Uganda, Rwanda in Joint Border Tour
Kagame and Authoritarian Propaganda
Kagame has used his notorious propaganda  newspaper  Rushyashya(Rubeshyi)  to  repeatedly endorse obviously false claims against the Ugandan government that it’s not only hosting Kayumba rebels but it is training them using the French military. They are frequent open discussions of the intentions behind his many odd comments, retractions, semi-retractions and outright false statements, hate, and his attitude of arrogance and disrespecting other people’s views.
Indeed, Kagame’s character is  “hate the one I hate” because he has failed to work with the French since the 1994 genocide of the Tutsis and his ignorance of how international relations operates has kept him behind the curtains of diplomacy and thinks he could dictate President Museveni .
Why Kasgame should dictate what a sovereign state and in this case his mentor President Museveni does?
Kagame is a practitioner of authoritarian propaganda; he concocts a fiction that offers a narrative explaining why the problems that trouble whole groups of people have a simple origin and an even simpler solution. The explanation of the problems is inevitably that some other group or groups in conspiracy with corrupt elite are responsible for them. The solution is even simpler—namely to elect the author of the fiction as the new leader who will eliminate the elites and the other groups, thus solving the problems. The constant repetition of the fiction is a key to getting it accepted.
According to Stanley, “The origins of Totalitarianism”. “Like the earlier mob leaders, the spokesmen for totalitarian movements possessed an unerring instinct for anything that ordinary party passed over in silence, became of major significance, regardless of its own intrinsic importance. The mob really believed that truth was whatever respectable society had hypocritically passed over, or covered with corruption”
The goal of Kagame’s propaganda is to sketch out a consistent lie that is simple to grasp, one that both constructs and simultaneously provides an explanation of hate against people he doesn’t like. It is openly intended to distort reality, partly as an expression of his consolidation on power.
 The repeatedly false claims that Kagame makes for example, Kayumba rebels are in Uganda, French Military is training rebels in Uganda, or FDLR are and interahamwe are in Congo and so on are immune to disproof by presentation of the actual facts. The lovely comfort offered by Kagame’s fictions portrays the true image of the Rwandan despot and people that are too seductive to be undermined by reality.
The chief disability of totalitarian propaganda is that it cannot fulfill the longing of the masses for a completely consistent, comprehensible, and predictable world without seriously conflicting with common sense.  For a time, common sense is held at bay from intruding into the cocoon of the reassuring fiction. Yet the explicit distortion of reality is also the cause of propaganda’s inevitable downfall. It is the inexorable and brutal collision with reality that eventually ruins the cocoon. It’s not a matter of whether. It’s only a question of when. Let’s use our common sense to dispel the lies, propaganda of the man who has destroyed many lives of Rwandans and has now changed the Rwandan constitution to stay in power until 2034.
Joseph Ruhumuriza.