Comments on: Rwanda is no excuse for the U.S. to intervene in Sudan

By: Marck Down

Marck Down — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:31:27 +0000

Us international community we just sit and judge what is going wrong in others people’s country and think us we are good in countries. let start changing what is going wrong in countries(US and UK) before we go to Rwanda who work hard for their country when we are just sitting here in our countries. Who we are? Who are you Ann or Peter to judge others?

We need to not ignore the true or transformer other people’s history to feel like we are heros or we are doing some thing

By: Marck Down

Marck Down — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:30:34 +0000

Mrs Ann you have no ideas what Rwanda was and what is today. you are mixing things and you don’t even know how to difference a genocide and a war? What kind of journalist you are? I can just sit her in London and start talking about how Democratic are killing Republic in US but you know that is not true and I don't have fact for that but I can convince people it is happening(like you). it is the same you are doing about Rwanda.

I have travel 2 in Rwanda doing research on Rwanda but special i was interest on political platform in Rwanda. I find that Ingabire she is trying to bringing the old school of using the ethnic as weapon for her to win election. Rwanda has ban indentified them self as Twa, Hutu or Tutsi and they told me that the will make sure no one will bringing them back where the well are 1994.

By: sean smith

sean smith — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 23:14:13 +0000

Andrew you can't talk sense to Ann, she's just an Idiot that has decided to remain ignorant. Whenever you challenge her, she doesn't publish your comment. She sides with genocidaires. She's just a loser being used by genocidaires. She too old to be educated. She is a messenger of hate.

By: Andrew E. Mathis

Andrew E. Mathis — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:22:18 +0000

Is that supposed to upset me?

By: jean p mukanya

jean p mukanya — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:17:04 +0000

You are looking for glory where it's not. Professor Erlinder and Herman are other losers that are in the same boat with you. If you have a problem with the USA role in africa, take it up with your country don't divide africans. You very well know you can't take it up with your country because you are a complete waste of space, so you decide to tell lies. You are just like bin laden, famous causing trouble. You realised at your old age, you had failed yourself, and wasn't going to be successful doing good, and decided to take the ugly way and rise to fame by instigating violence, in poor african countries. Shame on you. Bin laden was hiding for 10yrs but finally got cought and your judgement day will come too. Sincerely Panafrican

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 23:15:48 +0000

"I've been told that you refuse to read scholarly articles on the topic. . . " Andrew!!!! I'm awed by your own scholarly excellence regarding what you've "been told."

I haven't been told anything about you. Indeed, I don't know anyone who knows you or wants to waste time talking about you.

By: Andrew E. Mathis

Andrew E. Mathis — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:06:55 +0000

It isn't the ICTR's responsibility to prosecute crimes committed in other states, even if they are committed by Rwandan government agents, which is undoubtedly the case here. Rather, the ICTR has a very narrow mandate to cover crimes against humanity committed in the spring and summer of '94.This is why the great majority of "mitigating evidence" that Erlinder attempted to enter in defense of his client (who was found guilty of committing genocide — do I need to tell you that, Ann?) was ruled irrelevant by the tribunal.

By: Andrew E. Mathis

Andrew E. Mathis — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:04:54 +0000

I've responded to Erlinder's lies ad nauseum. For Christ's sake, Ann, my documenting of Erlinder's lies are linked to in these very comments by another reader!
http://umuvugizi.wordpress.com/2011/04/16/genocid…

You don't pay attention, Ann.

By: Andrew E. Mathis

Andrew E. Mathis — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:49:36 +0000

You've got some fuck load of nerve, Ann.

I've looked over the evidence very, very carefully. You, OTOH, are too God-damned stupid to understand that you're a tool of the very people who committed genocide and would do it again at the least provocation. I've been told that you refuse to read scholarly articles on the topic, preferring to remain in abject ignorance about the intricacies of the topic. Instead, you swallow hook, line, and sinker any argument that is in opposition to American power, whether it's true or not. That's pitifully ignorant. While it's a good instinct to question power by whomever it's exercised, it is undermined by resting on one's "progressive" laurels to the detriment of entire nations of people — here the Tutsi.

You're not a liar, Ann. You're a useful idiot.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:38:28 +0000

How 'bout pulling yours outa your lazy butt and studying the evidence, Andrew?

By: Andrew E. Mathis

Andrew E. Mathis — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:50:01 +0000

That's good, Ann. Just put your head back in the sand.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:06:08 +0000

@Andrew: I don't see any logic or evidence to respond to here.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:05:34 +0000

Thanks, Pandora. I'll assume that's for me; thanks much. It often seems like pushing a rock up a hill or swimming upstream, but recently several members of the KPFA Radio staff and KPFA's listener activist community have come up to me and said they're looking at this part of the world, East/Central Africa and/or Africa differently because of my reporting over the last 2 or 3 years. Every time I receive another note like this, or one more person from one more country shows up in the map of people finding my website, it encourages as well. In the last month or two, I had a big increase in website visitors from Tanzania, and my best guess was that that had to do with the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda.

By: Andrew E. Mathis

Andrew E. Mathis — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:56:37 +0000

There is no false equation, Ann, and frankly I find it insulting that my being Jewish would even be considered relevant to the discussion. Nor is the situation in the Palestinian territories one that is relevant here. What is relevant is that you have a segment among progressive being exploited by those who committed genocide — and they're too blind to see it.

Aimable Mugara's piece amounts to little more than blaming the victim. No matter how extreme the RPF's crimes have been — and they have been very, very extreme — the genocidal mass murder of Tutsi in the spring and summer of 1994 cannot be "excused." By the way, if you want to see an analogy, then read how the Nazis described the Jews in the '30s and '40s: You'll see similarities with the way Mugara describes the Tutsi.

By: Pandora Earrings

Pandora Earrings — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:16:44 +0000

Pandora Earrings Hi. I wanted to drop you a quick note to express my thanks. I’ve been following your blog for a month or so and have picked up a ton of good information as well as enjoyed the way you’ve structured your site.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:47:33 +0000

@jean p mukanya: A string of insults like this hardly deserves a response. . . am I supposed to shout back "you stupid loser, you illogical, incoherent hater, blah blah blah". . . Waste of time. However, I do have a moral obligation to speak to my own country's catastrophic interventions in Africa, as Professors Peter Erlinder and Ed Herman have.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:40:45 +0000

Can you cite what's in the files, Andrew? If you want to accuse someone of lying, you should cite specific statements, rather than attacking someone's character. That is an ad hominem argument, a.k.a., a logical fallacy.

By: jean p mukanya

jean p mukanya — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:53:44 +0000

Ann Get a life. You are just a loser that has no clue of what goes on in africa and you are trying to be an expert. You are on the wrong side of history woman. You can either chose the right side or just keep spreading the hate. I wonder how you sleep at night knowing that everything you say about africa is lies, the blood that was shed and the one that might be shed due to the voilence you are trying to instigate, will come back to hunt you.
I am congeles and i love my country in only believe we will be the one to solve our problem, not that silly woman in california. How can rwanda be better than us and yet we have more resources. Our people a good at talking and less action.

By: Selina

Selina — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 13:45:36 +0000

Whenever NATO which consist of European countries and the US are being asked by nations of color ( Specifically African Nations) to SO-CALLED help out with humanitarian assistance their response to the African nation is to bring army tanks and high powerful weapons to destroy never to help

Libya DIDN'T ask for NATO or the US help in getting rid of it's SO-CALLED dictator. The US decided they wanted to overthrow Quadafi just like all other leaders of oil/resource rich nations

As as for Rwanda the president volunterilly decided to share his political bed with the US as well as S. Sudan, Africans just refuse to believe or accept whenever they call on anyone in the west to SO-Called assist with anytype of humanitarian AID; food, loans or protection their asking for their own extermination.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:05:00 +0000

Professors Erlinder and Herman have never called it cut and dried, but the only other thing I have to say to this Andrew, is that progressive Jewish people, those who don't want to see the history of the Jewish genocide by the Nazis dishonored by Israel's aggression against the Palestinian people, are among those with the most reason, and power, to speak out against the way their history is also dishonored by its false equation with the Rwanda Genocide, and its use as a justification for Kagame's ongoing aggression, and for intervention in, e.g., Sudan.

Rwanda Genocide survivor Aimable Mugara's piece is among the best about this: "Rwanda Circa 1994 Is No Nazi Germany," http://www.opednews.com/articles/Rwanda-circa-199….