To: His Excellency the President of the UN Security Council | New York, USA
Subject: IMMINENT: A New Genocide Looms in Rwanda
Date : December 27, 2024
Your Excellency Mr. President,
We come before you to alert you and, through you, to mobilize all decision-makers in the international community, so that together you remain attentive to the dramatic daily lives of the Rwandan people, in the name of the collective duty to prevent atrocities, as embodied by the global commitment “Never again.” Indeed, we regret to inform you, Excellency Mr. President, that today Rwanda, a country that endured unspeakable massacres and genocide in 1994, is threatened with a new cataclysm, as a result of Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s egotistical, inflammatory rhetoric and repressive policies, which threaten to set the country ablaze once again.
“If any of us can suffer today, because of who we are, what our people suffered thirty years ago because of who they were, and justice proves incapable of putting an end to it, then I dare to tell you, loud and clear, that we have our own plan to take the matter into our hands and put into effect immediately,” declared dictator President Paul Kagame at the swearing-in session of the Supreme Court office on December 12, 2024. This highly significant statement followed closely on the heels by the statement made by Bob Mugabe, an influential journalist and also an agent of Kagame and the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) who, two (2) weeks earlier, had declared “if these people (i.e. the Hutus) persist in threatening the security and tranquillity of the Tutsis, then we will come to blows, and it will be quick and brutal enough that even the government will be unable to do anything to calm our ardour.” The common people of Rwanda expected Bob Mugabe to be prosecuted for these inflammatory remarks, since they laid bare a plan for organized, large-scale violence but in vain. The impunity enjoyed by the authors of such remarks, far from leading to prosecution, is taken up by the country’s highest authorities, illustrating the regime’s support for such incitement to hatred.
Allow us to tell you, Excellency Mr. President, that when Kagame, President of Rwanda, uses the words “we” and “our people”, he really means the members of his ethnic community, the “Tutsis.” And he implies, at the very least, that it is the Hutus who are to blame for all the misfortunes of the Tutsis. These remarks are reminiscent of even cruder ones made by Paul Kagame several years earlier: “When I arrived, I found this country dirty and in a mess; when I leave, I’ll leave this country dirty and in a mess (i.e. covered in corpses,)” President Kagame declared to a stunned audience during his 2010 presidential campaign. This prophecy of doom is coming true today, given the actions and words of dictator Kagame and his regime’s leading figures.
Your Excellency Mr. President, while the Rwandan genocide of 1994 may have unfolded in the expectation of an indifferent and somewhat ignorant international community, no one can claim not to have seen the warning signs of a new genocide looming in Rwanda. Paul Kagame’s words, following those of his spokesmen, such as the Minister of Unity and Civic Education Dr. Jean-Damascène Bizimana, the Apostle David Mutabazi, the journalist-agent of the DMI Bob Mugabe and others, are sufficiently eloquent signs of the cataclysm that is being intensively prepared in Rwanda. Moreover, President Paul Kagame never speaks in a vacuum; he accompanies coordinated and highly revealing actions already underway. The scenario is always the same: a well-targeted Tutsi is murdered by the system’s henchmen, and President Paul Kagame, without investigation or any other form of trial, accuses the Hutus, saying that “they are continuing the dirty work they started in 1994.” Such a move is designed to legitimize a large-scale operation to eliminate as many Hutus as possible, in line with the ‘Punguza Wajinga’ = ‘Reduce these imbeciles” operation that Paul Kagame and his collaborators have designed and implemented since their final assault on Kigali in 1994.
With regard to the facts and acts leading up to the genocide of the Hutus, the following notorious facts should be mentioned by way of example:
1. Militarization of villages: the junta spread arms and munitions over the hills of Rwanda. According to sources of former Tutsi cadres who fled the Rwandan regime: in every administrative cell or village, intelligence agents, RDF (Inkeragutabara) reservists and young Tutsis who have attended the “Itorero” ideological indoctrination centers hold at least one automatic weapon. All these groups are from the Tutsi ethnic minority. All of them are ready to open fire against the HUTU enemy at the moment decreed by Paul Kagame’s ruling RPF party.
2. Ethnic profiling: any family with at least one member in the former Rwandan army (FAR), as well as Hutu families with at least one member in the West and families with at least one refugee member in any African country, are listed in order of priority according to their “level of danger” to the regime. When the time comes, all these families will be targeted and exterminated.
3. Intentional impoverishment: adoption of a series of strategies aimed at the accelerated impoverishment of the Hutu mass, with the secret leitmotiv “hunger will do the work.” To this end, various strategies were implemented, some of which had been in place for several years: land deprivation, expropriation for public use without compensation, monoculture, minimization of prices to producers, etc. This set of impoverishing measures has had a number of harmful effects on the lives of the peasant masses: almost 65% of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day; the unemployment rate among young people is over 40%; the school drop-out rate is very high, due to the financial incapacity of parents; malnutrition among children under 5 is over 40%; a drastic reduction in the number of families receiving social assistance, etc.
4. State terrorism: Rwandan embassies and consulates have become veritable barracks, where soldiers and army reservists are assigned to form groups of Intore (young RPF militiamen) ready to carry out any mission, in particular any form of aggression against Hutus living abroad.
5. Targeted assassinations: the government has ordered various types of poisons to be used against the Hutu elite and to be widely disseminated in Rwanda’s towns and territories at a moment’s notice. In addition, the junta has dispatched soldiers and other agents to certain countries for training in various techniques of torture, poisoning and mass repression.
6. Apology for murder as a state method: constant threats against the real or supposed opposition, against businessmen and women: anyone who is not on the side of power must be neutralized and put to death when power decides to do so.
7. Military exploitation: sending thousands of young Hutus to serve as cannon fodder in the war zone in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo; forced repatriation of real or supposed FDLR.
8. Demonization of part of Rwandan society: constant campaign of persecution, public humiliation, devaluation and dehumanization, collective criminalization of the HUTU ethnic group through official speeches by senior leaders including President Kagame himself, intimidation with liberticidal laws such as the one on the repression of “genocide ideology” attributed without objective proof to all Hutus whatever their age.
Excellency Mr. President, you can see that Paul Kagame’s regime is constantly stirring up ethnic divisions and justifying violence in the name of a victimhood narrative. It is our moral duty to prevent this impending catastrophe. Faced with this situation, we, the members of the Movement for the Republic and Democracy (MRD), a political platform uniting men and women determined to eradicate the reign of terror and bring about a peaceful, reconciled and forward-looking Rwanda, call on the UN Security Council to :
1. Strongly condemn the hate speeches by President Kagame and his collaborators;
2. Demand an independent international inquiry into the recent assassinations and other ongoing preparations;
3. Establish protection mechanisms to guarantee security and public peace. In particular, dissuade the regime from all attacks and violations against Mrs. Victoire INGABIRE, leader of Rwanda’s DALFA opposition party, constantly threatened with death by President Paul Kagame;
4. Support a political and social transition towards a reconciled Rwanda, respectful of human rights and diversity.
Excellency Mr. President, we count on your leadership and commitment to accompany the Rwandan people towards a political and social change that will guarantee a radiant future for the generations to come.
Please accept, Excellency Mr. President, the assurances of our highest consideration.
Done in Washington DC, December 27th, 2024
Mrs Christine COLEMAN
President of MRD
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