The Rwandan Genocide: Result of a Carefully Planned Military Operation

(GlobalResearch.ca) - Arusha, Tanzania, 12th May, 2009

OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY PAUL KAGAME, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF RWANDA AT KIGALI

OBJECT: The denunciation of the discriminatory actions and intentions of the Rwandan authorities.

Your excellency, President of the Republic,

The detainees of the ICTR, signatories of the present document have judged it necessary to react to your racist and discriminatory intentions announced by several Rwandan personalities on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan “genocide”, celebrated on Nyanza hill, a Kigali the 11th of April 2009. The Rwandan government stated that 5,000 people were taken from the Official Technical School (ETO) at Kicukiro, the 11th of April 1994 and were then massacred at Nyanza hill. Those who stated this were Charles Muligande, M. Simburudi, president of the IBUKA Association which represents the Tutsi survivors of the “genocide” the deputy mayor of Kigali and Dr. Augustin Iyamuremye, senator and former chief of the civilian intelligence services in the Rwandan government of 1994.

We think that the things said do not take any account of the truth or the reality of the history of our country, but instead, have as the purpose of terrorising, intimidating and humiliating the Hutu people of Rwanda who are globally accused of having planned and committed a “genocide” against the Tutsis. Our reaction is motivated by the fact that the RPF regime wants to wipe from the history of Rwanda, the revolutionary period that liberated the people of Rwanda from the yoke of a feudal monarchy and that ushered in national construction once the country achieved its independence. The ultimate objective of the RPF is clearly to erase the history of Rwanda and the benefits of the republican period to better support their false thesis according to which the Hutus only marked the history of the country with barbarism and “genocide” of the Tutsis. It is a vision both false and divisionist and it is clear that, by propagating it, you have abandoned the interests of the Rwandan people.

READ MORE HERE [ Source: GlobalResearch.ca, June 3, 2009 ]

Chad’s Courteous Phone Thieves

(Wired Magazine Blog) - If you've ever spent an entire day trying, and failing, to make one important phone call, as I just did here in sunny Chad, you might understand how tenuous communications are in a place like Central Africa.

So it's no wonder that Thuraya satellite phones are among the hottest items in the whole region ... and why these handy little phones are at the top of bandits' and rebels' wish lists.

READ MORE HERE [ Source: Wired Magazine Blog, David Axe, david_axe@hotmail.com ]

(Photo: David Axe) You can find more Dave Axe articles at www.WarisBoring.com.

Chad’s Deadly Cocktail: Oil, Water, and Blood

Oil, water and blood. In Central Africa the three mix into one volatile cocktail. I came to Chad two weeks ago to understand how a rapidly expanding civil conflict, pitting tribal rebels versus repressive regimes in three countries -- Chad, Sudan and the Central African Republic -- is exacerbated by Central Africa's growing oil reserves and dwindling supplies of natural resources, especially water and wood.

I'm not the only one who's interested in Chad. The U.S. government and private American citizens are the biggest donors to Chad's enormous refugee society -- half a million displaced people plus thousands of aid workers spending hundreds of millions of donated dollars per year. And the European Union has picked Chad to test out its growing military might. 4,000 peacekeepers are deploying to protect refugees and aid workers.

READ MORE HERE [ Source: Wired Magazine Blog, David Axe, david_axe@hotmail.com ]

You can find more Dave Axe articles at www.WarisBoring.com.