During his last visita in Washington. D.C, last September 2000, National Transitional Assembly President Vincent Biruta asked a United States official to resettle his children into the U. S. The request seemed rather strange to the U. S. official. So far the U. S. has resettled some Rwandan Hutu refugees who fled the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in 1994. Biruta told the official that Rwanda's future remains uncertain and his children should be sent abroad before it is too late.

Biruta is not the only Rwandan politician worried about his children's future. MDR First Vice President Stanley Safari managed recently to send his son Muhirwa to Belgium where he has applied for asylum. Safari has been an RPF staunch supporter.

On many occasions he has called for the demise of MDR arguing that it is related to MDR PARMEHUTU. Foreign observers say that the RPF has used him to destroy the remnants of Rwandan political parties. Some Rwandan exiles living in Louvain-La-Neuve could hardly believe that Safari's son was now among them.

Last month another former RPF supporter arrived in the U. S. with his family. He is former BP FINA Director General and Ibuka founder Bosco Rutagengwa. His relatives say he has applied for asylum in the U. S. He joined his sister Chantal Kayitesi who fled to the U. S. two years ago. Kayitesi fled after serving as director of AVEGA Agahozo. Both Rutagengwa and Kayitesi are known in Rwanda as Tutsi "genocide survivors". Tutsi supremacists who returned from Uganda discriminate against them. They consider them as second class citizens or Hutu accomplices who should have died in 1994.

A diplomat, who has spent four years in Kigali, told AfroAmerica Network correspondent that Rwanda is on the verge of bankruptcy. He said: "Everybody who has some form of education wants to leave. General Kagame and his cronies have built mansions in Asmara, Eritrea. They are not investing here. One example to illustrate my point is the creation of TRANSAFRICA, a transportation company owned by Rwandan and Eritrean politicians. Everyone is sending children abroad. What kind of country is this?"

A Rwandan businessman who bought a house in the U. S. two years ago concurred: "I have to take care of my children. This regime is corrupt and bloodthirsty. My children have refugee status in the U. S. They are in school and don't have to worry about being sent to the front in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I do have a ten-year visa. God bless America."