UMUDAMU WITWA BAZIRITA WARI IMPUNZI MURI KENYA YISHWE NA FPR KUBERAKO YANZE KUROGA UBUKWE BW IMPUNZI ZABANYARWANDA I NAIROBI

UMUGAMBI WA FPR WO KUROGA UBUKWE BWA ABAHUTU I NAIROBI

ISHURI RYA KAYOLE MURI NAIROBI

Nkuko abatutsi bo muri FPR batagira ibinya byo kwica abahutu haba mukubarimbura ari ikivunge cyanga se kwica umwe umwe. Ambassaderi James Kimonyo wahoze akorera u Rwanda muri Ambassade yu Rwanda i Washington DC ho mugihugu cya Amerika ya yongeye kuri koroza. Yarahiye ko atazajya yica umuhutu umwe umwe nkuwica imigi ko ahubwo azajya abashira mugatebo kamwe maze akabarohera mumugezi icyarimwe. Ibi nibyo yari yateguye aho ngaho mumugi wa Nairobi ubwo yegeraga umudamu wimpunzi utuye Kayole Madam.BAZIRITA NYIRANCAHAKOMEYE akaba yari umubyeyi ufite uuryango ndetse kandi yarashakanye na Bwana Rutaboba. Tubibutsek o uyu mudamu ari mumuryango w Abatetsi babanyarwandakazi bafasha abandi banyarwanda bafite ubukwe mugutegura iminsi mikuru ijyanye numuco wacu wa Kinyarwanda. Nkuko iyo nkuru twayigejejweho numwe mubanyarwanda ba hano i Kigali bari batashye ubwo bukwe. Madame Bazirita yarafite umwanya mwiza wo kwica imbaga yose yabanyarwanda bari batashe ubwo bukwe bwahuzaga imbaga yimpunzi zabahutu zaho i Nairobi ho uri Kenya nabagenzi babo bari bavuye mugihugu cya Malawi. Uyu mudamu kandi kubera ubukristo bwe abantu benshi bimpunzi baho i Nairobi baramwizeraga cyane nkumuntu ushira mukuri. Niyo mpamvu bwana Kimonyo James yari yamwemereye millioni imwe yamafranga yamanyakenya angana na millioni 8 zamafranga yamanyarwanda kugirango agarike ingogo yimpunzi zabahutu bari bateranijwe nibibrori byabana babo aho mugihugu cya Nairobi.

Nkuko mugenzi wacu warukomotse hano mu Rwanda agataha ubwo bukwe yabidutekereje aragira ati: "nukuri kw' Imana ubu inzogera iba yarirenze. Knadi si ubuzima bwanjye gusa buba bwarahagendeye mumanzaganya kubera umutima mutindi winyenzi nkotanyi ahubwo twari abantu barenga ibihummbi bibiri byimpunzi zabanyarwanda nabanyakenya bari bahateraniye kugirango twizihize ubukwe bwa Abana bacu bakomoka kubabyeyi bacu nincuti zigihe kirekire aribo Mzee HABIMANA FAUSTIN utuye mugace ka Waithaka mu mugi wa Nairobi muri Kenya na mugenzi we UMUCURUZI NDAHIRO.warukomotse mugihugu cya Malawi akaba ari umucuruzi mubihugu bya Kenya na Malawi. Kubari bateraniye ahongaho bavuga ko abari bateraniye aho ngaho baba abari bavuye Malawi nabari bavuye mumugi wa Kenya n ahano mu Rwanda bose bari barenga 600. Iyi ngongo yose ikaba yarigiye gutikirira muri Kenya kuburyo ntanumwe wagombaga kurokoka uburozi bwa FPR twese tumenyereye kwizina rya Munyuza. Umugambi wa FPR mugutuma Madam BAZIRITA warushinzwe ugutegura ibiryo byabashitsi murubwo bukwe, yarifite umugambi uhamye wo kwica abahutu besnhi kuburyo bushoboka. Kandi muri uyu mugambi nuko FPR yari yanamaze gutegura abanyamakuru bagombaga gukwiza ibihuha ko ari abahutu bicanye ubwabo kuko bamenyereye kwica. Ibi byagombaga gutera ubwoba nabanya Kenya ubwabo kuburyo bagobaaga gutangira kwanga impunzi zabahutu ziba hariya mugihugu cya Kenya maze impunzi zigatangira kwirukanwa. Ambassador Kimonyo wahoze anari ambasaderi wu Rwanda mugihugu cya Amerika nkuko tubibyirwa nabamuzi neza ubu akorera muri Kenya aho yahawe mission ndende yo kwica abahutu nabatutsi batavuga rumwe na leta ya Kagame. Nubwo u Rwanda rwakomeje kwica abantu bahungiye muri Kenya guhera igihe cya Seth Sendashonga wafashije FPR kwamamara mumahanga no muri ONU kuri njye akaba cyari igihembo cyiza cyabagambanyi bagamabniye benewabo na Col. Lizinde nawe wakubitiwe u Rwingusho za Langata nyuma yuko yaramaze gufasha FPR kwica Habyarimana, ntabwo yari yarigeze aho ikurukirana abantu barubanda rugufi bibereyeho mubuzima bwa burimunsi barwana no kugira icyo baha abana babo. None ubu Bwana Kimonyo yahisemo kuzamura umukino akoresheje insecticide yo kwica icyitwa umuhutu wese uri mugihugu cya Nairobi.

Madme BAZIRITA amaze kwanga umugambi wo kwica impunzi ikivunge mubukwe bwumusaza itwa Habimana Fuastin na mugenzi we Ndahiro bari bashingiye abana babo mukarere ka Nairobi ahitwa Waithaka, Inkotanyi zahise zirukankira za Kayole aho umuryango wa Bazirita warutuye. Ababikurikiriye hafi bavugako Inkotanyi zari zamennye abatutsi benshi mukarere ka Mithonge balimo babikurikiranira hafi uko ubwo burozi buri bwice abantu. Ariko ubwo batelefonaga madame Bazirita mumasakumi ya nimugoroba bamubaza niba yabikoze kugirango ahite aza mumodoka yari ihagaze aho bita ngo ni za Kawoshi (CAR WASH) werekeza Kawangware, uyu mubyeyi yabasubije ko nkuko yakomeje kubibabwira umutima namawe ntabwo wigeze umwemerera kumena amaraso yinzirakarengane agira ati: MUGENDE MUBWIRE AFANDI KO UMUTIMA WANJYE UTANYEMERERA NGO MENE AMARASO YINZIRAKARENGANE. NKUKO NABIBABWIYE UBWO TWAHURAGA KUCYUMWERU NANUBU NTACYAHINDUTSEHO. AHUBWO MUMUBWIRE KO NITEGUYE KUMENA AYANJYE ariko abana b Imana bakabaho. Ubwo erega FPR iyobowe na Ambassaderi James Kimonye yahise itangira kunoza umugambi yuko bagomba guhita bica Madame BAZIRITA NYIRANCAHAKOMEYE. Ntabwo byaje gutinda kuko FPR ibinyujije kumukozi wayo kabuhariwe waruri mubwo bukwe agenzura uko gahunda zose zikorwa ariwe bwana MUNYAKAYANZA niwe wahaga intaasi nabicanyi ba leta ya FPR amakuru yibyo Madam Bazirita alimo gukora maze akamenyesha leta ya FPR yari yahagaritse imodoka zayo kuri Kawoshi. Maze Bwana Munyakanza abonye uyu mudamu ataroze ubukwe nibwo yabibwiye abakozi ba Ambasade bahita bohereza abantu i Kayole bagiye gutegereza Bazirita ngo atahuke. Niko byagenze ubwo uyu mumama yavaga mubukwe ageze iwe murugo niho abantu batatu bayobowe na bwana Ephraim MURENZI akaba na maneko mukujru muri Ambassade yu Rwanda aho i Nairobi.

Bageze Kayole rero nkuko abantu bacu bakomeza kubitugezaho nuko bagiye mpaka no kurugo rwa Bazirita bagakomanga. Akana ke gakunda gufungurira abashyitsi kashatese kwirukira kurugi kabaza murulimi rwigiswahili kati "wewe ni nani?"Bivugango wowe ninde? Nuko Baziritaaragatesha ati ntukajye ujya gufungurira abantu ari nijoro ujye ureka abakuru aribo babikora. Nibwo yakomeje ajya kurugi amaze kwirukana ako kana. Akimara no gufungura ntibanamubajije namazina cg se nikindi kintu ahubwo bahise bamuminjo urusasu rwurufaya ubwo baba bamutsinze aho mukirambi. Ntakindi batwaye cg se ngo binjire munzu ahubwo bahise bigendera. Nguko uko Madame Bazirita yazize urwakamama ariko abaye igitambo cy intumbi zirenga 500 zagombaga kugwa mubukwe bwo kwa Habimana Faustin na Ndahiro. Yagombye kujya yibukwa nkintwari mumpunzi zabanyarwanda ziba muri Kenya ndetse ninzin di mmpunzi zabanyarwanda ndetse nahano mu Rwanda. Imana ihe Madame Bazirita Nyirancahakomeye iruhuko ridashira.

GASANA ANASTASE AKOMEJE KUBA UMWAMI WIKINYOMA KUBYABAYE MURWANDA KANDI YAGIZEMO URUHARE RUSESUYE

By KABAYIJA HERMANN

Munyandiko yashyizwe ahagaragara tariki ya 26/05/2015 na bwana Dr Gasana Anastase yifashishije immbuga nkoranyambaga cyane cyane zikoreshwa nabanyarwanda nabandi bantu bumva ikinyarwanda bo mukarere u Rwanda rubarizwamo ndetse ikaza kuvugwaho byinshi nibinyamakuru bitandukanye bya social media nibyizako natwe twagira icyo tubivugaho hano kuri Karisimbi Online Group.

Nguwo Gasana mukwaha kwa Mukotanyi Kagame

Mubyukuri rro nkuko uyu mugabo ntakuri asanganywe ntabwo twatangajwe nibyo yavuze munyandiko ye. Muriyo nyandiko haraho yagize ati: "njyewe Dr Gasana Anastase mfite ibimenyetso byerekana umurwi wateguye jenoside yakorewe abatutsi." Ndavuga jenoside yakorewe abatutsi nshizeho akabazo kuko nkuko ibimenyetso bikomeje kugenda byisukiranya iki nikinyoa kirenze kuko bimaze kugaragara ko abantu bapfuye besnhi mu Rwanda ari abahutu ariko twarabibonye ko nbatutsi baturutse Uganda nabo bajya bavugako bakorewe genocide nabahutu kandi nkuko bigaragara aba ari abatutsi bavukiye Uganda. Ariko ibi sibyo byanzinduye. Reka dusubire kuri Karimanganya bwana Dr. Gasana. None se ko hashize imyaka 20 harinkiko zibya jenoside nabayiteguye kuko uyu nyirandaribara Bwana Gasana atigeze atubwira ako gaco kateguye genocide ako ariko urukiko rukaba rurinze rufunga. 

 Ntawe uyobewe ko kubera inda nini nubugambanyi bwuyu mugabo Dr Gasana harigihe yitunatunnye nuko abwira abanyarwanda ko ari mubasabye ko urwo rukiko rushyirwaho ngo kuko FPR yari yamusezeranije ko umunsi umwe izamugira president wu Rwanda. None ubu abundaraye za Amerika iyo nahano mu Rwanda ntiyahanutsa amazuru. 

Ese uyu mugabo wari mubutegetsi bwose bwabaye mu Rwanda uhereye kubwa Habyara maze umwijuto wamubana mwinshi abanyamerika bakamushuka ngo abe umuvugizi winkotanyi nuko sugutunara karahava yamenyeko genocide itegurwa ntiyamenyesha ubwo bucamanza we ubwe yateguye? None se niba ari FPR yateguye genocide uyu mugabo wirirwa asabiririza ifu yubugari iyo America ese ntaba yaratanze izo inforation zerekana agaco kateguye iyo genocide muri FPR ntaba yarabitanze akikuraho ikimwaro amaranye imyaka 20 azungurukana isi aho abanyarwanda bose bamubonye bamuvugiriza induru ngo nguwo wamugambanyi nagaco ke batanze u Rwanda kubera ibifu byabarenze. Ese ntazi ko ntagihe abana bu Rwandaa twigeze tumubabarira kubera akaga yaduteje agatuma bamwe dukurira mumashyamba ya Congo abandi bakaba baheze ishanga naho te abari murikino gihugu tukaba twicwa inkibyana byimbeba?

Muriyo nyandiko yasohoye kubera ihahamuka nubujyahabi bwubuhunzi Bwana Dr Gasana aragira ati : « Ni ukuva taliki ya 04/09/1991 ubwo perezida Habyarimana yashyiragaho Komisiyo idasanzwe yari iyobowe na Col Bagosora yari ishinzwe kugaragaza icyo bise “umwanzi w’u Rwanda” uwo ari we neza n’uburyo yatsindwa burundu noneho ku ya 20/12/1991 iyo Komisiyo igatanga imyanzuro y’imirimo yayo ivuga ko umwanzi w’u Rwanda ari umututsi iyo ava akagera yaba uw’impunzi uri hanze yaba n’uri mu gihugu imbere ari nawe iriya Komisiyo yise “l’ennemi principal”, n’umuhutu uwo ari we wese urwanya leta ya Habyarimana na MRMD ye yariho icyo gihe. »

Tubibutse ko uyu mugabo yabaye icyitso cyinkotanyi wazikoreye kurusha abazima nabapfuye. Ari mugaco kaba RUKOKOMA kamwe kagiye kubeshya i NEW YORK ko Habyara alimo gutegura gnocide. Nonese muri 1991 yamenye ko hategurwa jenoside nokwica abahutu bose barwanya Habyara maze uyu mugabo akoeza kuba mururu Rwanda? 

Sinzi niba uyu mugabo bwana Doctor yumva neza ibyo interuro ivuga ngo  «What must be done to defeat the enemy militarily, media and politically?» Mukinyarwanda cyoroheje nuko iyo komisiyo yashizweho kugirango imenye uwanzi nyakuri uwo ariwe. Yagombaga nokumenya uko iyintambara  yumwanzi yatsindwa kuburyo butatu aribbyo: Uwagisirikali,,itangazamakuru, na politiki. Sinzi ahangaha uko bwana Gasana aza kurota ko aya magambo atatu avugako harigutegurwa genocide.

Nkuko muriyo rapport ibivuga umuntu wese ufatanya numwanzi ni umuntu wese ufasha umwanzi. Nkuko mubihugu byose byo kwisi umuntu wese utera igihugu cg se akaba umugambanyi agomba guhanwa namategeko yicyo gihugu. No mubihugu nka Amerika iyo ugambaniye igihugu ubihanirwa namategeko. Sinzi rero impamvu ahubwo bwana Gasana Habyara atamushize mujburoko kandi yaragabaniraga igihugu na millioni 6 zabanyarwanda. 

Habyarimana yashizeho komisiyo yabasirikali bari bavuye hafi muduce twose twu Rwanda nkuko bigaragara hasi aha kgo hatazamo kurenganya. Nkuko amazina yabo yatangajwe na Ikaze Iwacu dore amazina yaba ofisiye 10 bari bagize iyo Komisiyo Dr Gasana ashaka kwegekaho urusyo rwuko aribo bateguye jenoside yakorewe abatutsi mu Rwanda muri 1994. - Colonel Théoneste Bagosora   wakomokaga i Gisenyi yageretsweho urusyo nuyu Dr. Gasana yageretseho urusyo rwa jenoside akaba asaziye mumunyuru wubusa. Colonel Marcel Gatsinzi wakomokaga i Kigali kandi akaba numugambanyi windatwa wakoreye FPR guhera namebere yuko itera akaba yaratanze mabanga yose ya EX-FAR akayaha abatutsi bi Buganda nawe yarimwino komisiyo. Abandi bari mwiyo komisiyo ninka Colonel Gd Pontien Hakizimana wakomokama mu Ruhengeri, Colonel Félicien Muberuka   wakomokaga Kigali, Colonel Déogratias Nsabimana   wakomokaga mukarere ka Nkuli mu Ruhengeri ndetse akaba yaricanywe na Habyarimana mundege ya Habyarimana yahanuwe na FPR iyobowe na Paul Kagame. Abandi bari mwiyo komisiyo ni Lt Colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva wakomokaga mu Gisenyi, Major Juvénal Bahufite   muri Byumba, Major Augustin Cyiza  wi Cyangugu, Major Gd Pierre-Claver Karangwa wakommokaga i Gitarama, Major Aloys Ntabakuze wakommokaga Gisenyi. Tubibutse ko nuyu Ntabakuze nawe ari mubantu Bwana Dr Gasana yahejeje mumunyururu avugako ngo yakoze genocide kugirango abazungu bakoeze bamuhe ubufu..

Igitangaje nuko aba bagabo tuvuze haruguru ntahantu nahamwe mumategeko bigeze bahamwa no gutegura genocide. Uretse mubugambo nibugambanyi bwa FPR nabanyamerika icyaha cyo gutegura jenoside nticyabahamye kandi na bwana Col Bagosora yatsindiye murukiko. Niba rero Gasana ubufu bwabazungu bwamushiranye akaba agishakisha uburyo yakongera kugira agaciro mubugambanyi akaba anaribyo ashaka kuraga abana be ngaho nakomeze arindagire cg agaruke mu Rwanda bamuhe akazi kubukangurambaga. Muli make nguko uko uwo mugsmbanyi akomeje gukurikiranwa nimizimu yabo yicishije...

BURUNDI: FPR YITEGUYE GUKORESHA IBYO YAKORESHEJE BYOSE MU RWANDA MURI 1994 KGO IKUREHO UBUTEGETSI BWA ABAHUTU MU BURUNDI HARIMO NO GUTERA AMADRENADE MWISOKO

By CUMUKIZA RAJAB

Abari mugihugu cyu Rwanda guhera muri za 1990 mmuribuka ukuntu abatutsi bateye u Rwanda baturutse za Uganda. Umugambi wabo ntabwo waruwo gukuraho ubutegetsi bwa Habyarimana nkuko babiririmbaga kugirango abahutu bimpumyi babakurikire ahubwo umugambi wabatutsi bibumbiye muri FPR waruwo kugira abahutu bo mukarere abacakara. Ibyo byagaragariye mukwica Melchior Ndadaye wu Burundi, Habyarimana Juvenal wu Rwanda ndetse no gutera Congo kugirango bice abahutu batuyeyo. Ibi rero ntibyigeze bigabanuka kuko igeragezwa ryo guhirika ubutegetsi bwa Nkurunziza nkuko ibinyamakuru byacu byabitangaje cyane mumpera zu mwaka wa 2014 byose byakorewe mu Rwanda. Byatangiranye nokoherereza abatutsikazi bahoze i Burundi muturere twumugi wa Bujumbura kugirango bahe Abatutsi bi Kigali amakuru kubutegetsi bwa Nkurunziza. 

NKURUNZIZA NA PAUL KAGAME

Mubyukuri rero nkuko mumaze iminsi mubibona kuva coup yapfuba akavuyo mu gihugu cy’Uburundi gakomeje gufata indi ntera ikomeye kuko Kagame azi nezako kurekeraho Nkurunziza mu Burundi ari intangiriro yihirima ryingoma Ntutsi mu Rwanda no gutsindwa ruhenu kwa Empire Hima mukarere. Nkuko namwe mubyibonera imyigaragambyo yo kurwanya manda ya gatatu ya Nkurunziza isa niyahindutsemo intambara yeruye Nkurunziza ashak yabyitegura kuko haribihubi 3000 byabasirikali ba FPR boherejwe mu Burundi kandi bakaba bari muduce tugenzurwa na opposition cyane cyane yiganjemo abatutsi bakaba bakorana bugufi na DMI yu Rwanda. Aba bamaneko bu Rwanda batangiye gukoresha tekiniki zabo zo kwica abasivili kugira ngo abantu barakare maze basubiranemo. Grenade yatewe mwisoko ni nkazimwe zaterwaga hano i Nyarugenge muri za 1991 nabambari ba FPR kugirango abanyarwanda bange ubutegetsi bwa Habyarimana. Naho kwica Zedi Feruzi wari umuyobozi wa Union pour la paix et la démocratie (UPD) ninkabimwe by uko FPR yishe Felecian Gatabazi mu Rwanda ibyakurukiyeho nuko aba DMI ba FPR babaga i butare bafashe Bucyana wayoboraga CDR bakamwica. Ibyo biri mubyahungabanije u Rwanda cyane akaba anaribyo bikoreshwa hano i Burundi.

Nkuko mubibona namwe dore izi tekiniki nizo bakoresheje mu Rwanda, aho bategaga ibisasu mu mihanda, bigasimbukana amamodoka, bateraga za grenades mu masoko, n’aho abagenzi bategera amamodoka. Ubu ibi bikorwa by’ubwicanyi nibyo batangiye gukora i Bujumbura. Ejo ku mugoroba bateye za Grenades mw’isoko, zica bamwe abandi zirabakomeretsa, nkuko mubibona ku mafoto, kandi iyo bamaze gukora ibara nka kuriya bahita baba aba mbere mu gushinja leta ubwicanyi kugirango babyikureho ariko ibi bakaba babifashwa na abanyamerika babatuma gukora ubwo bwicanyi.

FPR rero ntiribuhgarire aha niba byo gutera ibisasu nibirangira, abarundi badasubiranyemo, FPR izahita itangiza inyeshyamba ahanini zigizwe nabahoze muri M23 bakaba baratsindiwe muri Congo ubu bamwe bamaze kwambuka i Burundi nkuko twabivuze haruguru. Uwo umugambi urimo uranonosorwa neza i Kigali, Tukaba tubikurikiranira hafi kandi tuzabagezaho iyo nkuru vuba cyane. Icyo twavuga cyo nuko abahutu bagombye kuva mubitotsi bakareka kuguya kurota ngo nimandat ya gatatu ahubwo ni gahunda ndende yokubasuubiza mubucakara indi myaka 500. 

DORE AMAFOTO YABANTU BISHWE IBURUNDI

ABA BATURAGE BARAMBARAYE HANO BAMAZE GUTERWA GRENADE NA NDUWIMANA GILBERT
UMUSORE WU MU NYARWANDA WIYITA UMURUNDI AKABA ARI UMUTUTSI WAVUKIYE I BURUNDI 

ABA BATURAGE BARAMBARAYE HANO BAMAZE GUTERWA GRENADE NA NDUWIMANA GILBERT 
UMUSORE WU MU NYARWANDA WIYITA UMURUNDI AKABA ARI UMUTUTSI WAVUKIYE I BURUNDI 

Zedi Feruzi, le président de l’Union pour la paix et la démocratie (UPD) amaze kwicwa nabantu batumwe na

Paul Kagame muguteza akaduruvayu mu Burundi.

INES RUHENGERI: MWISHURI RIKURU RYA RUHENGERI HABONETSE INYANDIKO ZAMAGANA KO BWANA PUL KAGAME YONGERA KWIYAMAMAZA MANDAT YA GATATU

By Richard Dan IRAGUHA

INES RUHENGERI

Inkuru ubu yabaye kimomo hano mu karere ka Musanze, mu Ruhengeri rw'Umulera ko abaturage bahano batifuza no kongera kumva cg kubona izina rya Paul Kagame ryanditswe kubipapuro by'Amatora ya 2017. Nkuko Polisi y’u Rwanda ibyemeza aya amakuru avuga ko hamaze gufatwa impapuro zanditswe n’abantu batazwi, bamagana ko bahindura itegeko nshinga. Izo mpapuro kandi ziravuga ko ngo perezida Kagame atanagombye no yiyamaza. Bivugwa ko imwe muri izo nyandiko yabonetse muri kaminuza ya INES mu Ruhengeri, ariko kugeza magingo aya ntibiramenyekana niba iyo nyandiko yaranditwe n’abanyeshuri.

Nkuko umwanditsi Richard Dan IRAGUHA yavuganye na padiri Dr Hagerimana Fabien Rector w’iyo kaminuza, amubwira ko ibi byabaye mu ntangiriro z’icyi cyumweru, ariko ngo iyo nyandiko yanditse mu buryo bwa gihanga ku buryo nta mahirwe ko yaba yanditwe n’abanyeshuri.

Yatubwiye ngo”nibyo mu mugoroba wejo bundi nibwo abanyeshuri babonye igipapuro gihinnye bagifashe basanga handitseho amagambo akagurira abanyeshuri ndetse n’urubyiruko kurwanya ibya manda ya gatatu y’umukuru w’igihugu,hanyuma bahita bahamagara ubahagarariye,nawe arababwira ngo ibyiza nukubyereka abayobozi bacu,bahise babyereka uhagarariye abanyeshuri,basaga uri inyandiko yandikishije intoki kandi yanditse muburyo bw’ubuhanga kuburyo utatekereza ko ari umunyeshuri warwanditse cyangwa undi.uburyo cyageze mu kigo nibwo tutarabasha kumenya.ariko kugeza ubu ibyo kuvunga ko hari umunyeshuri polisi iri gukurikiranaho iki kibazo arinjye ari ukuriye abanyeshuri ntabyo turamenya". Nkuko ababonye izo nyandiko babivuga bigaragarako zitanditswe nabanyeshuri ariko nkuko twese tubizi FPR iraza gutangira kwihinda munzirakarengane zabanyeshuri babahutu ngo nibo babyanditse. 

MURABONAKO ABA BAGABO NABAGORE BARI BISHWE NUBWOBA KUBERA IYI NYANDIKO

Igipolisi cya FPR kirinze gutangaza byinshi kuri iki kibazo, ariko Richard Dan IRAGUHA ubwo yavuganaga n’umuvugizi wa polisi Cpt Celestin Twahirwa wakunze kurangwa no guteoteza abahutu bo mu Ruhengeri, yamubwiye ko ayo makuru ari yo, ariko ahakana ko hari abatawe muri yombi. Ibi binyuranye namakuru amaze kutugeraho atumenyeshako abana babanyeshuri babahutu barenga 20 bamaze gutabwa muri yombi na leta ya FPR. Umunyamakuru yakomeje amubaza amubaza niba hari iperereza riri gukorwa na polisi kuri iki kibazo. Cpt Twahirwa yasubije igira iti”ntacyo polisi yagikozeho kuko ntanigitangaza kirimo. Ariko ibi nukubeshy dukurikije abantu bamaze gutabwa muri yombi barimo nogutotezwa muri Camp Muhoza aho FPR itotereza abahutu bo mu Ruhengeri.

Cpt Twahirwa yakomeje arimanganya avugako tract atari icyaha agirati ati:"wagiperereza se ushigiye kuki,bo ubwabo nibo bakagombye kutubwira umuntu bacyeka kugeza ubu ibyo bakubwiye girango wabyumvise kugeza ubu rero ntakintu cyakozwe kuri iyo kesi(case) ariko ntabwo turabihagarikira aho kuko harikintu gishobora kuba kibyihishe inyuma." Qn:impamvu twanahamangaye polisi,twumvishe ko hari abantu polisi yatangiye gukurikirana,yataye muri yombi ? Cpt Twahirwa:"mukinyarwanda gipfuye kandi kivanze nuruganda yagize ati: "hoya,hoya aho gukoresha ijambo OYA rwose kuvunga hari abanyeshuri bafashe bagafunga,ntawe bafunze kuko hariya ntakintu gihari gifatika,icyagaragaye nikiriya gipapuro kandi nta muntu numwe wagaragaye ko ariwe wacyanditse,ntacyintu rero nacyimwe cyakozwe." Ariko ubu nuburimanganyi burangwa na FPR kuko harabana babahutu barenga 20 bamaze gufatwa na FPR balimo gutoterezwa muri Camp Muhoza.

Mu gihe abaturage bakomeje kwandika amabaruwa asaba ko itegekonshinga rihinduka, maze perezida kagame agakomeza kuyobora igihugu, Ni ubwa mbere humvikanye abandi bari kwandika amabaruwa yamagana ko itegeko nshinga barihindura. Gusa aho bitandukaniye ni uko abasaba ko itegeko nshinga ryahinduka bo barabikora mubu buryo bweruye. Aha tubibutseko wamaganye ko umuhotozi Bwana Kagame yongera kwiyamamaza kumugaragaro umubiri wawe bwacya tuwutoragura mu kiyaga cya RWERU ho muburundi bagutaye muruzi rwa Mukungwa. Abafana ba Kagame bo kandi barashyira imikono yabo kuri ayo mabaruwa, ariko aba badashaka ko Kagame akomeza kuyobora u Rwanda bari kubyandika ntibashyireho amazina yabo, nta n’imikono. Ibi kandi bisanzwe bihanwa n’amategeko ya FPR. Igikomeje kugaragara cyo nuko abana babakiga batigeze na gato bashigikira ingoma yumwicanyi Paul Kagame n'abasajja be. Kandi nubwo ntabundi buryo bafite bayikuraho ntibibabujije kwerekana ko batamushaka. Ko nubwo yakongera gufata indi mandat ntahantu bitandukaniye nuko yaje yica abahutu nabatutsi maze akaba president kungufu. Nibi nicyo bigamije. Muribuka uko umusaza wo mu Ruhengeri yigeze kubwira Paul Kagame muri 1998 ko agomba kubuza uduhungu twe twaje tuturira ibigori? Nanubu ntacyahindutse. Aba bicanyi ningoma yabo bagamije kuguya gukenesha abantu no kubica urubozo. 

UMUTUTSIKAZI ASNAH UMUMARARUNGU AKABA NUMUKUNZI WUNDI MUTUTSI WUMUHANZI RIDERMAN YABWIYE INDAYA BAKORANAGA UWO MWUGA KO WE YAKUYEMO AKE KARENGE

BY NKURANGA EMILE,

Uututsikazi Asnah ndetse akaba n' Umukunzi w'undi mututsi akaba n’umuhanzi Riderman cyangwa se Gatsinzi Emery, aherutse gukorera bagenzi be bakorana umurimo wubumaraya agashya. Muti ese byagenze bite. Uyu mugore yagiye kumbuga nkoranyambaga za twitter  na facebook maze yandika amagambo akarishye cyane abwira bagenzi bakoranaga akazi kubumaraya abihanangiriza ko batagombye gukomeza kumukanurira amaso bamuziza ko yigirihe amahirwe agahangukira umuhanzi Riderman maze bo bagasigara banitse innyo inyarugenge. Yagize ati: " 

Uwagenekereza mukinyarwanda nubwo ibyinshi muraya magambo koko bigaragaza ko bitavugwaga numuntu ufite uburere nyarwanda ahubwo ko ari umuntu waba yaragize umwuga ubumaraya nkuko mubisoma muriyi nyandiko yagize ati: "mugihe cyose abantu bashatse kugutemana namashami yawe cg se bakakunegurira aho utari nukuvugako baba bafashe igihe mubuzima bwabo buteye agahiri nagahinda bakagutekerezaho. Nkunda kubabarira abantu incuro nyinshi ariko iyo maze gufata icyemezo biba birangiye,,BIRARANGIYE MWA NDAYA MWE!!!!. Ntimukomeze kumvugaho amabyi yanyu niba mudashobora nokunyegera. Ese mwaba muhangayikishijwe nuko mugiye kumbura kandi twaramaranye igihe cyinshi hamwe cg? Murakiswera mwamaraya mwe ziyita incuti zanjye ariko ugasanga ziragenda zintera ibyuma mumugongo. Amakosa nakoze kuruta ayandi nuko nemereye abantu kuba mubuzima bwanjye igihe kirekire kandi batari babikwiye."

Ahangaha tubibutse ko uyu mukobwa umararungu Asnah yaramaze imyaka irenga umunani akundana n’umuhanzi uzwi nka Riderman. Nkuko bisanzwe hano ikigali rero mubakobwa binshinzi nka Asnah nawe yaje kwifata kugahanga maze yihanangiriza bamwe mu bakobwa avugako ari incuti ze. 

UMUMARARUNGU ASNAH

Ngo icyababaje Asinah cyane nuko abamugambanira ari zimwe muncuti ze basangiye akabisi nagahiye. Yakomeje avuga ko ya nabitewe n’umubabaro mwinshi kubera abantu bamwe najyaga nita inshuti zanjye, tugendana, dusohokana bamvuzeho ibintu bitari byiza, bavuga ibintu bihimbiye ntazi  aho byavuye. So, birambabaza cyane rero  bituma bose mbabwiza ukuri kose kwari kundi k’umutima. Numva nta n’uwo nshaka kuzongera  kugendana nawe, kuba naganira nawe cyangwa se no kugira aho twahurira bose nabazinutswe ni nk’ubutumwa nabaherezaga kuko abenshi muri bo bariyizi kandi nizere ko bashyizeho akadomo kuko nanjye nagashyizeho.”,

Asinah umaze igihe kinini akundana n’umuhanzi Riderman ndetse bakaba bakunze kumvikana mu itangazamakuru bavugako bari hafi kubana nk’umugore n’umugabo.

Biravugwako intandaro y’ibi byose ndetse n’icyateye uburakari bukabije uyu mukobwa, Amakuru agera kuri Ibyamamare.com, biravugwako mu minsi ishize uyu mukobwa Asinah yasokanye n’aba bakobwa yafataga nk’inshuti ze magara maze bakajya kwinezeza muri kamwe mutubyiniro duherereye hano mu mujyi wa Kigali aho barikumwe n’ikindi kigare cy’abasore ariko Riderman adahari, Aba basore n’aba bakobwa bamaze kunezererwa mu masaha y’ijoro ahagana mu masaha ya saa cyenda, Aba bose yaba aba basore n’aba bakobwa ngo batashye murugo rumwe, bukeye bwaho aba bakobwa b’inshuti za Asinah ngo bamuvuyemo maze bavuga ibyabaye byose muri iryo joro ndetse bizanokugera kuri Riderman, aho binavugwako uyu mukobwa ashobora kuba yari yanasinze bikabije.

RWANDA GENOCIDE: A Commemoration that Kills Again

BY Dr. Abdallah Mwiseneza

It is really unfortunate to have someone who seems to be educated light Bwana Jean de Dieu Basabose but when you look at his approach to peacebuilding in Rwanda he is prone to advancing one narrative on the Rwandan genocide of 1994 that it is a genocide against the Tutsis of which he belongs. I am a Hutsi who survived two genocides that were perpetrated by Rwandans. A Hutsi is a Rwandan person whose parents come from both Hutu and Tutsi tribes. Such kind of people have been marginalized by both community since the 1994 genocide. Hutus do not trust us because they believe that we identify ourselves more with our uncles on our mothers’ sides and on another hand Tutsis call us Interahamwe because they believe that we carry our fathers’ identity. However, in this article I want to be more professional and focus on issues at hand that I would like to highlight in this article. Those issues have affected Rwandans for the last 21 years and have been avoided in most if not all genocide functions that I have been attending ever since. Without dealing with them it does not matter whether we have been mourning for the last 21 years and a lot of donors money has been pumped into peacebuilding and conflict resolution projects and many prayer groups vigil we would conduct we will never achieve a lasting peace and reconciliation in Rwanda. Today I want to take one of these cases as addressed by one of Rwandans involved in peacebuilding so that we identify the missing parts and see how we can patch them together to build a new cohesive Rwanda.

PAUL KAGAME COMMEMORATING THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE

I would like to correct Bwana Jean de Dieu Basabose on his articles regarding genocide in Rwanda. First, for those who don’t understand well what really happened in Rwanda in 1994 and afterward they might be misled by Jean de Dieu Basabose explanations of what really took place in Rwanda 21 years ago. I was 16 then old enough to see what was going on. I am now 37 old enough to be educated like Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose and also enlightened enough to differentiate academic facts from fictions and propaganda.

It is true that Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose has more than 10 years' experience in peacebuilding and has facilitated numerous training sessions and workshops on mediation, networking, community organizing, organizational governance, peace monitoring and communication, especially in Rwanda.  However, his efforts to build peace as he calls it are more undermining to peace and reconciliation in Rwanda because it lacks the following:

·  Truth: His peacebuilding approach does not incorporates search for truth among Rwandan communities. He builds his peacebuilding efforts on the RPF official narrative that Hutus killed Tutsis therefore they should assume responsibilities of the sins committed by their clansmen and ask for forgiveness since they are criminals by default. This is not true because we now all know the truth that not only Hutus who killed other Rwandans.  Jean de Dieu Basabose who is an Insight on Conflict's Local Correspondent in Rwanda has not lived up to one of their themes which is about “Reconciliation is generally understood to be the reestablishment of friendly relations, though it assumes different forms and roles in different contexts. In the case of armed conflicts, reconciliation incorporates the search for truth, justice, forgiveness and accommodation between conflicting groups or people.” Here I would say that in the case of Rwanda and Rwandans, reconciliation incorporates the search for truth, justice, forgiveness and accommodation between conflicting which in this case are both Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda.  Allow me to use the above definition to demonstrate how Mr.  Jean de Dieu Basabose has not been living up to his calling of a peace builder in local contexts but to self-promote and advance the Kigali mission of winning international sympathy and undermining the wellbeing of Rwandans both living inside and outside of Rwanda. The truth is that Rwandan genocide took place and killed both Hutus and Tutsis as we find it in the Kigali’s record that over a million Rwandans were killed. In a country which has 6 million Rwandans of which 14% were Tutsis and 84% Hutus it means that if a million Tutsis had been killed then all 14% would have been wiped out including Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose who survived. Statistically this is incorrect because according to the IBUKA records more than 500 thousands Tutsis survived during the genocide out of 14% of 6 million Rwandans. This means that in 1994 there were 840000 Tutsis in Rwanda. Therefore, Hutus were 5,040,000 whereas Twas were around 60,000. 

 

RWADAN HUTU BODIES FOUND IN LAKE RWERU IN BURUNDI IN 2014

Now let’s come back to the truth that promote reconciliation in Rwanda and empowers peacebuilding initiatives is that according to IBUKA more than 500,000 Tutsis out of 840,000 Tutsis survived. This means that the brutal genocide of the 1994 took the lives of 340,000 innocent Tutsis not one million as Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose wants all of us stupidly to believe. I would expect better narrative from Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose because he is one of the few Rwandans who have had opportunities to study in Western countries where the academic fraternity expects you to be of good standards when you address issues that affect lives of people and avoid being easily drawn into political biasness of Rwanda. Like so many Rwandans who are yearning for a genuine reconciliation in Rwanda, I would expect him to be objective in how he addresses the issue of peace and conflict in Rwanda because we are all looking up to him so that we forge a better Rwanda for all Rwandans regardless of their social background. According to IBUKA, more than 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in 1994. Let’s assume it is true for now. Let’s look at the tangibles such as 340,000 Tutsis killed out of 1 million Rwandans we will find that close to 600,000 Rwandans are unaccounted for and were members of the Hutu communities. Both Ibuka, Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose, and the international community tell us that only moderate Hutus killed by the same Hutus who were carrying out the massacre. If that is the truth that we seek to find in order to mold Rwandans into a one united and reconciled community, then who killed this 600,000 Hutus in 1994 if not the Tutsi dominated the Rwandan Patriotic Front headed by Paul Kagame? If Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose could write another article in the Insightonconflict to clarify who these 600,000 victims are and who killed them, then he would be contributing positively to peacebuilding initiatives that all Rwandans aspire for. To prove my argument is that in 1995 the UNHCR commissioned an investigation on the RPF killing in Rwanda which was carried by The "Gersony Report" is the name given to the 1994 findings made by a team under Robert Gersony, which was under contract to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and identified a pattern of massacres by the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels during and after their military victory in the civil war in post-genocide Rwanda.

BODIES OF THE RWANDAN HUTUS KILLED BY KAGAME'S AGENTS AND DUMPED INTO LAKE RWERU

Another good readings on the true of what really happened in Rwanda in 1994 that I can suggest to Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose is the report compiled by the two American academics Christian Davenport and Allan C. Stam called “What Really Happened in Rwanda during the 1994 Genocide” then you will understand that, apart from the western politics, actually more Hutus than Tutsis were massacred by the current regime in Kigali not the other way round. This means that we should not only commemorate a Tutsi genocide but a Rwandan genocide because we all killed each other and we all lost our beloved ones that we should have to mourn for and accept our country’s history as Rwandans. Once we tell to the whole world this plain truth with the same earnest and energy we used to tell them lies, then Rwandans will some inches away from genuine reconciliation.

·         Justice: Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose and his Shalom project have told us the truth about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, then all Rwandans both Hutus and Tutsis would have been empowered to look for justice as one of the genuine pillars of reconciliation. According to the UN Mapping report on DRC 2003 and the BBC’s documentary The Rwanda’s Untold Story, the shooting down of the Rwandan presidential plane that was carrying two Hutu presidents, Habyarimana Juvenal of Rwanda and his counterpart Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi who perished in that terrorist act, this sparked the Rwandan genocide. Paul Kagame is the one who ordered the shooting of the plane and he should be held responsible for this terrorist act so that Rwandans both Hutus and Tutsis can find justice for their loved ones killed by both Interahamwe and Inkotanyi/RPF.

So far this has never happened in Rwanda. People like Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose have continued advocating for a crooked justice and shady peacebuilding activities in Rwanda in order to protect their own selfish interests and fundraise in Western countries lying that they are promoting peacebuilding among Rwandans and yet their activities are the main ingredients of deep hatred and resentment among Rwandans because they are partisan in design and implementation. For example the pro-Kagame peace organizations such as Shalom of Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose ask Hutu kids and youth to ask for forgiveness to their Tutsis colleagues for the sins committed even before they were born, simply because they are Hutus and yet some of these kids lost their parents to RPF gun bullets, but they have no rights to seek justice because they are Hutus and are considered to be a second class citizen. Wouldn’t an n organization such as Shalom Peace Education seek justice for all regardless of political consequences in order to build a new Rwanda that makes us all comfortable of being Rwandans rather than promoting that narrative that Tutsis are the innocent victims and Hutus are bloody criminals and yet they were killed most?

In Rwanda there are those Hutus who have been behind bars since 1994 without any justice nor even appearing before any court of justice. Recently, it emerged that more than 8,000 Hutu prisoners have no file or any kind of record that demonstrate what they have been accused of and yet 18 years later they are still behind bars and most probably they will be executed, simply because they were born Hutus. This issue was also discussed during the annual RPF retreat of Umushikirano. If organizations such as Shalom were genuine about reconciliation then they should have started from Rwandan prisons because they know well that many of the accused are innocent.

·         Forgiveness: It is hard to know who should forgive who in Rwanda. Apart from the roadside shows of the Kigali’s government supported by the organizations in peacebuilding in Rwanda and religious people such as Pr. Rick Warren who is the founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church in USA, there is no forgiveness among Rwandans 21 years later. Kagame and his men such as Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose will tell you that they have done a great work now communities are living together peacefully, but it is white lie. Rwandans are coexisting not living together. They have no options but to coexist. Majority of Rwandan families from the Hutu community has lost their believed ones to RPF kidnapping and disappearing and have not even bothered to report this because they know well who did it. When they don’t say anything does not mean that they are happy or reconciled they just want to live and see another morning rise but inside themselves they know how much hurting they are experiencing.

Organizations in peacebuilding and religious activities in Rwanda together with the RPF government will call the media personality, especially the international media and bring well-rehearsed Hutus and force them to give bogus testimonies detailing how they are happy and forgiven. However, this is not what you see down on the grassroots level. Where there is reconciliation and forgiveness all communities are treated equal but that is not the case in Rwanda. Hutus are to be seen not heard. When countries like: US, UK, France, Canada, Australia, Germany and etc. give scholarships to young Rwandans to go and acquire much needed knowledge in those countries, that is when you recognize who owns Rwanda. Out of % only less than 1% of Hutu children you find getting such opportunities and the rest is a reserve of the chosen few who are Tutsis. In a land where there is reconciliation and forgiveness each group confesses and ask for forgiveness of the crimes committed, but that is not for the RPF duty to acknowledge the killings of millions of Hutus both inside and outside Rwandan territory. This is because people like Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose believe that they are the only once who are the victims the rest of Rwandans who died it was a collateral damage and their lives do not deserve justice. The Tutsi government in Kigali does not feel that there is any need for accommodation because they have the power and people who will be broadcasting their propaganda to show how much they suffered in the hands of extremists Hutus in 1994. This led us to the last but not least theme of reconciliation that have been ignored by both the Kigali government and Basore’s approach to peacebuilding in Rwanda. This is accommodation.

·  Accommodation: many so called peacebuilding organizations in Rwanda have not promoted accommodation values. This is because of two elements involved one being that the Tutsi led government in Kigali has never tolerated a genuine reconciliation among Rwandans because it fears that once reconciliation in achieved then it will lose its cling on power. Once Rwandans are genuinely reconciled, Tutsis will have nothing to fear and will swing their political allegiances to more content based politics than tribal politics. This will rob the Kagame government support of many Tutsis who see Kagame as their savior in case Hutus revolt against his regime. Once Hutus and Tutsis are genuinely reconciled they will need to speak out the truth about what happened in 1994. This truth is a bitter pill to the Kagame’s regime and people who support him because there is no truth in Rwanda that does not involve who shot down the Habyarimana’s plane which sparked massacre in Rwanda. This involves Paul Kagame as the main suspect who are likely to face international anti-terrorism court to answer to the charges. This deprives the RPF regime powers that they have been enjoying for the last 21 years based on fear mongering among Tutsis. Therefore it could be a mistake to entertain accommodation of Hutus in Rwanda. Another element involved is the so called peacebuilding organizations in Rwanda such as Shalom Educating for Peace, survive because they sell their product as people who are promoting peace and reconciliation among Rwandans. If there was no conflict among Rwandans these people would be out of jobs and won’t be able to pay their bills. Therefore they preach water on one hand and take wine on the other hand. If these people were genuine to themselves and the causes they are forwarding Rwanda would be reconciled today but they are not. Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose go out there in Western countries and boldly lie to the world in spite of numerous facts that prove that both Hutus and Tutsis killed each other during the Rwandan genocide and Tutsis under Kagame’s leadership killed innocent Hutu refugees in DR Congo where more than 8 million of Rwandans and Congolese were slaughtered by the RPF military between 1996 and 2003.

As I conclude, Paul Kagame and his people fear accommodation theory because it means taking the national cake and ask them (Tutsis in power) to share it with Hutus. This would mean that the 84% Rwandan Hutus would be given equal opportunities to participate in the scholarship pool that young Tutsis have been enjoying for the last 21 years taking more than 90% of education opportunities despite that they only make up 14% of all Rwandans. This action has denied many young Hutus opportunities to further their education, instead were sent to vocational education so that they will not assume any professional office in Rwanda.  Lack of accommodating regime in Rwanda has denied millions of Rwandans to know the truth about the shooting down of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents who perished in the plane. Lack of accommodating society in Rwanda, especially those who have access to means of leadership, economy, and military defense have denied millions of the Rwandan Hutus to actively participate in national building process which undermines national cohesion, which is a pillar to genuine reconciliation. Lack of accommodation means that Hutus who lost millions of their relatives to the Kagame led soldiers will never access justice. Only Tutsis will always be given opportunities to mourn for their dead killed by the current regime in Rwanda. Lack of accommodation means that Hutu children who were orphaned by the RPF will never have opportunities to access FARG and other funds set aside by both the RPF government and donors to support genocide orphans so that they can easily access education. Rwandans who are not pursuing truth, justice, and genuine reconciliation such as Mr. Jean de Dieu Basabose continue to be the hindrance to building a cohesive nation of Rwanda 21 years later.

There is no doubt that the Rwandan Genocide Commemoration focuses more on marketing Paul Kagame as a savior of Rwanda than promoting healing and reconciliation among Rwandans. In addition, the commemoration month is like an apocalyptic day for many Rwandans and so it has been in the last 18 years. This is because it is the only time the RPF soldiers are allowed to kill any Hutu they fell pleased to do so. It is also a one month that Rwandan Hutu business people are openly asked to give money to Tutsi survivors, those genuine survivors who witnessed the genocide in 1994 and the bogus genocide survivors who were hiding in Uganda when the genocide was taking plane in Rwanda, they all use the Tutsi ticket to extort money from helpless Hutu business communities to buy their existence. It is the only month that radio FMs are shut practically in most of all Hutu families, not because that is what they want but because they want to hear anything happening outside of their houses, especially the footsteps of the Kagame’s men who come in the twilight to kidnap innocent Hutus and make them disappear without any substantiated reasons. The month of April is referred to as the dead month by most of the Rwandans because that is when many unrecorded deaths that take place without any follow up as long as the victims are from the Hutu tribes they know that Rwandan justice does not protect them in the month of April.

Dr. Abdallah Mwiseneza is a PhD holder in International Political Analyst from the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RH, United Kingdom. He also holds a Master’s degree in international economics from the University of Maine, in USA. He is currently a UN adviser on international politics and wealth management in Sierra Leone

WILL RWANDA UNDER PAUL KAGAME EVER BECOME THE SINGAPORE OF AFRICA OR IT WILL REMAIN THE SINGACORPSES OF RWANDANS

WILL RWANDA UNDER PAUL KAGAME EVER BECOME THE SINGAPORE OF AFRICA OR IT WILL REMAIN THE SINGACORPSES OF RWANDANS

By Hagandi NDIYUNZE

It has been 21 years since Rwanda was befallen by the darkest angel of time. Before some of the Rwandans from the Tutsi tribe living in exile in Uganda decided to invade Rwanda claiming their alienate rights to come back to their homeland, Rwanda was considered to be the Little Switzerland of Africa La Petite Suisse de l'Afrique Centrale. For those who were children attending basic educational institutions on different hills of Rwanda, we can attest to this. I remember as a young boy in a primary school I could only pay less than Francs 100 as a school fees for the entire year. This gave me access to all teaching materials that our school could afford such as dust chalk, slates, reading books, and exercises books. More importantly, we were taught by motivated teachers who were called to impart us with their knowledge and unconditional love.

TINGITINGI HUTU MASSACRE

During those days, clinics had medicines and I never heard my mother looking for her healthcare membership card of “mutuelle” so that she could take me to hospital. We did not have to sell any livestock so that we become members of any national healthcare system in Rwanda. I remember clean and tapped water fountain in our school compound so that children could have access to clean water. Coffee, tea, and pyrethrum farmers were put in cooperatives and got incentives from their government so that the government theme of “Rwanya Nyakatsi” (Get rid of thatched houses) could materialize. Without being forced or threatened by the local defense or Intore (cadres) for the first time I saw my dad taking us to Trafipro where he bought us plastic shoes called Bata and on the same day on our way home each of his 6 children carried a roll of corrugated iron sheet called Amabati. I don’t remember how many of Mabati that each one carried but they were so many because but the time we got home in the evening our necks had bent. Despite heavy loads we were all smiles when we got home because we were all wearing plastic shoes and we were among few in the village. It did not take long before every family in our community had bought shoes to their children. In less than two months we were all allowed to come to school with shoes and the government did not need to force our parents to buy us shoes but they created an enabling environment for our parents to afford shoes for us and build modern housing for their families instead of being told not to visit the market wearing barefoot. All these changes took place in my rural home because Rwanda was the “Little Switzerland of Africa” and we did not need western media to tell us because we lived it.

However, all this changed when the country entered into war with herself. Those from Uganda came telling us that all was not well within our villages. They started from Umuganda (which means coming together in common purpose) and showed us how oppressive the activities were. They even told us that once they come to power they would pay us for participating in Umuganda. It did not take long before we rallied behind them who could not have done so hoping to earn an extra income from the public duty?

As the war continued they promised us free primary and secondary school education. Since man always wants more freebees we stretched our arms to welcome them home. Some of our dads even went to the extent of fundraising for them as long as they carried through their promises to remove us from the big ship that was moving slowly and take us into the small boat that was sailing swiftly. They had pressbriefings both regionally and internationally and reached us through Muhabura airwaves to explain to us that the small boat would take us faster from the “Little Switzerland of Africa” to the unknown Promised Land. We forgot a Rwandan saying says that ‘Uwambaye Ikirezi Atamenya ko Cyera’ (loosely translated that who owns a beautiful pearl does not know that it bling). It did not take so long before the small boat (Rwandan Patriotic Front RPF) started tossing some of her passengers into the waters for them to drown but we were too intoxicated by her heavenly promises of taking us to the promised land sooner that the ship nicknamed the Big Mama (National Revolutionary Movement for Development MRND) could have done. We blindly followed them despite that there were nerve breaking facts that the small boat was had thrown most of her passengers into the rivers that she sailed through. Some of our dads decided to ignore this and decided to take some of our footballer siblings to hold friendship matches with members of the small boat crew. Our dads couldn’t hold themselves from thinking about how things will be when the small boat reaches to the other banks of the river. They never ceased from dreaming how their lives will change once the small boat gets them to the Promised Land. They even told me that they were so disgusted by the speed of the Big Mama. They claimed that it could take us centuries for her to take us to the Promised Land. Our fathers connived and schemed about how to get rid of the Big Mama as soon as possible. They claimed the long they waited for the Small Boat to take us to the Promised Land the longer and harder the journey becomes.

HUTU MASSACRED BY KAGAMES TROOPS IN 1995

When the Captain of the small boat heard of this was so excited and chanted: “If you will all rally behind me. Support me in every corners of this land and tell all your people that I am not after tossing anyone’s child into the big river. If you all stand by me and tell the world that it is not the Small Boat hammering the small heads of their children but the Big Mama who wants to cling on power, surely, I will make this Rwanda another Singapore, but not the small one in South Asia, but the big Singapore of Africa.” The captain continued. “I will know where the money will come from. My godfathers are whitemen. They don’t speak your language but mine. They also promised me that whoever follows me they will bless not only his coming in but also his coming out. The power they will bless. The mighty they will bless. The security they will bless. The paradise in Africa they will create. Only if you followed me.”

After hearing this our fathers were filled with joy and excitement. One of our fathers who had defected from the Big Mama stood up and said: “My lord, may these walls of this hall also hear this. From now on don’t beg us to follow you instead show us the way and you lead we shall follow. Don’t ask us to jump again because what we will ask is how high you want us to jump my lord. Henceforth we will follow you wherever you go as the biblical story of Ruth and her mother in law my lord. We no longer mind how many of our sons and daughters you toss into the deep waters, how big the territory you occupy, and how many our siblings’ heads will be smashed against the wars or will be driven into exile. No matter what we will follow you my lord.

Before the dawn settled on the ridges of the Thousand Hills, the Small Boat had been welcomed into our courtyards. We were never bothered a lot because our fathers had said and we had obeyed. We thought this would reduce the numbers of our siblings tossed into the deep waters, not at all. The Big Mama had been pushed to the walls and the peace we knew as children was now things of the past. Our faces started reading only one ink that of despair but we held on our hopes because our fathers were singing peace and the coming of Singapore to Africa in unison. Now the Small Boat and the Big Mama were roaming into our backyards, the oxygen was running out of reach and each one of us was trying to grasp some fresh air. Our fathers had left us and went into the streets singing and chanting “Gisunzu Navaho impundu zizavuga” as they were predicting the departure of Habyarima. They hoped that his departure will mark the end of their sufferings and pave the way for the Singapore of Africa. But little did they know that they were myopic to the real problems of Rwanda and their solutions.

It did not take long before we as their children we joined them on the streets of Kigali. We danced, chanted, shouted, and schemed. I could see that the mob psychology was guiding us to the point that we could no longer see the motives and intentions of the captain of the Small Boat. He graciously sat on the hill of the hills and glanced at in the streets and he just laughed mocking us. As some of us were blindly pointing their fingers to the north others to the south as the origins of their miseries, the captain of the Small Boat was busy dispatching his crew to the different areas of the capital. Before we could know it the first son of the Big Mama had already sunk into the deep sea. He held the passcode to the maneuvering of the Big Mama. We all sunk with him those who survived went into exile. What amazed me most is that some of our fathers who had served the Small Boat in all kinds of manners hoping to bring us the Big Singapore of Africa followed us into exile after tossing most of their kids into the big river. They came and found us wandering in foreign land. They found us with new identity. We were no longer Rwandans but refugees. When I saw them I couldn’t hold back I had to inquire from them what is chasing them. “Dad’ and ‘Uncle”, I called. “How come you are here with us, did you miss the border?” I asked. “Son, all those old promises were empty. We were fooled and followed but now the waters have turned,” he replied. Although I was still young to understand what he meant when he said that the waters had turned, few months in exile had made me grow older and wiser. I knew my ‘father’ had seen the light when it was too late. We were now in exile called names by the host families. Although I felt humiliated I liked it when Congolese called us hopeless and homeless refugees in my ‘father’s’ presence. He was a man full of ego I couldn’t help but to smile as I saw him being reminded that our country is Rwanda not Zaire.

Another day we went together with my ‘dad’ and my ‘uncle’ to the Red Cross site to get our weekly ratio. Since he joined us in the refugee camp late after his family that included myself and my four siblings had already registered and gotten a ‘food ratio card’, he registered as lonely man and his ratio was only 25ml of cooking oil, 25gm of salt, 1500gms of corn floor, and 700gm of beans. When they called his name and handed him what he deserves, he felt agitated and started reminding those present who he was befall the Fall of the Plane. Although he was my ‘dad’ I couldn’t stand there and look on while his hurting the feelings of the public who previously had put all their trust in him so that he can join hands with the captain of the Small Boat and ferry us to the new found land called the Singapore of Africa. I turned and looked at him straight into the face and said: “Dad’ here people are no longer interested in the long stories of the ‘quand j’etais.’ Welcome to the new Singapore of Africa Daddy,” I said to him. For the first time my dad had seen me staring straight into his eyeballs mercilessly. That is when he realized we had crossed the border into Zaire and things were no longer at ease, because the Plane Had Fallen.

The Promise of the New Singapore of Africa and the Fall of the Plane

Mr. Captain of a Small Boat allow me to question some things if not everything about your promises. When you were in Kagitumba and Kinihira you called all the elders of our land so that you could lay out the Small Boat’s strategies that could see us crossing the big river in the shortest time possible. Indeed you said this:

·        Mr. Captain when the plane fell the heavens and the skies fell on us too. You had promised us peace but you broke us into pieces. When the plane fell the cloud of darkness fell on those who loved you and those who loathed you. When the plane fall the worst came down with it and the ridges of the Thousand Hills were bathed with blood instead of milk and honey you promised us in Kinihira. When the plane fell millions of Rwandans fell with it since the gods of Rwanda had deserted us. Mr. Captain of the Small Boat when the Plane fell……!!!

·        I remember that you told us that when you come to power you will not force us to go to Umuganda and if we went you would compensate us for the time wasted and energy spent. However, 21 years on if I don’t attend your Umuganda it would be a different story of my life. If your men in the uniform don’t make me disappear from the face of the universe I will certainly rot in Mabuso but if I am lucky you will send me to 1930 and accuse me Kugandisha.

THESE ARE HUTUS KILLED AND THROWN IN LAKE RWERU

·        Mr. Captain, when our dads met you in Kinihira during the famous friendship soccer match you promised them that you will unite north and south. You will bring east and west together so that we are all called Kanyarwanda and abolish la zizanie and divisionism enthroned by the Big Mama. However when you came things got worse. You called us different names from Abasope, Abasajja, Abajepe, and Abadubai without adding Ibipinga because they are synonymous to Interahamwe. Mr. Captain before you came in the Small Boat we used to intermarry and it was not a big deal but with my Big Nose it no longer matters whether I am an MD or CEO in any company here in Kigali once I enter your courtyard members of the right tribe will give me Red even before the start of the game. You didn’t tell me whether you would feel happy if you’re English favorite team Arsenal was shown the door before the game? That is how we feel about discrimination in Rwanda 20 years into your leadership.

·        Mr. Captain, since the day when the plane fell things have never been the same. Not only you divided us further but you alienated some of us by depriving us our identity. You lied to us that being a Hutu or a Tutsi is a social construct element which sparked the ignoble Rwandan genocide. You might be right in some ways but you never stood up and tell all Rwandans who brought that plane down. You might think that because it has been 21 years on you have fooled Rwandans enough to forget the beginning of all this not at all. I hope you still have Blaise Compaore’s cellphone number. He can recount for you how many years it had been since the assassination of Thomas Isidore Noel Sankara. After all this is not what you promised Rwandans in the valleys of Kinihira or Mulindi.

·        Mr. Captain, you had promised us equality in all government apparatuses. You told us that the Big Mama had given all opportunities to those residing in the North but after 20 years I realized it was all lies and propaganda. The truth is that there has been no equality in any area in Rwanda if you think I am attacking you personally let me put things plain. Last year I finished my postgraduate studies at Nairobi University. My mother had sold her piece of land in Nyaruguru. This is after finishing with first class at the University of Rwanda in economics but I was never employed for 5 good years. Out of frustration my mother decided to sell her land so that I could go to Kenya to acquire more degree hoping that your system will concentrate more on my academic achievement rather than my big nose. However, by the time I arrived back in Kigali I was told that all the jobs had been filled by my classmates among them: Kayitesi, Kayirebwa, Kayitale, Kamuzinzi, Kayinamura, Kayiranga, Karutesi, Kayinamura, Karurangwa, Kamutuzo, and Kabano among others. After hearing that I pulled my transcripts out and asked them why not Nsabimana, Nsanzumuremyi, Nsabagasani, Nsanzurwimo, Nsabiyera, Nsanzumukiza, or Nsabiyera. They told me that it was an order from above but when I insisted to know who the above was, I was given a mirror and told to look at myself. Mr. President, after I looked at myself in the mirror I questioned no more and decided to head back to Nyaruguru.

·        Mr. President, 21 years on into your leadership there is a lot to be desired than admired. Your godfathers praise you for halting the genocide and you to have subscribed to this. However, I always wonder whether you promised us country filled with cemeteries and mausoleums. There are more than 3 million tombs around the country but no clear details about the dead. Could you let Rwandans identify their dead and mark their graves so that we don’t continue living in a limbo of these killed those and yet we Rwandans all know that we killed each other at the same rate if not as much?

·        Mr. President 20 years ago you promised to transform this little Rwanda into a little Singapore of Africa. You promised us that you will raise all Rwandans from the ashes to the greatness. You promised good life for all Rwandans but things have been different all along. If you were not aware let help you to understand that you Singapore dream remains a mirage to most Rwandans but a comic reality to the western media because that is their nature and the true picture they have about Africa. Before you came in a small boat we could only count on our fingers those individuals infested with jiggers but the last decades many communities around the country have experienced a boom in jiggers. I wonder whether the people in highlands stopped farming pyrethrum so that we can produce our own insecticide to help us fight this menace. I hope it is cheaper to import insecticide than buying the plastic Bata shoes to all Rwandans. Mr. President I don’t know whether you watched a news segment on TV1 that highlighted the flight of survivors in Gasabo. A family of a survivor with 4 children sleeping in a common pit latrine. Yes a pit latrine that is where they spent weeks before a well-wisher could come to their rescue. This shows you how ill this country is Mr. President. If a Tutsi survivor of genocide is going through that you can only imagine what a poor Hutu is going through in this country with a genocidaire mark hanging on his forehead Mr. President. Mr. President do you remember that you promised equality and a country that is governed by law? Yes you did so some 20 years ago but look now. In a country with 1 million orphans and 200,000 prisoners with 3 million tombs, 500,000 survivors, and one million refugees, where is justice for us Mr. President? In a country with only 11 million people with a GDP of US$464 per capita only you bought yourself 2 flits of jets while millions of Rwandans are starving to death. You took our brothers to Iwawa Island to hide them from the reality of life in Rwanda and mislead international community that you have no street children and your country is few miles away from achieving the Little Singapore of Africa. If my brother was not held at Iwawa Island now he would be dating and getting ready to marry but according to you because he is a Hutu he deserves no chance to grow up like any teen boy, date girls, go out with them, buy them flowers, cheat and get cheated by them, love and fall in love, break up with them and be dumped by them, just a natural way of growing up. Instead you have cast them away in a foreign land where they won’t feel family love at all. All in the name of building the Little Singapore of Africa. Mr. President, as I conclude this letter to you after a good 21 years of your leadership I want to let you know that I am not just a critique to your leadership just a reminder of how we Rwandans feel about you and your little boat that brought anguish and shame to our country. Your little boat ignited hatred, sparked a fire that consumed both living and nonliving ones.

Your little boat left corpses wherever it sailed through both inside and outside Rwanda. We all carry your scars. I can’t ignore that there are those who call you their messiah because you gave them a country they needed so much. You improved their lives, took them to school, put them into international map, got them housing, got them education, money, jobs, life, and identity. They now worship you but it is a small portion of Rwandans. To most of Rwandans myself included, the last 25 years of your existence in Rwanda has been nothing but hell on earth. You first took parents at younger age and left me to fend for myself. Your small boat ate anything that brought me happiness from my uncles and aunties, father and mother, grandparents and relatives, neighbors and their children we liked playing football together and friends. You did not only take life but also the things. You didn’t pollute our beautiful rivers with corpses of young men and women, but also took away the names of our hills from Kigali Ngari to Bugesera and Kigali became Gasabo;  Byumba into Gatsibo and Nyagatare, from Ruhengeri into Musanze and Gakenke; from Butare to Huye and Gisagara, Gitarama to Kamonyi and Muhanga, from Gikongor we all loved to Nyamagabe. You did not stop there because you went ahead and turned Kibuye into Karongi whereas the beautiful Gisenyi became Nyabihu and Ngororero whereas the beautiful Cyangugu became Nyamasheke and Rusizi all this in the name of building a New Singapore of Africa. However, Mr. President there is one common thing I saw in all these regions. They all share one common denominator of grief. They all grief for their beloved ones that your small boat tossed into the big waters and they never came back. Some mourn on yearly basis because you gave them right but others grieve on daily basis because you denied them their alienate rights to mourn for their dead. You can only change the names of regions and roads. You can change the name of rivers and lakes but you cannot change south and north. You cannot run from the facts that Rwanda has achieved only one thing. That is to become not the Little Singapore of Africa as you had promised us earlier, but the Little Singacorpses of Africa where graveyards are exhibited like shopping stalls.