Kagame's Killing Fields - Book Review by Albert Bimenyimana

Kagame's Killing Fields is the latest book by author David Himbara. This book follows Kagame's Economic Mirage published by same author in 2016. The two books share one main thing - they are both based on hard evidence drawn from official governmental or multilateral agencies' records. As Himbara explains in the two books, it is his strategy to avoid anecdotal materials which are easily disputed.



Kagame's Killing Fields is a shocking account of killings in Rwanda, DRC, and beyond - all unleashed by Kagame from 1994 to 2016. Ironically, Himbara's data on Kagame's Killing Fields is mostly from The United States' government - a country that has been most supportive of the Kagame regime. Perhaps what will shock people who read Kagame's Killing Fields is the chapter on the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Himbara paints a picture that is sharply different from the official Rwandan view. Himbara heavily quotes Kagame and his party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in their vehement opposition to the UN intervention to stop genocide, after the initial UN withdrawal instigated by the Clinton Administration in the US. According to Himbara, Kagame was interested in power as opposed to saving lives. External intervention would have denied him outright power - such intervention would have led to power-sharing.

The book is most depressing on what followed in the RPF takeover in 1994, the massacres in Rwanda such as Kibeho in 1995, through the invasion of Congo, and the subsequent deaths of up 5 million in that country between 1996 and 2000.

This book is a must read for everyone interested in human rights, international law, and political studies. It is an eye opener - and for those who see Kagame as a saviour. On the contrary, he is a monster, as Himbara ably demonstrates. The book should shame Kagame's diehard supporters such Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. It is hard to imagine that they have no idea of who Kagame truly is.

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Trump Administration Foreign Aid cuts will affect Rwanda more than any country in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

Rwanda will lose close to $60 million annually. However, Trump administration will still send about $200 million to Rwanda under Economic Assistance program. Obama used to send more than $200 million. Military cooperation funding for Rwanda will be kept to bare minimum.

Unfortunately, Rwanda's most "juicy" peacekeeping mission , the Haiti Peacekeeping mission, will close in October, 2017. The Central African Republic and South Sudan peacekeeping missions are expected to downsize.These two peacekeeping missions are a substantial source of foreign currency for Rwanda.

Trump Administration has increased funding for Somalia and South Sudan but reduced funding for Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Burundi, which previously received less than $2 million from the US, is not on the list of recipients.
I hope, probably against hope, that the European Union will be more " generous" to Rwanda.

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Charles Kambanda

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Biography of David Himbara

David Himbara is an educator, author, professor of international development, and solar energy activist based at Centennial College, Toronto, Canada. Himbara is Laureate of the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Prize for Democracy and Peace, 2017.
Previously, Himbara has taught at several universities in North America and Africa including the University of Witwatersrand’s Graduate School of Public and Development Management in South Africa from 2010 to 2013. While there, Himbara led a team that succeeded in bringing the World Bank’s Centre for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) to the university, where the program supports governmental clients throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2011, Himbara served as a lead consultant for the African Development Bank in Tunisia in 2011, and in 2010, he served as chief strategist for the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in South Africa. In addition, between 2011 and 2013, Himbara worked as a lead consultant at the Central University of Technology in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
A Rwandan-Canadian, Himbara spent a total of six years working for Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame: from 2006 to 2009 as the head of strategy and policy in the Office of the President and from 2000 to 2002 as the principal private secretary to the president. From 2002 to 2006, Himbara worked in South Africa, where, among other projects, he was the lead consultant for teams that conducted the country’s Ten Year Development Review. Concurrently, he was the lead strategist on a joint Development Bank of South Africa-University of Witwatersrand’s Knowledge Management Africa.
Himbara returned to Rwanda in 2006 after President Kagame offered him a leading role focused on socioeconomic development. Tasked with improving national competitiveness, Himbara spearheaded efforts that ultimately improved Rwanda’s ranking in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report from 143rd to 67th out of 183 countries; Rwanda was named top reformer by the World Bank’s Doing Business Report, 2010. In this phase, Himbara set up and headed the Strategy and Policy Unit, Office of The President. In this capacity, he led the establishment of the Rwanda Development Board (RDB) and was its founding Chairperson. He also led the setting up of the Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (IPAR), and became its founding chairperson. In addition, Himbara was the chairperson of the World Bank-funded Human and Institutional Development Agency (HIDA).
Prior to his time in Rwanda, Himbara was based in South Africa working as a private consultant; major assignments included lead consultancy on trade and investment harmonization for the Southern African Community and lead strategist on Indonesian export policy into South Africa. He also lectured on economic development as a senior lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand from 1994 to 1997 and was an assistant professor at Southern University in Louisiana, USA, from 1991 to 1993.
Himbara completed his PhD in political economy at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 1991. He is widely published on social and economic development in leading journals and online. Himbara’s dissertation on the role of domestic entrepreneurs and the state in socioeconomic transformation was published as a book in 1994: Kenyan Capitalists, the State, and Development. His most recent book, Kagame’s Economic Mirage, was published in 2016.

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The World Bank’s Dual Messages To Kagame – “We Love Your Drones, But Your Energy Indicators Are Disastrous”

The World Bank President Jim Yong Kim launching Kagame’s blood delivery drone 21 March 2017

On a visit to Rwanda on March 21, 2017, the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim was impressed by President Paul Kagame’s drones that purportedly deliver blood across Rwanda. I wonder if Jim Yong Kim discussed with Kagame how much blood the drones have delivered so far. Or how the blood is handled on arrival in a country of nearly 12 million but with less than 700 medical doctors. Or if there is electricity and refrigeration facilities in rural Rwanda to preserve the blood.

Meanwhile, the World Bank has come up with Regulatory Indicators For Sustainable Energy (RISE). RISE is based on a vast of primary policy and regulatory documents and is published biannually – the next one being due in 2018. The inaugural 2016 RISE Report covers 111 countries across the developed and developing world.

RISE has three pillars – but I limit my comments here to Pillar 1, which assesses policies relating to energy access. In this pillar on energy access, RISE scrutinizes the following national policies and regulations:

1. “Existence and monitoring of officially approved electrification plan.
2. Scope of officially approved electrification plan.
3. Framework for grid electrification.
4. Framework for minigrids
5. Framework for stand-alone systems.
6. Consumer affordability of electricity.
7. Utility transparency and monitoring.
8. Utility creditworthiness.”

So how does the World Bank score Rwanda on Pillar 1? Rwanda’s score out of 100 points is the lowest in East Africa:

1. Kenya – 82
2. Uganda – 78
3. Tanzania – 75
4. Burundi – 45
5. Rwanda – 41

Dear President Jim Yong Kim, please tell your pupil President Paul Kagame to shape up. Remind him that energy is the cornerstone of every country’s development – not gimmicks like drones.

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Diane Shima Rwigara: How long are we going to remain silent?

Review of Diane Shima Rwigara press conference on February 23rd 2017 in Kigali, Rwanda. She talked about issues such as poverty, injustice and insecurity in the country. She asked for the right to freedom of expression for Rwandans.

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How President Kagame Sacrificed women during the 1990-1994 war?

In summary: Rwanda’s fallacious women empowerment and how the RPA sacrificed women combatants in the struggle:

There is no country that divides the world opinion as Rwanda; A success model of post-conflict recovery yet a renowned repressive police state at the same time. Prime of what makes Rwanda a global star is a facade of women emancipation, but as Lieutenant Jeanne Umulisa; in a personal testimony; portrays; Rwanda’s women empowerment is simply a PR stunt.

As a lady who lost her youth in order to bring peace in my country despite the fact that our efforts and hard work were hijacked by the opportunists in the RPF /RPA and later the Rwandan Government, I feel duty bound to dispute the lies peddled by the government of Rwanda that she respects the values of women and considers them the foundation of national development.
To understand the pose and posit of a woman in Rwanda’s contemporary political dispensation, it is prudent to reflect on the value the RPA/F attached to women during the 1990-1994 war that later brought the RPA/F war to power. It is this value attachment that the RPA/F would later re-concretize while in power.
During the war, women in RPA were treated as commodities not human beings. For instance we were called ‘dry ration’- a term describing the tins of beans and dry food that soldiers ate while on mobile. So women were regarded as those tins of goodies. Women in RPA ceased to be human beings but rather seen as war equipment such as 120 mm mortar, 107mm Katyusha, 75mm recoilless and many more What does this mean?

In clearer terms, for example, young women soldiers who were based in the sick bays as nurse, doctors, assistants were named all sorts of abusive names to the extent of naming their bases as ‘Sodoma and Gomora’. In essence, the RPA commanders took us as sexual objects despite the fact that we were the ones who helped wounded soldiers. Constantly harassed and abused, women soldiers during the war faced both physical and psychological and mental degradation. At the climax of it all was that senior women soldiers started harassing their fellow junior women soldiers because of competition for men.

As early as 1991, I witnessed one of my colleagues spending a whole night tied up on a banana trunk in a Candoyi style, simply because she refused to sleep with a senior male officer Afande Kizza. Disturbed and helpless, I went to see the then Chief Political Commissar Afande Frank Mugambage. I explained to him the problems we were suffering and asked him what he thinks of the plight and future of us in our struggle. To my dismay, Mugambage only told me that he will answer my question in three years to come.
In early 1992 I was posted as welfare officer in one of our Sick Bay On arriving, I was called to go and see the Commanding officer Afande Charles Nzaramba. I was impressed by his disdain of the commanding officer he had just taken over, having characterised him as a “reckless, womaniser”, and that “all the nurses were carrying their knickers on their head”. But to my shock, when I later got up and saluted him in preparing to take my leave, he said to me that he thought I was going to spend a night with him.

Rose Kabuye, pictured in 1994 when she was a major in the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Once the RPF took power, she was appointed mayor of Kigali and later served as a member of parliament and a government official. She was arrested in 2008 having been charged by a French court for alleged involvement in the incident that sparked the genocide in 1994.

To say I was dumbfounded is an understatement. To say I was shocked would be an injustice. No words can explain how I felt of a man who, in front of me, had castigated his predecessor of being sexually reckless. Having out rightly declined his advances, he ordered his escorts to take me to Mabuso (code word for a prison in a military jargon). When I got there, I asked an intelligence officer to give me a paper and pen to write my statement. In my statement, I requested him to forward it to the high command, but before I handed over to the intelligence officer Afande Byarugaba, a political officer called Afande Nyagatoma (RIP) came in and read through the statement. He promised me that he was going to handle the case himself not Intelligence Officer because the Commanding Officer would be in trouble. Afande Nyagatoma left and came back after an hour, immediately asking me to return to my base. Since that time my relationship with the commanding officer Charles Nzaramba only graduated from bad to worse, and yes, to worst.

A Month later, we were invited by civilians to attend international women’s day The CO, Admin, doctors, nurses and myself went there. On arrival, the CO introduced all other people and did not introduce me. Later we were joined by Afande Muzungu Munyaneza. After the women chairperson had made her speech, she asked us if we have anything to say on that special day. Others silent, a nurse colleague named Candari one of the senior nurses sent me note asking me to be their ambassador.

Not unfamiliar to challenges, I stood up to the embarrassment of the CO who had not introduced me; and intentionally so. My short speech that day focussed on the role of women in the development of their societies and nations and how women in unison should raise the bar and do more; especially in hostile patriarchal-dominated African societies. In a rare display of admiration, on our way going home and in reference to my speech, Afande Muzungu Munyaneza told me he didn’t know that out there they are girls who are smart and intelligent. He then told me that I should get up and fight for our rights because our image as in women in the struggle was tarnishing.

Towards end of 1992, I got a chance to visit Umutara region and interact with my fellow women combatants.
As they narrated the horror they were going through, not from the enemy fire but from their fellow men combatants, a sense of hopelessness and helplessness took the part of me. One of them names withheld due to security reasons told me that she is no longer a human being but rather a “120 mm mortar”. Another one names withheld due to security reasons said that she is 75 recoilless and went on to say that she only wishes to meet her old Dad and Mom and apologise for having left them alone.

“I thought I am a human being, a Rwandan, with a right to fight for my country but now I regret,” she told me, with tears rolling down her cheeks. This sense of betrayal of a cause we had sacrificed so dearly for reignited my resilience to follow up on this issue of women harassment to its logical conclusion.

When I arrived at my base, I sent a message to CPC Frank Mugambage and reminded him of my pending question. I also sent another message Afande Rose Kabuye who was regarded as head of women in RPA, requesting for an audience, such that we could discuss women’s abuse- a cancer that was almost tearing up the struggle into pieces.
When she gave me that audience (dates please and place of meeting), I raised my concerns about women’s abuse and what i think should be done to avert the situation. Her reaction was not for the weak-hearted. She told me that we have failed her so she has nothing to do. I asked her that whom she is leaving us with then but a reply never came forth. To quote her in Swahili, which is actually the military’s lingua franca, Rose said: “Wamesikyana wa menishinda, sina cya kufanya’ then I responded ‘ sasa Afande umetuwaca, umetuwaciya nani?” With no response in sight, i got up, saluted her, and left not in peace but in bewilderment.

Meanwhile, the abused girls who got pregnant were sent back to Uganda and some of them were harassed by the commanders wives back home.
I remember one woman by the names of Joyce came to where the Girls who had had babies were based before there were sent home. On arrival, she sarcastically said: “We sent you to fight not to have babies.” I looked at her and didn’t say a word but in my mind, I had literally “killed” her seven times.

By mid-1993, I had literally run out options. I had approached some of the senior officers to help but they didn’t. Although some of them promised, others said that they didn’t want to get involved. Young soldier were concerned but had no way out to help, then I asked one of my colleagues if she knew Afande Kabarebe. In response, she said that he is a good man but she can’t predict his reaction on the issue. I told her that it is worthy to try. The next trial was writing to Afande James.

In the strongly worded letter, I raised my concern about how we were treated in the struggle and for that matter, I needed his audience. Without mincing words, I explained that if nothing is done to check the rampant abuse of women, a volcano would erupt anytime.

Afande James Kabarebe sent for me and my colleague withheld names to go and meet him the following day. On arrival, he received us and went away, came back later and asked us to talk to him. I asked him if we were not Rwandese that has all the rights to fight for our country. Without pausing, i asked further: “Why have you sacrificed our lives? Why are you abusing us? You have abused us psychologically, mentally, physically and you have abandoned us.”
He then agreed that it was true that they sacrificed our lives at the expanse of the war. He went on to say that when they tried to withdraw the women from the front line; and all the commanders threatened to put their guns down and asked Afande Paul Kagame to go and fight the war alone. James apologised and promised to forward our grievances to the high command.

Fast forward, i was after one week called to go and meet Afande Mugambage. We discussed women’s abuse in detail and I suggested that elsewhere in other struggles, women went through the same problems but had a good way of handling the problem. I gave him the example of Nicaragua, Eritrea and other places. When women got pregnant, they were pulled out of the front line and put behind with other responsibilities such as administration and production while looking after their babies. Because of that, women in the above mentioned struggles never felt abandoned as we were. I also explained to him that women who stayed on the frontline formed their own units and they exercised their own command and administration.
In those guerrilla movements, women that were promoted were never seen as favours from one of the commanders who were her boyfriend but rather seen as recognition of their abilities; contrary to our own struggle.

After few weeks around January 1993, we had a meeting with senior officers sent by Afande Paul Kagame. The delegation, led by Afande Stephen Nduguteye, had come to explain to us the new arrangements and also listen to our concerns, but, unfortunately, things hit a dead end.
Nduguteye explained to us that the reason they have come to meet us was that they have formed a women combatant unit which would serve as our base such that we don’t spread AIDS to our male commanders. Whether Ndugute hadn’t understood why he was sent remains unclear to-date but the rest of the commanders, who were present, like all of us women, were exasperated to the bone marrow.

My reaction was to look at other senior commanders like Afande Musitu Charles, Afande Karemera Joseph, Afande Rusagara Frank, Afande Shaban Rutayisire and Afande James Kabarebe, who all looked empty and embarrassed. Screaming in anger, which was interpreted as resent, we stood up and left.
After a week January 1993 we all women combatants and women cadres were called for a meeting with Afande Paul Kagame. We received him with chanting and dancing very happy saying finally we can see “mwenyewe”, literally meaning “himself”. Every woman felt that this was the time we had waited for, for a long time.

Another shock! Paul Kagame, in a satiated fury, started blasting us saying that we rebelled against their decision. He said that we have abused our role. He went on to say: “I heard that some of you said you will crawl and find men where they are in the units. I can shoot your asses.”
No words can explain how I felt. I convinced myself that there was no need of saying anything since it was going to fall into deaf ears. After that, he calmed down and started explaining the reason of forming women unit. When he finished talking, he invited questions. I looked around and all the girls were quiet and even women cadres looked very cold. I then gathered my guts and put up my hand. I was determined to tell him what I felt about them (officers and senior officers and was ready for any repercussion). I started by thanking him for coming to meet us and also for blasting us. I said that when children mess up, the parents tell them off or even punish them but it is too late, the damage is done already. I told him you blamed us that we as women in the struggle have abused our role, but to me it is the other way round. Leaders you have abused your role. I started reminding him how it feels like joining the army and going through the training; how all the ideology you come with is brain washed; and after that training, how you start picking up something else. I also reminded him the beginning of our struggle.
The struggle started with unexpected death of the leader of our struggle Afande Fred Rwigema with other top commanders. It was a blow to all the soldiers and this situation created disorganisation in the struggle.
There was no defined administration and everyone was using own initiative. I asked them who made the girls pregnant. I explained that it was the senior officers (viongozi). Who named all sorts of abusive names to women combatants? Senior officers (viongozi). Who named sick bay as Sodoma and Gomora? Senior officers (viongozi). Who failed to solve our problems even when we asked them to help us and stop such abuses towards women combatants? Senior officers (viongozi).

Not done and with intent to maximise such a God-given opportunity, I told them that leaders have abused us psychologically, mentally and physically. Such psychological and mental abuse has a big impact on us women combatants. To the extent that women senior officers have started fighting junior women combatants because of men as if that was what brought us. I told them that women combatants have not abused their role; we tried to the best of our ability to look for help but never succeeded simply because we were abused by our leaders. I narrated all I did to fight for women’ rights in struggle but failed. I then turned and looked at them and told them: “by the look of most of you, you qualify to be our fathers, if one of us was your own daughter, how would you feel?” They all looked down. I went on to tell them that the damage is done but let us forget the past and focus on our common cause for the sake of our struggle and its objectives. Concluding, i asked the senior officers never to take advantage of war situation and abuse us again; I saluted him and sat down.
I was waiting for a blast of a slap but to my surprise, Afande Paul Kagame looked calm and composed. He agreed that were sacrificed and explained again that all commanders threatened to stop fighting if he was to withdraw us so he had no option other than sacrificing our lives. He promised to support us and said to the commanders that if it happened again, he would imprison them and throw away the keys.
The creation of unit had good outcome. One, we were able to connect and support each other. We were able to exercise our administration and we had a chance to acquire some skills during cease fire. Women promotion was based on capabilities rather than one’s boyfriend.

But it was not going to be rosy anyway. Sooner than later, a downward spiral ensued again. A commander Lt Emmanuel impregnated a young girl of 15 who we had recruited in Byumba after capturing the town. I fought so hard for this officer to be punished but was in vain.

In the Promised Land
It was neither a bed of roses even after capturing state power in 1994. Women abuse persisted- graduating from a curse to be endured not a problem to be solved.
After the war, in 1994, most of the female combatant had a base in camp Kanombe. Some of them were mothers with their little ones. One day can’t recall the date Afande Rwahama Jackson evicted them with no warning and they were thrown outside the barracks with no accommodation at all. How they survived? Don’t ask. That no one cared in the face of such an inhumane act is beyond human comprehension.

Like I said, not all commanders were inhumane but at least 80% were inhuman. On the other side, women cadres faced the same problems but not as women combatants. These cadres- most of whom were graduates and professionals from different institutions- contributed a lot to our struggle, such as Anna Gahogayire, Inyumba Aloisea, Christine Nyinawumwami, Mary Baine, Francine from Burundi to mention a few. But all these ladies were abandoned and harassed by RPF and the government.
All these brilliant, brave, intelligent women are not seen in the parliament neither are they seen in the government. After the war, they all suddenly became incompetent. Obviously, the RPF and the government knew they can never manipulate them so easily and the only option was to harass them and frustrate them (some of these women were in the government and they fall out of favour, right?). How about women combatant who survived the war? Where are they and how are they surviving? I understand some of them suffered the post war trauma, they are often asked if they really fought in the struggle. It is so disheartening, but may be not to some.

This brings me to the crux of this testimony- that the RPA/F has never had any philosophy of emancipating women as a goal but rather using them for their own selfish interests. The same happened, and is still happening in the way the Rwandan government markets “women emancipation rhetoric” as a public relations strategy.

It is not in dispute that Rwanda has one of the highest rates of women representation in the parliament. However, beneath the surface lies intriguing facts that rewind us far back during the struggle. These women parliamentarians are katyushas and recoilless like we were then. 90% of these MPs are incompetent lots who are simply nominated; not elected. Some of them were primary teachers, nurses with no administration skills, not even on local level. How do you expect these women to participate in government affairs? They are simply there for numbers; for PR purposes, and if you allow me throw my modesty away; for caving in on the sexual advances of RPF big men who own power in Rwanda.

This is not to say that all women leaders in Rwanda are an incompetent lot. Some of them are bright but they are not allowed to make any decision. They are all there as flowers decorating Rwanda as the premier government to respect women participation. Others are used and abused like foreign affairs minister Louise Mushikiwabo who, at some point, will find it hard to answer all the propaganda she said on behalf of the government of Rwanda. Take a glance at any demonstration of any kind and discern. It is women you will see most- a large majority of whom have no idea of why they are demonstrating.
And if you are wondering about the crux of the matter, it is seeing old women demonstrating at the parliamentary building in support of President Paul Kagame’s third term. One elderly woman from Gatsibo, in an interview USA’s premier news channel- the VOA- said bluntly that “My local leader signed for me and they packed us in a bus to here to support amending the constitution.” If this is not abuse, then what is it?
My personal appeal to all Rwandan women, both inside and abroad and also other women in the whole world, to stand up and fight for peace and their dignity. Look at the wars around the world and ask yourself who the causers are and who suffers most when men mess up the world. We should chose to keep quiet and suffer for ever or get up and fight with the help of few men who have a heart to bring peace in the world.

Jeanne Umulisa is a former RPA officer.
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How Churches Could Lead The Energy Revolution In Sub-Saharan Africa – By Anchoring Community Solar Gardens

THE CHALLENGE
A startling percentage of the Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) population does not have electricity – 620 million out of 1 billion people. Add another 100 million and you get the number of people in SSA who cook with firewood that is depleting forest cover. Meanwhile, solar energy is increasingly becoming a solution on other continents – but not nearly as widespread in Africa. The continent lags far behind the developing world in the uptake of solar energy due to three factors: 1) innovative public policy is not robust; 2) not enough private sector champions; 3) African masses cannot afford the up-front solar installation costs.

But these barriers should not and will not keen Sub-Saharan Africa from cashing in on solar that is taking the rest of the world by storm. This is where community shared solar energy comes in.

THE POTENTIAL SOLUTION – COMMUNITY SOLAR

Community solar is the banding of neighbours, together with a local church, a business or school, to set up a solar power plant into which everyone buys, and reaps the benefits from. ‘Community solar’ takes two forms. First, it refers to a community-owned solar project. Third party-owned solar projects whose electricity is shared by a community is the second form. These forms of broadening access to solar energy are becoming more and more popular.

As can be seen from the above brief discussion, one of the several primary purposes of a community solar is to enable members to share the benefits of solar power even if they cannot individually afford to install solar panels. Equally crucial is the fact that the participants benefit from the electricity generated by the community solar farm/garden which costs far less than what they would ordinarily pay for on-grid electricity.

Community solar spreading in the U.S.

In the United States alone, the next “five years will see the U.S. community solar market add an impressive 1.8 gigawatts, compared to just 66 megawatts through the end of 2014.”

THE CHURCH AS ANCHOR TO THE SOLAR REVOLUTION IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

Why might the church be a natural anchor in spreading community solar across Sub-Saharan Africa?

A church meeting in Zambia

There are at seven reasons why the church is the best equipped organization to mobilize communities for up-taking shared solar energy in Africa:

1. The church is where most people go for council, self reflection, and community solidarity;
2. The church is a community meeting place, in which the church is regarded as a neutral referee, mediator, and reconciler.
3. The church is a proven community-mobilizing institution for solutions;
4. The church is influential with leaders from government, business, and civil society;
5. There is a church in African village;
6. There is usually a school attached to the church;
7. The church itself needs electricity, as does the affiliated school.

Shared community solar, as noted, define various energy arrangements that allow communities to share the benefits of a local energy power plant. This way, pooled investments from multiple members provide energy that would otherwise be beyond the reach of individuals. What we urgently need in Sub-Saharan Africa are champions for community solar – the church may very well play this role.
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David Himbara

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The World Will Sooner Or Later Discover We Are Killers, Liars, And Corrupt – Kagame

In an extraordinary speech delivered at the end of the 2017 National Leadership Retreat, Rwanda president, Paul Kagame was merciless with his words. Not merciless towards his real or perceived political enemies but towards his own government. Kagame said that sooner or later, the world will see the lies his government has been spreading about security, and socioeconomic development. In Kagame’s own words:
“You can not keep telling lies and get away with it…When you say you eradicated poverty, it will find you on your doorsteps and you have nowhere to hide…Our ambassadors spread stories in Japan, China, Europe and America that we are in Rwanda enjoying peace and security to the fullest. But when these people visit Rwanda, they read that people are scared of going out at night because their chances of getting to their destination is 50%; they may disappear or get killed…”
According to the Rwandan president, the world will soon discover that:

• People are killed or simply disappear in Rwanda – and yet the government is always boasting of high security in the country.
• Hunger is ravaging Rwanda – and yet the government boasts of improved conditions in the country.
• Poverty claims lives prematurely – people barely live beyond 40 years, but yet government boasts of prosperity.
• Hospitals are without doctors – yet the government boasts of improved health for all Rwandans.
• Corruption is rampant – yet the government boasts being clean but by comparing with more corrupt neighbouring countries.

The Rwandan leaders listening to Kagame appeared lost and confused – because the president is the boaster-in-chief. He barely lives in Rwanda – travelling around the world telling the very lies he is now disclaiming.
Even Kagame’s sycophants must realize what we all know – Rwanda is trapped with a leader who simply will never take responsibility for his own failures. Here is a man who is openly conceding that his regime kills people, lies about development achievements, and is corrupt – but is preparing to grab power for the next 17 years, after ruling for 23 years.

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David Himbara

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Two Brave Women Who “Got Tired Of Giving In” – Meet Rosa Parks And Diane Rwigara

The two women lived in different times. One passed away on October 24, 2005. The other is in her prime. They lived in different countries. One lived in America. The other lives in Rwanda. But they both acted in the same way when they reached a tipping point – they got “tired of giving in.”
Meet Rosa Parks and Diane Rwigara.
In December 1955, Parks refused to obey racist laws in America. Her defiance became an important catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement. Parks soon became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation in her country – she simply “got tired of giving in” to injustice and repression.
What gave Parks the courage to stand up for her rights when most feared the brute force of the state? This is how Parks explained it:

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.”

Fast forward to February 2017. A young Rwandan woman named Diane Rwigara, too, got tired of giving in to a repressive state of her country, Rwanda. While most Rwandans hide under their beds rather than confront the Rwanda regime that has beaten them into submission, Rwigara stood up and said no. And she said no to several characteristics of the repressive regime in Rwanda including:

• No to the hunger that is ravaging Rwanda while the country’s rulers live like kings.
• No to mysterious disappearances of innocent Rwandans whose crime is to exercise their basic human rights.
• No to wealth concentrated in a tiny ruling elite while the rest live in dire poverty and unemployment, especially the youth.
• No to the so-called “development” of buildings designed to impress visitors while children go hungry.
• No to the arrogance of the powerful that are unaccountable to the people who pay them salaries – taxpayers.
• No to crony capitalism that is not based on real private sector but the grabbing of other people’s businesses and properties.

Diane Rwigara, by “getting tired of giving in” you are the Rosa Parks of Rwanda. May your act of defiance lead to the same results as that of Rosa Parks. May your defiance become an important catalyst for freedom from dictatorship. May you become an icon of resistance to injustice in Rwanda.

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David Himbara

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Kagame Is Back In The Air – Headed For Harvard University On March 10, 2017

After spending a couple of weeks in Rwanda, following his global tours that took him to Asia, Africa, and Europe in a two months period, Kagame is back in the air.
This time he is headed for Harvard University – a school he frequents. U.S. elite universities worship the Rwandan ruler, especially Harvard. The university is rolling out the red carpet once again. Kagame was there last year. His talk this time is advertised as “A conversation with His Excellency Paul Kagame,” scheduled for Friday, March 10, 2017, at 4:50 PM. The venue is NYE ABC, Taubman Building.
More critically minded faculty and students should ask Kagame real questions. They should also acknowledge his recent and rare truthfulness. In his concluding remarks at the National Leadership Retreat on March 2, 2017, Kagame painted Rwanda in its true colours. Rejecting the usual exaggerated accounts of Rwanda’s achievements under his rule, Kagame bluntly informed his government:
“You cannot keep telling lies and get away with it…When you say you eradicated poverty, it will find you on your doorsteps and you have nowhere to hide…Our ambassadors spread stories in Japan, China, Europe and America that we are in Rwanda enjoying peace and security to the fullest. But when these people visit Rwanda, they read that people are scared of going out at night because their chances of getting to their destination is 50%; they may disappear or get killed…”
Members of the Harvard University community should ask this man why he is seeking a new term with such a disastrous record – after 23 years in power.
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David Himbara

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Ishyaka RDI-RWANDA RWIZA ryifurije umunsi mwiza abanyarwandakazi aho bari hose.

Ifoto yerekana uko inzego zishinzwe umutekano ziri guhohotera abategarugori i Kigali ngo ni abazunguzayi!

Rwanda : Banyarwandakazi, twizihize dute "Umunsi mpuzamahanga w’abagore 2017?"
Nkuko bimaze kuba akamenyero, buri tariki ya 08 Werurwe isi yose yizihiza umunsi mpuzamahanga w’abari n’abategarugori. Buri mwaka kandi umuryango mpuzamahanga w’abibumbye ushyiraho intego rusange igomba kuzirikanwa. Agashya muri uyu mwaka wa 2017 ni uko noneho hashyizweho intego izazirikanwa mu gihe cy’imyaka 3 : ni ukuvuga 2017, 2018 na 2019. Iyo ntego muri rurimi rw’igifaransa ni “les femmes dans un monde de travail en évolution: pour un monde 50-50”. Tugenekereje mu rurimi rw’ikinyarwanda, byasemurwa gutya: imyitwarire y’abagore mu ruhando rw’imirimo ijyana n’ibihe uko bigenda bisimburana: mu rwego rw’akazi, hakwiye uburinganire butaziguye hagati y’abagore n’abagabo.


Kuri iyi tariki ya 08 Werurwe 2017 rero, mw’izina ry’ishyaka RDI-Rwanda Rwiza, nifuje guterura ngo ngire icyo mbwira Abanyarwanda, cyane cyane Abari n’abategarugori nyine, mpereye ku ijambo Perezida wa Repubulika, General Paul Kagame, aherutse kuvugira mu mwiherero wa 2017. Nyuma y’uko uwahoze ari Minisitiri w’Intebe, Bwana Habumuremyi Pierre Damien, atangarije ko abakozi bose mu Rwanda barangwa no gukora nabi, uretse Perezida Paul Kagame wenyine; muri uyu mwiherero, Perezida Kagame yeruriye abayobozi bose, ababwira ko azi neza ko mu mikorere yabo bamubeshya kandi bakanabeshya n’amahanga !

Ubu isi yose izi ko u Rwanda ari igihugu ntanga-rugero mu bintu byinshi,ariko cyane mu kugira umubare munini w’abari n’abategarugori mu nzego zifata ibyemezo no mu buyobozi busanzwe. Nyamara ababikurikiranira hafi, bemeza ko abo banyarwandakazi bashyirwa mu myanya hadashingiwe ku bushobozi bafite, ko ahubwo « icyama cya RPF » cyitoranyiriza abari n’abategarugori ba Ndiyo Bwana » naba « Mpemuke ndamuke », bazajya bikiriza «ndiyo bwana». Niyo mpamvu tutatunguwe na gato n’iriya mvugo ya Perezida Kagame wanenze bikomeye imikorere y’abayobozi kandi aba ariwe wabishyiriyeho ubwe, akenshi akabashyiraho nta no kugisha inama inzego zibishinzwe !

Kuva kera umubyeyi yarangwaga no guca ukubiri n’ikinyoma. Abagore, nibo benshi mu bayobozi, iyo baza kugira ukuri mu kazi bashinzwe, ntabwo perezida wa repubulika yari kubona ko mu mikorere y’igihugu harimo kubeshya abanyarwanda no kubeshya abanyamahanga. Mu nyandiko zabanjirije iyi, nagiye ngerageza kenshi kugira inama Abari n’Abategarugori, mbereka ko ubwinshi bwabo bwagombye kuba umusemburo wo gukemura ibibazo bikunze kugaragara mu miyoborere y’igihugu cyacu. Hari naho kandi twagiye tuburira abari n’abategarugori incuro nyinshi ko ibibi bikorerwa abanyarwanda bazabiryozwa, niba ntacyo bakoze.

None dore imyaka igiye kuba 24, Abari n’Abategarugori bakorera mu kinyoma, bagakoma amashyi gusa nta n’impamvu yo kuyakoma, uretse gutinya kunyagwa umugati. Ngo agapfa kaburiwe ni impongo : Bayobozikazi, mumenye ko amateka azabaryoza amahano yagiye akorwa mu gihugu mwinumiye, dore ko n’igihe kizagera FPR-Kagame ikabigarika, ikagereka amabi yose kuri benshi muri mwe, mutagifite kirengera ! Rubanda itarahwemye kubasaba kwamagana amarorerwa y’iyi ngoma, izagera ubwo izabahinduka, yunge mu rya Prezida Kagame, maze ibabaze iti «ubwinshi bwanyu bwamariye iki igihugu? Kubakira ku kinyoma gusa ?»

Ntarirarenga

Abari n’Abategarugori bashinzwe kuvuganira Rubanda, ndongera uyu munsi mbibutse ko nta rirarenga. Muri iki gihe havugwa inzara ya “NZARAMBA” mu gihugu ; iyi nzara ikaba iri koreka abangavu mu busambanyi, ikaba iri gukura abana mu mashuri, n’ibindi. Turabasaba gutabariza abakene musaba Leta ya FPR gusaranganya ibihari, muyisabe ihagurukire gukumira ubwiyongere bw’iyi nzaramba, iriya mishinga yo kubaka imiturirwa muri Kigali ibe ihagaze. Abadamu bakwiye guhora bazirikana ko ubwinshi bwabo bukwiye gushingirwaho bagashyigikirwa ukuri. Birababaje wa mugani wa perezida Kagame, kubona ubwinshi bwanyu mubwitwaza mu kwimakaza ibinyoma!



Nta rirarenga, badamu nimuhaguruke muzibire intambara iri kongera gushozwa mu burasirazuba bwa Congo, musabe Leta kureka gukomeza gushora urubyiruko rw’ u Rwanda mu ntambara ya M23, bityo mwazabonekamo intwari. Nimubaduke mwamagane irigiswa ry’abantu ryongeye kwaduka mu gihugu. Kuba muri benshi mu buyobozi byari byiza ariko mukwiye kwiminjiramo agafu ijwi ryanyu rikagira umumaro, bityo mukikuraho igisebo cy’uko ubwinshi bwanyu aribwo buri koreka u Rwanda, maze umuco wa FPR wo gukorera ku kinyoma, umuco ubu wari umaze kumenyekana ku isi hose, Perezida Kagame azareke kuwubagereka ku mugongo.


Bari na mwe Bategarugori, cyane cyane abajijukiwe n’imiyoborere y’igihugu, mufite inshingano ikomeye yo kurwanya akarengane gakomeje gushavuza no guhekura ababyeyi batari bake. Mukwiye gutinyuka, cyane cyane mwebwe mukiri urubyiruko, kuko ari mwe Rwanda rw’ejo. Nimugire ubutwari nk’ubwa Diane Rwigara, uherutse guhamagarira Abanyarwanda kwatura, bakamagana ibitagenda mu gihugu, basaba ko ibintu bihinduka. Mujye muzirikana kandi ko mu mateka y’Urwa Gasabo, harimo n’abagore b’intwari, nka Ndabaga mwene Nyamutezi wo mu Bwishaza, wacunguye se ku mirimo y’ubuhake bw’i Bwami, akarusha ibigwi abagabo, kugeza aho asiga umugani ngo « ibintu bigeze iwa Ndabaga », bishatse kuvuga ko ibihe bidasanzwe, ko ibintu byadogereye, nko kubona abagore batabara, byari bimenyerewe ko urugamba ari urw’abagabo gusa.

Umwanzuro

Ikibazo cy’imiyoborere y’u Rwanda biragaragara ko kidashobora gukemuka hatabayemo uruhare rugaragara rw’Abari n’Abategarugori. Vision ya LONI iri guteganya uburinganire bwa 50 – 50 kugera mu mwaka wa 2030, mu Rwanda ho twari dukwiye kwishimira ko iriya vision yari yaragezweho hamwe na hamwe, kuko mu nzego nyinshi umubare w’ abagore utambutse kure uw’ abagabo. Uku kutagaragaza umusaruro nyawo rero mu byukuri ahanini bituruka k’ukuba FPR ishaka gukomeza kuyobora igihugu yonyine, ku buryo n’abandi baza baturutse mu yandi mashyaka, FPR ihita ibashyiraho iterabwoba maze bagahita bayijya mu kwaha. Kuba Umukuru w’ igihugu atangiye kuvugira ku mugaragaro ko mu nzego zose bakoresha ikinyoma gusa, iki ni ikimenyetso simusiga ko hakenewe Leta ihuriweho n’ amashyaka menshi, harimo n’atavuga rumwe na FPR.

Kugira ngo iyi ntego izagerweho, turasaba umuryango mpuzamahanga kudufasha kotsa igitutu Leta ya FPR ikemera politiki y’ amashyaka menshi, ikemera gukorera muri demokarasi, maze abadamu baturutse hanze ya FPR bakaza gufasha bagenzi babo kugerageza gukorera mu kuri, bityo umubyeyi nyarwanda akongera akagirirwa ikizere. Ni ngombwa rero ko ibintu bihinduka, ingoma ngome ya FPR-Kagame igasezererwa, mu buryo bwose bushoboka. Bari namwe Bategarugori, iyo mpinduka irihutirwa muri uyu mwaka w’2017, dore ko niba Abenegihugu badahagurutse ngo baharanire uburenganzira bwabo, Kagame n’agatsiko ke bazongera kwiba ubutegetsi bwa rubanda, binyuze mu matora afifitse nk’uko amenyerewe mu Rwanda.

Nimucyo duhagurukane n’abagabo bacu na basaza bacu, maze twereke ingoma y’igitugu ko tuyirambiwe, tuyigamburuze mu buryo bwose, maze impinduka itegerejwe na benshi, izasesekare mu Rwatubyaye mbere y’impera z’uyu mwaka. Nta gushidikanya ko impinduka nk’iyo yatuma u Rwanda rwongera kuba u Rwanda, Abanyarwanda bakongera kubana mu bwumvikane, bagatunga, bagatunganirwa.


Marie MUKAMWIZA

Commissaire wa RDI Rwanda Rwiza
Ushinzwe Imibereho myiza n’ Iterambere

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Perezida Donald Trump w’Amerika yiyemeje guhangana n’abanyagitugu bo muri Afurika ahereye kuri Paul Kagame!

Kuva kuri uyu wa mbere taliki ya 23 Mutarama 2017, abanyarwanda bakomeje gutangazwa cyane n’ubwoba budasanzwe buri kugaragazwa na Paul Kagame ! Ubwo bwoba bukaba bugaragazwa n’uko Paul Kagame ubwe yavuze ko Padiri Nahimana Thomas nta mpamvu nimwe igomba kumubuza kujya mu gihugu cye cy’u Rwanda n’ubwo nta bya ngombwa yaba afite by’u Rwanda, ariko kuri uyu wa mbere taliki ya 23 Mutarama 2017, Nahimana Thomas akaba yarabujijwe kwinjira mu ndenge ya SN brussels yagombaga ku mugeza mu Rwanda, ibyo bikaba byaratewe n’ibaruwa ya Kigali yandikiwe amakompanyi y’indege zose ko atagomba gutwara Nahimana amugeza mu Rwanda, abantu benshi baruwime !


Kuri uyu wa mbere taliki ya 23 Mutarama 2017 ibiro bishinzwe abinjira n’abasohoka mu Rwanda byatanze inkuru y’uko Padiri Nahimana wagombaga gufata indege ya SN Brussels imugeza i Kigali, ahawe ikaze mu Rwanda. Ku gicamunsi cy’uwo munsi nibwo ambasaderi wa Paul Kagame mu Bubiligi yanditse ku rubuga rwa facebook ko Nahimana Thomana wagombaga kuza mu Rwanda azanywe n’indege ya KLM atariko bimeze, ko ahubwo Nahimana yagombaga kuza n’indege ya SN Brussels ivuye mu Bubiligi, iyo ndege nayo ikaba yamusize kuko atujuje ibyangombwa bimwemerera kujya mu Rwanda ! Padiri Thomas Nahimana, asobanura ko indege ya KLM bayibujije kumutwara nawe agahita afata indi ya SN Brussels, mu gihe yajya kuyinjiramo bakaba baramweretse ibaruwa yanditswe na Kigali ko atemerewe kujya mu Rwanda ! Ese ni ari uko bimeze, Paul Kagame aracyafite ijambo mu gihugu cyangwa hari ikibyihishe inyuma ?

Paul Kagame si ubwa mbere abeshya, ubwo yarahiraga akabeshya isi yose ko ataziyamamariza manda ya gatatu, Paul Kagame yabwiye abanyamakuru ngo nibamurebe mu maso ngo ntabwo ari umuntu wo kwiyamamariza manda ya gatatu ! Ubu se bimeze bite ? umuntu nkuwo se niwe wagira isoni zo kubeshya Padiri Nahimana ngo amwemereye ko azaza mu Rwanda nta nkomyi kandi atari byo? Paul Kagame ntagira isoni ; ubwo umwami KigeliV yatabarukaga ; hakemezwa ko umugogo we uzashyingurwa mu Rwanda, Kagame yakoze uko ashoboye kugirango uwo mugogo uzashyingurwe atawurebyeho n’amaso ye kandi uwo mwami ari uwo mu murwango we ! Umugogo wa Kigeli, ukigezwa mu Rwanda Kagame yahise afata gahunda yo kujya mu gihugu cy’Ubuhinde, mu gihe cyo ku wutabariza (kuwushyingura) Paul Kagame yagiye mu nama ihuza ibihugu by’Afurika n’Ubufaransa, murumva uwo Kagame, hari ukundi kuri yari kubwira Padiri Nahimana koko ?

Kubera ibyo binyoma yakomeje gukwiza isi yose, byabaye ngombwa ko abanyamerika bamushingiye igiti, bagera ubwo bamukuraho amaboko kubera kubabeshya! Ishyaka ry’abademocrate ryayoborwaga n’umuryango wa Bill Clinton, akaba ari naryo ririmo abantu benshi basangiye na Kagame amabanga menshi y’ubugizi bwa nabi, ryatsinzwe na Donald Trump ritangiye kumuha akato. Kuva ku italiki ya 20 Mutarama 2017, Donald Trump akaba ariwe uyobora ku mugaragaro igihugu cya Leta Zunze Ubumwe z’Amerika. Ubu Kagame akaba afite ubwoba bw’uko uwamurwanya wese akoresheje intwaro cyangwa ubundi buryo yahita amustsinda kuko nta nkunga y’abanyamerika ashobora kubona nk’uko yayihabwaga mu bihe byashize ! Kagame akaba rero atakwiyemeza guhangana na padiri Nahimana Thomas ufite ubwenegihugu bw’igihugu cy’Ubufaransa ! Niba se Kagame atinya Thomas Nahimana kandi ari umunyarwanda w’umwirabura, Kagame azatinyuka gufunga gute aba jenerali bo mu ngabo z’igihugu cy’Ubufaransa b’abazungu bari muri « turquoise ? » mu Rwanda ashinja gukora jenoside!

Kuri uyu wa Kabiri taliki ya 24 Mutarama 2017, Perezida wa leta zunze ubumwe z’Amerika (USA) Donald Trump yarushijeho gutera ubwo Paul Kagame, kuko Trump yiyemeje kwiyandikira ubwe umugambi afitiye Paul Kagame ! Ku rukuta rwe rwa twitter, Donald Trump yagize ati : « Nkuko nabibabwiye kenshi, ku banyagitugu bo muri Afurika duhereye kuri Kagame, Museveni na Mugabe kimwe n’abandi bose, ndababwiza ukuri ko igihe cyabo kigeze, nkaba mbasaba kumpa iminsi micye gusa ! »

Iyi mvugo ya Perezida Donald Trump ikaba ituma Kagame atagitora agatotsi kandi koko igihe cye kirageze kuko « uwicishije inkota nawe azicishwa indi » Paul Kagame ntabwo azakurwa ku butegetsi na demokarasi, hagomba gukoreshwa imbaraga nk’uko nawe yazikoresheje kugirango afate ubwo butegetsi ! Abamukingiraga ikibaba muri Amerika bagiye ku ruhande, Kagame arabona iminsi ye ibaze, ntabwo rero muri ibi bihe bimukomeranye aribwo yakwemera ko Padiri Nahimana Thomas ajya mu Rwanda kugira ngo nawe ahagurutse abanyarwanda bashobore kurwanira uburenganzira bwabo !



Paul Kagame asanga gufungura urubuga rwa politiki mu Rwanda ari urupfu kuri we ariko kandi kurufunga nabyo biganisha ku rupfu kuriwe ! Ibi akaba aribyo bita mu kinyarwanda : « kuba hagati nk’agati ko mu ruzi » ! None se Paul Kagame azabwira Trump ko ari umuyobozi mwiza kuko adakunda demokarasi ari akaba yarubatse « Kigali Convention Center » idafite aho ihuriye na «Trump City»? Nkuko bivugwa muri Bibiliya, ntacyo byaba bimaze kugira ubutunzi bw’isi yose ariko ukamburwa ubuzima ! Bimariye iki abanyarwanda kubona hari imiturirwa iri ku bakwa i Kigali ariko imirambo yabo igahora yerera mu kiyaga cya Rweru abandi bicwa n’inzara ? Kagame niwe wenyine wasobanura icyo iryo terambere risobanura kubanyarwanda !

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Rwanda: Umwaka mushya muhire w’2017

Ishyaka RDI-Rwanda Rwiza ririfuriza Abanyarwanda umwaka mushya muhire w’2017.

Banyarwanda, Banyarwandakazi,

Byabaye umuco ku isi yose ko kuwa 31 Ukuboza, ari itariki yo gusezera k'umwaka urangiye no kwakira umwaka mushya. Umunsi mukuru wo gutangira umwaka mushya twita «Ubunani», Abanyarwanda twese turawubahiriza, tugasaba Imana ngo tuzawugiremo ishya n’ihirwe, n'ubuzima buzira umuze. Uko tubisaba Uwiteka ni nako tubyifuriza abavandimwe n’inshuti, ndetse tutibagiwe n’abandi, cyane cyane abatishoboye n’abari mu ngorane zinyuranye.

Bityo rero mw’izina ry’Ishyaka RDI nkaba nifurije umwaka mwiza Abanyarwanda bose, ari abari mu gihugu cyangwa abari mu ngendo ku mpamvu zinyuranye, ari n'abahejejwe ishyanga n’Ubutegetsi bw’igitugu bwa FPR-Kagame : uyu mwaka, uzababere umwaka w'amahoro n'ituze, umwaka wo gukundana nk'Abanyarwanda, umwaka wo kugera ku nshingano zose zabateza imbere. Uzababere kandi umwaka wo kumvikana mu ngo zanyu, mu miryango mukomokamo, no ku misozi, imirenge, insisiro, n'imigi mutuyemo. Bityo, muri uyu mwaka w’2017, muziyemeze gushimangira « umubano mu bantu », mugera ikirenge mu cy’abasokuruza bacu.

Mu rwego rw’igihugu, umwaka w’2016 usize ibikorwa by'ingirakamaro byagombye kongerera u Rwanda ishema mu ruhando rw’amahanga, nubwo bwose isura yarwo ikomeje kwanduzwa n’ubutegetsi bubi bwa FPR-Kagame. Muri ibyo bikorwa mboneragihugu, twavuga ibi bikurikira:

1.       Inyubako yiswe «Kigali Convention Center» (KCC), n’ubwo idahiga ubwiza « Kenyatta Conference Center » y’i Nayirobi ; ariko ku gihugu gikennye nk'icyacu, ni igitego mu bihugu bitatu byahoze biyoborwa n'abakoloni b'Ababiligi (Burundi, RD Congo, Rwanda).

2.       Indege ebyiri za AIRBUS 330-320 na 330-300 zizaba indorerwamo y'u Rwanda mu bihugu zizajya zitwarira abagenzi.

3.       Hafashwe icyemezo cyo kuzubaka « ikibuga mpuzamahanga cy’indege » (AEROPORT INTERNATIONAL) mu Bugesera, hakaba hari hashize imyaka 50 irenga iki kibuga gishakwa n’Abanyarwanda ndetse n'Abanyamahanga, bamwe bakaba barifuzaga ko cyubakwa igitaraganya, ku mpamvu zitarasobanuka.

Bigomba kumvikana ko ibyo bikorwa atari iby’abantu ku giti cyabo, ko ari iby'igihugu, dore ko n’amadeni yasabwe na Leta azabyubaka azishyurwa ku ngengo y’imali y’igihugu, iturutse ahanini ku misoro n’imisanzu y’abenegihugu. Ibyo bikorwa kandi biramutse bigurishijwe, amafaranga byinjije agomba kujya mu isanduku y'igihugu. Ibikorwa nk'ibi ni ibyo gushyigikirwa kukobitandukanye n'ibyiswe imiturirwa isigaye isa n'umurato mu mujyi wa Kigali. Ibikorwa by'amajyambere mu Rwanda byaba imihanda, ibitaro bya Leta, n'izindi nyubako z’ingirakamaro bigomba gushyigikirwa, mu gihe bifitiye akamaro Abataturarwanda muri rusange.

Tugomba kumenya kandi gutandukanya amajyambere ashingiye ku nyungu za rubanda n’amajyambere ashingiye ku nyungu z’agatsiko kaba gahisha ubukire gafite kabonye ku buryo budasobanutse (blanchiment d’argent) bushingiye k’ubwambuzi, ubusahuzi bw'umutungo w'igihugu, cyangwa iminyago yo mu ntambara. Bene ayo majyambere adasangiwe na benshi ashimisha beneyo gusa n'abo bafatanije, bagahatira urubyiruko gucengenzwamo amateka y'amatobano, yuzuye ikinyoma, ubwirasi no kwishongora kw'abantu bake bigize indobanure mu Banyarwanda, bagamije kwikungahaza nta soni.

Ni ngombwa kandi gutsindagira ko bene ayo majyambere y'umuvuduko udasanzwe, agaragara ko yikubiwe na bamwe mu banyarwanda, ahishe byinshi bifitanye inkomoko no gushaka kwibagiza no gutwikira amahano bafitemo uruhare rukomeye nko mu mubijyanye n'ubwicanyi bwakorewe Abanyarwanda muri rusange, ariko cyane abitwaga abahutu (ubu bitwa ukundi). Ibyo ari byo byose nta majyambere azahanagura cyangwa ngo yibagize amateka y'ibyabaye mu Rwanda hose, aho imirambo yatawe mu migezi, indi igatwikirwa mu mashyamba. By'umwihariko,amahano yakorewe i Kibeho muri Mata 1995 no mu mashyamba ya Kongo kuva mu kwezi k’Ugushyingo 1996 kugeza mu kwezi kwa Gicurasi 1997, bigahitana abantu bageze kuri miliyoni ebyiri, bigomba kwibukwa buri mwaka kugeza ku munsi w'imperuka.

Umwaka w’2017 dutangiye, nta cyiza tuwutezeho mu rwego rwa politike, ku ruhande rwa FPR-Kagame. Kimwe n'iyawubanjirije, nawo uzaba uwo kurata « iterambere ryazanywe na Kagame », no kwerekana ko abagore ari bo basigaye barabaye benshi mu nzego z'ubuyobozi bw'igihugu cy’u Rwanda, kurusha ibindi bihugu byo ku isi. Uko bigaragara, politiki y'ubuhendabana izakomeza. Abanyarwanda nabo bazakomeza bayoborwe butama, bamenyere kuba ingaruzwamuheto zarwaye ipfunwe. Abanyarwanda bamwe ba mpemukendamuke bazakomeza kurega ababyeyi babo ibyaha batakoze. Abandi bakomeze bisakume bavuga ko ba nyirarume cyangwa ba se bateguye jenoside yakorewe abatutsi. Naho ab’inkwakuzi bigire abahanga n'abasizi mu bitutsi byo kugayisha no gusebya abatavuga rumwe n’ubuyobozi bwa Perezida Kagame, abo basingiza Kagame bakomeze kumufata nk’aho ariwe ugena ubuzima bw’Abanyarwanda n’imiyoborere yabo.

Hazaba kandi igikorwa kaminuza twakwita agahebuzo k’ikinyoma cyahimbwe n’abacurabwenge b’ingoma, kigambiriye kugaragaza ko Abanyarwanda bakunda Perezida Kagame. Hazakomeza kumvikana ubutumwa bw’urukozasoni bw’uko Abanyarwanda bifuza ko Kagame yakomeza kubayobora, ndetse bikaba amahire agumye ku butegetsi kugeza avuyemo umwuka, akazasimburwa n'uwo yaba asigiye umurage. Perezida Kagame n'ingabo ze bazakora ikinamico mu Rwanda hose ku manywa y’ihangu, habe igisa n'amatora, nibigera ku Gicamunsi, batangaze ko Abanyarwanda barenga 90 % batoye Perezida Kagame ngo akomeze ababere umuyobozi,amahanga yongere yirengagize ko ayo majwi yaturutse ku gahato n’uburiganya bisanzwe biranga amatora afifitse ya FPR-Inkotanyi.

Ku ruhande rw’ishyaka RDI Rwanda Rwiza, muri uyu mwaka dutangiye, tuzihatira kubeshyuza ibinyoma bya FPR-Kagame, twereke Abanyarwanda n’amahanga ko u Rwanda atari Singapure cyangwa Amerika (USA), aho inkotanyi zikize zohereza abana bazo mu mashuli no kubayo. Tuzerekana kandi ko u Rwanda ari igihugu gikennye, bitewe n’uko hafi 80% y’abarutuye batagira umushahara, dore ko nta kazi kabahemba buri kwezi bafite. Abanyarwanda benshi nta masambu bakigira kuko n’uturima bacungiragaho leta ya Kagame yatubambuye, bamwe bakaba barishwe n’inzara, ababishoboye bagahungira mu gihugu cya Uganda. Abaturage benshi mu Rwanda ntabwo bakirya ngo bahage, abenshi bicwa n'inzara ndetse n’indwara zikomoka ku mirire mibi. Kuba mu gihugu umuturage atakigira uburenganzira ku isambu ye, byateye inzara yayogoje u Rwanda rwose, bitewe ahanini n’uko ibihingwa ngandurarugo bitagihabwa agaciro byari bifite mbere,hakaba n’ubwo biranduwe, ngo iyo byahinzwe bidakurikije gahunda za Leta !

Muri uyu mwaka w’2017, ishyaka RDI Rwanda Rwiza rizakomeza guharanira ko ibintu bihinduka mu Rwanda, hagamijwe ukwishyira ukizana kwa buri wese, ubutegetsi bushingiye kuri demokrasi, n’imibereho myiza y’abaturage ishingiye ku majyambere asangiwe n’imbaga nyamwinshi. Mu byihutirwa kurusha ibindi, twavuga ibi bikurikira :

1.       Kurwanya inzara yiswe "Nzaramba" yogogoje igihugu, igatuma Abanyarwanda batari bake basuhuka kubera amajyambera ya nyirarureshwa atabitayeho, ahubwo atuma bamburwa amasambu yabo, abasigaye mu gihugu nabo bakabuzwa uburyo, bakabura epfo na ruguru.

2.       Kwimakaza demokarasi mu Rwanda. Kurwanya ubutegetsi bw’igitugu ubwo ari bwo bwose, byabaye akarande mu mateka y’u Rwanda. Abanyarwanda b’impirimbanyi babaye imena barwanya ingoma ya cyami isimburwa na repubulika, abandi bahangana n’ubutegetsi bw’igitugu bwa Habyarimana n’ishyaka rye MRND. Uwo murage ugomba gukomeza, abiyemeje kurwanya ingoma ngome ya FPR-Kagame bagakomeza umurego, maze uyu mwaka dutangiye ukazaba uwo guca umusingi tuzubakiraho u Rwanda rwiza, rurangwa na Leta igendera ku mategeko kandi yubahiriza uburenganzira bw’ibanze mu ngeri zose, ari mu bya politiki n’imiyoborere y’igihugu, ari no mu rwego rw’ubukungu n’imibereho myiza. Kugira ngo iyo mpinduka igerweho bidatinze, Ishyaka RDI Rwanda Rwiza ryiteguye guhuza umugambi n’abandi banyarwanda bo mu yandi mashyaka, bumva ko hagomba gushakwa inzira zose zo kumvisha Prezida Paul Kagame kwemera yanze akunze ko demokarasi yubahirizwa mu gihgu cyacu.

3.       Gukemura ikibazo cy’ubuhunzi : mu mpera z’ukwezi kwa Werurwe k’uyu mwaka turangije, Ishyaka RDI ryagejeje ku Butegetsi bwa Paul Kagame, inyandiko isesengura ikibazo cy’Impunzi z’Abanyarwanda n’uburyo cyakemurwa, rinasaba Leta y’i Kigali guhagurukira icyo kibazo kugira ngo kitazateza indi ntambara nk’iyo Inkotanyi zashoje mu mwaka w’1990. Ikigaragara ni uko FPR-Kagame ititaye kuri icyo kibazo, bityo Prezida Kagame n’Ubutegetsi bwe bakaba ari bo bazaryozwa inkurikizi mbi zose zishobora kuzabyarwa n’icyo kibazo kimeze mu by’ukuri nk’ikirunga gitutumba. Mu bimenyetso by’ubukare bw’ikibazo cy’ubuhunzi biherutse kugaragara mu minsi ya vuba, twavuga nk’itanga ry’Umwami Kigeli Ndahindurwa watabarutse tariki ya 16 Ukwakira 2016 mu gihugu cya Leta zunze Ubumwe bw’Amerika nk’impunzi yahejejwe ishyanga, rigakurura amakimbirane yatumye na n’ubu umugogogo we utarashyingurwa.

4.       Kuvugisha ukuri ku byerekeye ibyiswe amoko mu Rwanda. Nta kindi kizaca ingirwamoko kandi kikazana amahoro mu Rwanda, uretse kubaka ubumwe nyabwo bw’Abanyarwanda no kwitorera abategetsi nta gahato. Bitabaye ibyo, u Rwanda ruzokamwa n’amacakubiri azakomeza kurukururamo umwiryane mu gihe Abanyarwanda bakomeje gucibwamo ibice, bashyirwa mu byiciro bimwe na bimwe, nk’ibi bikurikira :

1.       Abatutsi ngo baremewe kuzajya mw’ijuru n’abahutu ngo Mungu agomba kubabarira,

2.       Abahunze u Rwanda n’abarutuye,

3.       Abitwa ko bahagaritse jenoside n’abacikacumu ku ruhande rumwe n’abo ku rundi ruhande, Abashigajwe inyuma n'amateka n’abitwa ko atari bo, Abashigajwe inyuma n'amajyambere (y'Intsinzi y'Inkotanyi) n’abigwijeho ibya Mirenge, Andi « moko » menshi usanga mu by’ukuri atesha agaciro Abanyarwanda.

Mu gusoza iri jambo ry’Umwaka mushya, Ishyaka RDI ryifuje gutsindagira igitekerezo cy’uko Abanyarwanda dufite uburenganzira busesuye bwo kubaho mu mahoro no muri demokarasi mu gihugu cyacu, tutagombye kubisaba cyangwa kubihakirwa mu gihe turi Abenegihugu bujuje ibya ngombwa bigenga Ubunyarwanda. Nibyumvikane kandi ko Abanyarwanda badashobora kwemera ko uburenganzira bwabo butsikamirwa cyangwa bukaguranwa amajyamabere y’igikangisho n’inyungu z’agatsiko kikubiye ibyiza byose by’igihugu. Ishyaka RDI ryongeye kurarikira Abanyarwanda bose, cyane cyane urubyiruko, gushiruka ubwoba, bagaharanira uburenganzira bwabo mu buryo bwose, maze muri uyu mwaka dutangiye w’2017, bakazarwanya bivuye inyuma, uburiganya bwa FPR-Kagame bugamije kugarura ubutegetsi bwa cyami mu Rwanda.

Twongeye kubifuriza umwaka Mushya Muhire. Mugire amahoro.

Bikorewe i Buruseli

Umuyobozi w’ishyaka RDI-Rwanda Rwiza

Faustin Twagiramungu.

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