By Ann Garrison
Paul Kagame is the real genocidal maniac of Rwanda, the killer of many millions. That’s why the U.S., Britain and Israel love him.
“Kagame persecuted and silenced the only two women who dared stand up to him, and he didn’t stop a genocide; he started one.”
How much longer can Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Benjamin Netanyahu, AIPAC , and associated Zionist organizations cover for Rwandan President Paul Kagame? How much longer can they claim that he was Rwanda’s savior, that he stopped a genocide recalling the Holocaust, then helped Rwanda rise from the ashes?
This week another woman who dared to challenge him for the presidency says he has taken vengeance on her and her family. In 2010, Kagame imprisoned Victoire Ingabire, who is now serving the seventh of a fifteen-year prison sentence, and now he has arrested Diane Rwigara, who attempted to stand against him this year. Like Ingabire in 2010, Rwigara was told that her name could not appear on the ballot because her nomination papers were insufficient. Kagame’s election bureaucracy is a Kafkaesque maze for anyone who might pose a real threat to his reign of terror.
Rwandan police arrested Ingabire, then put her under house arrest, shortly after her return to Rwanda in January 2010. They arrested and imprisoned her shortly after Kagame claimed re-election with an implausible 93% of the vote in August that year. They arrested Rwigara shortly after Kagame claimed an even more implausible 99% on August 4th. As of September 5, there were many conflicting reports and no definitive account of the timeline of events before, during, and after the arrest. Aljazeera was reporting that Rwigara had been arrested, charged, and then returned to her home. Rwigara’s assistant said that she had taken over her Twitter feed and that Rwigara is now under house arrest, though not yet formally.
“Kagame’s election bureaucracy is a Kafkaesque maze for anyone who might pose a real threat to his reign of terror.”
Earlier this year, Rwigara had told the BBC that she was expecting reprisal: “Taking a stand or criticizing the Rwandan government is not an easy task. They do all in their power to try to discourage you and silence you. Our family businesses have been closed down. Our bank accounts have been seized. There is still a very high price for me to pay, and trust me, they have said that, after the elections, anybody who has spoken out, including my supporters, that: ‘We’ll deal with them.’” FULL STORY
