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President Kagame imprisoning students

February 24, 2014 Global Authorgovernment, Jail, Kagame, RPF, Rwanda Terrorist, Students

Open Letter addressed to President Paul Kagame demanding immediate release of Jean Baptiste ICYITONDERWA and stop terrorist acts against leaders of Rwandan students Jean Baptiste Icyitonderwa: one of the four who are still detained by the police and whose head has been seriously injured by the beating according to sources in Kigali. With his colleague Emmanuel Ntakirutimana, they are in a… Read More

Congo armed groups wielding machetes reportedly execute 70 – U.N

February 13, 2014 Global Authorcongo, MONUSCO, Rwanda, Uganda, UN

According to reports from the UN, armed groups wielding machetes have reportedly executed 70 people in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo "to spread terror", the U.N. peacekeeping mission said on Thursday. The mission, MONUSCO, said it had received reports of gross human rights abuses including the reported summary killings at Nyamaboko villages I and II in Masisi... Read More

Congo militia leader ordered rapes, massacres: prosecutor

February 10, 2014 Global AuthorDRC, ICC, Kabila, Kagame, Museveni, Ntaganda, Rwanda, Trial, Warlord

Defense Counsel Marc Desalliers (R) and Caroline Buteau look on during the case against Congolese militia leader Bosco Ntaganda at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, February 10, 2014. CREDIT: REUTERS/TOUSSAINT KLUITERS/UNITED PHOTOS/POOL (Reuters) – A Congolese militia leader widely known as “the Terminator” led fighters, including child soldiers, in a campaign of ethnically-motivated rape and murder, the International… Read More

Rwanda: The Three Mistakes of Paul Kagame

February 6, 2014 Global AuthorKagame, Karegeya, politics, Rwanda, South Africa

On January 1, 2014, the media reported the murder in Johannesburg, South Africa, of Colonel Patrick Karegeya, a Rwandan once close to Paul Kagame (Rwanda’s President) and former Head of Foreign Intelligence Services of his country before being an outcast for becoming a fierce political opponent of a regime he had helped to establish in Rwanda. With the maturity and... Read More

20 years on, France confronts Rwandan genocide

February 5, 2014 Global AuthorCaptain Pascal Simbikangwa, France, French Trial, hutu, kigali, Paul Kagame, Rwanda Genocide, Tutsi

The first French trial of a Rwandan accused of involvement in the genocide of 1994 opened in Paris on Tuesday. The Rwandan justice minister called it a “positive sign”, while the plaintiffs hailed it as a “historic” event. He appeared in the court room in his wheelchair. 54-year-old Pascal Simbikangwa (pictured, above), a paraplegic since 1986, is charged with complicity... Read More

Vision-GRAM International visits DRC: Interview with Executive Director Victor Amisi

February 3, 2014 Global AuthorBukavu, Child Soldiers, DRC, Rebel groups, Vision-GRAM International

Vision-GRAM International (Group of action against Marginalization) is an organization of human rights affiliated to project GRAM- Kivu, which works to promote human rights in defending the rights of children and women. The vision of the organization dates from 1996 when the region of the Great Lakes – (Africa), conflicts have plagued the Democratic Republic of Congo and created millions… Read More

Rwandan Diplomat in Great Turmoil

January 29, 2014March 25, 2021 Jennifer FierbergKibeho Massacre, Olivier Nduhungirehe, Patrick Karegeya, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, UN

By: Jennifer Fierberg Olivier Nduhungirehe’s true nature has been exposed. (Photo: L-The late Patrick Karegeya, R- Olivier Nduhungirehe) (WASHINGTON, DC) – Hostile exchanges erupted earlier this week between the Rwandan Permanent Representative to the United Nations and his former friends as compromising confidences appeared in the social media networks. A series of Olivier Nduhungirehe’s emails that were written between the… Read More

RWANDA’S PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS: A POISONED PILL THAT BLACKMAILS THE WEST INTO SUPPORTING KAGAME’S BLOODY DICTATORSHIP.

January 27, 2014 Global AuthorPaul Kagame, Peace Keeping Troops, Rwanda, Theogene Rudasingwa, UN

Kagame has come to love United Nations Peacekeeping Operations. This is an irony since he hates the United Nations, and does not believe in peacekeeping. It is now an unwritten rule that the West ( mostly the US and UK) will ask Rwanda to participate in UN Peacekeeping Missions, and Kagame will kindly oblige. What is the deal? First, the… Read More

Rwandan diplomat slams UN report

January 24, 2014 Global AuthorDemocratic Republic Congo, DRC, M23 Rebels, Oliver Nduhungirehe, Rwanda, UN, United nations

A senior Rwandan diplomat has hit back at a United Nations (UN) report that indicates the M23 rebel group continues to recruit in his country.The official who serves as deputy to the country’s Ambassador to the UN has denied claims in a Group of Experts report, presented to the Security Council, that his country allows the Congolese rebel group to... Read More

PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME MUST RESIGN IMMEDIATELY

January 23, 2014 Global AuthorGenocide, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Rwanda National Congress, Theogene Rudasingwa

AMAHORO/FDU/RNC PLATFORM: PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME MUST RESIGN IMMEDIATELY RWANDAAMAHORO People’s Congress – FDU-INKINGI – RNC January 12th , 2014 PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME CONFIRMS HIS REGIME’S ROLE IN THE ASSASSINATION OF COLONEL PATRICK KAREGEYA AND DECLARES WAR ON RWANDANS On January 1st, 2014, the strangled body of an opposition leader, the late Colonel Patrick Karegeya , was found in Michelangelo Hotel… Read More

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