Rwanda : Le parti RDI-Rwanda Rwiza condamne des manœuvres du régime de FPR-Kagame contre toute opposition politique.

Le parti RDI-Rwanda Rwiza condamne le régime rwandais du FPR-Kagame pour ses entraves à la démocratie et à la liberté des opposants à mener toute action politique dans leur pays.

Le parti RDI-Rwanda Rwiza dénonce et condamne la fâcheuse décision du Gouvernement rwandais de refuser à la délégation du parti Ishema l’entrée au Rwanda qui était prévue le 23.11.2016. Alors que Monsieur l'abbé Thomas Nahimana, Secrétaire Général de ce parti, et ses trois compagnons dont la brave Mme Nadine Kasinge et son bébé âgé de 7 mois, étaient en transit à l’aéroport de Nairobi prêts à embarquer pour Kigali, ils se sont vu refuser l’accès à leur vol, au motif que les autorités rwandaises avaient donné à la Compagnie Kenya Airways l’ordre formel de ne pas laisser le sieur Nahimana et ses compagnos monter dans l’avion à destination de la capitale rwandaise.

Le refus d’entrée exprimé à leur égard par le pouvoir de Kigali est une entrave majeure à la liberté et à la démocratie. Il dénote, une fois de plus, la fébrilité du régime du FPR-Kagame qui craint la compétition politique, comme il l’a déjà démontré par le passé en jetant en prison Madame Ingabire Victoire lorsqu’elle est allée concourir à l’élection présidentielle de 2010; et en refusant au Président du parti RDI, le renouvellement de son passeport rwandais et le visa d'entrée au Rwanda dans son passeport belge en 2013, alors qu’il devait y aller pour faire enregistrer le parti et y exercer des activités politiques d’opposition.



Le parti RDI saisit la présente occasion pour réitérer sa grande admiration et ses hommages les plus déférents à Madame Ingabire, dont le courage et le combat politique exceptionnels continuent de faire trembler le dictateur rwandais et sa clique. Nous sommes également sensibles à la forte détermination de Madame Kasinge dont la famille fut décimée par le FPR en 1994 et qui, malgré ces lourds antécédents et son état de maman d’un petit ange de 7 mois, a pris le risque d’aller au Rwanda pour y faire de la politique dans des conditions dont nous savons tous la dureté. Le parti RDI tient à féliciter le parti Ishema et ses dirigeants pour l’acte courageux qu’ils ont posé en tentant de se rendre au Rwanda en vue d’y participer aux prochaines élections nationales, dont la présidentielle de 2017.

Nous voudrions enfin lancer un appel pressant à la vingtaine de partis politiques d’opposition opérant en dehors du Rwanda, afin qu’ils engagent, sans plus tarder, une concertation visant à définir les modalités d’un retour au Rwanda à effectuer ensemble le plus tôt possible. Il ne fait point de doute qu’un tel retour en force des opposants rwandais dans leur mère patrie ferait trembler davantage le dictateur de Kigali, qui prend souvent un malin plaisir à mépriser l’opposition rwandaise et à dénigrer sa capacité à imposer un changement politique au Rwanda.


Fait à Bruxelles, le 28 Novembre 2016
Pour le parti RDI-Rwanda Rwiza,
Faustin Twagiramungu,
Président.

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Kagame Is Laughing All The Way To The Bank

Kigali Convention Centre (KCC) is finally here! Congratulations to all those involved in building it since 2008. It has been a long journey.

But like everything else in Kagame's Kingdom there is a dark side - CASH!
While we were sleeping KCC mysteriously got new owners. Guess who are the owners:

The new owners include Prime Holdings and Crystal Ventures. This should come as a shock!
Back in 2006, the Kagame regime assured the IMF that Prime Holdings had ceased to manage public assets after it was caught stealing. Prime Holdings is a shadowy company that was unable to account for funds used to build the current Serena Hotel in Kigali and Gisenyi! Ten years later, the corrupt mafia-like Prime Holdings is back!

Evidently Kagame has rewarded Prime Holdings with an even bigger cake - big money from the US$400 million Eurobond the Kagame regime borrowed to build KCC among other things!
So why did Kagame bring back the thieving Prime Holdings? The same reason Crystal Ventures became a co-owner of KCC. To siphon off CASH!

We hope the IMF is observing this ugly drama that is hidden away by the celebrations around the KCC.




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David Himbara

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Rwanda in the top 10 countries that use child soldiers in the world.

(New York) – The Obama administration should require foreign governments receiving United States military aid to immediately end their use of child soldiers, Human Rights Watch said today. On June 30, 2016, the US State Department issued a new list of countries implicated in the use of child soldiers as part of its annual Trafficking in Persons report. The list of 10 countries includes Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.

Child soldiers put down their guns in a disarmament and release ceremony in Jonglei state, South Sudan, February 10, 2015. 

© 2015 Sebastian Rich/Corbis/AP Images

The 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act prohibits certain forms of US military assistance to countries that either use child soldiers in their national armed forces or support militias or paramilitaries that recruit and use child soldiers. The president can waive the prohibition for national security reasons. Since the law went into effect in 2010, the Obama administration has issued such waivers in 26 of 33 cases, allowing governments using child soldiers to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in US military aid.
“Many of the governments listed by the State Department receive US military aid year after year despite their continued use of children as soldiers,” said Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “President Obama should make clear that countries using child soldiers are going to lose US military support.”

President Obama must decide by the end of September whether to waive the law’s military sanctions for any of the listed governments for fiscal year 2017.

Iraq was added to the list for the first time this year. The Popular Mobilization Forces, a government-recognized paramilitary force under the prime minister’s command, has recruited children as young as 11 to fight against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS. Human Rights Watch has documented that children as young as 15 have been killed while fighting with one of the militia forces making up the Popular Mobilization Forces.

Nigeria was included for the second year in a row, based on the use of child soldiers by the Civilian Joint Task Force, a government-allied force used to fight the armed group Boko Haram. Rwanda, which had been included in 2013 and 2014 but removed in 2015, reappeared after officials recruited child soldiers from a refugee camp. The other countries have been included for at least four years in a row. Several – Congo, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen – have been named every year since the list was first published in 2010.

Afghanistan was omitted from this year’s list, despite evidence that the Afghan Local Police, a government-backed militia engaged in combat operations against the Taliban and other insurgents, recruits and uses children as soldiers.

“The United States has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to support an Afghan militia that recruits and uses children to fight the Taliban,” Becker said. “Afghanistan should also be on this list and subject to military sanctions.”

Afghanistan was excluded because the State Department determined that the Afghan Local Police fell into a gray area not covered by the Child Soldiers Prevention Act. That decision appears contrary to the plain meaning of the law, Human Rights Watch said. The law covers “governmental armed forces or government-supported armed groups, including paramilitaries, militias, or civil defense forces, that recruit and use child soldiers.” The Afghan Local Police was established under the Afghan interior minister by presidential decree in August 2010, and according to the US Defense Department, is an “integral part” of the Afghanistan security forces.

“There’s no gray area concerning children and the Afghan Local Police,” Becker said. “The Afghan government has failed to rein in the militia’s recruitment of children while the US turns a blind eye.”

In 2015, President Obama gave full or partial waivers to four of the five countries listed that were scheduled recipients of US military aid. Withholding at least a portion of US military aid would provide foreign governments with an incentive to curb child recruitment, Human Rights Watch said.

“President Obama should take a much harder line, and insist that countries that receive US military aid end their use of child soldiers,” Becker said. “Unconditional military aid sends a terrible message that the US knowingly supports countries that use children to fight.”

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www.hrw.org

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In Pictures, Kigali Experiencing Increase of Street Children In Numbers.Who Cares?

Kigali is peaceful today because the street children are still children. Today they are begging, practically requesting their donors to willingly handover the loose change in their possession. When the sense of frustration develops, they may use ‘reasonable force’ so to say in police speak.

Throughout the year, hundreds of men, women, and children—many of them street children, commercial sex workers, or street hawkers—were detained unlawfully, without charge or trial, in very poor conditions in an unrecognized detention center commonly known as Kwa Kabuga, in the Gikondo area of Kigali. Many were beaten by police, or by other detainees in the presence of police.

Although no official statistics have been collated, it is estimated by various NGO’s that there are between 10,000 and 15,000 children who live on the streets in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital. Most of these do not actually sleep on the streets at nighttime, because there is a high risk that they will be killed, or beaten. Many live in underground big pipes, or share a small mud hut with some older street children.

Rwandan authorities have come under fire for forcibly rounding up hundreds of street children in the capital, Kigali, ahead of an African leaders summit.
Below are few images of Kigali steet Children and the video of Human Rights Watch World Report 2015 - Events of 2014

Numbers of street Children in Kigali in Increasing, 

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