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Rwanda

The Rwandan Genocide
Africa, Rwanda

The Rwandan Genocide

RON UNZ  EPub Format Although I sometimes fall short, I always try to be very accurate and careful in my writing, doing my best to avoid the mistakes that might be eagerly pounced upon by my legion of harsh critics. This is especially necessary when discussing the ultra-controversial topics that are so often the focus of my essays. For example, a few weeks after Israel began its brutal military assault on Gaza in retaliation for the October 7th Hamas raid, one of my articles included the following passage: Last Thursday, most of the world was still reeling from the televised devastation in Gaza, as a densely-populated portion of one of its largest refugee camps was demolished by multiple 2,000-pound Israeli bombs, apparently killing hundreds of helpless Palestinian civili...
Most wanted Rwandan genocide fugitive appears in court
Africa, Rwanda

Most wanted Rwandan genocide fugitive appears in court

Fulgence Kayishema, 62, was arrested in South Africa on Wednesday after being on the run for almost three decades Fulgence Kayishema, one of the last fugitives sought for their role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide, holds up a Christian book as he sits in the Cape Town Magistrate's Court in Cape Town on May 26, 2023, two days after being arrested following 22 years on the run. ©  RODGER BOSCH / AFP Former Rwandan police officer Fulgence Kayishema, a long-time fugitive arrested this week for his alleged role in the killing of some 2,000 Tutsis during the 1994 genocide, was arraigned before the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court on Friday. Kayishema is facing five charges in South Africa, including two counts of fraud for breaching the Immigration Act and one for violating ...
Rwanda’s Military Is the French Proxy on African Soil
Africa, Rwanda

Rwanda’s Military Is the French Proxy on African Soil

By Vijay PrashadOn July 9, 2021, the government of Rwanda said that it had deployed 1,000 troops to Mozambique to battle al-Shabaab fighters, who had seized the northern province of Cabo Delgado. A month later, on August 8, Rwandan troops captured the port city of Mocímboa da Praia, where just off the coast sits a massive natural gas concession held by the French energy company TotalEnergies SE and the U.S. energy company ExxonMobil. These new developments in the region led to the African Development Bank’s President M. Akinwumi Adesina announcing on August 27 that TotalEnergies SE will restart the Cabo Delgado liquefied natural gas project by the end of 2022.Militants from al-Shabaab (or ISIS-Mozambique, as the U.S. State Department prefers to ...
Rwanda: Robots Help Rwandan Health Workers Minimizing COVID-19 Risk
Rwanda

Rwanda: Robots Help Rwandan Health Workers Minimizing COVID-19 Risk

The humanoid machines were donated by the United Nations Development Programme Robots are helping doctors and nurses to avoid contagion risk at the Kanyinya treatment facility, near Rwanda´s capital Kigali. RELATED: Rwanda Honors Those Killed in Genocide 25 Years Ago Frontline workers are using the machines to take temperatures and monitoring patients, sending messages to doctors, and helping the staff to appraise how effective their decision making is, which reduces the visits to bedsides doctors have to make. The so called "zorabots" can screen between 50 to 150 people per minute, it can also deliver food and medicine, gather audio-visual data, and alert staff in case of emergency. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnered with Rwanda´s Ministry of Informati...
Africa, Rwanda

Truth, Freedom and Peace Will Prevail in Rwanda

By Robin Philpot* I would first like to thank the International Women’s Network for Democracy and Peace honouring me with this Award that bears the name of a great patriot and fighter for freedom, peace and democracy, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza. But I would also like to congratulate the Network for its extraordinary work. Like Victoire, you and your work inspire us to keep the faith in this struggle. You are contagious and I thank very much for being so. In less than a month we will be commemorating the 25th anniversary of what was the worst terrorist attack of the 1990s, and what has become the biggest political and media scandal of the last quarter of a century. It is a scandal that gets worse every day that goes by. You know what I’m talking about: the shooting down on Apri...
Africa, Literature, Rwanda

“Rwanda, the Truth About Operation Turquoise: When the Archives Speak”

A Book Review By Dennis Riches Global Research, January 09, 2020Region: sub-Saharan AfricaTheme: History, Media Disinformation In France, it is difficult to speak about certain subjects without unleashing the guard dogs of correct thought and dominant ideology. The sensitive dossiers are well-known: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the civil-global war in Syria, and the Rwandan genocides. Even to speak of “genocides” in the plural is to take a serious risk, as the guardians of the temple have erected the singular as a totem of their religion: from April 7, 1994 until July 17, 1994, the “evil” Hutu massacred the “gentle” Tutsi. Definitively, the morality of it is always this simple. And from then on: spread the word, as there is nothing more to comprehend because it is...
Rwanda, ZIO-NAZI

Rwanda: the shadow of 'Israel' on the 1994 genocide

NOVANEWS 25 years have passed since the terrible massacre that bloodied Rwanda in 1994 . From 6 April to mid-July, for about 100 days, 800,000 to one million people were mercilessly slaughtered, according to estimates by Human Rights Watch , mostly women and children belonging to the Tutsi tribe , by members of the Hutu tribe. , which in Rwanda represents about 89% of the population. The massacre, carried out with firearms, machete pangas and studded sticks, was one of the most heinous of all time, but this was not enough to shake the international community, which did nothing to prevent it. Rwanda is one of the poorest countries on earth, where the Hutu and Tutsi tribes have coexisted peacefully for centuries, until the arrival of European colonizers. At the beginning of the 1900s, first ...
Politics, Rwanda, USA

Deconstructing the State. Getting Smaller. Developing the Local Economy. Redirecting the Power from the Centre to the Periphery

NOVANEWS Part VI of a Six Part Essay By Arthur D. Robbins Global Research   War has indeed become perpetual and peace no longer even a fleeting wish nor a distant memory. We have become habituated to the rumblings of war and the steady drum beat of propaganda about war’s necessity and the noble motives that inspire it. We will close hospitals. We will close schools. We will close libraries and museums. We will sell off our parklands and water supply. People will sleep on the streets and go hungry. The war machine will go on. What are we to do? The following text is Part VI of a broader analysis entitled War and the State: Business as Usual. For Parts I-V, click here. *** Suppose we chose to join hands with our anti-Federalist ancestors and decided we want to live in a Nation whe...
Africa, Rwanda

The Rwanda the world doesn’t know

NOVANEWS An interview with Anjan Sundaram, author of ‘Bad news: Last journalists in a dictatorship’ KYP Zahra Moloo Journalist Anjan Sundaram’s book on Rwanda exposes a terrifying dictatorship at the heart of Africa that few people get to hear about. Paul Kagame has tremendously succeeded – with the eager help of his western backers - to feed the world a carefully choreographed false narrative. His chilling tyranny is so pervasive and entrenched that Rwandans police themselves unbidden. Zahra Moloo: What took you to Rwanda and what inspired you to write this book? Anjan Sundaram: I went to Rwanda in 2009 to write my first book about Congo and really I was looking for a quiet place. I thought the country was peaceful, even a little boring, a great...