The long arc of history bends towards justice
By: Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
RWANDA NATIONAL CONGRESS (RNC) CONDEMNS KAGAME’S REGIME FOR SENTENCING VICTOIRE INGABIRE TO EIGHT YEARS IN JAIL
Today, 30/10/2012, the High Court in Kigali, Rwanda, sentenced Madame Victoire Ingabire, the President of FDU-inkingi, to eight years in jail on flimsy grounds of genocide ideology and conspiracy against government through war and terrorism. The Rwanda National Congress (RNC) condemns in the strongest terms this miscarriage of justice and impunity that have now become the hallmark of President Paul Kagame’s dictatorial rule. The Rwanda National Congress stands with Madame Victoire Ingabire, her family, FDU-Inkingi and all the peace-and -freedom-loving Rwandan people in these difficult moments. In orchestrating the sham trial against a freedom-fighter Ingabire, President Kagame’s regime has demonstrated that it has now run short of options, and will continue to operate in fear till it consumes itself out of existence.
What is to be done?
1. Let us spend little time lamenting. All Rwandans should rise in courage, conquer fear and join the resistance against injustice. Fear is the regime’s principal weapon. Once we overcome fear, Kagame’s days will be numbered.
2. Hope is necessary but not a strategy to overcome dictatorial rule. Let us not sit and wait that somehow, the regime will crumble on its own. We must resist and fight with every resource we have other than weapons of war. We shall fight together, or else the regime will kill and jail us , one by one, or condemn us to eternal exile.
3. We must fight to win, and to win means ending dictatorship once and for all, and uniting all Rwandan people in freedom so that they can heal, reconcile and prosper at last. Winning calls for maximum mobilization, and smart (internally democratic and well-led) organization. We must penetrate every village, every school, every government department, every church, every RPF cells, every security organization (formal or informal), every refugee camp, wherever a Rwandan is in jail or in jungles of Congo, in every diaspora community, and in every non-governmental organization with one message: the regime is crumbling, let us join hands to end our suffering by winning sooner than later.
4. Let us be proactive in reaching out for help from our African brothers and sisters, especially those in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, many of whom have been victims of Kagame’s brutal regime. Let us tell them that Kigali’s regime is dangerous to Rwandans and to all our neighbors as well, and seek their co-operation to build lasting peace, security, and stability in our region and Africa.
5. Let us be proactive on the diplomatic front, and seek the help of the international community to end President Kagame’s brutality and war-mongering against Rwandan and Congolese people. To the international community we must say: it is time to get it right. The guilt of 1994 must end with a right decision to be on the side of the Rwandan people instead of investing in the bloody rule of one man, his family and a small clique drawn from one minority group.
6. The post-Kagame era has begun, for it must grow in the womb of the rotten regime like a small plant that germinates out of the decaying seed. Nothing that Kagame does now will save his regime. He has reached a point of no return. He would rather have the whole country go on fire rather than have Rwandan save it. Each one of us must search our heart and examine what sacrifice we can give to rebuilding a broken Rwanda. That must begin here, and now, wherever a Rwandan lives or works. We must reach out to each other, and overcome the barriers of ethnicity, region, class, gender, etc. The new Rwanda must begin with each one of us, and spread to our immediate family, community, nation and the world. Our legacy must be that we are the generation that built the foundation of a free, united and prosperous Rwanda.
7. We must invest out time, money, talents and relationships in this peaceful revolution if we are to win, and win sooner than later. Rwandans must invest their resources in the future of their children and their grandchildren. Giving their money to Kagame’s Agaciro Development Fund is not only a waste, since it won’t stop Rwandans match forward, but dangerous since Kagame uses your money for private use, sustaining his dictatorship, killing and jailing opponents, and making war against neighbors. Let us be smart and spend our money wisely by investing it in the revolution for peace, freedom and shared prosperity.
Martin Luther King Jr once said that the arc of history is long, and that it bends towards justice. It is true for Rwanda as it is for all peoples and all time. It is our duty and patriotic obligation to use every hour, day, week, month, and year to get Victoire Ingabire, other political prisoners, and indeed all Rwandans, out of bondage and exile.
We are on the move and nothing shall stop us. We shall never give up or give in.
We shall win!
Dr Theogene Rudasingwa
Co-ordinator,
Rwanda National Congress
Washington DC, 20001
USA
E-mail: ngombwa@gmail.com
30 October, 2012
Submitted by: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW
Good to hear from you comrade, I can see now your dreams,
So sad that your acting like a baby in your old age. For
God’s sake how could you associate with such a criminal
Person like Ingabire? Rudasingwa a brave man who fought
Day and night to stop genocide and is now praising the people
Who are using bitterness words to cause genocide again. And you
Call that politics.Dr what really went wrong with people, however
Much you hate president Kagame don’t kandi reach to that
Level of wishing doom to your mother land. This woman is
A criminal, who funded people in Congo to come and distablerize
Our country again. Ask Kayumba what happened durring abacyengezi..
That’s what you wish for your people back home, that’s the
Dream politics you want to practice in Rwanda? Comon comrade have
Some levels of dignity, stop mixing personal differences with
National matters. You the doctor I know defending Ingabire, shame upon
You Sir. Am sure you have been travelling to Belgium and you really
Know that those people are not remonseful at all, all their plans
Is to distablerize the country with the sake of winning power. Believe me
It will never happen in Rwanda. Ingabire got what she deserved and am
Sure she will learn her lesson never play with power of people.
We have a good government and we are happy with our development
Please as you play your politics try and remember we are no more fools
Anymore, we know our value and peace and security is every Rwandese
Priority. We came from far do it’s hard to forget our past that’s why
We work hard to make our lives better and also get better tommorow.
Finally am encouraging you Comrade that it is never too late in the world, you
Can come back home and enjoy your sweat rather than fight the government you
Dreamed in all your youthful years just becouse your gready for power.
Lastly for Ingabire, that’s the list you can have but my wish was to never
See such a person on the streets of Kigali once again becouse she morethan
The word dangerous.
Long live Rwanda, long live president Kagame and people of Rwanda
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Ah Dr Theo, is it true? Rwandans should overcome barriers of ethinicity, region, race and gender…u said?! Oh that’s great u got the point, so can we? Can u? If u can we can. I’m saying this coz u are one of the artisans of Kagame’s/RPF’s system but nowdays u seem to have taken distance and determinated in changing/destroying what u built up. That’s fine, I encourage u and promise u my contribution but we need to see from u more actions like the ICC one, not announcements and decrarations. Bravo RNC.
Thank you very much indeed Rudasingwa!
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oh, it hurts me kubona umuntu nka rudasingwa avuga ibi disi, i feel can even burst into tears. u guys have no chance of fighting one another, if u do so like you are doing now, the enemy wl penetrate and take away ur country again. I am speechless! just feel like crying out loud.
While your heart is in the right place, you have your understanding of Rwanda inrevted, as do most. It is the result of another effective propaganda campaign. The conventional recollection of that sad episode in history is that the Hutu majority carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Tutsi minority and that the United States, at worst, stood idly by. The absolute inverse is in fact what happened.Rwanda was a Hutu majority nation, however, it had a multi-ethnic coalitional democratic government headed by Juvenal Habyarimana. Habyarimana’s government was faced with an insurgent Tutsi movement from Uganda, the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF). The RPF, led by Paul Kagame, assassinated President Habyarimana on April 6, 1994 and subsequently invaded Rwanda declaring open war on the Hutu majority. Paul Kagame had trained in the United States and the RPF invaded Rwanda with the full backing -financially and militarily (equipment, arms)- of the United States. The well-equipped Tutsi insurgents quickly overran the Rwanda military and the genocidal wave that followed claimed nearly a million victims. 80% of the deaths were in fact Hutus, the majority ethnicity. Paul Kagame’s RPF took control of Rwanda in this foreign invasion, having carried out massive war crimes and crimes against humanity. Paul Kagame, war criminal, is now the President of Rwanda.So, while the official western narrative is that the Hutu’s carried out a genocidal assault on the Tutsi minority, miraculously the Tutsis came out on top, now holding power under Paul Kagame. If this were the truth it would be the first case of an overwhelming minority surviving genocide and actually defeating the majority and claiming power. The truth is that this was a well-planned, well-equipped invasion by Tutsi insurgents who pushed back the Hutu military enough to carry out an ethnic cleansing campaign against the helpless Hutu civilian populations. The United States will gladly take the heat for having stood haplessly by in the face of a Hutu slaughter of the Tutsi while the truth of its implicit hand in actually enabling and funding the Tutsi slaughter of Hutus is erased from the collective consciousness of western educators and intellectuals. Let us not allow that to happen