AfroAmerica Network
Kigali, Rwanda
01.16.01
A group of Rwandan Tutsi has decided that the elimination of political symbols associated with the 1959 Social Revolution must be finished by the end of August this year.
A source told AfroAmerica Network that twenty members of the National Transitional Assembly (NTA) and businessmen met at night on January 5, 2001 at Paul Ruhamyambuga's house to discuss how to speed up the suppression of all symbols brought about by the 1959 Social Revolution.Participants saluted the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)-led government's decision to change the national anthem and the flag and to reestablish the administrative organization that existed under the Tutsi monarchy.
According to this source all participants agreed that the Republican Democratic Movement (MDR), a predominantly Hutu political party that led the 1959 Social Revolution must be eradicated across the country particularly in Gitarama, the birthplace of MDR. Participants suggested that the methods used in Butare, Gisenyi, and Ruhengeri serve as a blue print for the work to be done in other parts of the country. During its military conquest, the RPF decimated many Hutu in Butare, the birthplace of the Association of the Promotion of Masses (APROSOMA), another predominantly political Hutu party that opposed Tutsi rule at the end of the 1950's. In Gisenyi and Ruhengeri, the RPF resorted to repeated massacres and forced villagization to subdue the population. Hutu exiles have compared RPF forced villages to nazi concentration camps.
Participants expressed their commitment to providing resources to Stanley Safari and Desire Nyandwi to enable them to destroy MDR. RPF opponents consider Safari and Nyandwi as puppets.
Safari is MDR first vice president who has called on the government to outlaw MDR for its alleged participation in the genocide of Tutsi in 1959 and 1994. Other MDR members who have voiced a similar opinion are Anastase Gasana, former minister of foreign affairs and Jean-Pierre Bizimana, former minister of information under the RPF regime.
Nyandwi is a member of the RPF political bureau. Before 1994 he was a member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) but he switched political parties when the RPF started recruiting Hutu to fill the vacuum created by the departure into exile of former interior minister Seth Sendashonga and that of Colonel Theonest Lizinde.
Participants decided to distribute weapons to Tutsi genocide survivors and to hire Tutsi in restaurants, bars, and cafes in order to easily stifle opposition to the group's political agenda.
Participants will meet next month at Mungalulire's house to evaluate the implementation of their decisions. Mungalulire, a former Tutsi chief under the Tutsi monarchy fled to Kenya in the wake of the 1959 Social Revolution and returned to Rwanda after the victory of the RPF. Political sources said he is close to Rwanda President General Paul Kagame and former Rwanda King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa. These sources added that Ruhamyambuga who hosted the meeting is a wealthy Tutsi businessman who lived in Nairobi for many years.Sources said he shows up at every public event Kagame attends. He is very close to Kagame and Kigeli V.
A religious leader told AfroAmerica Network that if human rights organizations do not stand up and denounce this group's agenda, the world might witness another catastrophe.
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