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“He is a killer. He is a dictator. He can’t stand any opposition.”:Lt Joel Mutabazi

October 8, 2012October 23, 2016 Global Authorassassin, dictator, Kagame, murderer, RPF, Rwanda

THE assassins came at night, when their target was alone, and knocked on his apartment door. They had been hunting him for weeks.Joel Mutabazi, an Israeli-trained commando, had fled his own intelligence service after suffering 17 months of solitary confinement and torture and was about to divulge his government’s darkest secrets.But it wasn’t Mossad who were after him. Nor was... Read More

Opposition still under attack In Rwanda

October 2, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergFDU-INKINGI, Hillary Clinton, Ingabire, Kagame, Obama, RNC, Rwanda, Susan Rice

By: Jennifer Fierberg In the wise and profound words of Winston Churchill: “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful... Read More

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There can be no impunity for those who violate human rights

September 29, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer Fierbergcentral africa, congo, Kabila, Kagame, Obama, Rwanda, UN, UNSC

By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, told members of the press that Rwanda is expecting to be voted as the African representative at the 2012 United Nations Security Council election to be held on 18 October 2012 during the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly, to be held at the United Nations Headquarters… Read More

On a sunny afternoon in Boston…

September 28, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergAgaciro, Boston, congo, EU, Genocide, Kayumba Nyamwasa, Obama, Paul Kagame, Rwanda, Theogene Rudasingwa, UN

Rwanda Day 2012 By: Jennifer Fierberg At the corner of Dartmouth and St. James in Boston, Massachusetts about one hundred people gathered for two separate but related reasons. On the one side were approximately a dozen supporters for President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and directly across the street just over one hundred people gathered to protest the arrival and hosting… Read More

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Rwandan politician Andrew Muganwa languishes in jail as trial stalls

September 25, 2012October 23, 2016 Global Authorkigali, Muganwa, Nelson Gatsimbazi, NPDP-Ihumure, Rwanda

By : Nelson Gatsimbazi It is more than five months since the leader of the unregistered Rwanda opposition political party NPDP-Ihumure was arrested and remanded at the Kimironko Prison in the capital Kigali charged with divisionism, organizing an illegal protest and obtaining money by false pretense. Court documents show that Muganwa’s trail has stalled because of his refusal to defend… Read More

An impossible PR for a definitely fading image

September 24, 2012 Global Author

All along his political leadership, the Rwandan president Paul Kagame has effectively and persistently played alternatively both the ugly and good characters of his personality to please two different audiences: national and international. And each time after serious political crisis which taint internationally the image of his RPF regime, he has usually gone out strongly on a charm tour outside... Read More

No one is free when others are oppressed

September 21, 2012 Global Author

Friday September 21st starts the beginning of Rwanda Day in Boston, MA. The Minister of Foreign Affairs Louise Mushikiwabo is scheduled to speak on Friday evening with The President of Rwanda Paul Kagame to address a crowd on Saturday afternoon. Protestors are planning a peaceful gather with representatives from the Congo, Burundi and Rwanda to speak out against the ongoing... Read More

Un-answered questions about the death of Gen Fred Rwigema

September 18, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergFred Rwigema, Museveni, Paul Kagame, RPA, RPF, Rwanda, Uganda

Behind the Presidential Curtains It has been nearly 22 years since Gen Fred Rwigema died in his mother-land leading before leading an exodus of Rwandan children who had been incarcerated in exile for over 30 years. Fred Gisa Rwigema (10 April 1957 – 2 October 1990), born Emmanuel Gisa was a founding member and leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Rwigema was born… Read More

“Despotism is a long crime”

September 15, 2012 Global AuthorKagame, Nyamwasa, RNC, Rwanda, South Africa, Theogene Rudasingwa

In another interview of President Paul Kagame Time Magazine sat with him and asked him questions ranging from all the current issues the President is dealing with today. Paul Kagame offered very frank answers but one question in-particular stood out like a glaring beacon of admission to a crime. The world knows His Excellency has many crimes to answer for,... Read More

Rwanda: 3 opponents in prison, nominated for the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament 2012

September 14, 2012March 30, 2021 Jennifer FierbergKagame, Nelson Mandela, RPF, Rwanda, Victorie Ingabire

Three opponents of the RPF regime currently in power in Rwanda were nominated this Thursday, September 13, 2012 by 42 MEPs for the prestigious Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought 2012 of the European Parliament. Umuhoza Victoire Ingabire, Bernard Ntaganda and Deogratias Mushyayidi, all three are currently imprisoned in Kigali and should know the result around 10 December. Created in… Read More

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