Paul
Kagame, the Mastermind of the Genocide of Interior
Tutsis
”Shake Hands with the Devil”, a film about the Rwandan Genocide featuring
Canadian Senator Romeo Dallaire, has revived debate
on the subject. This is perfectly normal because, 13 years after the
event, this gruesome crime is still unresolved.
Initially, the media imposed
the version that the Rwandan Genocide was planned and carried out only by Hutus
(The ethnic group mentioned here is the one to which an individual is reputed
to belong. It may be different from the actual ethnic group to which the
individual himself identifies and ethnic group in which the individual is
classified by the holder of power). But against all odds, after spending more
than a billion dollars (
This result was quite predictable from the outset. In fact, intelligence
gathering was and still is Paul Kagame’s
best strength. His agents had infiltrated all spheres of Rwandan society
even before October 1990. So, if evidence of planning the Rwandan
Genocide by Hutus ever existed, Kagame would have
made it available to the ICTR immediately and thus would have definitively
silenced sceptics.
Despite this void, all the
experts remain certain: the killings in 1994 were so systematic that they must
have been pre-planned. Then, one must ask, who was the planner? Who
was the mastermind? Since investigations on the Rwandan Government’s side have (so
far) failed to find any evidence of pre-planning by Hutus, would not be logical
to investigate the other warring side, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)?
Here are some observations:
1. Kagame fanned hatred against those deemed Tutsi by
committing systematic massacres against the predominantly Hutu
population. In
"From the time Arusha Peace Agreement was being negotiated up to as late
as 1996 you (Kagame) carried out a deliberate policy
of using all means possible to reduce the Hutu Population in the Umutara, Kibungo, and Bugesera regions."
The crimes of Kagame’s army are documented in great detail by Lieutenant
Abdul Ruzibiza, another former member of the RPF (See
his book “
2. Kagame destroyed the coalition between the
interior opposition parties and the RPF, which prevented the war from
escalating into an ethnic-based conflict. In 1992, the major interior
opposition parties, the MDR (predominantly Hutu), the PL (predominantly Tutsi)
and the PSD formed a political coalition with the RPF (predominantly
Tutsi). With that coalition, the conflict was formally a political battle
for power sharing and political representation. The negotiations already
underway in
On 08 February 1993, claiming
Bagogwe (a sub-group of Tutsi) had been massacred by
Rwandan government forces; Kagame ordered a massive
attack in the Ruhengeri Prefect. The death toll
was very high: over 40,000 Hutu civilians were massacred. Consequently,
the pressure on interior opposition parties at the Arusha
negotiations became untenable. It was not justifiable to be in a
coalition with a party that massacred innocent civilians en masse in broad
daylight. The coalition of interior opposition parties with the RPF
shattered. In addition, each political party split into two factions: one
called “Hutu Power”, a pro-Hutu, and anti-RPF
faction, while the other was pro-RPF and anti-MRND. Confrontation on an
ethnic basis was now difficult to avoid and the slightest spark could now start
the dreaded ethnic-based war.
3. In his testimony (http://www.inshuti. org/ruzibiza. htm), Ruzibiza tells that long before 1994 Kagame
had instructed his men who infiltrated within Rwanda, particularly within the Interahamwe (a militia that participated in the genocide of
interior Tutsis), to massacre interior Tutsis in such a way that the crimes could
be attributed to the government forces and militias. Here are, according
to Ruzibiza, some on the list of those Kagame had instructed his men to exterminate:
“Every interior
Tutsi (sacrificing interior Tutsis); intellectual Tutsis deemed to oppose RPF
ideology, for example Lando; and regrouped Tutsis
living in remote places.”
In the same testimony, Ruzibiza reveals, “It was a common strategy of Kagame
to order the assassination of opposition politicians or Tutsi personalities in order
justify the resumption of hostilities on the ground that that the government
was violating human rights." Lando was the
nickname of Landoald Ndasingwa,
an intellectual Tutsi, founder, and leader of the PL political party. He was
married to a Canadian lady named Hélène Pinski.
The couple and their two children, Malaika and
Patrick, were massacred very early on 07 April 1994. Contrary to popular
belief, the testimony of Ruzibiza and many other
facts suggest that Ndasingwa and Pinski
were massacred by agents of Kagame who wanted to
eliminate any legitimate political opposition to the RPF after the war was
over.
4. On April 06, 1994, the plane transporting President Juvenal
Habyarimana was shot down by a missile. As could be expected, this
terrorist act sparked a human tragedy of unthinkable proportion: the Rwandan
Genocide. The investigation of French anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguière concluded that this terrorist crime was
commissioned by Paul Kagame. This terrorist
assassination was carried out despite the fact that in February 1994, following
the assassination of Felicien Gatabazi (leader of the
PSD party) and Martin Bucyana (leader of the CDR
party), President Habyarimana had demonstrated that he still held ultimate
authority and was still capable of maintaining law and order in his country by
bringing a halt to the social unrest caused by these murders. Andre Guichaoua, a professor at the
In
6. Among the
founders of the Interahamwe are Anastase
Gasana (now exiled in the United States), rewarded
with the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs in Kagame’s
regime and Desiré Murenzi,
who was placed at the head of a major oil company. Also troubling is the
fact that Robert Kajuga, the Tutsi President of the Interahamwe, is the brother of a Rwandan businessman named Husi (killed during the Rwandan Genocide), who, according
to several sources, has funded the scholarship of Janet Nyiramongi,
Paul Kagame’s wife. These
indications point to the fact that the militia Interahamwe
was, from beginning to end, manipulated by Kagame’s
secret services.
These previous observations demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that Paul Kagame has done everything possible to ensure that interior
Tutsis were exterminated. Therefore, it has to be concluded, in the words
of Kagame himself in his speech delivered on the 10th
anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, that, “Indeed the Rwandan
Genocide was premeditated, calculated and cold blooded”. However,
in light of these facts, we must now add that the mastermind of the genocide of
the Rwandan interior Tutsis is Kagame himself.
That is the sad and terrible reality the international community, who gave a
carte blanche to Kagame, has (so far) refused to
confront.
Yet, if the above cited
criminal acts would had been committed by Rwandans deemed Hutu, they would have
been condemned by the whole world for committing the crime of genocide against
Tutsis. Instead, Kagame, because he is reputed
Tutsi, has a red carpet rolled out for him across Europe and in
Guillaume Murere Ph. D.
October 2007.
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Biography: Guillaume Murere
I am of Hutu background and
was pursuing a doctorate program in electrical engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal
when the Rwandan war broke out on October 1st, 1990. At the beginning of the
war I made a statement in favor of Tutsi refugees and
for this reason was labeled by fellow Rwandans as RPF
sympathizer and was ostracized and persecuted. In reaction to this persecution,
but more in support of Arusha peace negotiations, I
openly joined the RPF,
Having been member of the RPF
and close to the Tutsi community and also being of Hutu background, I was in
position to see and analyze what was going on either side without bias.
Currently I work for peace and reconciliation among Rwandans by uncovering and
exposing the truth about the Rwandan crisis