KAGAME STORMS OUT OF UN MEETING
Rwanda’s paranoia to Belgium might have been the catalyst for President Kagame to lose his temper on Thursday and storm out of UN meeting which was called to break a stalemate over the Congo conflict after he was reportedly challenged by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium Didier Reynders over the Rwandan support to the rebel group M23.
While president Kabila had made a cautious speech probably not to ignite Kagame’s anger since he knows him very well and it is believed the UN Secretary General had hoped for a unanimous condemnation of the Rwandan involvement in Congo when in undiplomatic and a sign of arrogance and disrespect Kagame left his counterparts in the meeting room and his delegation in a diplomatic row. Kagame’s delegation was left in a political conundrum unable to explain convincingly the other UN members the reason for the departure of their boss from the meeting which was meant to solve not only Congo conflict but also to give Rwanda a chance to clear her name.
The Rwandan Head of State is used to search anti-social behaviour in his own country and his subjects are used to that, once his is angry, he can do anything, but what is unusual is for a Head of State let alone Kagame to do such unbecoming of a Head of State in a foreign country. One of the RPF veterans who requested to remain anonymous told me that Kagame in 1995 who was then Vice President and Minister of Defense walked out of a cabinet meeting chaired by the then President Pasteur Bizimungu when he was confronted by his colleague the then Minister of internal affairs Seth Sendashonga on insecurity in the country.
President Bizimungu requested the then vice president to return to the meeting, Kagame refused and instead ordered President Bizimungu to make a cabinet reshuffle in which Minister Seth Sendashonga was dropped. The many questions on the lips of political analysts are, what did President Kagame wanted to achieve? Does he really know how international community operates? Did he seek advice from his Attorney General on the legal implications of Rwanda being accused of supporting, aiding, abetting a rebel group that has committed crimes against humanity?
What the President of Rwanda does not know is that his dramatic behaviour was still not enough to stop the international community from accusing him and his government of supporting the notorious rebel group of which some of its members are already indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Whereas President Kagame sometimes receives a standing ovation on some of his controversial behaviour, however on this occasion the majority of the ruling party members, who requested not to be quoted because of their own security accused the President of being insensitive to the international issues which might have and have already had an impact on the needs of many Rwandans. While others described his storming out of the meeting as “an act of blackmail … bearing the hallmarks of a dictator.”
“I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. The President stormed out without saying anything, said one of the government officials who was part of the delegation of the President who requested to remain anonymous for his own security. The same official told us that, what the president did was an insult to the Rwandans who have been benefiting from the Aid. “If the President can do this in the eyes of the international community, what would he do to the helpless Rwandans?” He said
Another member of the same delegation said: “He stormed out because the room was getting very hot for him and I seemed to understand because the anger that was evident on his face wouldn’t have been good for all of us.â€
President Kagame‘s behavior is not only a disgrace to his reputation but also a detrimental to Rwanda and Rwandans. Leaders should always behave in an exemplary manner; would the president be happy to see a member of his cabinet storming out of a meeting simply because there is a disagreement? If President Kagame does not change his personal attitude and political strategy on the Congo conflict, Congo is likely to haunt Kagame in the years to come.
Jacqueline Umurungi
Brussels.
Mwagiye mureka gutamayanjwa atiko!
@Nkusi, you may call Umurungi’s observation names but the fact is as Rwandans there is a minimum standard of behaviour we expect from our highest Diplomat, the person of our President. You may have other views, influenced either by being naive or sheer guhuza imigambi (Intore-like attitude) right or wrong, but the fact remains that Congo for Rwanda and Kagame might turn into Kuwait for Iraq and Saddam Hussein. I won’t be surprised because both Saddam and Kagame have many similarities; they are all killers, soldiers, came to power through coup and a lot of bloodshed, they are all bloody dictators and most importantly they all storm out of meetings. I hasten to add that their end might be the same if Kagame doesn’t take drastic steps to change. My worry is the citizens of Rwanda who have suffered enough already.
@ SHISHOZA, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT DIPLOMACY. Rwandans should not worry you at all coz you are nothing to them at all. they (Rwandans) do not live by your mercy or any kind of support other than your hatred to their head of state.
What will turn into kuwait is your family not the entire country
Can you please any elder from Rwanda about the “Umwidithi”. Then you will make you conclusions about who likes or hates Kagame. He is the President of Rwanda for all banyarwanda. He made a choice to come forward to seek that position. Part of the deal was that he is held accountable by all Rwandans. Where you get your idea of my hating him I don’t know and will possibly never know. You seem to be much in love with him and when people are drunk with love they most times make wrong comments. You might be forgiven for that, although after saying that I careless.
Narakubwiye ko ingorane mufise ari ukuba abafana bahumye. Ubu naho Muzee kijana ntiyerekanye uwariwe? Akabaye icwende ntikoga! Nuko uba uri kukazi naho ubundi uriko ufana itimu yatsinzwe.
@ kigogo iyo migani uzayicire umukuru w’igihugu cyawe sha.
nta advice yawe dukeneye nagato banza uyigire abiwanyu
Ese uzi ndinde? Utazi ubwenge ashima ubwe maze akarushirizaho kuba igicucu nkawe. Inama ntayo mukeneye kuko mwamaze guhuma ntawugorora igiti cagoramye nkuko ubizi kigorogwa kikiri gito.
Irega iyi ni website yimburamumaro. just empty drums. Aba barutwa na Bagosora n’interahamwe zenewabo kuko zo nibura birazwi icyo bagamije kuko barakigaragaje in 1994 none. Izi zampemuke ndamuke murabona zishobora kugeza #Rwanda. Aba bampemuke ndamuke ntaho bacyo bazadutware rwose.
@Chantal, at last your attitude brings sense out of you although by mistake. Thats what too much hatred brings out of people. You are right, I am happy my home turning into Kuwait. You are actually spot-on. I and my home don’t believe in aggression like you seem to subcribe to. We believe and subscribe to civilized ways of sorting human situations like indeed Kuwait did. At the end who is laughing all the way to the oil wells, Iraq with Sadam or Kuwait with its Emir? If you can answer that, then you might realise that aggression of any form is not the way to solve issues. In swahili they say, “HASIRA NI HASARA”.
Otherwise I don’t need to know diplomacy to be DECENT. It is just a standard human instict to be decent. The key point is that you MUST have a levelled head and normal ‘common sense’. Which I am afraid we all take for granted when infact it is not always common, I mean common sense.
Chill out !!!
Dear CHANTAL,
I’m very sad that you do reason that way. Please, after listening to someone’s idear, analyse and react on the IDEAR but the person.
I’m sorry to say that you need more EDUCATION.
Keeza, plzzz up-date your grammar.
koko na idea ni ikibazo @ keza, ntabwo uzi kwandika ijambo idea kweli. its you who needs more education not me. ikibazo ni uko abaswa batajya bakunda gukosorwa ariko ushatse wakwikosora keza we kuko uramwaza abo muhuje umurongo w’ibitekerezo ariko nanjye nk’umunyarwanda uramwaza kuba udashobora kwandika akajambo koroshye nka idea
UMURUNGI Jackline, keep it up. May God bless Rwandans
Komera cane!!
its a pity someone writing a whole load of crap full of ignorance..its even worse when the writer screams on top of their voice about a topic they completely do not comprehend. Kagame is not the first to walk out on a meeting and rather than showing your lack of writing skills by producing a completely skewed angle, you should do your research on real diplomacy! many leaders have walked out on meetings, a sign which speaks louder than the words they would have said. if the meeting is going to end in a stale mate, or people are talkn abut things they dont understand, any leader has a right to walk out! actually, others dont even attend such meetings..so give Kagame some credit for being meek to attend. Why is it that its those guys accusing Kagame and not Kabila himself? is Kabila dumb? or is he trying not to offend the people who bring him a worm every morning?
Urwanda ruyobowe namusazi!
Rugema, I doubt your had Rwandan parents, or you were raised by them at all.
Bavandi! mureke mbibutse what the main topic is: “KAGAME STORMS OUT OF UN MEETING” is this behaviour reasonable or not! comment specifically on this don’t just step out the topic. Ku bwanjye niba ari ukuri ntibyari bikwiye. Kubwawe urumva bimeze gute? Thx.
Nothing in the article..sounds an empty drum…Website yo gusebanya. We are in the period of development, while you are roaming the whole world…
Si ubwambere u Rwanda ruyoborwa n’Abategetsi batajijutse bihagije: King Mazimpaka, President Habyarimana était un “credulone”, President Bizimungu was a Figurehead, President Kagame ni Umwiyahuzi……, Victoire Ingabire nawe ni Umwiyahuzi! Rukokoma ni Kajiji! There is only one solution: Rwanda should go back to the main Land: Tanzania. Rwanda was a province of Tanzania: it must go back to Tanzania.
Aliko nkawe Chantal niba warigiye icyongereza ku muhanda ukaba utacyumva neza hitamo urulimi Shishoza yakubwiramo kuko arakubwira ntiwumva .
None se urahakana ko iyo ngirwa ngo ni President wanyu atatorotse inama ya boss be ? ni ryali wabonye umu president atoroka inama nkiriya aregwamo n’umundi mu President mu muryango w’abibumbye ? aliko yumva ko U Rwanda ali akalima se yamusigiye yiyibagije abamushize ku iliya ntebe atashoboraga no kurota mu nzozi ze aliko akigira umuravumba w’izuba kandi azi neza ko is nothing . Chantal nizeye ko wumvise kuko ayo musekesha ejo muzayaririsha kandi si kera .
@ furaha wowe uri ikigoryi. wavuze icyongereza ari wowe cyangwa ukabanza ugakosora mwenewanyu Keza ko ariwe utiyiziye no kwandika akajambo koroshye nka idea n’umwana wange wiga mu kiburamwaka azi.
kuva mu nama ni uburenganzira kandi ntabwo nagato ushinzwe kumugenzura. uwo murindagizi ngo ni shishoza koko umubyeyi we yaramubwiye ni uko atumva, akwiye gushishoza mbere yokwandika amanjwe musangiye. mwararindagiye ni uko ntashaka ko bibahama mushatse mwakwigorora cyangwa mukabwira imburamukoro nkamwe zikabagira inama niba hari izo bagira.
Injiji, umusazi, umuswa, ….., ibyo iyomubyita President of Rwanda ubwo muba musizehe abanyarwanda ayobora? Ese wunva wowe bagushima nkumunyabwenge kuko uzi gutukana no gusebanya? Mwebwe mwanga Kagame ntacyo muzamutwara kuko akunzwe nabenshi. Kandi gusohoka munama kwe bifite impanvu niba atari iturufu ryinyenyeri! Ese ko UN ntacyo ibivugaho? Ayo matakira nda ateye inkeke! Muragorwa nubusa kuko iyamusize amavuta ntizamutenguha.