The Untold Stories: Human Rights Watch Stands for Human dignity not Master Puppeteer as Puppeteer of Kagame, Mr. Albert Rudatsimbura portrays it New Times.
It is absurd and contrary to the principles of Human Rights Watch for Mr. Albert to say in the New Times of 14/09/12 that Human Rights Watch hates Rwanda because of what he calls another damning report accusing Rwanda, alongside the M23 mutineers, of a “horrific trail of new atrocities in Eastern Congo†defined as large-scale war crimes. Unfortunately Mr. Albert is ignoring or is misinformed on how Human Rights groups work, Human Rights groups expose the human rights violations by the governments and for his information they are never friendly with sitting governments especially in Africa because they always expose their wrongs.
While in developed world Human Rights groups are regarded as partners, in developing World and to certain extent backward nations like ours (Rwanda), are regarded as enemies. Is Mr. Albert forgetting the good job Ms Alison Des Forges did in our country during genocide? Is he aware of the sacrifice this lady gave to Rwanda by standing firm against the regime of Habyarimana? During that period the RPF movement praised her as a heroine. But when this lady started to demand human rights accountability from Kagme, the whole RPF apparatus turned against her and they started accusing her of hating Rwanda?
Is this the same hate Mr. Albert is trying to feed his readers in the New Times? To my understanding, Mr. Albert is not differentiating the State and the government. A government is a group of people who control a state at a given time, While a State is a political and geographical entity. Does Mr. Albert trying to inform the readers of New Times that when any human right group exposes the killings, disappearances of innocent people done by any government mean hating the country?
Alison Des Forges Des, who was senior adviser to Human Rights Watch’s Africa division for almost two decades before her death, dedicated her life to working on Rwanda and was the world’s leading expert on the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath. Dr Alison Des Forges was very instrumental of course through her Human Rights Watch to be among the first to highlight the ethnic tensions that led to the genocide, and when it happened and the world stood by and watched, Alison did everything humanly possible to save people in Rwanda. Alison Des Forges wrote the definitive account on the genocide that was taking place in Rwanda since 1990-1994 and it’s believed she knew more on Rwanda than any other western person and did more to document the genocide and to help to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Alison Des Forges was best known for her award-winning account of the genocide, “Leave None to Tell the Story,” and won a MacArthur Award (the “Genius Grant”) in 1999. She appeared as an expert witness in 11 trials for genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, three trials in Belgium, and at trials in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Canada. She also provided documents and other assistance in judicial proceedings involving genocide in four other national jurisdictions, including the United States all in the name of giving back the human beings and Rwandans in particular the dignity deprived of them by genocide governments.
Why Alison fell apart with the RPF Government?
Single handedly and courageously, Des Forges made herself unpopular in Rwanda by insisting that the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front forces, which defeated the genocidal regime, should also be held to account for their crimes, including the murder of 30,000 people during and just after the genocide. The Rwandan government banned her from the country in 2008 after Human Rights Watch published an extensive analysis of judicial reform there, drawing attention to problems of inappropriate prosecution and external influence on the judiciary that resulted in trials and verdicts that in several cases failed to conform to facts of the cases and many conducted just to settle the political scores of the political opponents or those perceived to be.
The above testimony was not well received by the RPF regime and unfortunately by the big powers of the west and this made her unpopular, especially in the United States and in Britain. While the RPF regime and their backers the West hated her for her professionalism and impartiality, the office of the prosecutor in Arusha Tanzania relied on Alison as an expert witness to bring context and background and detailed knowledge of the Rwandan genocide, Many countries in Europe sought her expertise again and again on cases unfolding in their courts of individuals facing deportation, or on trial for alleged involvement in the Rwandan genocide.
The death of Dr Alison De Forges did not only rob the Human Rights Watch or her family a professional person but also the human race which she served with integrity and dedicated her life to the human dignity, the Rwandan community and the Great Lakes Region as a whole. At the time of her death, she had started working on a Human Rights Watch report about killings in eastern Congo by different armed groups, and their backers (Rwanda).
It is for this reason that Mr. Albert and his pay master are trying to hide their crimes by accusing the Human Rights Watch of being a Puppet , a puppet for who? It is evident that Human Rights groups are not popular in many countries which are known for gross human rights violations, and it wouldn’t be a surprise if Dr Alison Des Forges and human rights watch are admired and loved by many Rwandans but hated by authoritarian regimes and dictators like Mr. Kagame and their proxies.
Jacqueline Umurungi
Brussels
Like it or not this woman did a great job between
1990-1994. She will always stay in our hearts for the
Strong voice she used to expose Habyarimana’s genocide
Government. Her accounts on what happened in genocide
Motivated united nations to approve international court
Immediatly however much the cursed Koffi Anan who kept
His ears closed to help the tutsi’s durring genocide. Human rights
Is the most admirable organisation that we should all
Support but just becouse of politics sometime is fought by
Politicians in power and I really wonder how and why could RPF
Have managed to fight such people Whome we used to look for
Just for a survival. However saying that RPF killed 30000 people
In Congo that’s a fiction movie though am sure the current
Government have violated human rights in Rwanda and they should
Be investigated and answer many disapear wince of Rwandese within
Rwanda but saying that RDF commited genocide that’s wrong and misinformed
By FDLR in Congo.
international politics
Africans need to wake up and question the credibility of the so called human rights organizations.
If you have common sense, then you should be in position to understand that there is nothing for nothing. ask yourself questions like who are these people? who are their source of funding? whose interests do they serve? what interest do they have on our continent?
after all those questions and so much more, you will know the whole picture of human rights watch.
the rich who fund these so called human rights organizations and who wish to be players in our home affairs will always impact our peace, our economies etc.
wake up if you truly love Rwanda.
people who understand and follow activities of these so called human rights organizations know how negatively they have impacted issues in Africa particularly in countries with strong leadership.
My sister am sure you haven’t made enough research to know The role of
Ms alison in Rwanda. She made us proud and believe me even Kagame is aware
Of her role. Human rights was formed on the foundation of fighting human
Rights violation and most Espeshally in developing world where governments
Kill it’s own people, mistreate human being. Sister don’t be brain washed by Kigali
State that the world shouldn’t have such people to fight for powerless. We are blaming
The west to have done nothing durring genocide why? This woman fought kinani’s government
In every angle by informing united nations what was going on in Rwanda. How the government
Was killing Tutsi’s openly. So just say that human rights must make a good
Research while releasing their investigation cables than fighting the organisation. I know all the
Leaders in power potray these organisations useless and sometimes blackmail them just becouse
They want to suppress the opposition, torture people just to keep in power. So back to the point
We need reports without sides but still Rwanda government should stop violating human rights and
The organisation should multiply its work in Rwanda becouse we are on the surpresed by state. Intimidation is a song of the day, blackmailing,criminalizing the opposition,
Imprisoning people beyond the required hours before produced in court of law. Intervening in the court
Judgements. Stopping people’s rights of speech,land grabbing by state and RPF business unit.intervening in people’s privacy by tracking every call made in Rwanda. All these are violation of
Human rights and that’s why Kagame is fighting this organisation however human rights should also
Stop blackmailing countries like the resent claim of RDF that mussucred 30000 Hutu’s in congo that’s totally insane. And to give them some information in 1995 RPA had 19000 soldiers and by 1996 The government had integrated 25000 former Habyarimana army to RPA so at the time Rwanda entered
Congo 72% of the RPA where Hutu’s and those that went to Congo the majority still where Hutu’s who went to bring back the refugees who where held by FDLR in camps just intimidating them to return to their countries so human rights to claiming that RPA killed Hutus in Congo they do actually mean that
Hutu’s in RPA killed there brothers and sisters in Congo camps. That’s nonsense
It never happened and it will never happen RDF to kill people becouse of their tribe.
In my conclusion I can say that human rights should continue it’s work freely but they should also
Distance themselves from west politics of blackmailing.
i know what alison did here but then mr john you should ask yourself why her masters did nothing to stop the killings despite her work. i think they sent her to do research and inform her bosses and the developed world of what was going on in the country. why do you think nothing was done?
double standards
you have some sense in what you say john but again most of what you say are human rights violations are not. give vivid examples of your claims. i believe there are human rights violations in Rwanda just like there is even in the developed world. most of you people think that the west or the developed world is heaven. john, i wish you get a chance of living in those countries and follow what goes on.
Chantal western countries are developed in every agle
The first development we consider is freedom, security and
Rule of law. And we don’t have all that in Rwanda and
You also know that. Paul silenced everyone, is the only
Striker, defender, midfielder murimacye is everything.
That’s wrong Chantal. We must say know where we think
We are not contended but everything is yes yes yes he even
Complained one time that is tired of talking to people who
Say yes yes but he forgot that he created fear in people and
The same fear he created came back to him and made him
Insecure in every angle. Human rights is the best organisation
That Tries to protect the world however much sometime they use wrong
Information but the aim is to put criminals to books. Our sister
We don’t wish doom to our beloved country but still we shouldnt
Just sit down and see the country that costed ours our dear one
To just disapear like that.
john, what you speak or write about Kagame makes him a genius. if he can play all the roles of being a striker defender and midfielder and given the credibility in many angles that Rwanda enjoys now then Mr. Paul KAGAME should be praised for being such a player.
And you call that genius ??? You must be kidding …. What kind of governance is that?
A family, primary school or managing his personal property.
i thought i was all the time debating with a reasonable thinker not knowing that john is that kind of person who cant think beyond his nose. atleast you would say that people who lived in kiyovu were evicted or chased without any compensation. for your information, those people are living a better life than they used to live while in kiyovu. those who used the money well are running small businesses in addition to building better houses. visit those areas of rugende and kagugu where those people secured plots.
You are telling me that if you were a leader you would accept people to live the way it used to be in kiyovu. soon or later, kiyovu will be full of outstanding infrastructure that you cant imagine.
never think shallow John. always think beyond your nose and aim higher otherwise you will never achieve in life.
reba aho isi igeze ugerageze kujyana nayo otherwise you will get lost brother.
that is cheap propaganda against the RPF and its leader.
narakumenye uzashake abandi ugerageza kuyobya umushyira muri propaganda zidafite gahunda usibye gushaka uko musebya abatahuye amafuti yanyu maze amaguru mukayabangira ingata mugakwiragira hirya no hino
Poor Chantal, but who told you that everyone has
To exit his country just becouse of Kagame. Nonese
Nyamukobwa igihugu ni cya Paul cyangwa? Stop those
Crazy thinkings. Back to the point, niko mukobwa if
You really managed to make a good research tell us
How much was payed as a compensation? You even
Have no idea for what yo saying. The government made
The worst mistake and they all know that. And still they don’t
Learn anything coz land grabbing is a song of the day even
Myself am a victim in nyarutarama where NSSF is trying to
Take our land which Value between 70m to 100m and then
Looking to compasate us with 3m can u imagine but as filled a case in
Court maybe and I can say maybe we might get a little bit
Of justice since they somehow stoped the project becouse
Of our case in court . Maybe yo
Just a young person who don’t understand the stuation what
You know is praising without looking at the other side.
We need justice, total freedom on our country Rwanda
Belongs to us all not a group of few people.
hahahahaha John, you might have grabbed that land from some poor peasants ukaba aribyo uzira. you even dont know where you claim to have land. ndagusetse cyane kuko ntabwo uzi aho urwanda rugeze gira uve mu mashyamba wihishemo. NSSF as you state is now called RSSB (Rwanda social security board) it has no project in Nyarutarama instead, that place is called kagugu.
always read your comment before you send it because you give space to people to read your shallow mind. here is what i mean poor John, how do you state that due to your case which you filled in court, RSSB was stopped from developing that land and the case is on going THEN you contradict yourself saying that maybe you might get a little bit
Of justice. in actual sense you already have a little bit of justice because the court has stepped in and stopped RSSB and the case is ongoing.
You and your friends at Inyenyeri claim that there is no justice in Rwanda but if you people managed to get to power no reasonable Rwandan would remain in this country.
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John wants to be a judge in order to bring justice!!!!! Dear bro john niba muri mukuri muzatsinda, justice in Rwanda is good and praised all over the world, ictr in arusha has credited it, ictr in geneva has done likewise, EU, UN,OAU andEAC have echoed their vote. Ngo uwambaye ikirezi ntabwo amenya ko cyera. Land grabbing is never practiced in Rwanda so dont mislead readers. Majority of Rwandans are contented with how they are governed, though the few make the loudest noise.
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