BREAKING NEWS: Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa Testifies in front of Judge Trevidic, France
By: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW
On 20 April 2012 Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa testified in front of Judge Trevidic in France for over six hours. He reported that he explained all that he knew regarding the shooting down of former President Habyarimanas airplane in 1994 just before the genocide started. His testimony included the information in his published confession (below) as well as information not previously released by him. Dr. Rudasingwa informed Judge Trevidic that there are more witnesses willing to come forward and testify about their firsthand knowledge of the incidents under investigation.
Dr. Rudasingwa stated that he felt there was a good collaboration with the judge and that the information provided will help the case in verifying the truth of the matter. He was unable to provide any details about his statement due to the laws about an ongoing open investigation in this case and he could not provide information about the next step in the legal process. He did report that he will return to the court upon request if needed.
Dr. Rudasingwa stated on Radio Itahuka that he has completed what he promised to the Rwandan people by testifying and telling the truth to the judge. More information is yet to come regarding this case.
Below is the statement in full that Dr. Rudasingwa wrote about his knowledge of the assassination of President Habyarimana:
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa took to his Facebook page yesterday and wrote out a powerful and telling confession about the assassination of the late President of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana. Dr. Rudasingwa’s confession explains in detail how this decision was made and who was involved. This statement, is in its complete and unedited version below. Dr. Rudasingwa said to this writer as to why he wrote this statement, “it is not about a war of words but a battle for the soul of our nation.â€
Confession
PAUL KAGAME KILLED PRESIDENT JUVENAL HABYARIMANA, PRESIDENT CYPRIEN NTARYAMIRA OF BURUNDI, DEOGRATIAS NSABIMANA, ELIE SAGATWA, THADDEE BAGARAGAZA, JUVENAL RENZAHO, EMMANUEL AKINGENEYE, BERNARD CIZA, CYRIAQUE SIMBIZI, JACKY HERAUD, JEAN PIERRE MINABERRY AND JEAN-MICHEL PERRINE
On August 4, 1993, in Arusha, Tanzania, the Government of Rwanda and the Rwandese Patriotic Front signed the Arusha Peace Agreement. The provisions of the agreement included a commitment to principles of the rule of law, democracy, national unity, pluralism, the respect of fundamental freedoms and the rights of the individual. The agreement further had provisions on power-sharing, formation of one and single National Army and a new National Gendarmerie from forces of the two warring parties; and a definitive solution to the problem of Rwandan refugees.
On April 6, 1994, at 8:25 p.m., the Falcon 50 jet of the President of the Republic of Rwanda, registration number “9XR-NNâ€, on its return from a summit meeting in DAR-ES-SALAAM,Tanzania, as it was on approach to Kanombe International Airport in KIGALI, Rwanda, was shot down. All on board, including President Juvenal Habyarimana , President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, their entire entourage and flight crew died.
The death of President Juvenal Habyarimana triggered the start of genocide that targeted Tutsi and Hutu moderates, and the resumption of civil war between RPF and the Government of Rwanda. The RPF’s sad and false narrative from that time on has been that Hutu extremists within President Habyarimana’s camp shot down the plane to derail the implementation of the Arusha Peace Agreement, and to find a pretext to start the genocide in which over 800,000 Rwandans died in just 100 days. This narrative has become a predominant one in some international circles, among scholars, and in some human rights organizations.
The truth must now be told. Paul Kagame, then overall commander of the Rwandese Patriotic Army, the armed wing of the Rwandese Patriotic Front, was personally responsible for the shooting down of the plane. In July, 1994, Paul Kagame himself, with characteristic callousness and much glee, told me that he was responsible for shooting down the plane. Despite public denials, the fact of Kagame’s culpability in this crime is also a public “secret†within RPF and RDF circles. Like many others in the RPF leadership, I enthusiastically sold this deceptive story line, especially to foreigners who by and large came to believe it, even when I knew that Kagame was the culprit in this crime.
The political and social atmosphere during the period from the signing of the Arusha Accords in August 1993 was highly explosive, and the nation was on edge. By killing President Habyarimana, Paul Kagame introduced a wild card in an already fragile ceasefire and dangerous situation. This created a powerful trigger, escalating to a tipping point towards resumption of the civil war, genocide, and the region-wide destabilization that has devastated the Great Lakes region since then.
Paul Kagame has to be immediately brought to account for this crime and its consequences. First, there is absolutely nothing honorable or heroic in reaching an agreement for peace with a partner, and then stabbing him in the back. Kagame and Habyarimana did not meet on the battlefield on April 6, 1994. If they had, and one of them or both had died, it would have been tragic, but understandable, as a product of the logic of war. President Habyarimana was returning from a peace summit, and by killing him, Kagame demonstrated the highest form of treachery. Second, Kagame, a Tutsi himself, callously gambled away the lives of innocent Tutsi and moderate Hutu who perished in the genocide. While the killing of President Habyarimana, a Hutu, was not a direct cause of the genocide, it provided a powerful motivation and trigger to those who organized, mobilized and executed the genocide against Tutsi and Hutu moderates. Third, by killing President Habyarimana, Kagame permanently derailed the already fragile Arusha peace process in a dangerous pursuit of absolute power in Rwanda. Kagame feared the letter and spirit of the Arusha Peace Agreement. As the subsequent turn of events has now shown, Kagame does not believe in the unity of Rwandans, democracy, respect of human rights and other fundamental freedoms, the rule of law, power sharing, integrated and accountable security institutions with a national character, and resolving the problem of refugees once and for all. This is what the Arusha Peace Agreement was all about. That is what is lacking in Rwanda today. Last, but not least, Kagame’s and RPF’s false narrative, denials, and deceptions have led to partial justice in Rwanda and at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, thereby undermining prospects for justice for all Rwandan people, reconciliation and healing. The international community has, knowingly or unknowingly, become an accomplice in Kagame’s systematic and shameful game of deception.
I was never party to the conspiracy to commit this heinous crime. In fact, I first heard about it on BBC around 1:00 am on April 7, 1994, while I was in Kampala where I had been attending the Pan African Movement conference.
I believe the majority of members of RPF and RPA civilians and combatants, like me, were not party to this murderous conspiracy that was hatched and organized by Paul Kagame and executed on his orders. Nevertheless, I was a Secretary General of the RPF, and a Major in the rebel army, RPA. It is in this regard, within the context of collective responsibility, and a spirit of truth-telling in search of forgiveness and healing, that I would like to say I am deeply sorry about this loss of life, and to ask for forgiveness from the families of Juvenal Habyarimana, Cyprien Ntaryamira, Deogratias Nsabimana, Elie Sagatwa, Thaddee Bagaragaza, Emmanuel Akingeneye, Bernard Ciza, Cyriaque Simbizi, Jacky Heraud, Jean-Pierre Minaberry, and Jean-Michel Perrine. I also ask for forgiveness from all Rwandan people, in the hope that we must unanimously and categorically reject murder, treachery, lies and conspiracy as political weapons, eradicate impunity once and for all, and work together to build a culture of truth-telling, forgiveness, healing, and the rule of law. I ask for forgiveness from the people of Burundi and France whose leaders and citizens were killed in this crime. Above all, I ask for forgiveness from God for having lied and concealed evil for too long.
In freely telling the truth before God and the Rwandan people, I fully understand the risk I have undertaken, given Paul Kagame’s legendary vindictiveness and unquenchable thirst for spilling the blood of Rwandans. It is a shared risk that Rwandans bear daily in their quest for freedom and justice for all. Neither power and fame, nor gold and silver, are the motivation for me in these matters of death that have defined our nation for too long. Truth cannot wait for tomorrow, because the Rwandan nation is very sick and divided, and cannot rebuild and heal on lies. All Rwandans urgently need truth today. Our individual and collective search for truth will set us free. When we are free, we can freely forgive each other and begin to live fully and heal at last.
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Former: RPF Secretary General, Ambassador of Rwanda to the United States, and Chief of Staff for President Paul Kagame.
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Hello everyone,
First of all I want congratulate all rwandans and non-rwandans who have dedicated their efforts to expose the truth about the real satanic government that is leading rwanda to hell.
Keep up the good job guys, I tell u the truth i can already smell freedom, i can see it just around the corner. here in Rwanda also we are ready and vigilent, no matter what happens some of us will die but the fight for freedom must prevail.
A small story:
Up until 1976, Solomon Mahlangu was a student, living under the Apartheid regime in South Africa. On June 16 the school-children of Soweto, protesting the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in their schools, took to the streets in a massive, peaceful demonstration. Police reaction to the demonstration was brutal as they shot at the unarmed students. That day at least 25 people were killed. Twelve year old Hector Peterson was the first to fall.
The violence precipitated a spontaneous uprising led by the students that spread rapidly to all parts of the country. By the end of the year “an official (and doubtless underestimated) figure was given of 575 dead and 2, 389 wounded in the conflict.” (Worden, 1994. p.119.) A wave of detentions and bannings were used by the state in an attempt to crush the revolt. 21, 000 people were prosecuted for offenses related to the uprising. (Marx, 1990. p. 68.)
Thousands left the country in the face of this repression. They left to carry on the struggle from outside the country.
Nineteen year-old Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu was among them. He left his home in the night, not telling even his mother where he was going or if he would ever return.
Determined to fight for change, he sought training as a soldier. A year later, he returned home as a cadre of the of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the Spear of the Nation.
Solomon returned to South Africa in 1977, on a mission to join student protests commemorating the Soweto massacre. He never made it to the protests. He and his team, Monty Motloung and George “Lucky” Mahlangu were accosted by police in Johannesburg, and in the gunfight that followed, two white civilians were killed.
George Mahlangu escaped. Solomon and Monty Motloung were captured. Monty was so brutally beaten during the course of his capture that he suffered severe brain damage leaving him unfit to stand trial. Solomon had not fired a shot, but was left to face the murder charges alone. The trial was started without his lawyers` knowledge (SECHABA, 1979), and it was inevitable that he was found guilty of murder.
On March 2, 1977, Solomon was sentenced to death by hanging. When he heard his sentence, he shouted “Amandla!” – Power! Indeed, his cause wielded power. For two years the international democratic community campaigned against his execution and called for the recognition of all South African freedom fighters as prisoners of war. But, despite international pressure, the Apartheid government was not swayed. On April 6, 1979, 23 year old Solomon Mahlangu faced the gallows, raised his hand in the ANC salute, and met his death at the hands of a racist regime.
His final words are reputed to have been:
“My blood will nourish the tree that will bear the fruits of freedom.
Tell my people that I love them. They must continue the fight.”
Dr Rudaingwa icongragurate you for awise and wonderful message&apology.my hope for organised mother Rwanda has increased;we are in the same trail although level differs may God preserve you for tommorow Rwanda;Yah am where I belong(RNC)
I was just looking for this info for a while. After 6 hours of continuous Googleing, at last I got it in your site. 4811
When a man like Dr RUDASINGWA tells what he knows about what happened in Rwanda, we can only say to him: MANY THANKS.This is an act of courage which proves that some day the wounded hearts of the Rwandan people will be healed.Paul Kagame loves Rwanda,Juvenal Habyarimana loved Rwanda as well.But it was unfair to kill a man after a handshake of peace with this very man.Dr Rudasingwa loves Rwanda.I ,like many Rwandan people,suffered a great deal because of the 94 tragedy and its aftermoth,but I feel Dr Rudasingwa deserves the forgiveness he is asking for.The strong man of Rwanda should come out and tell the truth as well.But the guy is too proud and scared.
God bless Rwanda
Man, if you believe this one … be ready for the next one. Arusha agreements had been signed ONE year before Habyarimana was shot down. In between Habyarimana and his system had organized the genocide of the Bagogwe and the Tutsi in the Mutara. The Genocide against the Tutsi of 1994, per definition had been planned and organized ahead of the 6th April 1994. Habyarimana never implemented what he had signed. On the contrary he won time to keep organizing the Genocide against the Tutsi … who in fact were innocent victims, they were not RPF soldiers. And the way they have been killed, the magnitude and the atrocity tells you what kind of man and regime it was. I cannot believe that Habyarimana loved Rwanda. And who would believe a guy that pretends 18 years after the Genocide:
… there is absolutely nothing honorable or heroic in reaching an agreement for peace with a partner, and then stabbing him in the back. Kagame and Habyarimana did not meet on the battlefield on April 6, 1994 …
Where was the battlefield? What partner are you talking about? Can you ask the Bagogwe and the People from Mutara and all the others, more than 1Million in 100 days (not just over 800,000 as the ex Secretary General says, even if it isn’t just about numbers)?
And suddenly you feel like you need to do a “revelationâ€. In other circumstances I’d call this real “comedia del arteâ€, in this case I believe the author is being very cynical and shows the less respect for the victims of the Genocide. A more sophisticated way to be a negationist. There’s nothing left? Sad end.
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Dear Mr Rudasingwa
I have read your statement and followed your intervention during RNC-FDU meeting back in March. The candour in both is for everyone to see but I’m still quite disturbed about your intentions, but also the consequences your attitude might bring to our country if not handled with care. Exposing Kagame’s misdeeds is absolutely right and is a laudable exploit. But remember Kagame is just one inadequate individual, limited in time and space. Your obsession against his person rather that the whole system betrays your resolve to cover up yet more information, which won’t solve our problems even if you manage to bring him down. Rwanda’s problems didn’t start with him and won’t stop with his fall unless leaders like you decide to dig deep below the surface and honestly eradicate the ethnic disease that has plagued our society for decades.
We are hungry about the truth concerning the causes of all misery that has befallen our country for many years, and nobody better than you can lighten us on the matter. However, I can’t quite get around a few crucial questions about what you are trying to achieve; whether this is the whole truth and what will be your next move after bringing down the Kagame regime.
You seem too eager to please Hutus at any cost, including genocide perpetrators by rendering Kagame the alfa and omega of all Rwanda’s sufferings, but do you realise they are not in hurry to return the favour? All those Hutus during your RNC-FDU meeting were applauding you but none of them had the same ‘courage’ to denounce, let alone apologise on behalf of fellow Hutus for the torments they piled up on Tutsis since the fifties. How could you not notice!? What do you predict will be their attitude once Kagame is out of the way? The only answer I find to this is you are either suffering from the ‘Rubanda Nyamucye complex’ or you are kidding yourself that you will manage once again to outsmart Hutus, the way you did with the likes of Kanyarengwe and Bizimungu.
You apologise for selling, for 18 years, a lie about a crime that cost around 1 million lives, and you expect people to just say thank you and move on, although you do not seem keen to tell the whole truth? That’s called perverting the course of justice Mr Rudasingwa, because in order to conceal the secret, you fabricated false evidence and intentionally laid the blame on innocent people. Kagame told you he ordered the shooting down of the plane, yes, but is that all? In your role as a close adviser, what were your discussions about the fate of Tutsis and moderate Hutus inside Rwanda, the same people you tricked into supporting your movement, financially but also by sending thousands of their children to the front? What was your role as RPF Executive Secretary in the draft of the “Declaration of the Political Bureau of the Rwandan Patriotic Front on the planned deployment of a force of UN intervention in Rwanda”, submitted to the UN Security Council on April 30, 1994? In this declaration, for those who don’t know, the RPF unconditionally opposed any kind of UN military intervention allegedly because there were no more Tutsis left to rescue in Rwanda. Do you know how many of our families perished in May, June and early July, just because not only you refused them the help they needed, but also thwarted plans of those who were willing to come to their rescue? Do you realise we know you were at the centre of all that perfidy?
It’s strange that you apologise to everyone from Habyarimana’s family to Burundian and French pilots’ families, but omit the very victims of your misdemeanours! It’s disturbing to think that you might have wilfully chosen this omission to please Hutu extremists, ignoring the fact that yourself and your family were once victims of this scourge of extremism. How can you sleep at night Mr Rudasingwa? You betrayed everyone on your path, from fellow Tutsis and moderate Hutus who were massacred in Rwanda, through former Tutsi refugees, to the RPF you helped capture and hold onto power through crime and treachery. If needed, will you hesitate to deceive those same fellow politicians you’re tricking into believing you’re a reformed man?
I had long discussions with many Rwandans on this issue, Hutus and Tutsis alike. We came to the same conclusion that as long as your coalition is just trying to brush under the carpet the problem of ethnicities by blaming all evil on Kagame, we are heading towards the same dreadful results as achieved by MRND or RPF. If you are a man of dialogue, I openly challenge you to respond to our worries, and there will be many of us to join your fight against tyranny in our Rwanda.
this rudasingwa is sick in the head and totally confused. why do you tell wporld lies yet we know very well that you are being used by genociders. why didn’t come foward tell the world at the at the beginning then you wait years
By the way, not one but THREE reports from three different horizons point to the Military base of Kanombe (Presidential guard barracks) as the place from where the deadly projectiles were shot, the Belgian report of 94 – The Mutsinzi Report of Rwanda – The Trevidic Report Feb 2012. How does this Rudasingwa explain Kagame infiltrated the Presidential Guards compound and fired down the plane? How? Only by saying: “Kagame told me�?? “It’s no secret to anyone of the senior members of the RPF�?? I’ve got one question that is burning: Did Kagame call Spiderman or Houdini?
Rudasingwa Th. is a very high an expert in lieing. When he said: “Nevertheless, I was a Secretary General of the RPF, and a Major in the rebel army, RPA, I was not involved in any, I was never party to the conspiracy to commit this heinous crime”. So, Dr Rudasingwa, what kind of general secratary or army officer were you?
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Youse guys are missing the real point here: Somebody is oingnrsiag mass killings for econo-political reasons.It matter not which tribe gets slaughtered (it does, of course, in working-out who’s behind it) the brutal truth is huge numbers of innocent people are being slaughtered, used as pawns on a chessboard.Nobody has the right to do that. God, perhaps, but he isn’t here, is he.Bare in mind: This time Rwanda, next time YOUR HOMETOWN.So we must keep on poking and prodding, trying to find that opening that will expose them. Then we can stop them.