Kigali — When her right-hand man, Joseph Ntawangundi, was exposed as a wanted Genocide criminal, Victoire Ingabire, and her network of Genocide revisionists cried blue murder.
They jumped to Ntawangundi's defence, demonised Gacaca courts and dragged the government in the mud. As usual, the so-called human rights activists and quack 'Rwanda experts' jumped on the bandwagon.
Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, revisionists and their sympathisers, swallowed whole the cheap political hyperbole fabricated in Ingabire's backyard, portraying Ntawangundi as a victim of the alleged government repressive laws.
This newspaper was not spared their insulting missives, calling it all sorts of names, despite publishing results of a meticulous research which proved that Ntawangundi was not exactly a choirboy.
Their make-believe world came crumbling down when Ntawangundi came clean, pleading guilty and seeking forgiveness for his crimes.
It's interesting to note that once evidence against Ntawangundi became increasingly insurmountable, with his subsequent court appearance, Ingabire and her human rights supporters dropped him in quick order. Not a single one of them showed up at any of the hearings.
Her tirades, in the face of her assistant's admission of guilt, has not only brought out the true picture of the political manipulator that she is, but has also confirmed her genocide denial stance.
Indeed, if the Human Rights organisations that stood in Ntawangundi's corner, viciously attacking the Government of Rwanda, for allegedly arresting Ingabire's assistant on trumped up charges, had any conscience, they should apologise to the Rwandan people.
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According to RNA reporter:
Speaking to witnesses who pinned Mr. Ntawangundi, they say there are still many issues that remain unresolved. Some wonder why he at first said he was not the person mentioned in the case, then turned around accepting. Some witnesses are also saying they are beginning to have a problem trusting anything Mr. Ntawangundi has said.
(http://www.rnanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3175:d rama-in-fdu-inkingis-ntawangundi-appeals-case&catid=17:politics&Itemid=36)
This statement is quite interesting because last month the BBC misleadingly reported that a prisoner (probably an illiterate hutu peasant in prison for life) admitted having killed 700 Tutsis by his own hands!
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8593734.stm)
It is therefore possible that Joseph Ntawangundi has been manipulated. He was forced to plead guilty in exchange of a reduced sentence which he did not get. In appeal he tried hard to convince the judges by kneeling down as this is the in vogue culture with the RPF regime (according to Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa who escaped in extremis).
One should wonder why up to date, the RPF government was unable to produce the record of the conviction in absentia supposedly pronounced in 2007 against Joseph Ntawangundi.
If we stick to the testimony of General Kayumba Nyamwasa, former head of Rwandan intelligence, who recently escaped such manipulations, we may all know how Ntawangundi confession which supported his condemnation of March 24, 2010 has been obtained.
The truth is that Ntawangundi was clearly victim of RPF manipulations. Unfortunately, he was not the first one nor the last one.
According to RNA reporter:
Mr. Ntawangundi still has chances for appeal but it will be more difficult because he will be required to come up with specific aspects of the case he thinks were disregarded.
(http://www.rnanews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3175:d rama-in-fdu-inkingis-ntawangundi-appeals-case&catid=17:politics&Itemid=36).
Mr. Ntawangundi should definitely request that his 2007 files be made public. Such a request was disregarded up to date and would surely cause headaches and turmoil within RPF officials because such a record simply does not exist.