Dear PS Claude, Thank you for your prompt response. Although I respect your position and decision, with all due respect I disagree with it. Putting on hold Diaspora activities, by the same token punishing the entire Rwandan Diaspora just because of a “small click of ill-intentionned individuals” has decided to cause havoc in our Diaspora Family, I find that wrong and extremely unfair.
I have always been told that as a leader, one should always try to do the right thing and move foward with those willing to work for the greater good of our nation. That “Agatsiko” invented “amatiku” like you put it, tried to create a crisis, a leadership vaccum, orchestred “a coup d’etat”, installed a new diaspora gouvernement, now they want move onto putting in place “a diaspora transitional leadership”, they are doing everything possible to stop the adoption of RDGN’s constitution, etc.. It is important to mention that none of these actions has been condamned by Minaffet!!
It is very unfortunate to see that our Diaspora is greatly suffering from this situation! Our constituents came home, on holidays, hoping to benefit from their vacation, enjoy to the maximum the couple of weeks they were able to spare, spent their resources, and now we are telling them that because a group of people decided otherwise, all our constituents’s efforts are going to be wasted?!
I don’t see how we will go back to them and talk about mobilization, patriotism, “Homecoming”, giving back, contribute to their country’s progress, etc… if we can’t even allow them to have a normal patriotic-vacation time in their motherland!!! Yes, “Unity of all Rwandans” is extremely important to all of us, but “destructive behaviors” of some of our Patriots should be strongly condamned and fought against by all of us.
Sincerely,
Alice Cyusa