Rwanda Turns East for Aid

After the United States, Britain and Europe suspended aid over Rwanda’s alleged support of Congolese rebels, the government has stepped up relations with China, which has indicated it will step up support.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (right) meets President Paul Kagame: Rwanda recently submitted a rebuttal to the UN Sanctions Committee on allegations that it is backing the M23 rebels in Congo-Kinshasa (file photo).

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  • BOMA TUTSI TIKA NYOKA
    Aug 9 2012, 10:39

    Paul Kagame and his Tutsis brothers are ungrateful, filthy and as mean as the devil himself.

    They claim to enter Congo to pursue Hutus but at the same they train them and use them as reserve army or mercenaries to massacre Congolese villagers!

    How many Tutsis and Hutus we killed before, during and right after the so-called "Genocide" ? ZERO!

    In fact we welcomed them and provided shelter for 380.000 Tutsis and later 1.200.000 Hutus.

    Why did they come and massacre our people??

    It is time to pay and we will make you pay by any means possible.

    FILTHY ANIMALS!!

  • bohulunkumu
    Aug 10 2012, 12:26

    PAUL KAGAME IS IN AN DIFFICULT POSITION NOW.

    HE CAN KEEP SAYING NO, NO, NO HOWEVER THE FUTURE OF M23 WILL DEPEND ON HIM. HE IS NO LONGER ABLE TO PROVIDE OVERT OR COVERT SUPPORT TO HIS PUPPETS IN BUNAGANA.

    ALL EYES ARE WATCHING YOU MR KAGAME. YOU CAN'T DENY FOREVER. SOON OR LATER WE WILL CATCH YOU.

  • salnundu
    Aug 12 2012, 15:26

    One who thinks that there's a country in this world that would prefer rwanda over Congo is a fool. What can rwanda offer? Congo has a lot to offer and the Chinese has a big chunk of the Congo's pie. Kagame needs a hug, the international community is sick and tired of his lies. His dumb ass thought that his involvement in over 5 million deaths in Congo would go unnoticed. The evidence of rwanda's involvement has been there for many years, but with a lobbyist like bill clinton, kagame's been given a pass all these years. OBAMA/BIDEN 2012

  • salnundu
    Aug 7 2012, 19:25

    Yeah right, survive without aid? These people don't get it. Your lies of many years have been exposed. Your involvement of over 5 million deaths in Congo is now out there for the world to see. You can deny all you want, you can try to act tough but we we all know that the aid that you have been recieving for so many years makes you think that you are tough. I'm calling for more aid to be with held until these rwandan vampires are brought to justice.

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