it was persuaded to hold off until December after South Africa and Tanzania - who are allied with Congo's Joseph Kabila - argued the militia should be given time to voluntarily surrender their weapons.
It is an option America does not believe the rebels will take.
The colonel said: "We urge the international community to take pity on us."
He insisted some of his men had surrendered and handed in their weapons but the remainder are fearful of giving up their guns because of reprisals from the Congolese.
Instead they have shifted on to the mountains with their families, where they shelter in straw huts, some with plastic sheeting but most without.
One woman said: "We are starving. We just eat leaves boiled in water."
Another man told us: "We are a people without a country now. We need help."
A global day of peace means little to these people.
Most were unaware of it and the colonel said disparagingly: "The Americans can sort peace here in an instant. They just don't want to."
He, like many others weary of the war in this region, believe the chaos and instability caused by it suits many who are plundering the country of its rich natural resources.

• Gallery: Rwanda's Long-Running Civil War

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    A young French woman, repatriated from war-torn Rwanda, is overwhelmed by emotion in the arms of a relative who came to greet her at Orly Airport, France
    

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    A member of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) guards the entrance of a cell in the prison in Kibongo, southeast of Kigali, August 12, 1994
    

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    A young girl, fleeing the war-ravaged Rwandan capital, stands on the roadside, 23kms outside of Kigali, on May 27, 1994
    

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    Displaced Tutsis wait for food at Kabgayi refugee camp, South of Kigali May 28, 1994. Some 14,000 refugees took shelter in this camp and got food every three days
    

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    UN soldiers hold defence position during a patrol in the south western Kibeho refugee camp where 2000 Hutus are held as hostages in a school and hospital complex, April 24, 1995
    

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    A Rwandan child crying sat in the dirt in a refugee camp in Ruhango, some 50 km from the Rwandan capital Kigali, June 6, 1994
    

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    Wounded Rwandan children wait at the French army medical centre at the Goma airport in Zaire in July, 1994
    

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    Some 90,000 Rwandan refugees wait to get food from the Red Cross in the Benako, Tanzania refugee camp, May 20, 1994
    

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    Newly arrived Rwandan refugees at Lula, a new camp near Kisangani, rest at the entrance of the camp, March 25, 1997
    

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UBUTUMWA BWA FCLR-UBUMWE: KALINGA NI INGENGABITEKEREZO.

Ntidushobora kubaka u Rwanda mu mahoro n’ukuri tutavuze Kalinga. Twibaze rero impamvu abadusaba kuyiceceka aribo batangiye kwirirwa batubwira ngo nitutavuga iby’abakiga n’abanyenduga ntituzigera tugira amahoro. Baravuga ngo ibuye ryagaragaye ntiryica isuka, ariko iyo isuka ifitwe n’impunyi cyangwa igipfayongo, amahirwe y’isuka angana n’ay’ifi yavuye mu mazi ikagwa ku rutare.

FCLR-Ubumwe

Niyo mpamvu dusaba abo dufatanyije mu rugamba rwo kubohora igihugu, gukora uko bashoboye bakumva, kandi bagasoma iby’umwanzi ashaka ko dukora, kugirango tutaba abapfayongo bakandagira mu mitego bazi neza aho iri.
Kalinga ni ingengabitekerezo
Umwe mu banyapolitiki b’Inkotanyi wakunzwe cyane, kandi akubahwa n’abahutu benshi bayobotse inkotanyi muri iyi myaka 20 ishize, ni uwitwa Aloyiziya Inyumba. Abenshi bavuga ko ngo yavugishaga ukuri kandi akagira umutima mwiza, kuburyo icyo yasabaga abantu gukora bahitaga bagikora, akaba ari muri urwo rwego ngo yaba yaragize uruhare mu gutuma impunzi nyinshi z’abahutu, cyane cyane izari i Burayi zisubira mu Rwanda.
Muri iyi minsi umwe mu bagabo bari barayobotse Inyumba, yasobanuye ukuntu uwo mutegarugori yavuze mu nama y’Inkotanyi, ko kuba ingoma ya cyami y’abatutsi yarashahuraga abahutu, ibishahu ikabishyira kuri Kalinga, ari imwe mu mpamvu zituma bikomeye kunga abanyarwanda; asaba ko byakwigwaho mu rwego rwa gahunda y’ubumwe n’ubwiyunge. Uyu mutegarugori akimara kuvuga aya magambo, inkotanyi zahise zikwiza ibihuha ko ngo yaba ari umuhutukazi, zibonye ntacyo bimuhinduyeho zimuha utuzi arapfa.

Nyakwigendera Aloysia Inyumba yari azi neza umuzi w’ikibazo cy’abahutu n’abatutsi

Mbere ya 1959, kalinga yari ingoma yarangaga ubutegetsi bwa cyami, bakaba barayambikaga ibice by’imibiri y’abo umwami yabaga yishe abaziza ko bamwigometseho, cyangwa se bagize amahirwe mabi yo gupfubirana nawe yabyutse nabi. Ingoma ya cyami ikaba yari ishingiye ku bintu bitatu by’ingenzi:

• Ibinyoma n’uburyarya ndengakamere
• Ubugome n’ubwicanyi ndengakamere
• Kwikubira ubutegetsi n’ibyiza byose by’igihugu

Muri iki gihe rero iyo tuvuze kalinga nshya ya FPR, ntibisaba impamyabushobozi ihambaye kubona ko ibi bintu bitatu byaranze cyami, Kagame na FPR ye babigaruye kandi bakongeraho n’akarusho. Iyi myitwarire ya FPR ntibangamiye abahutu gusa, ibangamiye abatutsi, abatwa, muri rusange abanyarwanda bose badashengerera Kagame. Abihutira rero kwita umuntu wese uvuze kalinga intagondwa y’umuhutu bajye babanza bumve ibyavuzwe, mbere yo kwitirira abantu ibitekerezo n’imigirire badafite, kuko ibyo tumenyereye ko bikorwa n’inkotanyi mu rwego rwo gucecekesha abatavuga rumwe nazo. Nkuko Kalinga ya cyera yabambaga n’abatutsi rimwe na rimwe, n’iy’ubu ntirobanura imanika uyibangamiye uwo ari wese.
Ukuri ni ngombwa mu bintu bijyanye n’inyungu rusange z’igihugu, kuko twagize igihe gihagije cy’abanyapolitiki barimanganya rubanda, aho ushobora kubwira umuntu uti: “ ni wowe wanyibye mfite video yawe usohoka iwanjye wikoreye ibintu byanjye,” akagusubiza ati: “ uravuga ibyo kubera ko unyangira ko ndi umunyakigali,” nk’aho ibyo bivuga ko atariwe uri kuri video ava kukwiba.
Abakiga n’abanyenduga
Twatangajwe kandi no kumva bamwe mu bavuga ko kuvuga kalinga ari ukuzura akaboze, barafashe iya mbere mu gukangurira rubanda kongera kwigaragura mu macakubiri hagati y’abakiga n’abanyenduga. Kalinga ni ingengabitekerezo: kuba umukiga cyangwa umunyenduga ntibibabuza bombi gushyirwa ku kandoyi bagakubitwa agafuni iyo kalinga yariye karungu.

Iyo FPR yica abahutu ntibanza kubabaza akarere bakomokamo

Muri za 1990 intambara hagati ya MDR na MRND yatsinzwe na FPR igihugu cyuzura imiborogo; abumva rero bashaka gusubira muri iyi filimi bazashake abandi bakinnyi; kuko abaturage bari mugihugu hagati barimo bararigiswa buri joro, abandi bagashyirwa ku ngoyi, imirambo yabo tukayibona mu migezi, bakaba rero badafite umwanya wo kuririra ababo, cyangwa se kwivovota. Bakeneye gutabarwa, aho kumva ko ababasize inyuma, bamaze guteza akaduruvayo kahaye icyuho Kalinga nshya, bakibereye mu byo barimo muri za 1990.
Imigambi y’umwanzi
Mu gihe tuzi neza ko Kagame na FPR barimo bitegura kongera guteza indi ntambara mu karere, kandi abacanshuro bamushyigikiye bakaba bararangije gucura indi migambi yo kutumarira abaturage, cyane cyane impunzi ziri muri Kongo, turasaba abanyapolitiki n’abandi bose bavuga ko badushyigikiye, gufata igihe bagatekereza neza niba bumva, ibikorwa barimo muri iki gihe bihagije mu gutegura ibihe bikomeye biri imbere, cyangwa se niba bumva uturimo twa politike bakora mu mpera z’icyumweru duhagije mu guhangana na Kagame n’ibisumizi bye.
Zimwe mu ngaruka mbi z’ingengabitekerezo ya kalinga yayogoje igihugu cyacu, cyane cyane abanyapolitiki bamwe, ni imyitwarire yitiranya kuba umuyobozi no kuba umwami. Ni muri urwo rwego twongeye gusaba abanyapolitiki dufatanya muri iki gihe cyangwa se bifuza gufatanya natwe mu minsi itaha ko FDLR na PS-Imberakuri byakoze FCLR-Ubumwe kugirango ibe Ihuriro ridacibwamo ibice, kuberako abaturage bacu bari hanze y’u Rwanda no mu gihugu imbere bafite inyungu zimwe, kandi bakaba badafite igihe cyo kubyina muzunga inyuma y’abanyapolitiki bibona ubwabo, mbere yuko babona umubabaro w’imbaga nyarwanda.

Aba bantu bari muri gereza, bakeneye kurenganurwa, ntabwo bakeneye abayobozi bitwara cyami

Turasaba rero ko ibikorwa byose bigamije kubangamira imikorere yihariye y’ihuriro ryacu byahagarara kuko biri mu nyungu z’umwanzi, nk’uko bigaragara muri Raporo ya bamwe mu bashaka kudusenya biyise ngo ni The DRC Affinity Group(bivuga mu Kinyarwanda “Agaco gafite aho gahuriye na Congo” kandi kagizwe n’abazungu gusa). Igihe rero kirageze ngo abakorana natwe, cyangwa se bifuza gukorana natwe bahitemo niba bagomba kurwanya FCLR-Ubumwe cyangwa Kagame n’abambari be, kuko badashobora kubikora byombi icyarimwe.
Twamenye kandi ko ngo haba hari abanyapolitiki batumwe na bene madamu gusenya, cyangwe se kwigarurira Indatsimburwa ngo bazite amazina nk’ay’inka. Abo nabo turabamenyesha ko Indatsimburwa ari imfubyi zireze mu mashyamba ya Kongo no mu mu gitugu cy’inkotanyi, mu gihe bamwe muri abo banyapolitiki bari bagisangira imitsi ya rubanda na Kagame, cyangwa se biryamiye i Burayi.

Inda nini no kwigwizaho imitungo nibyo soko y’urwango mu Rwanda

Nkuko Bibiliya ibivuga, Indatsimburwa zize kubana n’ingwe mu gicumbi zitayishotoye, “zigira ubwitonzi nk’ubw’inuma, n’ubushishozi nk’ubw’inzoka,” zubaha ibikorwa ntizubaha amazina. Zishishikajwe gusa no kubohora igihugu, inshingano yazo muri iki gihe ni ukumenya akababaro k’abaturage no kugahagarika.
Abumva zigomba kubaheka, ngo zibagire abami bo kwicara aho Kagame yari yicaye, noneho bongere batsikamire rubanda, barabyina imbyino ishaje mu kinyejana kitari cyo. Abashaka icyubahiro cy’Indatsimburwa bagomba kugikorera, berekana ibikorwa byubaka ubumwe bw’abanyarwanda mu kubohora igihugu, aho kubacamo uduce kugirango bongere bayoborwe nk’intama.
 

IGISUBIZO CY’UMUCUNGUZI: NTA WUNDI MWAMI TUGIRA UTARI RUBANDA.

Abazungu baravuga ngo iyo uba mu nzu y’ibirahuri ugomba kwirinda gutera amabuye amazu y’abandi. Kuva FDLR yakwishyira hamwe na PS tugakora FCLR-Ubumwe, abanyapolitiki benshi b’i Burayi bahise bihutira kwibuka ko turi hano mu mashyamba ya Kongo kandi ko turi abantu, ariko bamwe ugasanga basa n’abibagiwe ko tuhamaze igihe kandi ko FDLR ari ishyaka rifite inzego zikora kandi zashoboye kurokoka ibigeragezo byinshi, kubera ko inzego zayo zifite imizi muri rubanda no mu mitekerereze rusange y’abanyarwanda bose bashyira mu gaciro.

Abacunguzi ba FDLR

Ikibabaje nuko hari bamwe muri abo banyapolitiki bumva ngo tuba mu mashyamba bakagirango ahari koko twahindutse inguge nkuko Kagame n’abambari be bakunze kubivuga. Nibyo koko iri shyamba turarizi. Iyo dutewe n’intozi turazireka zigahaha zarangiza zikigendera natwe tugakomeza ibyacu, ariko iyo dutewe n’umwazi turamurasa. Wagirango ahari abanyapolitiki bamwe bayobewe ko iri shyamba turimo riri kw’isi kandi ko iyo imvura ihise Interineti ikora natwe tugakurikira ibya demukarasi yo kuri facebook.
Mu rwego rero rwo gukurikira demukarasi yo kuri facebook, ejo bundi naguye ku kibazo cyatanzwe n’umuvandimwe wacu Romeo, abaza niba abacunguzi bayobowe na RDI-Rwanda rwiza byagirira akamaro igihugu. Iki kibazo cyazamuye impaka ndende ku buryo n’ubu zigomba kuba zigikomeza. Gusa jyewe icyo nafashemo ngirango nsobanurire abanyaburayi ngo bumva tugomba gutegekwa n’abasivile baduhitiyemo ni iki ngiki:

• Icya mbere biragaragara ko badukurikira neza, Perezida dufite ubu ni AI ni ikilatini kivuga: ad interim bigasobanura ko ari Perezida w’agateganyo kuberako Perezida wacu w’umusivili yafungiwe akarengane iyo mu Burayi, umunyamabanga wacu nawe in AI. Abashaka rero gukorana natwe bakaba batanafata igihe cyo kumenya uko inzego zacu zimeze, bagomba kuba bigiza nkana cyangwa se ari abanebwe. 

• Kudakurikira cyangwa se kutumva ibintu neza cyakora ntawabizira. Gusa icyanteye ikirungurira, ni ukumva umuntu witwa Rwaka Theobald ugomba kuba yitirwanwa n’uwo muri CNR-Intwari, kuko ntawamenya ibyo kuri facebook, ashobora no kuba ari Jack Nziza wari wigize nyoni nyinshi, avuga ngo abacunguzi bagomba kwemera kuyoborwa n’abasivili bo mu yandi mashyaka bahuriye mu mpuzamashyaka ngo kuko batagomba kuvanga igisirikari na politiki, asa nuvuga ko batayumva, ko ngo ibyo bakora cyangwa se bavuga bashaka kwihagararaho muri politiki ari ukurata inkovu. Ibi rwose ni agahomamunwa. 

Ibi nibyo uwiyita Théobald Rwaka yanditse: « Njyewe ntekereza ko FDLR ari ishyaka rifite ingabo zitwa abacunguzi. FDLR nk ‘ishyaka ishobora kwifatanya n’andi mashyaka adafite ingabo na RDI ikaza muri urwo rwego. Iyo amashyaka yemeye gufatanya ashyiraho n’imikorere yatuma ubwo bufatanye bubyara umusaruro. Iyo habaye ubufatanye birashoboka ko n’inshingano z’abacunguzi zahinduka mubyo zari zishinzwe hakiyongeraho n’ibindi bikorwa bitewe nyine nicyo ubwo bufatanye buba bugamije.
Numva rero nta mpungenge zagombye kubaho kuri icyo kibazo ku byerekeye uko impunzi ziri muri kongo zakomeza kwitabwaho ndetse hakabaho n’akarusho. Mbona ko igikwiye ahubwo ari ukwungurana inama kuko burya politiki niyo igena imikorere y’ingabo, ingabo sizo zigena uko politiki igomba gukorwa. Buri wese yumvise inshingano ze nta confusion nimwe yabaho. nta nagbaoaho kurata inkovu Ahubwo kuvangitiranya imirimo no kwibona muri byose nibyo bikunze gutera ibibazo ahubwo »
Nibyo koko tumaze igihe mu ishyamba ariko turakurikira, turasoma iyo bishobotse kandi tunibuka ibyo twigishijwe kuko tutayobowe n’injinji nk’uko bamwe babyibwira. Abasivili bayobora igisirikari kuberako babiherewe ububasha na rubanda. Niyo mpamvu muri ibyo bihugu birimo demukarasi mubamo abasirikari bubaha abasivili kuberako baba batowe na rubanda. Mu gihe cyo kubohora igihugu iyo nta butegetsi bwatowe n’abaturage buriho inshingano y’abasirikare ni ukurinda abaturage. Ibi nibyo tumaze imyaka 20 tugerageza gukora ntawe uduhemba, bamwe birirwa batwita abicanyi abandi bavuga ngo ntitubaho turi za baringa, none tugeze n’aho bamwe baducyurira ngo turarata inkovu. Niba natwe izacu twazitewe no kurengera rubanda.
Abantu barimo basakuza cyane muri iyi minsi ngo bashaka gutegeka ingabo z’abacunguzi ni abirirwa barata inkovu batewe no kuba barihomye ku nkotanyi zarangiza zikabatera utwatsi, bakaba nabo barimo bajarajara hanze, none bibagiwe uruhare bagize mu gufasha inkotanyi gukwiza ibinyoma byazo, ahubwo barashaka gukoresha iyo turufu mu kwigira abavugizi b’impunzi kabuhariwe. Ntawe ubabujije kuvugira impunzi ariko gutinyuka gucyurira abantu nkatwe tutigeze tuzitererana n’umunsi n’umwe ngo turarata inkovu ni ugukabiriza kandi ni ugushotorana bikabije.

Aba bana ni bo Rwanda rw’ejo

Hari abakibwira ko ngo kuba barakoranye n’inkotanyi bibagira abantu beza, kubera ko ngo bituma batitirirwa ibyaha, inkotanyi n’abazishyigikiye bahora bashaka kurunda kuri buri muntu wese udashaka kuzipfukamira. Wagirango ntibakurikira ngo bumve ko na cya gipfayongo Petero Damiyani Habumuremyi kirirwaga gihakirizwa barimo bavuga ngo ni FDLR. Kuba abacunguzi twaremeye kurya duke tukoza akarenge, ntibyatewe nuko bamwe muri twe batashoboraga guhambira bakajya kuba i Burayi cyangwe bakajya guhakwa kuri Kagame, nta n’ubwo ari ibanga, hari ababikoze.
Icyo abantu nk’uyu Rwaka bagomba kumenya muri iki gihe ni uko nta wundi mwami twe abacunguzi dufite utari rubanda rw’impunzi turi kumwe muri aya mashyamba, n’abaturage bacu bari ku ngoyi mu gihugu hagati tugomba kubohora. Ntabwo rero umuntu azafata umugore we n’inshuti ze ebyiri bahurira mu kabari iyo ngiyo i Burayi ngo biyite ishyaka, ngo maze noneho bahita baza biruka ngo baje gutegeka ingabo za FDLR. FCLR-Ubumwe ifite abasivili bahagije bazi icyo bakora kandi bumva icyo barwanira.
Twavuze ko twifuza gufatanya n’abandi ntitwavuze ko twifuza gufatwa n’abandi. Igihugu nikibohoka hakaba amatora uzayatsinda azayobora ingabo niko bigenda muri demukarasi.