Toronto Protesters rally against Rwandan president Kagame in style
TORONTO (CANADA) (AFP) – Demonstrators rallied in Toronto Saturday against a private visit to Canada by Rwandan President Paul Kagame, urging his arrest.
Shouting “No more killing!” and “Kagame is an assassin!” through megaphones, protesters brandished placards with photos of bloodied victims outside a luxury hotel where Kagame and his delegation were believed to be staying ahead of a meeting to mark Rwanda Day.
Toronto police, who along with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are providing security for the visit, escorted the roughly 200 demonstrators off the hotel grounds and onto the street. The protesters then set off recordings of sirens and called for Kagame’s arrest.
Kagame is expected to address members of the Rwandan diaspora in Canada, and speak about his country’s political and economic progress since 1994, when he rose to power after routing ethnic Hutu extremists responsible for a genocide that killed an estimated 800,000 people.
The Rwanda Day event has been shrouded in secrecy in order to deter demonstrators.
“We came here to protest against Kagame because he’s a criminal,” Pierre-Claver Nkinamubanzi, one of the organizers.
“He killed a lot of people not only in Rwanda but in the Congo. He’s responsible for the deaths of millions of people.”
Kagame’s government has come under fire for supporting a new militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the M23, which has raped, killed and displaced thousands of civilians in the eastern Kivu provinces.
If KAGAME wanted to be a strong man he could have applied a true reconciliation system among HUTUS and TUTSIS instead of promoting revenge which cost the lives of more hutus than Tutsis died in Genocide, and stopped his continuous ethnic division that is his main weapon to exterminate all hutus and bantous worldwide in general and in great lakes including RDCongo in particular. All kind of support to him should force him to change his mind and accept equal power sharing among Rwandan ethnic groups (TUTSI, HUTU and TWA). Kagame should stop killing or Jailing Hutu people and opposition militants like Ingabire Umuhoza Victoire, Bernard Ntaganda, Mushayidi and many more.
Ndabona ibi bikobwa bifite amabere meza. Uwabimpa nkabiswera!