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Rwanda: Genocidaires Remain Prominent Among FDLR Ranks - Says African Rights
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Rwanda News Agency/Agence Rwandaise d'Information (Kigali)
11 December 2007
Posted to the web 11 December 2007
Kigali
Contrary to the arguments that there is only a small number of Genocide suspects among the Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) rebels in the DR Congo, there are hundreds and remain a force that must be 'dismantled' and repatriated to Rwanda, African Rights says in report released Tuesday.
The London-based organization that has campaigned for justice to Genocide victims says the FDLR is not only in DRC but there are dozens Genocide suspects living in comfort in Africa, Europe and North America, among their representatives.
They have not only escaped justice themselves, as African Rights argues, but are also undermining the process of justice in Rwanda by intimidating and bribing those who have testified against them in Gacaca courts or potential witnesses.
The report 'A Welcome Expression of Intent: The Nairobi Communiqué and the EX-FAR/Interahamwe' also alleges that the militias have set up networks to help their close relatives - accused of Genocide - to elude justice and find refuge abroad.
The Rwandan rebels holed up in jungles on the DRC since 1994 are the centre of the conflicts that have ravaged the country as invading forces have fought there on different schemes. The chemistry of the current battles goes way back to 1996 when Rwandan and Ugandan forces took over the country ushering in the Kabila reigns.
Government in Kigali has maintained that the FDLR - are Genocidaires - with whom it cannot hold any discussions - and should simply surrender.
Last month, regional leaders agreed to a deal that would see them disarmed in what has become the Nairobi Communiqué. DRC committed to submitting a comprehensive plan for their repatriation but Rwanda would also hand in the list of those suspected for Genocide. Rwanda is yet to do its part of the bargain.
Human Rights Watch Africa expert Ms. Alison DesForges said recently that she doubted there were any considerable number of genocide suspects among the ranks of the FDLR, because she had long asked for the lists from government unsuccessfully.
Presidential Great Lakes Envoy Dr. Richard Sezibera later said government of Rwanda was 'not answerable to DesForges' and did not have the obligation to hand her the lists. He however, maintained that there was evidence indicating that he group is largely made up of Genocide criminals.
The African Rights report also refutes the argument that the military commanders implicated in the genocide are now too old to be among the commanders of the FDLR.
"A substantial number of officers in senior positions are in their late thirties, and for the most part in their forties and early fifties", says African Rights.
'Representatives and lobbyists'
The 88-page report gives in graphic detail how that rebel force as evolved from numerous previous groups that have fallen apart due to internal wrangles over money and command. The report also includes photos of top figures still moving free.
In analysing the top echelons of the FDLR/RUD, as well as the background of their representatives and supporters, there are few surprises, African Rights says. For the most part, as the report suggests, they come from the préfectures in the north of the country, Gisenyi, Ruhengeri, Byumba and Greater Kigali, especially the communes of Rushashi and Tare in the north of Greater Kigali.
During the time of President Habyarimana, power, privilege and wealth were concentrated in the hands of people from these préfectures, in particular Gisenyi, Habyarimana's home region.
According to African Rights, whose report also includes lists of the political and military leaders of the FDLR, many of them were also shareholders in the hate radio RTLM, which came to be known as radio machete.
Included as well are what African Rights calls 'representatives and lobbyists' in Africa, Europe and North America of the rebel outfit - mainly Rwandan opposition groups. The report singles out RUD-Urunana - whose leaders are comfortable in the US.
"If the international community is serious about destroying the FDLR, and ending the terrible impact they have on the sub-region," argues Major-General Paul Rwarakabije in the report, then it should first deal with its leaders who live free and tranquil lives in their countries, for example in Europe, the US etc."
Gen. Rwarakabije surrendered in 2003 and is now the Vice President of the Repatriation and Reintegration Commission. According to the former second-in-command, the link with the outside world especially the through the media, is what has sustained the FDLR, and also distorts reality.
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"Do you have any idea about the value of programmes transmitted by radios like the BBCGahuzamiryango [the BBC Kinyarwanda/Kirundi service]?", he asks. The day we heard the spokesperson of the FDLR speaking on our behalf in Brussels, followed perhaps the next day by someone else setting out our position from France, it really used to lift the soldiers' morale, narrates the retired General.
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GENOCIDE SUSPECTS ARE AMONG WHO? SO NOW ALL BURUNDESE SOLDIERS,RWANDESE OF RFP OR FPR ARE ALSO GENOCIDE BECAUSE THEY KILLED INNOCENT HUTUS WHO WERE COMING BACK TO RWANDA AND ALL THOSE SANS ECHEC ARE NOW IN CANADA THEY ARE AMONG CANADIAN THEY KILLED HANGED PENETRATE THE BAMBOOS IN ASSHOLE,BURNING ALIVE PEOPLE CALLING A HUMAN BEING A"THING" IN FRENCH IS "BOR" SO HUMAN BEING WAS CONSIDERED AS THING A SPECIALLY EVERY ONE WHO IS NOT TUTSI SO ,ALL OF THEM THEY COME TO CANADA FROM USA VIA WINDSOR WITH A REASON OF BEING TUTSIS SO THEY ARE VICTIMS OF KILLING ,BECAUSE... [Read Full Text]
that true my dear we have tutsis soldiers in canada and sans echecs.
According to kagome kagame every hutu is genocide and tutsis who is against his leardships is interahamwe or bandit,he doesn't want the existence of hutus especailly the educated ones we know that following what we saw when he was in the bush killing every week 6000 persons by tying theirs arms behind theirs backs hanging and beatting with hammer, so ,If kagome is practcing democracy why a big number of tutsis ran ,fleed out side of the country most refugees in europe in belgium are tutsis ,so tell me If I can kill easly my family ,what will happen to... [Read Full Text]
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