US Appeals Court Affirms Oklahoma Rwandan Ruling
A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to revive a lawsuit that alleges Rwandan President Paul Kagame ordered the deaths of the former leaders of Rwanda and Burundi.
The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver handed down the decision in a lawsuit filed by the widows of Juvenal Habyarimana, then president of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the former president of Burundi.
The two leaders were aboard an aircraft that was shot down by two surface-to-air missiles as it approached the Rwandan capital of Kigali on April 16, 1994. The decision by a three-judge panel of the appeals court says their deaths fueled the Rwandan genocide, which spread violence across East Central Africa and led to the deaths of between 500,000 and 1 million people.
The men’s widows filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Oklahoma City that blamed Kagame for their husbands’ deaths and sought $350 million in damages under the Alien Tort Claims Act and a variety of state, federal and international laws.
The lawsuit was filed in Oklahoma because Kagame has ongoing contact with the state due to the Rwandan government’s affiliation with Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City.
The lawsuit alleges that Kagame ordered the attack himself during a meeting with others who were instructed to form a team specialized in the use of surface-to-air missiles furnished by Uganda. The alleged conspiracy involved members of the non-governmental Rwanda Patriotic Army, according to the appeals court’s ruling. Kagame has denied involvement in the assassinations.
But the decision says identifying those responsible for downing the aircraft is not necessary to the case because Kagame, as the sitting head of a foreign state, is immune from the court’s jurisdiction while he is in office.
After the lawsuit was filed, the U.S. government, at the request of the Rwandan government, submitted legal papers that suggested Kagame’s immunity and said the U.S. Constitution gives the president sole responsibility to represent the nation in its foreign relations.
The assassinations of the former leaders brought ethnic tensions between Rwanda’s majority Hutus and Tutsis to the breaking point and triggered a wave of violence. The killings spread across the country and lasted about 100 days until Kagame, a Tutsi and the leader of the rebel army, overthrew the Hutu-led government. Habyarimana was a Hutu.
His widow, Agathe Habyarimana, lives in France and is wanted in Rwanda on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity. France denied her request for asylum in 2004, but last year French courts refused to allow her to be extradited.
Source: abcnews.com
genda kagame uri igicucu basi!!!! muri UGANDA umupfakazi wa obote museveni aramusura akamufata neza kandi barigeze kurwana naho wowe umupfakazi wa habyarimana ukihutura kumushinja ibyaha(yego simvuzeko ari umwere),ariko byibuza wamureka kikaba ikimenyetso cya bwa bumwe wirirwa ubeshya abanyarwanda kuko siyaba ari we wenyine ubabariye ibyaha(ubuse rucagu si intore nkuru kandi uzi neza ibyo yakoze,ninja se we wamaze abana b’inyange??) wagabanyije kubeshya yewe KAGAME KINYOMA PAUL!!
njye kuri icyo kibazo cya ririya hanurwa ry’indege iriya ni case ya politiki igihe nikigera abanyamerika batagishaka KINYOMA KAGAME PAUL bazamushumuriza ubwo butabera maze karenzi karake na twa tuzi twe ajye kutunywera i la haye
Ariko Mutu? ubu ntiwatanga igitekerezo udatukana, iyo wise Kagame igicucu wowe wumva uri iki? Miliyoni 11 z’abanyarwanda ziyobowe n’igicucu!!! ubuse babuze undi muntu wabayobora?iyubahe ugabanye ubugome ahubwo utange ibitekerezo byubaka. God bless you.
olinga olinga te, KAGAME est president.
Mujya muvuga ngo mushyira mugaciro ariko kenshi ndasanga nkanitegereza ngasanga ntako mushyiramo, ese wibaza ko ibyabaye mumyaka igiye kugera kuri 20 bizakomeza bikarishwa, ese wamugani uvuze ko uwo mubyeyi akeneye gucibwa imanza wibaza ko ejo ibintu bidashobora guhinduka,ese madam Kagame we nawe nukuzakanirwa urumukwiriye nurubyaro rwe? Ubwo se ubwo tuzaba tuganahe?mushyire mugaciro munakiheshe? Kdi wibuke ko hari nabandi bafite ikibazo ingabo zurda zamariye abandu ubwo se nibafatwa abafasha babo nabo bazabaherekeza mugihome? Reka mbabwire mwabavandimwe ibyo byose ni amaco yinda avanze nubugome kdi byose bizarangizwa nindi ntambara yurudaca kuko hanze aha abantu bose bareba akarengane bakorerwa ugasanga ejo nibiturika buriwese azirunda mumuhanda ubundi hongere habe genocide nkiyabaye mbere, mubitege amaso. Gusa kubana no gushyira hamwe kubabarirana no koroherana niwo muti wonyine watanga amahoro asesuye abanyarda bakumvikana, kdi igihe umututsi azicara agakomeza kwinjizwamo ko yiciwe numuhutu umuhutu we atushwe bizaba ikibazo icyamere nukumenya ko habayeho impfu kumpande zose zagahomamunwa ibyo byose buriwese akumva ko arigihe cyo kubabarirana akabana nuwo bari kumwe mumahoro. Ngaho mugerageze nzabandora numwana wumunyarwanda
Kuri wowe rukara, ndagirango nkumenere ibanga ko izo miliyoni 11 ziyobowe n’igicucu rwose! Niba utari ubizi ubimenye.
Kuko KAGAME KINYOMA PAUL wanyu ntiyaba ari muzima ngo atinyuke atuke Amerika azi neza ikibaba yagiye imukingira, yewe ntibazirikana ni umwana w’umunyarwanda koko! Iyo yishongora wagirango sibo bamuvanye mu nkambi atagira n’urwara none amaze guhaga, imisego ya BENZ iramurya. Baca umugani mu kinyarwanda ngo umuhutu ujya gupfa ahinduka urwirungu!! Abumva ni mwumve abatabishaka namwe mukomeze muhakwe nababwira iki
@Mututsi, ariko se wangu ko mperuka ugira abandi inama ngo bareke gutukana, none wowe waba waratewe n’ibicyi ? Ko mbona utukana birenze urugero wakwihanganye wenda ukihishira. Hariho mugenzi wawe witwa KIGOGO yagize ati “IYO UGIYE GUTUKA MUGENZI WAWE NGO NI IMBWA UBANZA KUREBA KO WOWE UTARI UMUSEGA” nashoboye kubyumva none nsigaye nirinda gutukana. None nawe nakugira ga inama ngo uzamukurikize. Ubwo gutinyuka ukavuga ngo Perezida WAWE kuko uri umunyarwanda aho waba uri hose, ni igicucu urumva nawe utituka koko ? Gira ikinyabupfura nyabuneka rwose, niba udashaka ko KAGAME agumya kuba Perezida wawe cyangwa kutitwa ko uyobowe n’igicucu uzahindure Nationalite nta kibazo maze umutuke uko ubishaka. Kabisa niba ufitanye ikibazo cyihariye na KAGAME uzabitugezeho twese tubimenye rwose nta kibazo. Ugire ibihe byiza byo kwhana ibyaha byo gutukana
Kuri wowe gahanga, urakoze kunkosora ariko ubundi no muri kamere yanjye sinkunda kuvuga nabi gusa ni ukubera umujinya KAGAME KINYOMA PAUL yaduteye naranamukundaga ni ukuri gusa naje kumuvaho kubera ibintu bibi akora kandi rega burya nyamuneka gahanga nawe ujya umuvugira ni ejo ukazajya wunga mu ryanjye uti Mututsi ni umugabo! kuko uriya musaza afite uburyo abahuma amaso kandi ari kubamunga. Gira ibihe byiza gahanga we!! Sinzongera kumutuka ariko nawe jya uhumuka unenge dore kagame u Rwanda arashaka kurugira amazirantoki
It’s good that mututsi has realized that in this generation
Nobody will allow such a bad language to anyone not only
Kagame being a president is an old man who should be respected
And in our culture we respect one another.
Back to the point now, am very happy that the US court have
Realized that they have been used by Rwanda criminals who
Are trying to fake the world for their deeds. President Kagame
Never and never not even at given time have killed Habyarimana,
Agatha did and if she is true to herself I think she could come foward
And apologies to her family for killing her husband. So what am saying
Is that people who differ to Kagame’s idiology of governance we shouldn’t
At any given time black mail Kagame’s government and RPF. This I why I differ
With Kayumba and his group who want to spread their personal misunderstanding
President Kagame and involve them in politics like supporting false accusation of
Habyarima’s assassination. Rudasingwa group should advocate for real democracy
Raise out our problems and then help us to put our country on the load of democracy
For the first time. Blackmailing isn’t what Rwandese want, we need peace, freedom and
Prosperity for all. Am fighting Kagame’s approach in governance not him as a person
And I will never stop recorganize his ability and contribution so let’s concentrate on
Valuable issues that can help us to build our country than blackmailing the president and
His government. Even western countries should stop listening to criminals who want to
Win cheap public recogination without remembering their criminal history.
Criminals shouldn’t always take our time. Agatha is a criminal wanted by Gacyacya in Rwanda.
Nice weekend friends.
5GjG9i Wow, great blog post.Really thank you! Cool.