AfroAmerica Network
Kigali, Rwanda
05.17.01
During the last meeting of Rwandan political parties held in Gisenyi, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) told political leaders who were present that all political parties registered in Rwanda before April 06, 1994 comprise genocide perpetrators and should be outlawed.
According to a source this view emerged as one of the resolution adopted by political parties but it was not made public. This source says participants did not dare to challenge the RPF analysis because many political leaders have been integrated into the RPF. Such individuals are Prime Minister Bernard Makuza, Interior and Security Minister Jean de Dieu Ntiruhungwa, Honorable Stanley Safari, Honorable Etienne Niyonzima, Honorable Augustin Iyamulemye, and Honorable Jean-Nepomuscene Nayinzira.
For many months now the RPF has been trying to destroy and outlaw the Republican Democratic Movement (MDR). The RPF has resorted to four key individuals: Jean de Dieu Ntiruhungwa, Desire Nyandwi, Etienne Niyonzima, and Anastase Gasana. Each has been assigned a major task.
Ntiruhungwa is a Hutu who hails from Ruhengeri. His mission is to convince the populations of Gisenyi and Ruhengeri that they will be safe as long as they join the RPF.
Nyandwi is a Hutu, member of the political bureau of the RPF. His mission is to make sure that the MDR becomes illegal. As minister of domestic affairs, he recently suspended the MDR for three months. He never resigned from the Social Democratic Party (PSD) to which he belonged before joining the RPF. Yet the RPF appointed him to its political bureau.
Niyonzima hails from Byimana, Gitarama and serves in the National Transitional Assembly as a representative of the MDR. Before Prime Minister Rwigema resigned and fled to the United States, Niyonzima was his right hand. His mission is to wipe out the MDR in Gitarama and to ensure that the population of Gitarama pledges allegiance to the RPF.
Under former Presidents Gregoire Kayibanda and General Habyarimana, Niyonzima was a Hutu. Under the RPF regime, he is a Tutsi. His wife and children live in Belgium as political refugees.
Some observers report that Niyonzima frequently visits Kagame's mother who also hails from Byimana, Gitarama. They believe that Niyonzima uses her to send messages to Kagame.
Gasana is the current Rwandan ambassador to the United Nations. He heads a splinter group of MDR whose aim is to dump the MDR and create a new political party. Informed sources say Gasana and RPF Secretary General Muligande have already written the political platform and the constitution of the new political party. Gasana is expected to be the president of this party and to stand for the presidency of Rwanda in 2003 against Rwandan President General Paul Kagame. The strategy is to oppose Kagame against a Hutu straw man, then Kagame, a Tutsi can claim victory and satisfy aid donors who have been making pressure on him to democratize Rwanda.
Gasana is a Hutu. Under President Habyarimana, Gasana served as a senior advisor to the President of the National Revolutionary Movement (MRND) with the rank of a deputy minister. In that capacity, he and Desire Murenzi, then PETRORWANDA Managing Director founded a militia known as Interahamwe. The United Nations, international organizations and international news organizations accuse Interahamwe of carrying out the genocide of Tutsi in 1994.
After Interahamwe became a structured and trained organization, Gasana joined the MDR. His wife who was a student in France at the time joined the RPF. A former member of the National Committee of the MDR says: "The deliberations of the National Committee of the MDR were public. MDR members could come and present their views even though they were not members of the deciding body. Gasana would come with notes and inform members of Interahamwe violent activities. He would then suggest violent activities the MDR's youth wing could undertake to oppose violence to violence. The National Committee of the MDR would instead decide to ask its executive committee to protest to the Minister of Interior and to write press releases denouncing interahamwe activities."
(c)AfroAmerica Network, May, 2001.
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