The head of the Burundi’s ruling party and President of the National Assembly Mr. Pascal Nyabyenda has accused Rwandan president Paul Kagame of harboring genocide ideology.  “He has experienced Genocide and he is seeking to export it to our country”, an angry Nyabyenda told the international media.

The relations between the two countries has been  at the lowest and with these fresh allegations by a Burundi high ranking official will not help to reconcile the two sides that have almost the same ethnic divide but rather  deteriorate further.

Mr. Nyabyenda is not the only Person that is accusing the Rwandan Government of training and arming the rebels that have terrorized its neighbor.    The UN and other international organizations have consistently and overwhelmingly exposed the routes and bases where Kagame security forces have been launching these attacks inside Burundi.

Indeed, just recently a senior military officer was assassinated in the office of the Chief of Staff and the assassin was never arrested. Whereas Kigali has vehemently denied the allegations, there is no doubt that all the former military officers and senior CNDD/FDD civilian leaders are in Kigali enjoying the Rwandan government support including Hussein Rajab.

Why the International community is silent?

It’s incomprehensible that the International community is silent on the Burundi Crisis, but rather attacking one side of the government of Burundi of doing little or nothing to stop the ongoing violence especially in the Capital Bujumbura.

The International community including the US should warn the Rwandan Ruler that the continuation of destabilizing its neighbor is not only causing Burundi people mayhem but might spillover to Rwanda in the near future.

“The genocide laboratory is in Rwanda because president Kagame, having experimented there, (wants) to export it to Burundi (to) play a minor imperialist,” wrote CNDD-FDD president Pascal Nyabenda.

Kagame has been and still interfere in all the neighboring nations, including Congo it has invaded many times on the pretext of having “Interahamwe” a word used by Kagame to mean all the political opponents that fight his regime.

Although a section of people who were a youth group of the then MRND  a ruling party of President Habyarimana regime was responsible of the massacre and genocide of the Tutsis in 1994, the majority of the people in the jungles of Congo and elsewhere who fight the government of Rwanda were young or not born during genocide. However, Kagame and RPF have always used this political card to draw sympathy from within the country and wider international community. Indeed, the international community already with a guilty mind for failure to intervene and save the Tutsis and other groups who were vulnerable or stop genocide altogether has littler to tell President Kagame.

Angel Uwera

Kigali.