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San Francisco Bay View : Rwanda: Evidence undermines the ruling narrative

Mon, 25 Apr 2016 12:48:18 +0000

Truth might effectively feel crappy because it makes you uncomfortable. https://therisingcontinent.com/2012/06/26/they-ar... It contradicts your core beliefs embedded in what Kagame and his circle have been preaching for so many years to Rwandans and the rest of the world, about what really happened in 1994.

San Francisco Bay View : Rwanda: Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire’s sentence increased from 8 to 15 years

Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:09:16 +0000

If you knew who wrote that document and the intentions they had towards the hutu community, you would understand under which circumstances the latter have become the palestinians of the great lakes region and tutsis their peer jews.

San Francisco Bay View : Uganda: Upcoming elections and ongoing US influence, an interview with Milton Allimadi

Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:21:03 +0000

Very insightful as always from Milton Allimadi.

San Francisco Bay View : Rwanda conscripts Burundian refugees into new ‘rebel force’: an interview with Jeff Drumtra

Sat, 28 Nov 2015 23:04:45 +0000

Like in the case of Rwanda during the 90/94 period, the US government could pretend that they didn't know when their CIA Kigali desk had predicted that killing president Habyarimana would trigger massive chaos that would kill between 300,000 and 500,000. US foreign policy towards the Great Lakes region has been consistent since 1990 through working with despots and criminal leaders to defend american interests whatever the cost in terms of African lives.

San Francisco Bay View : War on Terror? US proxies Ethiopia and Rwanda terrorize their own people

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 21:12:55 +0000

Dear David, please never insult Panafricanist Heroes Nkrumah and Lumumba by comparing them with genocidaires and authoritarian late Zenawi and Kagame. Ethiopia and Rwanda are US and or UK proxies. Our African heroes were against tribalism, and unfortunately that's what Zenawi and Kagame have been promoting. Their policies are ethnically based with a fundamental purpose fo excluding other communities. They run aparheid-like segregations in their respective countries, but officially claim there isn't discrimination of any sort. They can fool foreigners on the subject but not their citizens.

San Francisco Bay View : War on Terror? US proxies Ethiopia and Rwanda terrorize their own people

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:37:38 +0000

Mekdes. No wonder the article covers Ethiopia and Rwanda because of their similarities in oppressing their own people. I am surprised to learn from you that the parliament seats that the ruling party didn't get went to parties friendly to EPRDF. I would guess too that these parties never present a presidential candidade for election. How can you fight for political change when you adopt and conform to policies of the party you pretend to challenge? The situation is the same in Rwanda where RPF of Kagame has coopted satellite political parties which never oppose it on any issue. For that reason I think it is fair to say that when these fake parties vote, they are the same people as the representatives of ruling parties but with only different names. EPRDF or RPF fool only those who want to be fooled; the reality is that they are completely authoritarian and dictatorial in their political actions and others.

San Francisco Bay View : War on Terror? US proxies Ethiopia and Rwanda terrorize their own people

Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:24:39 +0000

Dear Alem, it is important that people like Ann take a stand for human rights in places like Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, South Sudan, etc. Despite her contribution, concerned people are the only ones to end the plight they experience. Without that, Ann cannot do much.

San Francisco Bay View : US will not support third term for Rwanda’s Kagame

Fri, 5 Jun 2015 08:38:39 +0000

In 1994, RPF didn't want no one to intervene, because if they did, it wouldn't have taken power by force. You need to wake up and face up to the facts. RPF threatened everyone who would intervene that they would shoot them. Dusaidi and Gahima wrote on behalf of RPF telling the UNSC that there was no need to intervene, because it would've jeopardised RPF plans. They went to NEW YORK at the office of UNSCI with that message and convinved its members. I don't how old you are but the fact is that RPF has been fooling the younger generation of Rwandans that the world failed to intervene when it is RPF which stopped other countries from intervening. That's machiavelic to see a government pretending that probably your parents and ours were killed by somebody else when it is the first responsible of their death because they didn't want people being saved.

San Francisco Bay View : US will not support third term for Rwanda’s Kagame

Fri, 5 Jun 2015 08:26:00 +0000

Having Kagame in office after 2017 is a very big deal for the majority of Rwandans. Maybe you are among the 1% benefiting from the RPF system but the rest if they are not dying from hunger, unemployment, being killed, imprisoned or disappearing, not accessing education or health, they are walking dead. I however do agree with you that it's up to Rwandans to change whatever needs changing.

San Francisco Bay View : US will not support third term for Rwanda’s Kagame

Fri, 5 Jun 2015 06:37:56 +0000

Jameskisombe If you cannot grasp that kayumba, fdlr or himbara are one similar side of the struggle against kagame there is no much to say about your understanding of issues. Furthermore if you don't have no moral to stand for, you should not blame ann garrison who is a fervent advocate of human rights. Therefore you should not be surprised seeing her always after kagame, because as many including philip reitjens, have said, he is the most criminal individual in office today.

San Francisco Bay View : No way to escape the eye of the state in Rwanda

Mon, 25 May 2015 07:24:26 +0000

I remember my elder brother, before he was also killed poisoned by the system, telling me that Rwandans outside the country were the ones who had to do more to liberate their compatriots from RPF oppression. Apparently from inside, it takes only the fearless ones to stand up against it. And they are very few given the task at hand.

San Francisco Bay View : Loretta Lynch’s Rwanda ‘credential’

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 14:35:57 +0000

John, a foreigner who tells you the truth on what has been happening in Rwanda is misinformed and or stupid; a hutu who tells you the same truth is called a genocidaire or has a genocide ideology; a tutsi who tells you the same truth is labelled an enemy of the state. If all these people are telling you a similar story, don't you think it is time to reflect on what they are telling you instead of being in denial. In fact the more people telling you the truth, the more difficult it will become for you to face it later, if you continue being stuck in denying the reality.

San Francisco Bay View : The international community’s unforgivable betrayal of the people of South Sudan

Wed, 8 Jan 2014 17:36:56 +0000

Good metaphor about the fox guarding the hen house.

San Francisco Bay View : Legacies: Michael Hourigan and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:32:26 +0000

Today there is overwhelming evidence about Kagame being responsible of the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana and Cyprian Ntaryamira on April 6th 1994, so much so that even those still trying to cover up his involvement must somehow feel ashamed of their actions.

San Francisco Bay View : Cynthia McKinney: The world needs peace – but not a Pax Americana

Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:59:33 +0000

A great speech by Sister Cynthia Mckinney.

San Francisco Bay View : Congo: The UN Combat Intervention Brigade is not there to combat resource theft

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 07:21:56 +0000

And what the proposal from the Tanzanian president Kikwete of having talks between armed rebels in the region with their respective governments [Rwanda, Uganda and DRC] would bring to the situation?

San Francisco Bay View : Cynthia McKinney wins hearts and minds on California tour

Tue, 14 May 2013 06:57:20 +0000

Great woman Cynthia McKinney. I met her for the first time in Tripoli back in January 2011. We were both attending an international conference for the global African diaspora which was organised by Kaddafi government. Coming from the Great Lakes region where there is a human tragedy which has been going for almost two decades, but within which US and UK responsibilities are distorted because of their economic interests, she was the first during her time as congresswoman to question such role for her government.

San Francisco Bay View : Susan Rice’s defense of Kagame in Congo puts Obama State Department on the defensive

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 16:20:25 +0000

As I mentioned in my posting today http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2012/12/2... I believe that Ambassador Susan Rice was opposed by Republican Congressmen for a possible role as Secretary of State more for racism reasons than anything else. In fact, despite her disastrous performance in Africa and particularly the Great Lakes region, only from Africans' perspective, she has tremendously defended US interests.

San Francisco Bay View : Implicated in Congo crimes, Rwanda’s Gen. Kagame has bigger headache than silencing Victoire Ingab

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 15:15:48 +0000

@Gakondo. I am going to find out with you some logical thinking around the Rwandan genocide of 1994, though I feel it might be difficult seeing where you stand. My family which is Hutu lost many members who were killed by both Interahamwe and RPF elements during the 100 days of 1994 covering what the UN termed as the Rwandan genocide. I know RPF has recuperated the terminology and simply named it the genocide of the Tutsi. If I say that during the genocide I lost many members of my family, am I wrong according to you, or do I become a genocide denial, because in your logic there can only be one genocide in Rwanda, the one that targeted Tutsi?

San Francisco Bay View : Implicated in Congo crimes, Rwanda’s Gen. Kagame has bigger headache than silencing Victoire Ingab

Fri, 2 Nov 2012 14:56:48 +0000