AfroAmerica Network
Correspondent in Lansing, Michigan
09.04.00
During his USA visit, General Major Paul Kagame plans to visit the La Roche College, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At La Roche, Kagame will be surrounded by 89 Rwandan students and Rwandan diplomats. The students include 72 students freshly admitted to La Roche and 15 old students. These students, mostly from Kagame's inner circle families, were given financial aid to study in the USA under RPF special programs.
The visit to La Roche will serve as a public relations stunt for the embattled Kagame. In fact, his visit to the USA may turn out to be a flop according to several analysts. According to sources, the USA Administration has coldly reacted to Kagame's visit, following multiple accusations of human Rights abuses, mass murders, acts of genocide, and assassinations, including the assassination of Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, Juvenal Habyalimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira.
Contrary to previous reports, General Kagame will not meet Mr. Kigeli, the former Rwandan King, Mr. Kabuye Sebarenzi, the former Speaker, or Mr. Pierre Celestin Rwigema after all. These former RPF Administration leaders who fled the Kagame and RPF regime, accusing them of ruthless repression, persecution, and corruption, have refused to meet him.
Instead, some of them, especially Mr. Kabuye Sebarenzi, are believed to rally disgruntled RPF leaders and convince them to split from RPF and join or create other political formations.
Among the cited leaders of disgruntled RPF members are: Alexander Kimenyi, a Linguistic Professor at CalState, Sacramento and his wife, a visiting Professor at the University of Rwanda in Butare, Zephylin Gahamanyi, Joseph Nsengimana, a brother-in-law of the late Assiel Kabera allegedly assassinated by Kagame, Eugene Karangwa, Valens Kajeguhakwa, a multi-millionaire Rwandan, Sissi Evariste, Assinapol Rwigara, John Nkongoli, the former RPF Government Ambassador to Canada, Dr. Kayijaho, Assiel Kabera's brother, and several former RPA military officers.
AfroAmerica Network called Kimenyi's Elk Grove for comments, CA home without an answer.
Several Tutsis and Hutus, including those not long ago close friends of General Kagame have been steadily fleeing the country accusing the government of repression, lack of democracy, and corruption.
The schism within the Rwandan Patriotic Front could not come at a worse time. Recently, in May 2000, an armed political opposition, called the Forces Democratiques pour le Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR), held its convention in Nasho, Kibungo and promised to overthrow Kagame's government. According to the meeting account, a copy of which AfroAmerica Network received, the meeting in Nasho was attended by delegates from America, Europe, Asia, and all over Africa and Rwanda. Sources in Rwanda confirm that the FDLR have been actively recruiting all over the country, including the capital Kigali and seem to be very well organized both militarily and politically. The meeting in Nasho prompted the Rwandan Patriotic Front militia, the so-called Local Defense Units (LDU) to massacre families suspected of supporting the armed political party, in early June 2000. Bodies of those massacred were dumped in the River Akagera. These massacres sent thousands of Refugees to Tanzania.
The last chance meeting to piece up RPF parts will be held in Detroit, Michigan and will be led by:
- Joseph Muligande, Secretary General of the Rwandan Patriotic Front,
- Biruta, the speaker of the Rwandan Parliament,
- Tite Rutaremara, advisor to General Kagame,
- Colonel Jackson Nziza, Director of the Department of Military Intelligence
Both Tite Rutaremara and Colonel Jackson Nziza are accused by Human Rights organizations of several mass murders, war crimes, and assassinations.
Colonel Jackson Nziza allegedly holding secret meetings to set up an intelligence network in North America that will specifically target Tutsis opposed to Rwandan Patriotic Front.
@AfroAmerica Network, September 4, 2000.
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