Mr Andrew Wallis starts his defense for President Kagame by quoting the International Criminal Court (ICTR)”There is no reasonable basis for anyone to dispute that, during 1994, there was a campaign of mass killing intended to destroy, in whole or at least in very large part, Rwanda’s Tutsi population… That campaign was, to a terrible degree, successful; although exact numbers may never be known, the great majority of Tutsis were murdered, and many others were raped or otherwise harmed.” [International Criminal Court for Rwanda, 16 June 2006]

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If Mr. Andrew  watched attentively the BBC Documentary at no time did it say that Tutsis were not systematically killed, which in legal term constitutes genocide, however, the question, what is the role of the RPF and Kagame in particular in this genocide?

How do you account in fact and law for the Hutus killed by both Interahamwe and Ex-FAR because they rejected their sectarian ideology of killing the Tutsis and the Hutus who were killed by RPF? Does Mr., Wallis question his pay masters the number of people who were mainly Hutus brutally butchered in Kibeho? Women and children who were massacred are recorded in the UN Books and Kagame who was the Vice President and Minister of Defense at the time with President Pasteur Bizimungu acknowledged that terrible massacre what they disputed though is the number.

What does Mr. Andrew call this in law? Does he mean that it’s the number that accounts not the intent?

Did Mr. Andrew ask President Kagame why the Four Bishops were killed in Gakurazo and buried in the mass grave without even prayers? RPF argue that it was an accident; an angry soldier randomly killed the Bishops and other people there, but why were they not given a decent burial if it was really an accident?   Up to now the Rwandan government has never been clean on this matter or apologetic.  Does Mr. Andrew know that the Untold Story of the above massacre was told by Esperance Mukashema herself a genocide survivor, according to her; the massacre was planed and ordered by President Kagame.

We have evidence that Kagame ordered many killings in all the parts which were under their control , places like Bwisige, Karama, and others which  RPF captured, has he ever taken time to make his research or he just gets the records from the RPF Archives?

Again he refers his argument on academics like Gérard Prunier, Linda Melvern, Mahmood Mamdani, Howard Adelman, Jean-François Dupaquier, Jean-Pierre Chrétien and Allan Thompson, did these people know the facts we know today? Indeed, that’s why it’s called the untold story. Does he recognize that Kagame will never allow anybody who questions something that is not in his line of understanding? In fact if the American Scholars had not gone on the ground and relied on the Kagame and RPF story the same facts of the academics he is referring to would not have differed.

Just to give him the recent example of the true character of the man he is defending, in the United States a young journalist Ronan Farrow was asking him about the killings, and the dead bodies that were recovered from the Lake Rweru in Burundi, but he quickly silenced him, telling him to concentrate on the women empowerment, or other developments..

Has Mr. Andrew ever attended the weekly question time of the UK Prime Minister in Westminster or a press conference? He is questioned all types of questions and he is required to answer them? For the information of Mr. Andrew, if the journalist I’m talking about was in Rwanda he would not have seen the next sun rise? Did he get time to talk to the families of Mr. Charles Ingabire of Inyenyeri News or Leonard Rugambagage of Umuvugizi both journalists who were murdered by Kagame because they were carrying out investigative article on the attempted assassination of Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa or the atrocities of human violations by Kagame respectively?

Amazingly, he refers his argument on Miss Alison des Forges at Human Rights Watch and Rakiya Omarat African Rights. Does he know what happened to Miss Alison when she started to ask Kagame to account for the people who were killed by his forces? She was later made persona non grata by the Kagame government. If this lady was still alive she would tell Mr. Andrew the untold story of Kagame.Or Carina Tertsakian who cannot be granted a visa to work in Rwanda for similar reasons.

Mr. Andrew viciously attacks the Belgian Professor Filip Reyntjens who he accuses of being an opponent of President Kagame and a former advisor to President Habyarimana. Again Mr Andrew got it wrong, did he make his research correctly or he was fed this venomous information by Kagame spin Doctors? Did he know that Prof. Filip Reyntjens worked in Rwanda even after the Rwandan genocide?  Why can’t Mr. Andrew be precise on the dates and years when Prof. Filip was and worked as an advisor to President Habyarimana?

If Mr. Andrew starts to question president Kagame on his integrity, Im sure he cannot live in Rwanda even single day. That’s the true character of President Kagame.  Does he try to convince us that the whole RPF establishment that initially founded the RPF is all wrong except Kagame?  Did he really make a research on the line up of all independent RPF officials who were killed or incarcerated because they don’t live in the utopian world of Kagame?

We have a long list for his information, the former President Pasteur Bizimungu, the former RPF Chairman and Minister of Internal Affairs, Col.  Alex Kanyarengwe, Seth Sendanshonga,  Former Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu, Co. Theoneste Lizinde, Col. Biseruka,  Col. Kizza, Maj. Alex Ruzindana, Col. Willison Rutayisire, Col. Steven Ndugute,  Col. William Bagire, Col. Patrick Karegeya,  Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa , just to mention a few. Some are either dead, or politically impotent.  I would request Mr. Andrew to go and ask the families of these people, they will tell him the untold story.

Unfortunately Mr. Andrew for reasons I don’t know he mixes apples and donkeys, why should he attack a genuine opposition party like RNC and other parties who have challenged the Rwanda ruling party peacefully? Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa and Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa are not guilty of the crimes per say, but guilty of challenging the leadership of Kagame and his RPF, in fact a party they worked hard to establish. Would this be a crime in a country were Mr. Andrew comes from? Could we see Mr. Ed Milband incarcerated because he asked why Mr. David Cameroon is taking the British Troops to Syria?

This is what is happening in the Kagame Rwanda today, many political opponents are either killed or incarcerated, like Victoire Ingabire, Deo Mushyayid, Bernard Ntaganda, Pasteur Bizimungu, Ntakirutinka Charles,Asiel Kabera all these people the only crime they committed was challenging the Kagame leadership. We have the mapping report that exposes the crimes of Kagame but they were blocked and have never been public for reasons may be Mr. Andrew might know better or powerful people who will always white wash Kagame crimes.

He talks of genocide survivors; does he know that the genocide survivors are now divided into the groups, of RPF, independent and those who oppose the RPF line of deceit and exploitation? What group does Mr. Andrew suggest the BBC would have  talked to? The BBC invited the government of RPF which in fact is the one implicated in mass killings and the shooting the Habyarimana plane.

They declined for the reasons may be Mr. Andrew could tell us. For his information, the majority of the Ibuka and their leaders are all in exile, if wants more untold story, he should go to the streets of Brussels and other European Cities. The current IBIKA president Dr. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu opposed publicly the Kagame project of “Ndi Umuyarwanda”, he was warned that he risks death or sacking, he has now succumbed to Kagame intimidation.

President Kagame is a man who does not hide his true colors when he kills, when he killed Col. Patrick Karegeya his former Spy Chief, he publicly said that whoever betrays his cause will fall victim.  “Anyone who betrays our cause or wishes our people ill will fall victim. What remains to be seen is how you fall victim,” Mr Kagame said. Does Mr. Andrew need more evidence after getting it from the Horse’s Mouth? If Gen.Kayumba Nyamwasa says that Kagame is a serial killer do we need more interpretation or definition of words for an English man like Mr. Andrew Wallis? Unfortunately the likes of Mr. Andrew Wallis will be exposed after the demise of the Kagame regime sooner than later

Jacqueline Umurungi