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Long before it turned genocide denier, the BBC produced a documentary that exposed three truths: One: The genocide against the Tutsi was planned. Two: The plan was known to the US State Department months before hell was unleashed on Rwanda’s Tutsi. Three: The attack on the plane was nothing but a pretext to unleash genocidal violence. "Rwanda, That Local Thing" is just one episode among eight in a series called Corridors of Power: Should the US Police the World? Here is what British investigative journalist Linda Melvern writes in her recent article, "A preventable genocide, a denied responsibility: What 'Corridors of Power' reveals about Rwanda": "Anyone who had bothered to examine the cables from Kigali, carefully filed in the State Department’s Africa Bureau, would have found the outline of a planned, political campaign to exterminate the Tutsi." Read more: Let that sink in. They knew. The documentary goes further, revealing that the extermination plan was personally disclosed to General Roméo Dallaire, commander of UNAMIR, back in January 1994… by a regime insider. Here was the plan, in cold blood: -Kill Belgian peacekeepers to drive the UN mission out. - Then kill all Tutsi. Lists of Tutsi were drawn up. Weapons stockpiled. Tens of thousands of Interahamwe militias trained and mobilized. The media, the RTLM, would do the rest, whipping the masses into a killing frenzy. Three months before the genocide, three months before the plane was struck, the plan was already laid out, ready to be executed. The attack on the plane, launched from the Kanombe military barracks, controlled by the genocidal army, was never the cause. It was the excuse.The signal to begin the slaughter. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a genocide denier. Plain and simple. Cc: African 𝑹𝒖𝒌𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂 𝑨𝒍𝒊 Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 #LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Robert Cyubahiro McKenna Sir. Uracyaryamye Dr. Dash Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe David Hundeyin Nathalie Yamb Charles Onyango-Obbo Andrew M. Mwenda David Ndii Economic Freedom Fighters Mbuyiseni Ndlozi
Isabelle Karake153,257 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
Why are global investors turning to Rwanda, a landlocked country? Maybe the premise of the question is wrong. Some people see Rwanda as landlocked, but we primarily view ourselves as a bridge. And investors agree. Don't look at the obstacle and miss the opportunity. Challenges can be turned into opportunities. RDB's Michelle Umurungi presentation at #ACF2026 Watch:
Isabelle Karake41,951 görüntüleme • 29 gün önce
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32 years ago, the West made a deal with the Rwandan genocidal regime. The deal that sealed the fate of the Tutsi. In this documentary, U.S. officials confirm it. "The deal we made was that in return for safe passage for our diplomats, we would not take any Rwandan citizens with us. We left our U.S. government employees colleagues to fend for themselves," says Prudence Bushnell, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Laura Lane, then an officer at the U.S. embassy, recalls: "To this day, I always thought I got lucky. But now I realise it was part of the plan to get us out." As she concludes, the genocidaires wanted a license to kill, and they got it, without any resistance. From that moment on, they knew the West wouldn't stand in their way as they proceeded with the next phase of their plan: the extermination of the Tutsi. The US made the deal; the French and the Belgians sent in their troops to enforce it. Thirty-two years is not a long time. For some of us, it feels like yesterday. And so: yesterday, they evacuated their people, and even their dogs, and left our people to die. Now, when the FDLR launches attacks from neighbouring DRC, they issue travel warnings to their own citizens. But interestingly enough, they expect us to remove our defensive measures before the FDLR, the very genocidal group they've supposedly spent billions on peacekeeping missions to neutralise, is dealt with. So we have to ask: Have they made another deal with the devil? A deal not just to exterminate the Banyamulenge and other Tutsi communities in Congo, but one that extends to the destruction of Rwanda itself. Cc: African 𝑹𝒖𝒌𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂 𝑨𝒍𝒊 Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 #LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia Robert Cyubahiro McKenna Sir. Uracyaryamye Dr. Dash Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe David Hundeyin Nathalie Yamb Charles Onyango-Obbo Andrew M. Mwenda David Ndii Economic Freedom Fighters Mbuyiseni Ndlozi Mario Nawfal DD Geopolitics Bureau of African Affairs Secretary Marco Rubio Mujuni Raymond U.S. Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs
Isabelle Karake43,974 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce
At the UN Security Council meeting on the DRC, China said the quiet part out loud: The Doha process must be accelerated and brought to a conclusion so a comprehensive peace agreement can finally be reached. This is the only sensible position, and frankly the kind of clarity one would expect from the US representative, especially since Massad Boulos (U.S. Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs ), Trump’s senior adviser on African Affairs and a central figure in these negotiations, has himself said that Doha is the missing piece of the puzzle. Without a peace deal between Kinshasa and M23 in Doha, the fighting will continue. And we all know Kinshasa has been dragging its feet on this front, all while continuing to violate the ceasefire. China understands the critical role of the Doha track. Unlike its Western counterparts, it is openly calling on them to drop their geopolitical games, stop taking sides, and pursue peace seriously. That is what responsible global powers are supposed to do at the Security Council. After failing to uphold their responsibility to protect Congolese Tutsi, Western powers should at least try to redeem themselves by working for peace. Of course, don’t expect Western media to highlight this. So spread the message.
Isabelle Karake94,113 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
“If you want to know how many times the FDLR has attacked Rwanda, just look at the travel advisories some of your countries have issued. Every time the FDLR attacks Rwanda, you advise your citizens not to travel to that part of the country." If 21 attacks in 31 years are not enough to invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter, which threshold justifies that? “It happened to us once. We listened to preachers, and we were slaughtered like cows. It will never happen again.” Rwandan UN Ambassador MartinNgoga to the UN Security Council.
Isabelle Karake118,373 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce
Beautiful!! Pan-African, South–South cooperation isn’t just words written in ink and left to gather dust in drawers; it’s Rwanda’s way of life. Next stop: Barbados. And they’d better take me with them. I want to visit the country of this great, great woman. Mia Amor Mottley 😍😍
Isabelle Karake73,933 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
All Banyarwanda, including President Kagame, are Bantu, a term for a large group of African peoples who speak languages of the Bantu branch. The word Bantu literally means “people”: -ntu = “person”, with the plural prefix ba. In kinyarwanda : Abantu. And yet look at the alienation the RPF has faced since ending the genocide against the Tutsi. At its core, this is genocide ideology: the conviction that Rwandan, Congolese, and even Burundian Tutsi are “not Bantu” and therefore should be exterminated or sent back to some imagined place of origin. The perpetrators and their backers have been trying to rewrite the history of genocide and to turn themselves into victims. To achieve that goal they’ve been trying to recruit the Bantu peoples of Africa into their genocidal project, claiming those who defeated them were not Bantu, but Nilotic. This is pure nonsense. Listen again to Rutendo Matinyarare
Isabelle Karake97,614 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce
What makes Rwanda different is the work behind the scenes: the preparation. "Rwanda is the country that has spent the last five years sending students to be trained, and today we have a critical mass of nuclear scientists." This is the blueprint. We need a critical mass of African nuclear scientists if we are serious about developing nuclear energy and running it ourselves. Cc: African Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 Robert Cyubahiro McKenna Dr. Dash Sophie Mokoena Charles Onyango-Obbo Andrew M. Mwenda David Ndii
Isabelle Karake13,797 görüntüleme • 25 gün önce
"Rwanda will not accept being continuously subjected to baseless accusations. Rigorous evidence is non negotiable. Any breach of that standard will be challenged every single time!" Ambassador Urujeni Bakuramutsa, Rwanda's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office
Isabelle Karake84,691 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
Trump’s senior adviser, Massad Boulos (U.S. Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs) reiterated that the Washington accords between #Rwanda and the #DRC were only the launchpad for the peace process, and that they complement the Doha track between AFC/M23 and Kinshasa, which still needs to be completed for a comprehensive peace agreement. The Tshisekedi regime, which had hoped to sidestep the Doha process, is in for a rude awakening. Cc: Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 Sugira Mireille🇨🇩 Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. Bertrand Bisimwa Manzi Willy Alex Mvuka, Ph.D.
Isabelle Karake39,477 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
🚨Kinshasa doubling down on regime change against Rwanda is spelling an ominous end for Tshisekedi ! The Tshisekedi regime’s open embrace of Jean-Luc Habyarimana — the political face of the FDLR and son of former Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Agathe Kanziga, central figures in the creation of the Interahamwe militias that carried out genocide against the Tutsi — may prove to be one provocation too many. Tshisekedi should know that there are red lines that, once crossed, make peace and coexistence impossible. It is one thing to fantasize about regime change in Rwanda, to flirt with genocide ideology, and even to secretly arm the FDLR toward that end. Such recklessness might still be met with a degree of restraint, in the hope that reason would eventually prevail. But it is another matter entirely to persist, to mistake restraint for weakness, and to openly host the FDLR’s political leadership, Jean-Luc Habyarimana in this case, as part of preparations to overthrow our government. It is worth noting that this follows Kinshasa’s similarly provocative 2024 move: openly inviting convicted genocide masterminds residing in Mali, after serving their sentences, to relocate to the DRC. The message Kinshasa is sending to Kigali is unmistakable: “We will not neutralize the FDLR; genocide ideology is what unites our coalition; the genocidal project remains alive; we will double down and help FDLR march on Kigali; we have even chosen their political leader as Rwanda’s future President." In essence, Kinshasa is signaling that there is no political solution to the current conflict, that only one side will remain standing. Believe me, that message has been received loud and clear. Very soon, these provocations will meet their response.
Isabelle Karake35,550 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
🎯M23 will be taught in South African military schools! Why? It was the first time since World War II that South African troops were captured by enemy forces. It was also the first time they were captured by a non-state armed group. South Africa has been in the DRC longer than the US was in Afghanistan. This expert notes that the South African government may have concluded there was nothing more it could do in the DRC, especially after the January 2025 rout. That is true. Sadly, while South Africans are reflecting on the condition of their army, which is a legitimate concern, they have refused to reflect on the purpose of their mission in the DRC. Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki would never have backed a regime bent on exterminating part of its population. They would never have supported a government that recruits the FDLR, a group formed by the remnants of genocidal forces. Never. The same is true for Nyerere. There was a time when South Africa (and Tanzania) offered the world a moral compass. That South Africa no longer exists. It has been replaced by corrupt, populist politicians who have forgotten their own liberation struggle and chosen instead to embrace an apartheid-like, genocidal regime in Kinshasa. I am talking to you too Julius Sello Malema ! The moral decay came first. The military defeat merely followed. As South Africa reflects, it should reflect on that too. Cc: Sugira Mireille🇨🇩 African Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 Michaela Agasaro
Isabelle Karake38,644 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
🎯Why the Congo was created, and why Rwanda and Burundi had to be destroyed Burundian Professor Rugambarara offers invaluable insights into the colonial project of divide and rule, which continues to make thousands of victims today in the Great Lakes region. He begins by reminding us that the Congo, unlike other African colonies, was created at the 1885 Berlin Conference as an “Independent State” under King Leopold II of Belgium. To make colonization easier, powerful pre-colonial kingdoms within that newly created state were deliberately broken apart. The Bakongo Kingdom, for example, was divided among different colonial powers. That is why its people today are dispersed across Congo-Brazzaville, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola. Congo, this mammoth territory, was then designed to serve as the base of operations for colonial powers, their economic rear base, their pré carré, if you will. It has largely remained so ever since. However, surrounding Congo were two centuries-old kingdoms that represented a serious threat to the colonial project: Rwanda and Burundi. These kingdoms had defeated Arab slave traders. They were too organized, too coherent in identity, and too deeply rooted to be dismantled all at once. They were not colonies but protectorates, having signed treaties with the Germans. The process of subjugation was therefore gradual, and bloodier in Burundi than in Rwanda. In short, the colonialists decided to destroy them slowly. The first step was territorial amputation. Territories were taken away to reduce their size and, more importantly, to weaken their main source of power: their population. As two of the most populous and organized societies in Central Africa, it was necessary to depopulate them, both to weaken them politically and to supply labor elsewhere. Rwanda lost territory to what is today Uganda and the DRC. Burundi lost territory to what is now Tanzania and the DRC. The second phase of destruction involved ideology. Colonial powers manufactured divisions that would poison these societies for decades, creating “ethnicities” out of thin air, the so-called Hamites and Bantus. (Hans Meyer’s book Die Barundi: Eine völkerkundliche Studie aus Deutsch-Ostafrika) The colonialists also understood that these once-powerful kingdoms would forever remain obstacles to their project of exploiting Africa. Today, President Paul Kagame, as the man who reunified Rwandans, represents that threat reborn. As long as Rwanda and Burundi, ancient nation-states, remained divided internally and antagonistic toward each other, the exploitation of Congo could continue without resistance. That is why Burundi, as a tribalized and weakened state, can do no wrong in the eyes of the system: it poses no danger. Rwanda, however, is too dangerous an example, especially if its nation-building model of were to be emulated by others, such as the AFC/M23, which today is attempting to forge a Congolese identity in the aftermath of decades of discrimination, much like Rwanda did after the genocide against the Tutsi. Therefore, Rwanda must be destroyed. And so must any attempt to unite Congolese people beyond imposed divisions. Divide and rule remains the model. We are still their guinea pigs, until we decide to say no! Watch the entire episode here:
Isabelle Karake43,557 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce
Impressive city of Kibitoki in Burundi. Absolutely awesome!
Isabelle Karake69,406 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce
Indeed, as British investigative journalist Linda Melvern has noted, denial of the Genocide against the Tutsi began in the UN Security Council itself, where the genocidal government still held a non-permanent seat and continued to attend meetings, even as the Council debated abandoning the Tutsi to their killers. Each session of the Council showed the world would not intervene, emboldening the killers whose representative was in the room. The powers that be allowed the very government carrying out the extermination to lie again and again, creating the political cover to withdraw UN troops and look the other way. Denial then re-emerged in the refugee camps in the Congo, all of which were controlled by the genocidaires. It later moved into the chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where the architects of the genocide and their lawyers pushed narratives designed to rewrite history, portraying it as a tribal conflict, a spontaneous outburst of rage, or unplanned chaos. All these theories, aimed at denying the facts, shifting blame when outright denial became untenable, and eventually promoting a “double genocide” conspiracy theory to place killers and our heroes on the same moral footing, have been debunked time and again. Yet large sections of the western media continue to engage in denial. We will continue to push back until there is no space and no tolerance for the greatest crime against humanity or for the criminal enterprise that is genocide denial.
Isabelle Karake15,545 görüntüleme • 1 ay önce
This Kinshasa-paid mercenary posing as a journalist didn’t get the answer she wanted about #Uvira and sanctions against Rwanda, so she edited out what the U.S. lawmaker said mid-interview. What a fraud! The U.S. lawmaker was saying he wanted the African Union to be the one telling the United States who the real spoiler of peace is, instead of having both sides (Rwanda and the DRC) pushing their own versions of events. The mercenary then tried to frame the issue the Kinshasa way, blaming Rwanda for Kinshasa’s constant provocations against M23. And while the U.S. lawmaker was adamant that he agreed the fighting should not have happened, what he said next will remain a secret, because she cut him off, probably after he told her it wasn’t unclear who started the fighting.
Isabelle Karake27,437 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
Western media, some of whose members are clearly on Kinshasa’s payroll, are still pushing for sanctions on #Rwanda. They seem obsessed with President Kagame. Instead of calling for sanctions against those killing civilians in Minembwe, this guy pulled a Hariana Verras on Boulos, who simply refused to “speculate” on President Trump’s final decision. U.S. Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs himself isn’t being entirely straight either. He says AFC/M23 took measures to facilitate peace efforts, but he overlooked key facts: that since their withdrawal from Uvira and parts of Fizi territory, Banyamulenge civilian properties were looted, M23 perceived sympathizers were killed in Uvira, and Banyamulenge have been under constant bombardment by Kinshasa’s genocidal coalition in Minembwe. And yet Boulos did issue a statement calling for an end to drone attacks on civilians.👇 If Western media and American mediators won’t put the lives of Congolese Tutsi facing genocidal threats at the center of their concerns, they shouldn’t expect Africans to follow their cold, callous calculations. AFC/M23 and Twirwaneho will defend their people until the genocidaires are neutralized. Cc: Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 Robert Cyubahiro McKenna
Isabelle Karake20,442 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
Western mercenaries never seem to learn. They can’t resist pulling the trigger on Africans, and history shows how badly that has ended before. There is little reason to believe the current confrontation will end with the same restraint shown in the past. African Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 Robert Cyubahiro McKenna Dr. Dash
Isabelle Karake20,686 görüntüleme • 4 ay önce
President Kagame had warned that Kinshasa might delay the implementation of the Washington peace deal precisely because Tshisekedi and his backers did not get everything they wanted. While Kinshasa tried to portray the conflict as purely economic, which was a misleading interpretation of the crisis, President Kagame thanked the Trump administration for consistently working to address the three key issues: security, political, and economic. Today, Kinshasa and some of its Western allies continue to insist that Rwanda lift its defensive measures before its security concerns are addressed, a suggestion that Rwandan UN Ambassador MartinNgoga firmly rejected: “We listened to preachers once and were slaughtered like cows. It will never happen again.” Once again, Kinshasa is using economic leverage to try to persuade Washington to disavow its own peace deal and turn against Rwanda and the AFC/M23. Congolese officials are doing this for domestic political consumption, but the effort will be in vain. Rwanda’s security concerns must be addressed. The AFC/M23 is growing stronger by the day. And if the war continues, Kinshasa will find itself increasingly isolated and nothing will stop the AFC/M23 from marching on the capital, just as they have warned. Cc: President Donald J. Trump Donald J. Trump U.S. Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs Sophie Mokoena Rutendo Matinyarare African Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 Robert Cyubahiro McKenna Lawrence Rugwiro Florentine Kabasinga 🇷🇼✊🏾 Dr. Dash Tito Hare Michaela Agasaro Steve Wembi BOLA Frédéric Bertrand Bisimwa Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. Ellen Kampire Tristan Ngamije Rugamban'engwe Rwangeyo Rukaka Florentine Kabasinga 🇷🇼✊🏾 Nadia Kabalira Andrew M. Mwenda F. Golooba-Mutebi MINISTER of Happiness Charles Onyango-Obbo Larry Madowo Mario Nawfal Kayinamura Joseph Sugira Mireille🇨🇩
Isabelle Karake26,749 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce