Rwanda: Politics, Not Human Rights, Behind HRW Agenda in Rwanda

24 October 2017
opinion

It seems Human Rights Watch (HRW) and its Executive Director for life, Ken Roth, can never be at ease unless they have some nasty thing to say about Rwanda and its leadership. If need be, which has been the case for over two decades now, they will invent that nastiness and pass it off as truth about Rwanda.

Not surprisingly, because HRW has been on a path far from advocating human rights in Rwanda, its stock with the country's leaders has been very low. And now, with its recent clearly false claims of extra-judicial killings of individuals who, it turns out, are actually alive and well, whatever little of it that was left among ordinary Rwandans has certainly been lost.

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