Comments on: UK rethinking budget support to Kagame’s Rwanda

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:38:12 +0000

The first hearing will be webcast live tomorrow the 8th. The committee will question former Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell as to why he unfroze 16 million pounds of budget support to Rwanda, despite the latest UN Reports that it is backing the m23 militia in DR Congo.

9.30am
HoC International Development Committee – Thatcher Room
UK aid to Rwanda
Witnesses
Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP, former Secretary of State for International Development
To be webcast at this link: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Live.aspx

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:39:47 +0000

You mean 1994, don't you, charism?

By: charism

charism — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:36:54 +0000

@Safari, you must be one of the guys who think that Kagame is good, You have to go for psychological check up. First of all, if Kagame is working with Rwarakabije, who worked with FDLR for long time, it means that he recognizes FDLR as a group of rwandese who have rights, so why he accuses Ingabire to be behind FDLR?

By: charism

charism — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 01:26:06 +0000

My Problem is Kagame and his akazu of tutsi from Uganda, I have not bad idea, I want people to be together as it was before, but I can't accept to be forced to remember only tutsi who died in 2004 genocide, while I have thousand of perents killed by kagame and his army. again, his oppresion against rwandese will never remain unpunished, and I can tell you, I think the problem between tutsi and hutu is getting worse because of him.

By: therisingcontinent

therisingcontinent — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:17:01 +0000

@Safari. I think we differ on what you call our Rwanda. I work for my country defending the lives of millions of Rwandans that Paul Kagame is leaving out, not having access to health care because they cannot afford the medical assurance, those who are being dispossessed, or are being forced to farm one culture and end up starving though they have farmed, those who are being imprisoned and held in prisons for years without charge, those who finish their time in prison are not released, those who don't get bursaries because they are not seen as orphans of genocide, those who don't get employment because they are from the wrong tribe. These are the Rwanda I am working for. Unless these are not part of your country though they are all Rwandans.

By: Ann_Garrison

Ann_Garrison — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 19:58:13 +0000

s8positif: What motive could I possibly have for destabilizing Rwanda?

By: safari

safari — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:35:12 +0000

Charism, your problem is KAGAME or TUTSI? Rwanda is not lead by tutsi, Rwanda is lead by all rwandese..when you say , we will never forget even 300 years as tutsi led before,what are you insinuated .. this is a pure hate speech , a language similar to people responsible of genocide against tutsi…

By: safari

safari — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:29:20 +0000

Ambroise NZEYIMNA called therisingcontinent, it is good for you to work for your country and not support of defend people like Ann Garrison who want to destroy your country in propagating news like Georges de la Radio milles collines.

By: safari

safari — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:25:56 +0000

Therisingcontinet@ the fact that Rwanda leaded by RPF has accepted General Paul Rwarakabije,this is a good news in which you as rwandese you should be happy ,this show how much RPF want to build a peaceful country, the issue with Ann Garrison, it is her alliance with HUTU extremists responsible of genocide of 1994, Ann Garrison she share ideas with these extremists and they work together in propagating false news.

By: therisingcontinent

therisingcontinent — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:17:42 +0000

s8positif. Talking of empowering women by having the highest number of parliamentarian women in the world, is it what you call progress when this sham policy is only there for propaganda and everyone knows well that these women don't have any political power under RPF system? Mr Kagame is for example a dictator towards these women Rwandan parliamentarians because he pays them, and get them to do what he wants when he needs them to stamp something as policy. About western taxpayers' money which has been pumped in Rwanda since 1994, if the senders have known what it has been really used for, they would've stopped long ago.

By: therisingcontinent

therisingcontinent — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:06:31 +0000

@safari. How many FDLR are today in RPF ranks starting from General Paul Rwarakabije? I think another vocabulary should be found in place of 'hate' here. Ann Garrison is a journalist. She is reporting on a topic of interest for her profession. Unless you don't want her to exercise her right of reporting.

By: therisingcontinent

therisingcontinent — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:59:25 +0000

@Miguell, you sound like our president, "someone from nowhere, talking nosense…"

By: therisingcontinent

therisingcontinent — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:55:21 +0000

@Ann Garrison. From s8positif and Michael perspectives, though you are a journalist, there are things that you are not allowed to talk about because they don't portray Rwanda the way they want it to be seen by your listeners or readers.

By: therisingcontinent

therisingcontinent — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:50:27 +0000

Michael. Nobody wants to stop the positive things that Rwanda has been doing. Unless you presume that this can only continue if also the bad policies which have been going on are maintained. But you forget that those wrong policies are affecting millions of people [Rwandans and Congolese particularly]. And because RPF has the means to impose itself to them, it denies any wrong doing in their persistent suffering. That's what more and more people among Rwandans, Congolese, and other people beyond who are keen on the respect of human rights, are only raising awareness about.

By: therisingcontinent

therisingcontinent — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:40:17 +0000

s8positif For you to say that RPF does not oppress Rwandans I can understand that you are not at the receiving end of that oppression. This is what Frank Fanon says about the truth when someone is not used to it: "…they deny anything that does not fit in with the[ir] core belief." http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2012/06/2…. On the question of patriotism, were people like Mandela, Gandhi or Martin Luther King patriotic from the perspective of those who were in power? I don't think so. Unless you prove me that these legendary people were wrong in what they did. Has Rwanda achieved some progress since 94, yes if you look at Kigali, not much elsewhere. But whose progress is it? Isn't it only for a small group of RPF inner circle? I hope you've read the recent article in The Financial Times showing that almost anything significant related to money in Rwanda belonged to RPF. And who is RPF if not Paul Kagame and his close allies? You asked for the agenda. Our country has suffered enough. We don't want any more bloodshed. But at the same time, we cannot accept that RPF continues making the majority suffers even further as if it has a licence to do so because the country has gone through what it experienced in its recent past.

By: charism

charism — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:11:18 +0000

I don't understand why rwandans refuse to see the truth, you forget that Kagame was supported by Uk to take power in rwanda and now they discover the real face of kagame and his tutsi, you dislike uk. Please open your eyes, Kagame did nothing in rwanda, only worship for the 15% tutsi in rwanda. but don't worry, he or his sons will pay all he did to rwandans. we will never forget, even 300 years as tutsi leaded before.

By: s8positif

s8positif — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 01:45:56 +0000

@Ann Garrison what is clear is that working to destibilize Rwanda will not gona be so easy for you. I see that you choose to be on the dark side. you will have to deal first with all the goods result GoR have achieve. for exemple you can not ignore how women's lives have been improved. so please tell me how Mr Kagame can be Dictator and so bad as you say when we spoke about Women life in Rwanda? Please don't make confusion in head of West people. they are the one how help our people in Africa by paying they taxes. Yet Rwanda is the best in using the aid receive from You…. so please tell the throuth!!! is the meaning of Democracy have been change ??

By: safari

safari — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:05:36 +0000

Ann Garrison, it well known that you hate paul kagame and specially tutsi people,nothing will happened to them be sure. you may be a channel of FDLR but the end you will be confused.

By: miguell

miguell — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:52:34 +0000

i think some of people should be taken for medical check-up,rwandan are happy for progress made by their government,now someone from no where,talking nonsense stories???

By: Ann Garrison

Ann Garrison — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:12:37 +0000

@s8positif and Michael: I reported this news about the UK Parliament reconsidering budget support to Rwanda. I am not the UK Parliament and I did not call for the submission of evidence or schedule any hearings on the matter. I did not undertake the UN investigations into Rwanda and Uganda's backing of the M23 militia or Rwandan Defense Minister James Kabarebe's command.