I refuse to be a servant of the West

[Kweli]

I refuse to be a servant of the West


"It is hard for people who are constantly going to Western capitals to beg for aid to shake off the indignities heaped on them daily, President Paul Kagame told me in an interview at Village Urugwiro, the State House in Kigali."

Kagame is clearly irked that, decades after independence, our relationship with the West continues to be a master/servant one.

The president said, “These rich countries still exercise control over us; all these human rights and media rights organisations and so on, their sole objective is to impose Western ideals and values on everyone; anyone who refuses to go along is blacklisted.

“If you reject even some of their suggestions or recommendations, you pay for it. It doesn’t matter either whether the suggestions aren’t practical for us or don’t fit our situation.

“All this strengthens the case for closer co-operation between our countries.”


“You see, this kind of situation where Europeans give themselves the powers to arrest us and lock us up can only be sustained as long as this master/servant relationship is what defines our dealings with them,” says Kagame. “Today it is us. Tomorrow it will be another African elsewhere.”


He adds, “We have to fight this tendency for Europeans to always cast themselves in the role of judge and the African always as the guilty party. We have to fight it on all fronts.”

Today any judge in France or Spain or elsewhere in Europe can indict anyone, using the doctrine of universal jurisdiction — whereby states may claim criminal jurisdiction over people whose alleged crimes were committed outside the territory of the prosecuting state.

President Kagame also has strong views about how the Western press has depicted the conflict in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.




President Kagame is well-known for exercising close control of his government. Many describe his style of governance as authoritarian in nature. Yet others see a close resemblance to the Chinese model where you have a strong central state that at the same time grants citizens many freedoms.

Likewise, the government of Kagame has little time for pluralist politics. The opposition in Rwanda can barely be recognised as such despite, having representatives in parliament who every now and then come down hard on poorly performing government appointees.

But mostly the opposition works hand in hand with President Kagame’s ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front party on most policy issues and governance decisions.

“We will devise the best means to govern ourselves; I am not a believer in this notion propagated for years that only ideas developed elsewhere work,” he says.

“All these people in Europe who preach their brand of democracy to the world, you will realise none of their systems are identical,” he adds.
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Let's see the other side of the coin.

Kagame clearly 'talk the talk' and his suggestions and ideas are good example for the rest of African governments to follow, however I doubt some of his wisdoms.
To me he reminds me a story of a pastor who said 'Do as I say and not what I do'
He seems to detest The West but he is also too friendly and so keen in becoming another Western (British) poodle by joining The Commonwealth. This is a typical hypocrite African Politician.

 

[Koba]

Masanja,

Huyu jamaa hata kama ni kiongozi bora kiasi gani..au ana mawazo mazuri kiasi gani, haizuii sheria kuchukua mkondo wake..

Ukisoma kwa makini article utagundua zaidi ya 60% imejikita kwenye chuki ya Kagame kufuatia dispute aliyopo baina RFP na France na Germany, ambayo Kagame anataka kuitranslate na kui-hijack hoja nzima ili isomeke kuwa ni suala la Utumwa na Mtwana..

Kama alihusika na mauaji, the guy should face the scrutiny and related music.. Mbona al Bashir ameshtakiwa The Hague..

...huna idea unaongea nini kapuku wewe,bora ukae kimya!

 

[Abdulhalim]

...huna idea unaongea nini kapuku wewe,bora ukae kimya!

Genius in the counterclockwise direction,

Hivi genius unaelewa maana ya neno kapuku? Kama sina idea ya ninachoongea..ongea wewe basi ili sisi wenye mtindio tupate mwanga..

Haya uwanja ni wako, mwaga upupu..

 

[Maamuma]

Geee!!! Some people don't know how to read!!! I am a mouth piece of the west just by posting this article!!!! Duh!!! Kazi kweli kweli!!!!

Ni kweli, kusoma article ni kazi moja na kuielewa ni kazi nzito zaidi! Wengine wamesahau kwamba you were just sharing the article with us. They are 'punctuating' BAK instead of Kagame as presented in the article.
There is a lot to discuss and learn from the article. Tuchukue mazuri ya Kagame na tuyafanyie kazi, mabaya tumwachie mwenyewe. Thanks BAK.

 

[Lole Gwakisa]

Mr Koba , I would suppose we need to get your views and NOT your insults from the JF blog.That way we will benefit from your ideas.
Calling ones ideas Ideotic.....well means nothin, hata yule mtu asiye kuwa na mawazo yoyote anaweza kutukana, constructive criticism differentiates a thinking man fom the rest

 

[Maamuma]

Genius in the counterclockwise direction,

Hivi genius unaelewa maana ya neno kapuku? Kama sina idea ya ninachoongea..ongea wewe basi ili sisi wenye mtindio tupate mwanga..

Haya uwanja ni wako, mwaga upupu..

Sio wewe peke yako Mtindio, nasi akina maamuma pia twangojea ubwabwa wa Mr. Genius ili tu-prove huo u-genius. Au bado anapika?

 

[Masanja]

Tatizo ukiliangalia hili swala as Kagame vs the rest. You will never see anything good from Kagame. Wengi wetu tunamchukia Kagame simply because he is Kagame and a Tutsi! Period! Wengi wanaona Kagame yuko involved in Congo simply because Nkunda is a Tutsi. Ni hiyo hiyo parochial thinking..inayotucost mpaka leo waafrica. Tuko radhi tukubaliane na statistics zinazopikwa Washington na Brussels at the expense of our own. Ni kama waarabu wanavyowachukia wayahudi..simply because in wayahudi! And wayahudi know it..thats why they are always alert!

Hivi jamani niwaulize...nani kapita Rwanda siku za karibuni? Nilipita juzi for four days. Huwezi amini kwamba ni nchi iliyokumbwa na masaibu miaka kumi iliyopita. I tell you the Government is functioning na matunda yanaonekana. Yaani mpaka unakuwa optimistic kwamba Africa is moving ahead....

By the way let me say this: Kiongozi hata kama akiwa ni dictator...as long as ni visionary dictator, anayejua anafanya nini..Honestly I will grudgingly support him than the so called democratic leaders wanaoiba hata hela ya kutibia malaria watu wao..Talk of Chenge, Mramba, Mkapa... our own!!!. Rwanda ukila rushwa ni kifungo cha kudumu! WHICH I FULLY SUPPORT! So is China! Lakini hawa morons wa Human rights..wanatwambia eti..mwizi umpe due process of the law...Mbona wao hawakuwapa Due process kule Guantanamo...Jamani hizi Human Rights..tusizichukulie on face value! Tunaingia mkenge!

Tatizo kubwa la sisi wa Africa kama alivyosema Jmushi1 ni kwamba hatusomi historia na hatupendani. Mi najua kabisa..wengi humu wanaumia kuona Rwanda inapiga hatua despite the barrage of criticism from all corners of the world na hao compradors wa human rights and democracy.......,.Including my compatriots..in my country Tanzania..wengi tunaumia kuona Rwanda sasa inatuwashia indicator kwa maendeleo.....wakati ni juzi tulikuwa tumehifadhi almost a Million refugees from Rwanda...despite the much touted AMANI NA UPENDO! Wengi wetu wako radhi TUKOSE WOTE... wote tuendelee kuwa maskini! Hayo ni mawazo mfu!

Kagame na matatizo yake still, ni kiongozi mwenye vision. Hata ukiangalia cabinet yake..litadhihirisha hilo. On the other side nchi yetu kama Tanzania..tumechagua viongozi ambao ni wazembe wa kufikiria..mpaka leo tunaimba amani..wakati miaka hamsini baada ya uhuru..watu wetu bado ni maskini wa kutupwa! How do you explain that. Definetely we are ALL responsible as Tanzanians.

Mwisho nasema, Kagame has his own flaws as Kagame and as a Human being. But extraordinary times require extra ordinary measures. Hata kama ni mimi I cant listen to these morons so called international community ambao hawawezi toa msaada unless wana interests zao. Jiulize Kosovo ambayo ukubwa wako ni 10% ya Darfur walipelekwa askari 50,000 kulinda amani na walipewa bajeti ya kutosha MNO. Leo Darfur..using the same standards..kuna askari 10,000 ambao hata helicopter hawana....they are just struggling, Somalia..UN imegoma kutoa msaada wowote kwa AMISOM ya African Union......na bado mtu ana AUDACITY ya kutwambia hapa eti international community imhukumu Kagame??? Only few people like Kagame have seen it..because they have had first experience of what "international community" means to them.

Africa should wake up from the slumber! Wivu na chuki havitupeleki popote. I dont like some of Kagame`s stuffs....But in the whole of Africa..I dont see any leader with vision like him! And thats why I support him! Whether ni mhutu, mtusi, msukuma au mmakuwa!

 

[Koba]

Tatizo ukiliangalia hili swala as Kagame vs the rest. You will never see anything good from Kagame. Wengi wetu tunamchukia Kagame simply because he is Kagame and a Tutsi! Period! Wengi wanaona Kagame yuko involved in Congo simply because Nkunda is a Tutsi. Ni hiyo hiyo parochial thinking..inayotucost mpaka leo waafrica. Tuko radhi tukubaliane na statistics zinazopikwa Washington na Brussels at the expense of our own. Ni kama waarabu wanavyowachukia wayahudi..simply because in wayahudi! And wayahudi know it..thats why they are always alert!

Hivi jamani niwaulize...nani kapita Rwanda siku za karibuni? Nilipita juzi for four days. Huwezi amini kwamba ni nchi iliyokumbwa na masaibu miaka kumi iliyopita. I tell you the Government is functioning na matunda yanaonekana. Yaani mpaka unakuwa optimistic kwamba Africa is moving ahead....

By the way let me say this: Kiongozi hata kama akiwa ni dictator...as long as ni visionary dictator, anayejua anafanya nini..Honestly I will grudgingly support him than the so called democratic leaders wanaoiba hata hela ya kutibia malaria watu wao..Talk of Chenge, Mramba, Mkapa... our own!!!. Rwanda ukila rushwa ni kifungo cha kudumu! WHICH I FULLY SUPPORT! So is China! Lakini hawa morons wa Human rights..wanatwambia eti..mwizi umpe due process of the law...Mbona wao hawakuwapa Due process kule Guantanamo...Jamani hizi Human Rights..tusizichukulie on face value! Tunaingia mkenge!

Tatizo kubwa la sisi wa Africa kama alivyosema Jmushi1 ni kwamba hatusomi historia na hatupendani. Mi najua kabisa..wengi humu wanaumia kuona Rwanda inapiga hatua despite the barrage of criticism from all corners of the world na hao compradors wa human rights and democracy.......,.Including my compatriots..in my country Tanzania..wengi tunaumia kuona Rwanda sasa inatuwashia indicator kwa maendeleo.....wakati ni juzi tulikuwa tumehifadhi almost a Million refugees from Rwanda...despite the much touted AMANI NA UPENDO! Wengi wetu wako radhi TUKOSE WOTE... wote tuendelee kuwa maskini! Hayo ni mawazo mfu!

Kagame na matatizo yake still, ni kiongozi mwenye vision. Hata ukiangalia cabinet yake..litadhihirisha hilo. On the other side nchi yetu kama Tanzania..tumechagua viongozi ambao ni wazembe wa kufikiria..mpaka leo tunaimba amani..wakati miaka hamsini baada ya uhuru..watu wetu bado ni maskini wa kutupwa! How do you explain that. Definetely we are ALL responsible as Tanzanians.

Mwisho nasema, Kagame has his own flaws as Kagame and as a Human being. But extraordinary times require extra ordinary measures. Hata kama ni mimi I cant listen to these morons so called international community ambao hawawezi toa msaada unless wana interests zao. Jiulize Kosovo ambayo ukubwa wako ni 10% ya Darfur walipelekwa askari 50,000 kulinda amani na walipewa bajeti ya kutosha MNO. Leo Darfur..using the same standards..kuna askari 10,000 ambao hata helicopter hawana....they are just struggling, Somalia..UN imegoma kutoa msaada wowote kwa AMISOM ya African Union......na bado mtu ana AUDACITY ya kutwambia hapa eti international community imhukumu Kagame??? Only few people like Kagame have seen it..because they have had first experience of what "international community" means to them.

Africa should wake up from the slumber! Wivu na chuki havitupeleki popote. I dont like some of Kagame`s stuffs....But in the whole of Africa..I dont see any leader with vision like him! And thats why I support him! Whether ni mhutu, mtusi, msukuma au mmakuwa!

....hawawezi kukuelewa na wanaamini Kagame ndio alifanya genocide,na wengi wako into that BS conspiracy of Hima empire,ngoja ifike time waanze kuomba vibali vya kwenda kufanya kazi Rwanda labda ndio watajua who is real kagame!

 

[jmushi1]

Tatizo ukiliangalia hili swala as Kagame vs the rest. You will never see anything good from Kagame. Wengi wetu tunamchukia Kagame simply because he is Kagame and a Tutsi! Period! Wengi wanaona Kagame yuko involved in Congo simply because Nkunda is a Tutsi. Ni hiyo hiyo parochial thinking..inayotucost mpaka leo waafrica. Tuko radhi tukubaliane na statistics zinazopikwa Washington na Brussels at the expense of our own. Ni kama waarabu wanavyowachukia wayahudi..simply because in wayahudi! And wayahudi know it..thats why they are always alert!

Hivi jamani niwaulize...nani kapita Rwanda siku za karibuni? Nilipita juzi for four days. Huwezi amini kwamba ni nchi iliyokumbwa na masaibu miaka kumi iliyopita. I tell you the Government is functioning na matunda yanaonekana. Yaani mpaka unakuwa optimistic kwamba Africa is moving ahead....

By the way let me say this: Kiongozi hata kama akiwa ni dictator...as long as ni visionary dictator, anayejua anafanya nini..Honestly I will grudgingly support him than the so called democratic leaders wanaoiba hata hela ya kutibia malaria watu wao..Talk of Chenge, Mramba, Mkapa... our own!!!. Rwanda ukila rushwa ni kifungo cha kudumu! WHICH I FULLY SUPPORT! So is China! Lakini hawa morons wa Human rights..wanatwambia eti..mwizi umpe due process of the law...Mbona wao hawakuwapa Due process kule Guantanamo...Jamani hizi Human Rights..tusizichukulie on face value! Tunaingia mkenge!

Tatizo kubwa la sisi wa Africa kama alivyosema Jmushi1 ni kwamba hatusomi historia na hatupendani. Mi najua kabisa..wengi humu wanaumia kuona Rwanda inapiga hatua despite the barrage of criticism from all corners of the world na hao compradors wa human rights and democracy.......,.Including my compatriots..in my country Tanzania..wengi tunaumia kuona Rwanda sasa inatuwashia indicator kwa maendeleo.....wakati ni juzi tulikuwa tumehifadhi almost a Million refugees from Rwanda...despite the much touted AMANI NA UPENDO! Wengi wetu wako radhi TUKOSE WOTE... wote tuendelee kuwa maskini! Hayo ni mawazo mfu!

Kagame na matatizo yake still, ni kiongozi mwenye vision. Hata ukiangalia cabinet yake..litadhihirisha hilo. On the other side nchi yetu kama Tanzania..tumechagua viongozi ambao ni wazembe wa kufikiria..mpaka leo tunaimba amani..wakati miaka hamsini baada ya uhuru..watu wetu bado ni maskini wa kutupwa! How do you explain that. Definetely we are ALL responsible as Tanzanians.

Mwisho nasema, Kagame has his own flaws as Kagame and as a Human being. But extraordinary times require extra ordinary measures. Hata kama ni mimi I cant listen to these morons so called international community ambao hawawezi toa msaada unless wana interests zao. Jiulize Kosovo ambayo ukubwa wako ni 10% ya Darfur walipelekwa askari 50,000 kulinda amani na walipewa bajeti ya kutosha MNO. Leo Darfur..using the same standards..kuna askari 10,000 ambao hata helicopter hawana....they are just struggling, Somalia..UN imegoma kutoa msaada wowote kwa AMISOM ya African Union......na bado mtu ana AUDACITY ya kutwambia hapa eti international community imhukumu Kagame??? Only few people like Kagame have seen it..because they have had first experience of what "international community" means to them.

Africa should wake up from the slumber! Wivu na chuki havitupeleki popote. I dont like some of Kagame`s stuffs....But in the whole of Africa..I dont see any leader with vision like him! And thats why I support him! Whether ni mhutu, mtusi, msukuma au mmakuwa!

Maneno MAZITO sana hayo Masanja.

 

[WembeMkali]

Originally Posted by Masanja
I wish we had five African leaders of this calibre. Tungesonga mbele. Unfortunately we have the Mugabe`s Kikwete`s, Mubaraka`s etc...ni aibu!

God bless Kagame and I hope the rest of these African leaders will see sense in what you do! Actions speak louder than words. And Kagame you have proved this. Anyone who visit Rwanda can complement you for your visionary leadership.

Acha wanaokulaumu kuhusu Nkunda..its just these morons "the so called international community" who always see Africa as a dead continent which cant govern itself. Nkunda is Congolese problem, now if Congo cant solve it, who should? Wengine bila hata aibu wana-cite eti UN? When was UN..when people were dying? Where is UN in Darfur? where is UN in Zimbabwe? Where is UN in Somalia? with its much worded crap of responsibility to protect and humanitarian intervention? Ohh..yeah watakuja kutupa statistics..za wangapi walikufa...

Jamani..Africa should work up...tutaendelea na hii relationship ya master/servant mpaka lini?

Safi sana Kagame..Mungu akutangulie..

You don kno Kagame!..don be fool by good words from him, he is blood monster!..This is typical of African dictactors..remember Idd Amin..he laughs with people in the day and kill them in the night! we don want more dictators in Africa.
Read this attachment then you will know what im talking about...don be fool again.


MAJOR GENERAL PAUL KAGAME BEHIND THE
SHOOTING DOWN OF LATE HABYARIMANA'S
PLANE: AN EYE WITNESS TESTIMONY
1. I have been keenly following talks on allegations of crimes committed by Paul
Kagame, leader of Rwanda, and his attempts, against all odds, to deny them. I
deem it necessary to inform Rwandans and the international community at
large of the crimes I witnessed in the hope that he would stop deceiving
people. It took quite a long time before I decided to make public this statement
because I was in Uganda, where Kagame has a lot of covert agents who would
have eliminated me. I know him very well because I worked with him in the
Rwandese Patriotic Army since its creation. More so, I served in his escort for
nearly 10 years, until I fled the country.

My background
2. My name is Aloys Ruyenzi, I was born on 1st March 1971 in Mbarara, Uganda
of Rwandan refugee parents. I grew up in Uganda and I joined the National
Resistance Army of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in 1987. I had a sixmonth
course in Basic Military Training, after which I attended a six-month
course in military intelligence. After the training, I was posted in the 23rd
battalion based in northern Uganda, as intelligence staff. A year later, I was
called back to Kampala and posted at the Directorate of Military Intelligence
(DMI), where Kagame was a senior officer. While in DMI, I was selected for
another course called "the Intelligence and Self-Defence". When I fled the
country, I was working in the Republican Guard, an RPA (Rwanda Patriotic
Army) special unit that provides elements for the Presidential Protection Unit.
I was Second Lieutenant and my army number was OP1460.

I joined RPA since its creation
3. When the Rwandan Patriotic Front attacked Rwanda on 1st October 1990, I
was among the fighters. First I was with the 4th battalion operating in the
Akagera National Park, until we were pushed back to Uganda and started
guerrilla warfare. I then joined the then LIMA Combined Mobile Force, from
where I eventually joined the High Command Unit. This is equivalent to army
headquarters in a regular army. However unlike the latter the unit's main duty
was to escort Major Kagame, then RPA boss. I first was in the missile unit,
before being appointed in the escort of Kagame.
4. When I joined the escort, I resumed my duties as intelligence officer. I would
be most of the time close to Kagame as a member of the close bodyguards'
team. In this capacity, I hardly missed any detail of what he would say or
instruct to be done. Hence, my testimony is not a piece of hearsays, but a
testimony of an eyewitness.
5. After the take over of government by RPF, I once again attended courses in
military intelligence and Protection of VIPs. I took up duties as a presidential
bodyguard. When the invasion of Zaire started, I was sent there as one of the
confidants of Kagame to follow and give detailed account of any military
operation that took place. This was in a bid to make sure that he did not miss
any detail by sending his own escorts. The crimes that I witnessed there are so
much that I cannot detail them here. I was there on special assignment as
member of the Republican Guards unit. I will do it in a different paper once I
have time. What I can simply say for the time being is that a lot of crimes that
were committed by the RPA were ordered by Kagame.
6. People were killed on a very large scale on orders of Kagame and officers who
did not carry out orders to kill were either relieved of their duties or
disappeared. Kagame does not tolerate anybody disobeying his orders.
Similarly, during the time the RPA was fighting the so-called "infiltrators" in
northern Rwanda in Ruhengeri and Gisenyi, many unarmed Hutu civilians
were killed in what looked like a true ethnic cleansing. I opposed those
atrocities, until I was labelled as an enemy collaborator.

Reasons for fleeing the country I love so much and I fought for
7. As I said earlier, I joined and served RPA1 since its creation. When I joined it,
I sincerely believed that I was struggling to end injustice towards our brothers,
our parents and our motherland, and eventually to return home. In any case,
this is what we were told. I never envisaged that our return would lead to
killings and expulsion of the population we found inside the country. To my
dismay, I realised that our leader and current President of Rwanda, Paul
Kagame had a hidden agenda. To make matters worse, he would not tolerate
any dissenting voice and opposing his orders could even lead to
disappearance.
8. I had the misfortune of working in his escort, where the climate is abominable.
There is a permanent climate of terror and mistrust, as everybody spies on
everybody else. I was intelligence officer, but I knew very well that I was
myself being spied on.
9. The intelligence officers do not carry out ordinary military intelligence work
they are paid for. They are a squad of criminals that was set up by Kagame for
his own ends. Its sole mission is killings opponents and other unwanted
elements, so as to consolidate his murderous regime. It is therefore very
difficult to work with him, more so as intelligence officer without adhering to
his criminal policies. My aim now is that before I am eliminated I want make
public a list of assassinations ordered personally by Kagame. The list is indeed
very long.
10. I defected because I was realising that we were becoming a gang of killers. I
could not stomach that situation which was contrary to what we fought for,
that it is fighting for restoring a rule of law.
11. But it took time before I could flee for fear of being arrested and killed as a
deserter. I feared being killed by the butt of a used hoe agafuni. The latter is
the acronym given to the part of a hoe that RPA used to smash heads of people
condemned to death. It is very sad that I kept on working deliberately with a
man whose criminal records are so horrendous.
12. The opposition to atrocities planned and ordered by Kagame landed me in
trouble as this was considered as tantamount to treason. In fact I was being
1 Rwandese Patriotic Army, the guerrilla force that overrun Rwanda in 1994 under the leadership of
Kagame
suspected of possible treasonable acts. I was eventually trailed and attempts
were made over my life. I was by now labelled as one of the so-called
"negative forces". This was a label given to Interahamwe militia living in
Zaire. I was even accused of having released Interahamwe in Nkamira-Gisenyi
and put under arrest. This was mere fabrication. Not only there is no
Interahamwe prison there, but also I never released anybody with evidence
that he was involved in killings. There is no way I could show mercy to such
people. I will emphasize here that I do not refer to those innocent Hutus who
were labelled Interahamwe because simply by virtue of being Hutus.
13. By the time I worked with the Gendarmerie, people who were detained there
were suspected of common law crimes mostly related to land and cattle
disputes. I was unfairly arrested on 8th June 1999. Those who arrested me
eventually got ashamed and I was released and allowed to resume my duties in
the escort of Kagame.

My escape from many traps
14. After allegations of conniving with the enemy were levelled against me simply
because I did not support killings innocent people, attempts were made to get
rid of me in ambushes. The first time I survived an ambush was in Gisenyi on
my way to Kabaya thanks to a friend who had warned me. It was on 13th
April 1999.
15. I did also escape narrowly a second attempt on my life, but my escort
perished. One was called James Kabera, a private soldier, the other one was
Hodari, a Mugogwe (a local ethnic Tutsi group of Gisenyi). It was on 15th
May 2001. I was again going to Gisenyi on special assignment. I was
ambushed in the mountains of Buranga in Ruhengeri. This time around, I had
not been warned at all, as I could not imagine that I could be ambushed while
on such a mission. I did not understand why I had been selected for the
mission but even if I had known, I could not refuse the order. A vehicle trailed
me right from Kigali and kept on indicating my position. The Toyota Land
cruiser vehicle that I was in was sprayed with bullets and two of my escort
were killed on the spot. I don't know how I survived.
16. The last attempt on my life was on 18th November 2001. This had been
assigned to two groups to ensure that I don't escape anymore. One of the
people involved felt bad and told me to flee, as he did not have any quarrel
with me. The same day I fled to Uganda.
17. I was first kept under tight surveillance, under CMI (Chieftaincy of Military
Intelligence) custody purportedly for my own security. When they gathered
enough information and confirmed that I was a genuine asylum seeker, I was
allowed to go out and look for shelter. I realised that I could not remain in
Uganda, as Rwandan intelligence services there are even more active that
Ugandan own services. Many Rwandan asylum seekers were picked there and
sneaked back to Rwanda where they were tortured and killed. This is why I
decided to go far from Rwanda in my quest for asylum. I am now in a place
where I can denounce the atrocities committed by General Paul Kagame and
his henchmen. I insisted on giving all these details in order to explain the
difficulties faced by an RPA soldier who does not support what Kagame
wants. I am hoping that slowly by slowly, the tendency of considering all
Tutsi officers as killers will vanish in the minds of many people.

General Kagame did a lot of atrocities, he must answer for them
A. Kagame's record.
18. General Kagame is of quite a very bad character. He is extremely nervous, so
much so that at time he can crash everything on his way and ransack a whole
house. He does not tolerate any dissenting voice, what he says is gospel truth.
I worked with him for a long time. He does not tolerate any advice and is
trigger-happy. Once one of his close allies simply tells him that you are
suspected of disloyalty, this is enough to warrant your death.
19. Kagame can spend a whole month without smiling. He can spend sleepless
night abusing people and roughing them up. He does not spare anybody, he
beats people at random. Anybody summoned at his home starts shaking
excepts henchmen like Major general James Kabarebe. Other officers up to the
rank of colonel like Ndugutse could be beaten to our disgust. He is a
bloodthirsty person. When I worked with him, he would go very early in the
morning to visit detention places of DMI2 to sometime supervise killing. I
recall once in Muhura when we were fighting to capture Kigali, he personally
went on a 12.7mm AAC (anti air craft) mounted on a jeep of his escort and
sprayed bullets on a peaceful market crowd of peasants gathered on a market
place. It was in 1994. He then ordered his soldiers to use all available
weapons and shell the market. It is very saddening to see a leader getting
involved in massacring people in a market, while sarcastically laughing. The
few times you will ever see him smiling is mainly when he is killing or seeing
people killed.
20. General Paul Kagame supervises the smallest detail of everything going on in
the army. He even follows conversations between soldiers on military patrols
on their walkie-talkie radios.
21. Every morning, he summons his signal officer and reads through all operations
and routine army messages, to make sure that he does not miss anything. He
uses to short circuit his military commanding officers by giving direct orders
to field commanders without passing through the chain of command. Here I
simply want to stress that there is nothing he can pretend to ignore. Nothing
can take place within RPA without his knowledge. Apart from very isolated
incidents carried out by petty criminals, all atrocities committed by the army
in operational areas are sanctioned by him. The officers detained for so-called
operational blunders are in actual facts detained because they did not kill the
way he wants. They are not in remand for killing civilians, but for not
concealing their bodies. For him that is a crime. The one who manages to kill
the maximum and clear all the evidence will surely be promoted.
22. Major general Paul Kagame manages Rwandan army as his own militiamen.
The whole army has become a wide intelligence network. When there are
officially 5 intelligence officers, you can rest assured that there are another 20
under cover. There is no clear chain of command in the intelligence network,
everybody spies on everybody else and reports to Major General Paul Kagame
in person. Kagame is a very rough and security cautious person. He has got a
network of criminals who are by this virtue untouchable. They are ready to
carry out any dirty mission that Kagame assigns them. Those people are so
deadly that nobody dares flee the country because they may be tracked
anywhere and be killed. Kagame does not fear anybody. He does not care even
about his health. He sleeps at 2.30 am and wakes up at 4.00 am. He does what
he wants, when he wants. He is very stubborn and arrogant. He does not
hesitate to call his entourage stupid people because he thinks that he is the
cleverest man. He does not trust anybody and is very unpredictable.

B. Some of the crimes he committed or ordered
23. Major general Paul Kagame personally ordered the shooting down of
President Juvénal Habyarimana's plane.
24. I got astonished when I heard him denying it. I equally got surprised by
Rwandan Radio and some international media manoeuvre to absolve him of
that act. I heard even civilian people like Minister Charles Muligande, trying
to explain how militarily it was impossible.
25. Let me make it crystal clear, I attended the last meeting where the plan was
hatched. I was there physically and I even know the names of those who
carried out the shooting. I was working with them in the High Command unit.
It is Lt Frank Nziza and cpl Eric Hakizimana.
26. It is not hearsays; I was present when the meeting took place. That was on 31st
March 1994 from 2.30pm to 3.30pm.The Chairman of the meeting was
Major general Paul Kagame, and the following officers were present: Col
Kayumba Nyamwasa, Col Théoneste Lizinde, Lt Col James Kabarebe, Major
Jacob Tumwine, Captain Charles Karamba. I heard P. Kagame asking Col.
Lizinde to report about his investigations and I have seen Col Lizinde giving
to Paul Kagame a map of the selected place for the plane shooting etc. I don't
want to jeopardise the investigation, because I would be playing around with
criminals who would take the opportunity to prepare their defence. But I
simply want to say that I am ready to give evidence in court, should my
testimony be needed. I would then say the whole truth, if I were still alive.

C. Major general Paul Kagame gave orders to kill civilians.
27. He ordered at numerous occasions to kill as many civilians as possible. This
took place in many areas in Byumba, Ruhengeri and elsewhere, and long
before the Tutsi genocide. I say so because some people think that RPA killed
in reprisal after the genocide. Even during the genocide, I saw and heard on
several occasions major general Paul Kagame giving orders to kill civilians,
especially in Mutara, Byumba and Kibungo. He would enjoy it like a football
fan watching a football game and cheering his team. At time, he even used his
escort or selected DMI operatives to kill civilians.
28. Before the plan to get rid of Juvénal Habyarimana was hatched, meeting had
been going on to prepare the final assault on Kigali. This had been the ultimate
goal whatever the outcome of the negotiations. At that time, I was acting I.O
for then Lt Silas Udahemuka (currently strong man in Kigali), who had got
involved in an accident. In this capacity, I could attend all the meetings of the
High Command. In one of the meetings, major general Paul Kagame ordered
that civilians be lured into attending a public rally under the pretext of
emergency food supply or security meetings, in order to round them up and
eliminate them. And this happened the way it had been planned. The reality is
that mass killings of people took place under his orders. Furthermore, he had a
special hatred against religious people. Whenever the latter would be spotted
and rounded up, local commanders would always ask major General Kagame
what to do. Invariably, he ordered for their killings. I am even aware of the
talks he had with Lieutenant colonel Fred Ibingira before the bishops were
killed in Kabgayi. Similar incidents happened in Rwesero. The execution
squad took the priests to Karushya and killed them.

D. The sparking off of the Tutsi genocide. I was in charge of collecting
and analysing intelligence from our sources inside Rwanda.
29. All the reports were unanimously stating that Tutsi would be wiped out if the
war resumed. Any pretext would be enough to kick off the killings. Major
general Paul Kagame did not care at all about those threats. Recently, when
one of former RPA officers who deserted and fled the country said that RPA
was to blame for the killing of Tutsi, Rwandan foreign affairs minister,
Charles Muligande attempted against all odds to refute it. Why does he so
pathetically tell lies? It will suffice to recall that Kagame himself used to say
that Tutsi living inside Rwanda were opportunists and reactionary elements
that had refused to flee. Their death was none of his concerns. In fact, all the
forces that were used to kill innocent civilians in liberated areas would have
been used to rescue Tutsi. This did not happen. God willing, I will, jointly
with other colleagues, compile a comprehensive report about ethnic cleansing
that was ordered by Kagame. At times, he did it personally. I saw him
personally instructing for the digging of mass graves for people who had been
massacred in Byumba, Muhura and Murambi. Later, he ordered their removal
and to be taken to crematory centres in Gabiro, Nasho, Masaka, Nyungwe,
Kami, Gitarama military barracks and Mukamira. At times, people would be
packed alive into lorries and be taken directly to the above place to be
executed on the spot.
30. Apart from the war of 1990-1994, he launched two bloody wars in Zaire and is
still disturbing that country.
31. Major general Paul Kagame also instructed his officers and men led by then
Col Kayumba Nyamwasa to massacre civilians in Ruhengeri and Gisenyi. I
saw personally heavy artillery pieces and helicopter gunship shelling villages
under the excuse of fighting insurgency. At time, no single infiltrators would
have set foot there, or they may have been there but left long before the
counterattack. People would be summarily executed after long suffering by
torture.
32. He did not spare his own tribes mates Tutsi. Bagogwe and Banyamulenge of
Zaire were killed to safeguard his own selfish interests. It is not easy to find
the right wording, but what he did is indescribable. He killed so many
Congolese of Rwandan origin, Hutu and Tutsi alike. This will also be detailed
later. We were Inkotanyi-members of RPA, we know all the elements who
were misguided into getting involved in crimes. People should be assured that
soon or later, all crimes that took place on the Rwandan soil will be accounted
for. It will serve as a lesson for many, for one may conceal a crime, but the
crime does not conceal itself.
33. I take this opportunity to call upon all Rwandan fighting the general Kagame's
regime, to avoid getting involved in any activities that would lead to shedding
the blood of innocent people. Kagame concealed his crimes for nearly 10
years, but time has come to expose him. All criminals will end up being taken
to court to answer for their deeds. Why do they take the risk of being arrested
one day and spend the rest of their lives in prison?

E. The refusal to rescue Tutsi in 1994
34. I cannot forget the pain that general Kagame inflicted to Rwandan of Tutsi
ethnic group, his own tribe mates. Some were even killed on his orders. Others
were deliberately left at the mercy of Interahamwe. He made sure that nobody
comes to their rescue. Up-to-date, he is still pursuing his policy by repeating in
Congo what he did in Rwanda. Why is he busy creating hatred between
Banyamulenge minority and the rest of the Congolese population? Is it for the
interest of Tutsis? Even in Rwanda, he does not spare anything to exacerbate
tension between ethnic groups, by his policy of forced reconciliation. What he
does will inevitably lead to a new wave of ethnic conflict and Tutsi will again
be the main victims. I hereby condemn it publicly, I urge him to stop forthwith
killing us, causing us to be killed and using us as political springboard. I urge
him to leave our country and the region in peace. As I promised, with the help
of courageous colleagues who managed to flee his death squads, we shall
compile a comprehensive report of all atrocities General Paul Kagame was
involved in. I deliberately refrained from talking about politics. I leave it to
others more competent to denounce his dictatorship.
35. I know very well that people will ask themselves why a Tutsi who came from
Uganda for that matter can leak such secrets, as people think that all former
Ugandan refugees are all in good books with the regime of general Kagame.
36. For me, I am not leaking secrets, I am denouncing crimes. There are many
people who are longing to do so, but who cannot because they don't have the
opportunity. For to say such thing inside Rwanda or anywhere in Africa would
put somebody's life in great danger. I spoke out because I have a chance of
being in a country where I feel safe. I don't rule out reprisals against my
family left in Rwanda, but I am doing it anyway to avoid more suffering for all
Rwandans. My prayer is that the international community at long last takes the
opportunity to put an end to its support to general Kagame's regime, which is
decimating people under the pretext of protecting Tutsi. Everything is done for
his own int

 

[Zungu Pule]

Wengi wetu tunamchukia Kagame simply because he is Kagame and a Tutsi! Period! Wengi wanaona Kagame yuko involved in Congo simply because Nkunda is a Tutsi. Ni hiyo hiyo parochial thinking..inayotucost mpaka leo waafrica.

Dude, it's like you are missing some points. Sio waafrika wamesema kwamba Kagame anamsapoti Nkunda. Ni official UN Report. Report hii imebainisha wazi kuwa Rwanda (under Kagame) inamsaidia Nkunda na DRC (under Kabila) inatoa msaada kwa waasi wa kihutu waishio Congo. So tatizo la waafrika hapa si "parochial thinking" ila ni wepesi wa kusahau. Already tumeshasahau "who is Kagame". Kama unafahamu ni jinsi gani raia wanavyopata taabu in Eastern Congo, wala usingemsifia Kagame. Historia inatuambia kuwa Rwanda (under Kagame) ilishaivamia Congo si chini ya mara tatu. So, Kagame has some interest in Eastern Congo. Natural Resources??

And if you think the UN report is wrong, you need to come up with another report (to prove the UN wrong).


........as long as ni visionary dictator.

Ni visionary kwa sababu amegundua kuwa Congo is very rich and unstable. right?

Mi najua kabisa..wengi humu wanaumia kuona Rwanda inapiga hatua despite the barrage of criticism from all corners of the world na hao compradors wa human rights and democracy.......,.Including my compatriots..in my country Tanzania..wengi tunaumia kuona Rwanda sasa inatuwashia indicator kwa maendeleo.....wakati ni juzi tulikuwa tumehifadhi almost a Million refugees from Rwanda...

You are missing the point. Hata kama wengi tunaona wivu Rwanda ikipata maendeleo, hatuwezi kuzuia Rwanda isiendelee kwa kuandika kwenye hii forum. Kwanza wakitulia na kupiga hatua kimaendeleo ni "relief" kubwa kwetu. Huwa inatugharimu sana kuhudumia wakimbizi.

The gist of the matter is, tunaumia kuona jinsi watu wanavyohangaika kule Congo. Poor, innocent people are suffering just because Kagame and his allies (UK & US) are in need of the resources under their land.

On the other side nchi yetu kama Tanzania..tumechagua viongozi ambao ni wazembe wa kufikiria..mpaka leo tunaimba amani.....

You are right. Uongozi bora ni nguzo ya msingi kwa maendeleo ya taifa au organization yoyote ile; iwe ni familia, kijiji, chuo kikuu, kanisa, etc. Lakini uongozi bora bila nguvu kazi (skilled labor) ni sawa na gari lenye bodi mpya lakini engine ya zamani. Recently, nilitembelea Rufiji - vijiji vya Ngarambe na Tapika. Inasikitisha sana. This country is poor! Nilishindwa kuona tofauti kati ya Rufiji na Zimbabwe ya sasa. Bora Zimbabwe, raia kule watakuwa wameelemika zaidi. The point here is, ukitaka kumsaidia maskini, mpatie elimu. Everything else will follow.

Kuhusu Amani, Mwalimu wangu wa "Political Science" alipata kuniambia, " It's better to be poor and have peace than otherwise".



I cant listen to these morons so called international community ambao hawawezi toa msaada unless wana interests zao.

Kwa sababu ya interest zao, the West is divided. UK is the single largest donor to Rwanda. Both UK & US are quiet about Rwanda's actions in Congo and they support (& praise Kagame). Now, the UN report is out, everybody is waiting to see their response. It is very likely that they (UK & US) are the main beneficiaries of resources from Congo (through Rwanda). Other countries like France, must be losing their influence (the reason for their madness against Kagame). Some analyst now calls for the Cut off Western aid to Rwanda and Congo until their governments stop sponsoring murderous proxy militias. Refers to the Economist article titled "Stop Paying for Murder" dated December 18th, 2008. Don't forget to scour reader's comments on that article.

I dont like some of Kagame`s stuffs....But in the whole of Africa..I dont see any leader with vision like him! And thats why I support him!

You are very right. He is really smart. He can fool anybody!

 

[WembeMkali]

Originally posted by Zungu Pule
Kwa sababu ya interest zao, the West is divided. UK is the single largest donor to Rwanda. Both UK & US are quiet about Rwanda's actions in Congo and they support (& praise Kagame). Now, the UN report is out, everybody is waiting to see their response. It is very likely that they (UK & US) are the main beneficiaries of resources from Congo (through Rwanda). Other countries like France, must be losing their influence (the reason for their madness against Kagame). Some analyst now calls for the Cut off Western aid to Rwanda and Congo until their governments stop sponsoring murderous proxy militias. Refers to the Economist article titled "Stop Paying for Murder" dated December 18th, 2008. Don't forget to scour reader's comments on that article.

I agree with you 100%.Mbona UK and US wako kimya about UN report?? wako wapi akina Raila Odinga na yule raisi wa Botswana?? Haya mambo huwa ndiyo yanayonishangaza sana juu ya viongozi wa kiafrica..Tumeona jinsi walivyomshikia bango Mugabe ajiuzulu lakini hawaoni wala kusikia yanayotokea Congo???????????? hii inanifanya niamini kuwa hawa viongozi ni just vibaraka na wasemaji wa west!! Always mpigania haki hachagui pahala pa kupigania haki..atasema bila ya kuangalia nchi,rangi au watu tena bila ya uoga hata kama ikibidi kutoa maisha yake.!

 

[jmushi1]

Kwani Ufaransa sio west? Inajulikana kuwa Ufaransa hawamtaki Kagame...Ni scramble for interests.....Sasa Kagame anaiendeleza nchi yake na kila mtu analiona hilo isipokuwa wafaransa na baadhi ya waafrika...Never on earth sisi waafrika tuna kuwa na unity...Kuiyumbisha Rwanda sasa hivi kwa vigezo vya kuwaletea mikwaruzo na Taifa jirani simply kwasababu ya ututsi ni siasa zile zile za kuwagawa waafrika.
Waacheni wanyarwanda waondowe matatizo yao...Wa Congo nao wako responsible...Sisi tulikuwa responsible dhidi ya Amin na uchumi wetu toka wakati huo hauja recover...Wanyarwanda wanasonga mbele sasa sisi ni wakati wa kuiga yale positive tuache blah blah za kutugawa hakuna aliye clean hata marais wote wa marekani haswa wale maarufu wana mapungufu makubwa sana ukilinganisha na hayo ya Kagame ni kama cha mtoto tu...Woodrow Wilson mwenyewe ambaye ana sifa ya kuwa rais progressive na muasisi wa UN baada ya kuanzisha ile league of Nations ndiye huyo huyo aliyeiweka sheria ya Jim Crow ya kibaguzi kutoka ngazi ya states hadi kuwa Federal law....Sasa kama ni lawama tu angekuwa mmojawapo wa marais mashuhuri kabisa hapa USA?
Tutafakari.

 

[Lole Gwakisa]

The TRUTH always comes out, the detail to this testimony is shocking.This Kagame guy gives me the creeps!

 

[Yunic]

Whew!

After reading through the posting, I am left shaking, cold and angry! How could such things happen?

I do thank Wembemkali for opening our eyes even wider. Although I knew that Kagame suports Nkunda, and had suspected his involvement in Habyarimana's death, but all these atrocious acts?? I hope he pays for all the crimes 10 times over!

 

[JokaKuu]

wandugu,

..hii ni ripoti ya pili ya UN inayomtuhumu Kagame kwa ku-distabilize DRC. ripoti ya kwanza UK na US waliikataa kwasababu it was more critical on Kagame, than Mugabe!!!

..kama ni kushirikiana na Rwanda, then not when Kagame is in power. kuna some good Rwandan officials kama Dr.Kaberuka labda tusubiri hao wakishika uongozi.

..wananchi milioni 5 wa DRC wamefariki and Kagame na askari wake were involved. huyu anastahili kukamatwa na kupelekwa kwenye mahakama ya kimataifa.

Masanja,Koba,

..hivi mauaji ya wa-Congo milion 5 hayakuumizi kichwa hata kidogo?

..kwani inapokuja masuala ya ukatili na mauaji Kagame ana tofauti gani na Al-Bashiri,Habyarimana,Milosevic,...?

 

[JokaKuu]

wandugu,

..halafu Kagame anapozungumzia muungano, has any one asked themselves if Rwanda has anything that they bring to the table?

..Rwanda hawana ardhi, hawana rasilimali, hawana mitaji, hawana a skilled labor force ya kutosha. Kenya wanaweza kusema wana mitaji na skilled labor force, Uganda can claim the same, na kuongeza kwamba wana ardhi nzuri.

..swali langu hawa wenzetu wa Rwanda na Burundi watakuwa na mchango gani kwa Jumuiya? naomba kuelimishwa.

NB:

..halafu Rwanda walikuwa na nafasi nzuri ya kihistoria ya kuungana na Uganda. what happened??

..nini kilitokea katika mahusiano yao na Mzee Laurent Kabila. they are the ones who put him in power, mbona walishindwa kuwa na mahusiano mazuri?

 

[Yunic]

wandugu,

..halafu Kagame anapozungumzia muungano, has any one asked themselves if Rwanda has anything that they bring to the table?

..Rwanda hawana ardhi, hawana rasilimali, hawana mitaji, hawana a skilled labor force ya kutosha. Kenya wanaweza kusema wana mitaji na skilled labor force, Uganda can claim the same, na kuongeza kwamba wana ardhi nzuri.

..swali langu hawa wenzetu wa Rwanda na Burundi watakuwa na mchango gani kwa Jumuiya? naomba kuelimishwa.

NB:

..halafu Rwanda walikuwa na nafasi nzuri ya kihistoria ya kuungana na Uganda. what happened??

..nini kilitokea katika mahusiano yao na Mzee Laurent Kabila. they are the ones who put him in power, mbona walishindwa kuwa na mahusiano mazuri?

Amen to that....These are the same questions we should seriously ask ourselves. Why is Kagame so much for the EAC? Because they don'y have enough land, labor or resources.

Furthermore, these people are so divisive ethnically...what are they going to do to us, Tanzanian if we unite? divide us and segregate us ethnically!

They have no land, and their desire is to be able to own land in our country...results? Same as what's currently happening in Congo! Some Tutsi may begin a rebellion in Tanzania in the future...maybe claim that Kigoma or Bukoba is part of their tiny countries? maybe worse? After all, Idd Amin had the same claims in the late 1970s ;-)

No good will ever come out of this union. Tanzania has been poor but peaceful for as long as any of us can remember. We are the ONLY peaceful country in Africa...and believe it or not, there are some African leaders who would like to see that peace dissapear!

 

[Zungu Pule]

..nini kilitokea katika mahusiano yao na Mzee Laurent Kabila. they are the ones who put him in power, mbona walishindwa kuwa na mahusiano mazuri?

Waliishia kumuua yule mzee. Recall, Mzee Kabila alipigwa risasi na walinzi wake ambao walikuwa ni RPF - affiliated to Kagame. Na hata sasa, hawamtaki Kabila mdogo kuongoza Congo.

 

[Koba]

Amen to that....These are the same questions we should seriously ask ourselves. Why is Kagame so much for the EAC? Because they don'y have enough land, labor or resources.

Furthermore, these people are so divisive ethnically...what are they going to do to us, Tanzanian if we unite? divide us and segregate us ethnically!

They have no land, and their desire is to be able to own land in our country...results? Same as what's currently happening in Congo! Some Tutsi may begin a rebellion in Tanzania in the future...maybe claim that Kigoma or Bukoba is part of their tiny countries? maybe worse? After all, Idd Amin had the same claims in the late 1970s ;-)

No good will ever come out of this union. Tanzania has been poor but peaceful for as long as any of us can remember. We are the ONLY peaceful country in Africa...and believe it or not, there are some African leaders who would like to see that peace dissapear!

...hizi pumba zako ukiambiwa huna idea na unachoandika unalia tunadharau wanawake,sikujua hata kama wewe ni mwanamke,ila nakushauri kama huelewi kitu ni bora kukaa kimya kuliko hii ignorance yako unayoonyesha hapa!