Rwandan authorities have asked Dutch immigration authorities to revoke the citizenship of Lin Muyizere, the husband of Rwandan political prisoner Victoire Ingabire; if they succeed, Muyizere could be deported to Rwanda, leaving their three children without parents in the Netherlands; the youngest of these, Riszt Shimwa, is only 12 years old. In 2010, Ingabire left her family in the Netherlands to return to Rwanda and attempt to run for president against incumbent “President” Paul Kagame. Kagame is in fact a ruthless military dictator obliged to stage periodic presidential and parliamentary election charades so as to justify the ongoing support of the US, UK and other Western nations with geopolitical, military, and resource interests in the region.
Victoire Ingabire was not allowed to run against Kagame or even register her party, FDU-Inkingi. She was put under house arrest shortly after her arrival, forbidden to leave the City of Kigali or speak to the press, and by October she was in prison. Last December Rwanda’s Supreme Court increased her sentence from eight to fifteen years.
In a video, “Rwanda: no room left in politics, only in jail,” made by Dutch Rwandan journalist Olivier Nyirubugara after Ingabire’s arrest and imprisonment, Lin Muyizere told a journalist that he spent sleepless nights worrying about her and wondering what he could do. “If I could talk to my wife now,” he said, “I would tell her simply that I love her a lot, now and forever. I wish her much strength, as the Rwandan people are behind her.”
This is an interview conducted in a Dutch community with Lin Muyizere in 2010, after his wife Victoire Ingabire’s arrest. Victoire and Lin’s daughter Raissa Ujuneza translated it for English speaking audiences, after Dutch immigration authorities informed her father that they intended to revoke his naturalized citizenship because of Rwandan witnesses willing to claim that he somehow shared responsibility for genocide in Rwanda, because of what he has thought and expressed while in Rwanda. FULL STORY
