Published by the Rsing
Continent
As part of an Open Letter to General Paul Kagame by
Francis Muhoozi
Allow me Mr. President to bring to your attention some of the facts regarding yourself – General Paul Kagame, and your Tutsi Rwanda Patriotic Army’s criminal records well documented and pending:
Allow me Mr. President to bring to your attention some of the facts regarding yourself – General Paul Kagame, and your Tutsi Rwanda Patriotic Army’s criminal records well documented and pending:
A.
Before April 1994
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| THE BODY OF RUSEREKA BUTCHERED BY RPF OF PAUL KAGAME |
Massacre of Burundian
refugees resettled in Commune Muvumba and massacre of the Hima in Commune
Muvumba, Prefecture of Byumba in October 1990 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front
(RPF) invaded Rwanda from its military bases in south western Uganda. There were
open massacres of the population of Shonga, Commune Muvumba, Prefecture of
Byumba. The RPF occupied Shonga from October 1990 until its victory in July,
1994. The RPF decimated the population living in Shonga.
Between 1991 and 1992,
RPF massacred Hutu in the communes of Bwisigye, Cyumba, Cyungo, Kibali, Kivuye,
Kiyombe, Mukarange, Muvumba, and Ngarama of the prefecture of Byumba. Massacres
were also carried out in the communes Butaro, Cyeru, and Nyamugari of
Ruhengeri. Some of the people from these communes were taken to Uganda and
disappeared. RPF killings generated massive internally displaced persons who
sought refuge at makeshift camps. The RPF shelled these camps although these
internally displaced persons were not armed.
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| RPF SOLDIERS FIGHTING HUTUS IN DRC |
On February 8, 1993, the
RPF attacked the town of Ruhengeri and massacred unarmed civilians. During the
attack the RPF summarily executed a large number of civilians including
Barengayabo, President of the Appeals Court and Philippe Gakwerere, Inspector
of mining and their families. During its military offensive of February 1993,
the RPF massacred unarmed civilians in Ngarama, Commune Gituza, Prefecture of
Byumba.
On May 18, 1993, the RPF
assassinated Emmanuel Gapyisi, a member of the political bureau of the
Democratic Republican Movement (MDR) and president of MDR in the prefecture of
Gikongoro.
On August 25, 1993, the
RPF assassinated Fidele Rwambuka, mayor of the commune of Kanzenze, prefecture
of Kigali and a member of the central committee of the Republican National
Movement for Democracy and Development (MRND).
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| HUTU FAMILIES BUTCHERED BY RPF OF PAUL KAGSM |
In the night of November
17 and 18, 1993 the RPA under Colonel Kayizari massacred 48 unarmed civilians
in the sous-prefecture of Kirambo, prefecture of Ruhengeri. In the same month
of November 1993, the RPF Massacred of unarmed civilians in Commune Mutura,
prefecture Gisenyi and Commune Bwisigye, prefecture of Byumba. The United
Nations Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) investigated the massacre of Mutura and
Kirambo and never published its findings.
On February 21, 1994, the
RPF assassinated Felicien Gatabazi, the executive secretary of the Social
democratic party (PSD).
On February 22, 1994, the
RPF assassinated Martin Bucyana, president of the Coalition for the Defense of
the Republic (CDR). Colonel Karenzi of the RPF coordinated these political
assassinations.
On March 15, 1994 RPF
soldiers under Colonel Kayonga carried out the assassination of Nathanael
Nyilinkwaya, director of the tea factory of Cyohoha Rukeri, his wife, and two
factory employees. From 1991 to 1993, RPF agents planted mines and bombs on
roads, minibuses, and public places. Some of these agents were arrested
carrying explosives. Others were arrested crossing into Rwanda from Burundi,
Tanzania, and Zaire (the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
B.
From April 6th, 1994 to present
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| RPF TUTSI SOLDIERS KILLING A HUTU YOUNG MAN |
According to a UN secret
report and to Jean-Pierre Mugabe, a former RPF official, General Kagame ordered
the shooting down of the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana and his
Burundi counterpart, Cyprien Ntaryamira. The plane was shot down on April 6,
1994 at 8:30 PM as it was about to land at Kanombe International Airport.
Presidents, their aides and the crew died instantly on the impact.
In April 1994, the RPF
under Colonel Kayonga went from house to house in Remera, Kigali killing
businessmen, intellectuals, politicians, and all members of their families. RPF
soldiers executed unarmed civilians who fled to Amahoro Stadium. Following are
the names of the people executed by the RPF.
The list is not
exhaustive:
§ Ndagijimana
Celestin, Chief Administrator officer at IMPRISCO
§ Claudien
Habarushaka, former prefect of Kigali
§ Baliyanga,
Sylvestre, then prefect of Ruhengeri, his wife and children
§ Jean-Marie
Vianney Mvulirwenande’s wife and children; – Mujyanama, Theoneste, former
attorney general
§ Habimana,
Aloys, former director in the ministry of agriculture
§ Stanislas
Niyibizi’s wife and children
§ Hategekimana
, Raphael, director of Village Urugwiro
§ Major
Bugenimana, Helene and her children
§ Bahigiki,
Emmanuel, former secretary general in the ministry of planning, his wife and
children
§ Gahutu
Jean, his wife and children
§ Nsengiyaremye,
Theodore, pharmacist, his wife and children
§ Munyangabe,
Marcel, former president of the General Accounting Court, his wife and children
§ Ndaziramiye,
Herson, his wife and children
§ Gashegu,
Dismas, former vice chancellor of the National University of Rwanda
§ Mbanzarugamba,
Felicien, employee at Bralirwa, his wife and children
§ Kayibanda,
Irene, employee at Societe Nationale d’Assurances (SONARWA)
§ Hategekimana,
Jean, president of the Court of Kigali, his wife and children
§ Mupenda,
Frederic, employee at the ministry of public works
§ Donat
Hakizimana’s wife and children
§ Nyungura,
Emile, his wife and children
According to Human Rights
Watch and the FIDH, by April 25, 1994 the RPF had opened a corridor from Kigali
to Byumba. It evacuated civilians from Amahoro Stadium, Kigali to Byumba. Some
of the people it evacuated were summarily executed in Byumba. Among them was:
§ Gregoire
Kayinamura, vice president of MDR
§ Norbert
Muhaturukundo, employee at the ministry of information, and
§ Sebulikoko,
Celestin, businessman
This list is not
exhaustive:
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| THE REMAINS OF HABYARIMANA'S PLANE ARE |
So far, no RPF soldier
has been prosecuted.
On April 21, 1994 the RPF killed Catholic priests who had sought refuge at Rwesero Seminary. These priests are:
On April 21, 1994 the RPF killed Catholic priests who had sought refuge at Rwesero Seminary. These priests are:
§ Christian
Nkiliyehe
§ Anastase
Nkundabanyanga
§ Joseph
Hitimana
§ Gaspard
Mudashimwa
§ Alexis
Havugimana
§ Celestin
Muhayimana
§ Augustin
Mushyenderi
§ Fidele
Mulinda
So far, no RPF soldier
has been prosecuted.
On June 5, 1994 RPF
soldiers summarily executed three Catholic bishops:
§ Vincent
Nsengiyumva, Archbishop of Kigali
§ Thaddee
Nsengiyumva, bishop of Kabgayi
§ Joseph
Ruzindana, bishop of Byumba;
Nine Catholic priests
were also executed with the bishops
§ Mgr.
Innocent Gasabwoya, former General Vicar Bishop of Kamonyi
§ Mgr.
Jean-Marie Vianney Rwabilinda
§ Father
Emmanuel Uwimana, Chancellor of the minor seminary of Kabgayi
§ Father
Sylvestre Ndaberetse
§ Father
Bernard Ntamugabumwe
§ Father
Francois Xavier Muligo
§ Father
Alfred Kayibanda
§ Fidele
Gahonzire Human
RPF soldiers also
executed Brother Jean Baptiste Nsinga, President of St Joseph Brothers. So far
RPF soldiers responsible of these killings were slightly prosecuted compared to
their crimes. RPF soldiers summarily executed priests, nuns, and pastors.
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| THE BODIES OF HUTU FAMILIES KILLED IN KIBEHO |
From
April 7, 1994 through August 1994, the RPF summoned people to public meetings.
After people had gathered to listen to RPF officials, RPF soldiers massacred
them. The following terms are reminiscent of these episodes:
kwitaba inama or to attend a public meeting
kwikiza umwanzi or to get rid of the enemy
and gutegura or to clean up a place
kwitaba inama or to attend a public meeting
kwikiza umwanzi or to get rid of the enemy
and gutegura or to clean up a place
When people were summoned
to attend a public meeting, they were summarily executed. When people were
summoned to clean up a place to supposedly resettle internally displaced
people, they were summarily executed. When people were summoned to attend a
public meeting to learn how to smoke out Interahamwe, they were asked to tie
each other arms behind the back using ropes. Then they were summarily executed.
Human Rights Watch and the FIDH have reported these massacres in the
publication mentioned earlier.
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| TUTSI KIDS BEING TRAINED TO HUNT OR POISON HUTUS IN DIASPORA |
A UNHCR
report prepared by a team of three people headed by Robert Gersony on these
numerous massacres that occurred as the RPF took control of Rwanda in 1994 was
buried under pressure from the United States and the UN. According to Human
Rights Watch and the FIDH ‘from August 1st through
September 5th the team visited ninety-one sites in forty one of the 145
communes of Rwanda and gathered detailed information about ten others.’
They go on to say that “A
written note produced by the UNHCR estimated only that the RPF had killed
thousands of persons a month, but Gersony himself reportedly estimated that
during the months from April to August the RPF killed between 25,000 and 45,000
persons, between 5,000 and 10,000 persons each month from April through July
and 5,000 for the month of August. In press accounts based on leaked
information, the figure most often cited was 30,000.” As for the massacre of
unarmed civilian at Kibeho, prefecture of Gikongoro, that UNAMIR,
non-government organizations and international news media witnessed more than
8,000 people died.
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| TWO MASTERMINDERS OF RWANDAN GENICE (KAGAME AND MUSEVENI) |
Pasteur Bizimungu, then
president of Rwanda, urged the international community to accept the death toll
of three hundred people. RPA soldiers removed dead bodies at night and took
them at other locations so that international news media and non government
organizations could not count them. Massacres of tens of thousands unarmed Hutu
civilians, mostly women, children and elderly, by the Rwandan Patriotic Front,
in Kanama in October-November 1997. The Rwanda Patriotic Army accepted the
responsibility for these crimes, but none was punished or even prosecuted for
these crimes against humanity.
To repair the tarnished
image of Kagame’s regime, Colonel Ibingira who ordered this massacre was
sentenced to one year of under house arrest. On the list of massacres are also
those of tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, mostly women, children and
elderly in the caves of Nyakinama, Bugoyi, in 1998. The international media and
the international community confirmed the massacres and Rwandan Patriotic Army
admitted to the crimes.
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| HUTU KIDS ARE KILLED BY RPF SOLDIERS |
Massacres
of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Hutu civilian villagers, mostly young boys,
women, children, and elderly in the villages across Ruhengeri and Gisenyi in
1997-1998, were also committed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army. These massacres
occurred under the command of General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, the former
chief staff of the APR who you attempted to assassinate on 19th June
2010 in South Africa. He was then the highest-ranking military officer in
charge of military operations in the prefectures of Gisenyi and Ruhengeri. The
international community confirmed the massacres.
Also on the sinister list
of massacres is an estimated 200,000 Hutu civilians in the refugee camps in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo, former Zaire in 1996-1997. The United
Nations, the USA, and European Union confirmed the massacres and the Rwandan
Patriotic Army admitted to these crimes, but none was prosecuted. These crimes
were called “acts of genocide” by the International Non-Government Independent
Commission set up by the United Nations to inquire on crimes committed in
Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The following military
officers participated in the massacres of these Hutu refugees:
§ Colonel
James Kabareebe, commander of the military invasion of former Zaire
§ Colonel
Ibingira
§ Lieutenant
Colonel Murokore
§ Colonel
Nzaramba
§ Retired
Colonel Nduguteye
§ Colonel
Jackson Rwahama
§ Major
Jacques Nziza, Director of the Department of Military Intelligence (DMI)
§ Lieutenant
Colonel Wilson Rutayisire
§ Major
Dan Munyuza
§ Commander
David
§ Commander
Godfrey Kabanda
§ Lieutenant
Colonel Kiago
Summary executions were
operated on the soldiers of the ex-FAR (Forces Armees Rwandaises) and their
families after they returned from the refugee camps of the Democratic Republic
of the Congo and Tanzania from 1996. Those who escaped assassination are
rotting in jail.
The following listing is
not exhaustive:
§ Colonel
Stanislas Hakizimana, assassinated along with his family, relatives, and
neighbours on January 21, 1997
§ Colonel
Stanislas Bangamwabo has disappeared
§ Lieutenant-Colonel
Augustin Nzabanita assassinated while in prison in Gisenyi on January 23, 1997
§ Lietenant-Colonel
BEM Antoine Sebahire assassinated along with his wife
§ Major
Laurent Bizabarimana assassinated in Nyarutovu on January 18-19, 1997
§ Major
Lambert Rugambage assassinated in January 1997
§ Major
Rutayisire assassinated while in RPF ideological training known as ingando
§ Captain
Alexander Mugarura, assassinated
§ Captain
Theodore Hakizimana, assassinated
§ Captain
Jean Kabera, assassinated
§ Lieutenant
Francois Nsengimana, assassinated
§ Lieutenant
Faustin Nsengiyumva, assassinated
§ Lieutenant
Edouard Nsengiyumva, assassinated
§ Major
Martin Ndamage rotting in a military prison
§ Major
Athanase Uwamungu, rotting in a military prison
§ Captain
Isidore Bwanakweri rotting in a military prison
Extrajudicial executions
of detainees by members of the security forces some of which have been
documented by Amnesty International, are for example:
§ Execution
of 12 detainees at Muyira solitary confinements, prefecture of Butare on
January 14, 1997
§ Executions
of more than 20 detainees at Gisovu dungeons, prefecture of Kibuye on January
23, 1997
§ Execution
of six detainees at Runda dungeons, prefecture of Gitarama on February 14, 1997
§ Execution
of 10 detainees at Maraba dungeons, prefecture of Butare on May 7, 1997
§ Execution
of 15 detainees at Gatonde dungeons, prefecture of Ruhengeri
§ Execution
of six detainees at Ndusu dungeons, prefecture of Ruhengeri on May 10, 1997
§ Execution
of 95 detainees at Rubavu dungeons and an unknown number at Kanama dungeons
The disappearances of
many Rwandan citizens (journalists, businessmen and ordinary people) and the
detention of Rwandan citizens in private houses has been common under RPF. The
figure for these prisoners has been a rolling number year after year of around
125,000 of whom more than 30 percent were believed to be innocent.
Foreign nationals were
not spared from the killings. Father Valmajo of Spain, was killed at
Nyinawimana in April 1994; Father Claude Simard, a Canadian killed on October
17, 1994; three Spanish employees of the non government organization Medicos
del Mundo killed on 18 January 1997; Father Guy Pinard, a Canadian killed on
February 2, 1997; Father Curick Vjechoslav of Croatia assassinated in Kigali in
1998, and Father Duchamp, a Canadian.
Your regime detained
4,554 minors for allegedly taking part in the genocide. Some were arrested when
they were as young as 8 years old. The children who were under 14 years old
when they were arrested have been sharing overcrowded filthy prisons with adults.
To
accelerate the decimation of the Hutu, General Kagame’s regime has resorted to
two strategies. One has consisted of rounding up Hutu males and sending them to
prison for allegedly participating in the genocide of Tutsi. Today 135,000 Hutu
live in filthy crowded prisons where they die of epidemics slowly. Some have
had legs amputated and others have lost feet or toes. The second strategy was
to round up able body Hutu young males and sends them to the front in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after receiving minimal military
training. The concentration camp for young Rwandans at Island Iwawa featured in
the New York Times by the journalist Jeffrey Gettleman in
May 2010 can hint on Kagame’s modus operandi.
It is on record how Tutsi
who came from Uganda occupied houses and banana fields in Kibungo and chased
out Hutu from their properties. These Hutu have been relocated into
concentration camps euphemistically called “villages” by the RPF regime.
C.
Killing or targeting Tutsi opponents or would be opponents
From 1990 to 1994 the RPF
encouraged Tutsi refugees living in Burundi and Zaire (DRC) and the territory
controlled by the then Rwandan government to send their sons to join the RPF in
Uganda and northern Rwanda to serve as military manpower. Many young people
responded to RPF recruiting effort.
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| PRINCIPLE TUTSIS OF M23 IN EXPANDING TUTSI EMPIRE |
The RPF labelled these
idealist young people “French speaking”. It suspected them of being spies for
the Rwandan government. Many of them were executed. Major Dan Munyuza, in
charge of the training wing at the time and Colonel Jacques Nziza, director of
the Department of Military Intelligence (DMI) were responsible for the murder
of these innocent people. Both Munyuza and Nziza led the first invasion of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo where they are responsible for the massacre of
more than 200,000 Hutu. Munyuza and Nziza still serve in the RPA.
The later is responsible
for the assassination of former RPF interior minister Seth Sendashonga and
former RPA Colonel Theoneste Lizinde in Nairobi Kenya. He used to be the
director of DMI. He is on record to have gone in the US setting up mobile RPA
hit squads that were to go after Rwandan exiles.
In March 05, 2000 Assiel
Kabera, advisor to former president Pasteur Bizimungu was assassinated.
Lieutenant Colonel Wilson Rutayisire Shabani, former director of Radio Muhabura
during RPF war and former director of the Rwandan Information Office was
assassinated in Kisangani, DRC by the RPA in June 2000. Other individuals the
RPF has disposed of are Victor Bayingana, a businessman and his wife Kagaju.
The family of Pastor Emmanuel Gasana of Parish of Nyamagana, Commune Kigoma,
Prefecture Gitarama and his family along with Pastor Joseph Karamage who was
appointed to replace Emmanuel Gasana. James Habarugaba assassinated in front
his home on his way from work. Professor Francois Munyamarere of the Rwanda
National University Nyakinama was assassinated on his way from work. The
businesswoman Ms. Mugambira shot to death in her shop in Kigali. Some officials
and military officers have fled the country; among them are Christophe
Hakizabera, Major Ntashamaje, and Major Kwikiriza. A former Member of
Parliament, Mr. Mbanda was imprisoned for criticizing the Rwandan Patriotic
Front.
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| BWANA RUJUGIRO A TUTSI TYCOON FELL OFF WITH KAGAME |
Some prominent Tutsi have
managed to escape RPF hit squads. They are: Joseph Sebarenzi Kabuye, exiled in
the United States; Valens Kajeguhakwa, member of the Transitional national
Assembly (NTA) and businessman; Sisi Evariste, member of NTA and businessman,
exiled in Uganda; Doctor Kayijaho, president of Ibuka, exiled in Canada, former
BP FINA Director General Jean Bosco Rutagengwa, Founder of Ibuka, exiled in
USA, former AVEGA-AGAHOZO (1994 events widows association) President Chantal
Kayitesi, exiled in USA, and former Prosecutor Edward Kayihura, exiled in USA.
Recent ones to be named are General Kayumba Nyamwasa and Colonel Patrick
Karegyeya in South Africa.
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