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Rwanda’s Rampaging Rebel Force

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by: Philippe Bolopion Published in: International Herald Tribune Despite supporting a brutal rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda is about to take a seat on the U.N. Security Council. Few countries dare challenge the Security Council the way Rwanda does; even fewer get away with it. Yet on Tuesday, despite backing an abusive rebel group that has attacked U.N. peacekeepers in… Read More

U.S. under pressure over Rwanda involvement in Congo fighting

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JUNIOR D. KANNAH / AFP/GETTY IMAGES A youth identified as a 16-year-old corporal in the Rwandan armed forces sits with other prisoners in Kinshasha, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The government accuses Rwanda of supporting rebels fighting in eastern Congo.   GOMA, Congo — It was not the bullet lodged in the officer’s gut, or the botched operation… Read More

North Kivu: Rwandan troops reported to Nyiragongo occupied by M23

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 Soldiers of the Rwandan army (Rwanda Defense Force) entered the DRC Wednesday, December 12, through two border crossings and Kasizi Kanyanja, north of Goma, Nyiragongo territory (North Kivu). This territory is currently occupied by the M23 rebels. The inhabitants of this entity expressed concern over the presence of Rwandan army in their territory. According to local sources, the Rwandans were… Read More

UNSC condemns M23, expressed deep concern by neighbors support of Mutineers

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 Security Council Presidential Statement on the situation in eastern DRC 1. The Security Council expresses its deep concern regarding the deteriorating security and humanitarian crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) due to ongoing military and other destabilizing activities of the 23 March Movement (M23) as well as other armed groups.  2. The Security Council strongly condemns the… Read More
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Rwanda joins UN Security Council despite damning Congo report

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 Congolese ambassador declares 'sad day for Africa' as Rwanda joins council in spite of accusations it backs DRC rebellion Rwanda's election to the UN Security Council on Thursday was branded a major embarrassment in the wake of a UN report claiming that the country is fuelling a violent uprising in a neighbouring country. Rwanda was unopposed in its bid for... Read More

Rwandan military ‘tortured’ civilians

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 Kigali - Amnesty International on Monday accused Rwandan military intelligence services of engaging in torture, unlawful detention and enforced disappearances of civilians. The human rights group said in a report members of a Rwandan military intelligence department, known as J2, had tortured civilians with electric shocks, beatings and sensory deprivation to force confessions. J2 also held civilians in military detention... Read More
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“He is a killer. He is a dictator. He can’t stand any opposition.”:Lt Joel Mutabazi

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 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

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 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

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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

“Despotism is a long crime”

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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
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