Dr Hazel Cameron, who calls herself an expert on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, was yesterday testifying before the probe commission of inquiry into the accusations that the BBC denied and revised the Genocide against the Tutsi, especially through the documentary aired on BBC2 in October 2014.

Cameron is the director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS), at the University of St Andrews School of International Relations in Scotland. While she is entitled to the right of giving her side story and how she makes her research, she has no right to set standards for others where she calls their evidence inappropriate.

She attacks Professor Filip Reyntjens a Belgian Academic, she quotes him as having said that “I think by the end of 1993, the RPF had decided it was going to take power by the bullet”.  According to her a Professor does not use the word I think when presenting an argument, “My question is what his evidence for such a claim was and is it appropriate for an academic to make a claim using the term ‘I think’? The answer is no. Any claim made by an academic must be supported by rigorous research that one can triangulate and validate so it is entirely inappropriate for someone who purportedly claims to be an expert on Rwanda and a professor to use the word ‘I think’,”

Dr Cameron is wrong in all fronts, first what more evidence she needs when the UN Mapping report, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International have consistently reported human rights abuses in Rwanda and it’s these facts that become the basis of evidence for even a lay person who can read and write. The United States  former Ambassador to UN Susan Rice in 2011 warned Kagame saying that his country’s political culture is being stifled, that freedom of the press is minimal and that activists, journalists, political opponents don’t have the ability to organize peacefully. “Some have simply disappeared,” she said, referring to highly suspicious deaths of political opponents.

Has this culture improved? Rwandans have continued to disappear; political opponents are targeted for assassination, intimidation, harassment, and other human degrading actions on innocent Rwandans. Is Dr Isabel Cameron aware of the recent dead bodies that appeared in lake Rweru in Burundi and the Rwandan government has refused a joint investigative team to establish the identity of these people?

On 25/09/2014, Jen Psaki the US State Department spokes person  said that the US “expresses its deep concern regarding the discovery of a number of corpses in July and August of this year, some bound and wrapped in plastic, in Lake Rweru, which borders Burundi and Rwanda. We note that several countries also raised their concern about these deaths during the Interactive Dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances that was held in conjunction with the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on September 12”

If Dr Isabel is an expert of Rwanda and Genocide as she claims, has she researched on this matter to establish the origin and Identity of these people? Does she really need more evidence to know that Kagame was more interested in power than saving people in genocide, when Kagame himself says he was not?

In 2007 Hard Talk Program on BBC hosted by Stephen Sakur, he was confronted with his responsibility in the assassination of his predecessor, and he responded “I do not care; I do not give a damn”

Again in the Gen. Romeo Dallaire book Shake hands with devil on page 342  when he proposed to Kagame that he would like to see intervention force being deployed to stop genocide, this is what Kagame told  Gen. Dallaire “if an intervention force is sent to Rwanda, we will fight it”

Kagame further argued that if the Tutsi have to be killed for the cause, they will be considered to having been part of the sacrifice” pg. 258. If Dr Isabel does not have information on how Kagame was more interested in power, she should contact Gen. Romeo Dallaire or read his book Shake Hands with the Devil.

On April 30, Gerald Gahima and Claude Dusaidi of the former RPF political bureau reiterated this position in a slightly less forceful statement which declared:

“The time for U.N. intervention is long past. The genocide is almost completed. Most of the potential victims of the regime have either been killed or have since fled.

The statement continued:

Consequently, the Rwandese Patriotic Front hereby declares that it is categorically opposed to the proposed U.N. intervention force and will not under any circumstances cooperate in its setting up and operation”. Since Gerald Gahima is still alive, why can’t this Dr Isabel go and seek more evidence from Gerald Gahima to kwon what they meant by that statement

Similarly, Dr. Théogène Rudasingwa, then secretary general of the RPF, was quoted in Der Spiegel of May 30 as saying, “We are the only force that can put an end to the killing, and the Hutus, too, know that; they are just as much victims as the Tutsis.” Does Dr Isabel know that the BBC Documentary featured the same Dr Rudasingwa who tells the untold story of Kagame? Indeed,this is what Kagame said in 27 July, 1994 on Radio Rwanda when he was asked about the policy of taking  civilians in camps, he said that “harmful elements were hidden in bushes and banana plantations. Therefore a cleaning was necessary, especially to separate the innocent people with the killers”

It is reported that many people, who were taken to the so called camps, have never been seen alive again, if the families of these people ask Kagame where their loved ones are, does it constitute genocide denial? Gen. Kayumba in that Documentary mentions what he calls unjustified killings by RPF and he says he was in position to know these killings, yet these killings happened, what more evidence does Dr Isabel want? Does she try to convince us that she has more evidence from Kagame?

Does Dr Isabel, know that Kgame ordered the killing of the Spanish priest and his Rwandan colleagues in Byumba?  Joaquin Valmajo, and three Rwandan priests: Abbés Joseph Hitimana, Faustin Mulindwa, and Fidèle Mulinda were massacred by RPF soldiers. If Gen Kayumba says that he was in position to know who killed these priests, why should Dr Isabel rely on Kagame’s evidence who in fact ordered their killing?

The most untold story in the BCC Documentary which I would like to pass on Dr Isabel is the widely known and condemned of executions by RPF soldiers were the slayings of the Roman Catholic archbishop of Kigali, three other bishops, and ten priests at Gakurazo, near Kabgayi in early June.

All these Bishops were buried mass grave and they have never been given a decent burial, where does this Dr really get her expertise on the Rwandan genocide? Dr Isabel twists her story on Rwanda by saying that Rwanda is ranked the fourth least corrupt African country in 2013 (with a score of 53) and 49th least corrupt globally. Only five African countries scored above 50, namely Botswana, Cape Verde, Seychelles, Rwanda and Mauritius. Again this is wrong,  in fact Rwanda is the most corrupt country in Africa because its only the RPF’s Kagame that empty all the public coffers and brings the likes of Dr Isabel to report that no corruption. If she reads the current disappearing of millions of money from big projects like RSSB, EWASA,AGRICULTURE, she will not rank Rwanda anymore as the least corrupt country, but guess, the powerful protectors like her, Tony Blair, Rick Warren, David Wallis, will always portray Kagame as a saint.

This is what the BBC Documentary was exposing.  If President Kagame is innocent and democratic why does he close BBC Gahuzamiryango which has nothing to do with BBC TWO Documentary?  Why can’t that Rwanda BBC probe commission invite people who have different views on what happened in Rwanda? Would UK behead an opposition leader because he does not see things the same way with the ruling party? Why wasn’t   Mr. Alex Salmond imprisoned because he wanted an Independent Sctoland? It’s only in Rwanda that an opposition leader is beheaded and his body thrown in the swamp (Green Party Vice President Andrew Rwisereka KAGWA).

Dr Isabel for your good reputation, please you should review your relationship with the murderous regime of president Kagame, remember all those who were supporting Col. Muamar Khadafy, they don’t want even to be associated with him, history will judge you harshly if you continue twisting Rwandan tragedy for your on interests.

Jacqueline Umurungi.