Rwanda Genocide: Long Arms Of Law

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Date: December 17th, 2008
Name: Minister Tonja Scott-Pate
Subject: Genoside
Comment: This is to all that has tried to hide the evil that they have inflicted on God's creation. You can run but you will not hide from judgement. You will eventually pay for the rapes, murders, and torture of innocent men, women, and children. Your creator will repay you for your deeds. To the families of the victims, my heart crys for you all. I can't express in words the pain that I feel each time I hear of the rapes and murders of helpless women, men and children.

Date: November 11th, 2008
Name: Kagabo
Subject: It's all about politics, not justice
Comment: This is clearly a biased assessment of the situation. Everyone knows the ties between France and the Habyarimana regime, everyone knows how long the genocide was in preparation and who prepared it, and everyone knows Kagame and the RPF had nothing to do with it. Also, France has refused to extradite known genocidaires to stand trial, people who actually killed with their own hands or ordered the killing of people, and they have decided to embark on a political showdown.

Editor's Note: We note that you can't refute certain facts: Museveni sent Kagame to train in the U.S.; upon returning to Uganda he took command of the RPF; the RPF was trained and equipped and manned and financed by the Uganda government; the genocide would not have occured had the presidential jet not been shot down; the genocide would not have occured had Uganda not launched the invasion in October 1990.

Date: November 11th, 2008
Name: Winfred Mwebe
Subject: Eastern African genocides
Comment: In the early nineties many Katebe Ugandan Army men here in U.K constantly bragged about their involvment in the Ugandan killings. They didn't care who was listening to their horrible stories. Now it is time all those protected by some laws in the West mainly U.K and America to be brought to justice by the world. Ugandans, Burundians, Rwandese, Congolese knows those who has killed their loved ones. Women knows the men who raped and threw them to their fellow soldiers.

Date: November 10th, 2008
Name: Pe Wabito Nono
Subject: Try to defend the indefensible--but culprits must pay for their adventures
Comment: We read with utter dismay how those who supported or might have been involved in one way or another try, even upto this momment to defend the undefensible!!. It now common knowledge that the Genocide that happened in Rwanda started from Uganda. This is both current knowledge and historical plot. The blind and unrepentant need to read the book: The path of Genocide--from Uganda to Rwanda to DRC. For those who think that they are above the world, think twice ...

Date: November 10th, 2008
Name: WDC
Subject: A stunning display of slanted journalism
Comment: This article is an absolutely incredible case study on how to present an biased argument based on logical fallacies and selective reporting of the facts. First, the implied assertion that Kagame started the genocide (that's like thanking an arsonist for putting out a fire that he or she helped start) is at odds with the facts that have been established by nearly all credible observers. The bulk of the tragic killing was performed by the Hutu-led military and Interahamwe militias, NOT the RPF

[Black Star News: Editorial]

A senior aide to Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has been arrested in Germany on an outstanding 2006 warrant issued by a French court on charges that she was involved in the Rwanda genocide--the French court found that Kagame, leader of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), in 1994, ordered the shooting down by missile of the plane carrying Rwanda's then president Juvenal Habyarimana.

Genocide erupted for nearly 100 days, claiming the lives of an estimated anywhere from 800,000 to 1 million. Kagame was backed by Uganda's president Yoweri K. Museveni. His RPF was armed, manned, and trained by Uganda; Kagame himself was sent to train in the USA on Uganda passport at Leavenworth, Kansas. He had been chief of Uganda's military intelligence. Uganda and the United States also bear responsibility and liability for the Rwanda invasion from Uganda in 1990 and the attendant genocide in 1994.

Arrested Friday was Rose Kabuye, director general of state protocol in Rwanda--she was in Germany preparing for a visit there by Kagame.

The warrant was issued by a French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière; outstanding warrants stand for additional Rwanda officials, including James Kabarebe, the head of the military, Charles Kayonga, army chief of staff; Faustin Jyamwasa-Kayumba, ambassador to India; Jackson Nkurunziza, of presidential guard; Samuel Kanjyamera, an RPF parliamentary deputy; Jacob Tumwime, an army officer; Franck Nziza, a Presidential Guard officer and Eric Hakizimana, an intelligence officer.

The judge wants the suspects to stand trial at the United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), in Arusha, Tanzania.

The French intervened because three crew members of Habyarimana’s plane were French nationals. Also killed was Burundi president, Cyprien Ntaryamire, who was aboard. A Court was set up at Arusha to try the agents and perpetrators of the Rwanda genocide. Many suspects have been captured, tried and convictions secured.

Those so far prosecuted have been agents from the Habyarimana regime. That's why it was refreshing when in 2006 the French court, after reviewing the evidence, returned an indictment of several Rwanda officials from the current RPF government which seized power in 1994. The Kagame regime has been credited with ending the Rwanda genocide; that's like thanking an arsonist for putting out a fire that he or she helped start. All sides should be brought to book; there are no statutes of limitation on murder and mass murders.

Kagame himself was not indicted by the French court because he is a sitting president.

That's why the International community needs to find a way to expand the brief of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague to cover crimes dating back to the 1990s when Central Africa was tossed into a series of genocidal conflicts. The epicenter has been Uganda; there is not a genocidal conflict in Central Africa whose origin has not been traced to Uganda's militarist president Yoweri Museveni. Within Uganda, genocide has been directed against the Acholi people for more than 20 years; civilians are victims of Uganda's marauding army and the vicious Lord's Resistance Army.

In Congo another Kagame and Museveni acolyte, Laurent Nkunda, has launched new conflict. The world is watching carefully and there are reports that the ICC will eventually indict Nkunda.

Word is that strong signal from the incoming Barack Obama government to Kigali is what caused Nkunda to halt his march on Goma. The UN has been authorized to engage Nkunda's terrorist army. After taking office, the Obama government must also investigate the role the U.S. played in the Rwanda genocide.

All the participants and agents of the Rwanda genocide must be prosecuted. It's the least the world can do for the victims of the 1994 blight on humanity.