From the point of view of the prevailing world order, the cleavage is simple: on the one hand, there are supporters of this order, declaring themselves in favor of liberalism, democracy, human rights, rapprochement between peoples through the free circulation of goods, capitals and men, enemies of all excesses, people of good company, politically correct, in short the ” frequentable “; on the other hand, there are those who oppose this order, whether right or left, more or less extremist, generally hostile to democracy and indifferent to human rights; illiberal Who found themselves on the same side as all the ugly ones: Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Assad, the ayatollahs, even Putin, Orban, Kurz, in short the ” infrequent “, related to what the Americans call the rogue states (rogue states)? In the light of history, the opponents of the world order find themselves gradually, accused of complicity with the worst crimes of the twentieth century, including the Nazi cry : as soon as the debate heats up when there is debate what is rare, the point Godwin is quickly reached and they are the subject of the fatal reductio ad hitlerum .
Today, it takes very little to be on the wrong side: in the face of triumphant globalism, talk of defending the national interest, unless that country is the United States, is already suspect.
Things thus presented, there is no picture on the moral plane between the two parties: some are in the camp of good, others in that of evil; even those who, among the latter, would be considered reasonable are suspected of having been dragged into dark frequentations. To escape the scandalous amalgam, they must know how to pinch their noses against the extremists of their camp, even if they play the game of their opponents.
To those who, to break with a too easy Manichaeism, would invoke the dictatorships set up by the West (the Shah of Iran, Pinochet, Videla) or the many wars that the so-called humanist West has provoked in recent years : Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, one will retort that the intentions of these wars were good [1], that the victims are to put on account of the “collateral damages”. The “illiberal” are criminals by nature, the Liberals are, by accident. Any dissent from the dominant order puts you, potentially, on the side of crime.
But, as in all too perfect visions, there is a blind spot. In the currently dominant liberal order, the blind spot is Paul Kagame, the current president of Rwanda, a darling of the far-right galaxy. This galaxy indeed supports a character held by many for one of the worst criminals in history.
Who is Paul Kagame?
The reputation of Kagame is for the moment protected by the apparent complexity of the events that have occurred in this small country of Africa since 1970: not without a form of racism, the Westerners think that the killings between Africans are normal things and that it is vain to find those responsible. In this case, it is necessary.
The best way to understand in simple terms the events of Rwanda is to refer to Aristotle: ” In the oligarchies, it is the mass of citizens who rise up, as being victims of an injustice because their share does not is not equal to that of others, of which they consider themselves the equals, whereas in democracies, on the contrary, it is the notables who revolt, because their share is only equal to the others whereas they do not consider themselves like their equals “(Policy V, 3).
The revolt of the mass, that is what happened in Rwanda in 1961, that of the notables, took place at the beginning of the year 1990. Very old kingdom where, since centuries, a minority of breeders- warriors, the Tutsi (about 10% of the population in 1990, less today), dominated a majority of Bantu farmers, Hutu. When it became independent in 1961, Rwanda saw the majority take over, by democratic rule, about one-third of former Tutsi masters moving to Uganda or Europe, where they formed a powerful lobby group. . From 1990, one of these exiles, Paul Kagame undertook, from neighboring Uganda, to restore the power of the Tutsi minority with an army of exiles called the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), well equipped by Anglo-Saxon public and private funds. On 6 April 1994, the plane carrying the two Hutu presidents of Rwanda and Burundi [2] was shot dead by order of Paul Kagame, according to the testimony of his relatives at that time. Distraught, the defeated Hutu began to massacre the minority Tutsi remained in the country, which did not prevent the total victory of Kagame. These massacres in Rwanda in the spring and summer of 1994 killed between 500,000 and 800,000 people, most of whom were Tutsi, although Kagame’s army also massacred many Hutu as it progressed.
Once the capital Kigali taken, this army went to the neighboring Congo in pursuit of Hutu on the run, qualified, ” genocide ” including children not yet born at the time of the facts! According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, these reprisals have left nearly 4 million victims, Rwandan Hutu refugees or Congolese, not only in the Kivu border province but throughout the Congo. The troubles that are happening today in Kasaï are the result.
While Paul Kagame has saved some of his fellow Tutsi still alive in Rwanda from the massacre, he still bears an overwhelming responsibility for the whole tragedy: by invading the country without any legitimacy other than to belong to the old elite, which is the main cause of all events, by massacring the Hutu as it advanced through the country, by shooting down the plane of the two presidents, an attack that triggered the first massacres and especially by engaging in even more serious reprisal massacres in the Congo.
It can be said that Paul Kagame is in total the direct or indirect cause of the death of nearly 5 million people, a record worse than that of Pol Pot.
The favorite of the international liberal order
Despite this, Kagame is the darling of the international liberal order. He is received almost everywhere in the world, most recently by President Macron in France. When he went to see Pope Francis in March 2017, it was not him, it was the pontiff who asked for forgiveness on the grounds that some priests behaved badly in the midst of the fury mentioned above.
Paul Kagame has been elected President of the African Union for the year 2018: African Heads of State who all know what we have just recalled have resigned themselves, discouraged by the passivity or even the complacency of Westerners towards him.
There is no question, of course, that Paul Kagame is being prosecuted before the International Criminal Court: this is reserved, as we know, for the vanquished, especially those who have put down the supporters of the world order.
Although Rwanda, a former Belgian colony, was French-speaking, the Rwandan president, wishing to settle scores with France, the only Western country that had tried to block his takeover [3], got to enter the Commonwealth. He has been charged with crimes for 25 years, without any foundation, the soldiers of Operation Turquoise, who came in 1994 on a UN mandate to try to limit the damage.
Paul Kagame would not have been able to deceive his world, the world, if his regime was not supported by an effective propaganda machine in the United States and Europe. He gained the support of Western personalities like Tony Blair or Bernard Kouchner. For a long time, until the overwhelming evidence accumulated against him, Kagame was the only head of state on the planet that could not be criticized in Europe without being prosecuted. The support of the powerful of this world – in particular the large Anglo-Saxon companies which financed it in its beginnings and which today plunder the richnesses of Kivu – is not foreign to the media power of which it has : even a newspaper like La Croix relays its propaganda [4]! However, we must not underestimate the capacity of the Western world to manipulate Kagame himself,
Like all effective dictators, Kagame has been able to give his country a decent air: clean streets, schools in order, hygiene in progress, Rwanda has become a village Potemkin that ensures a good reputation. In the high international sphere, it is said that it is ” a country that works “. Tutsi soldiers employed in peacekeeping missions are disciplined. The European Union, which is concerned with the development of Africa, has made it its regional referent for the Great Lakes zone, the pivotal country that must set the tone for others.
Certainly, some doubts have arisen, especially in the United States, during the last years: because of the massacres for which it bears the responsibility? No, because Rwanda is not democratic enough! In place for 25 years Kagame does not think to pass the hand; the presidential elections, where he triumphs after polls, would not offer all the guarantees of transparency. For these critics, filling the ballot box is apparently more serious than triggering the massacre of millions of men.
It remains that those who do not want to be on the same side as Bashar al-Assad, are on the side of Kagame.
That such a nauseating character today can be the darling of the masters of the liberal world order says a lot about the gigantic hypocrisy that underlies the latter.
That Paul Kagame took power to impose the domination of an ultra-minority elite, founded, without being said openly, on racial superiority, perhaps also says a lot about post-democratic involution and de facto undemocratic of this order.
The Kagame affair, which will eventually be known in all its horror, should definitely disqualify the idea that in the world order there are the good and the bad.
By Roland Hureaux
Essayist
Source: https://reseauinternational.net/le-cas-kagame-point-aveugle-de-lordre-mondial/