PARTY FOR DEMOCRACY IN RWANDA - PDR-IHUMURE WWW.PDR-IHUMURE.ORG PRESS RELEASE
(PDR-19-09-2006-PR)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
The PDR-Ihumure denounces Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s trip to New York City, N.Y., U.S.A.
HOUSTON, TX –
The Party for Democracy in Rwanda, PDR-Ihumure, has learned that Rwandan strongman Paul Kagame has been invited to attend the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York city on UWednesday, September 20, 2006U. Out of moral conscience and respect for human dignity, the distinguished guests and world leaders at this illustrious gathering should not embrace and allow in their midst the Rwandan Khmer Noir responsible for the deaths of 2 million Rwandans and more than 4 million Congolese in the last decade. The United States of America, along with other civilized nations, should not allow such an inveterate violator of human rights to set foot on their soil.
United against President Paul Kagame’s ruthless dictatorship, his callous trampling of Justice and Democracy in Rwanda, and his total contempt for peace and human life in the entire Great Lakes region of Africa, members of the PDR-Ihumure are demanding that he be arrested and prosecuted for all the crimes he has committed from October 1990 to present on the Rwandan national territory against innocent civilians. We are also demanding that he be prosecuted for his crimes against nationals of other countries, among them millions of Congolese civilians, Canadian and Belgian priests, Spanish doctors and volunteers, and other foreign technical assistance and development specialists killed by his RPF army and death squads. The overwhelming body of evidence now available places full responsibility for the Rwandan
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tragedy of the last decade squarely on the shoulders of President Paul Kagame. He must be brought before an international court of law and answer for the following crimes:
• War crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of genocide committed since the invasion of Rwanda by the RPF in October 1990 and during their occupation of the Rwandan northern territories from October 1990 to April 1994;
• War crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of genocide throughout Rwanda from April 1994 to December 1994 (year of generalized civil war);
• War crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of genocide in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo from January 1995 to present.
The PDR-Ihumure has been keenly following developments in the trial of suspects of the Bwindi national park massacre as it plays out in the courts of Washington, DC. We would like to thank the American authorities, the investigation teams, and the justice department officials for their diligent work in the prosecution of this delicate case. In deploring the brutal killing of the innocent tourists and forcefully condemning the killers, we also want to urge the American authorities to seriously pursue the high possibility that President Paul Kagame and his RPF army planned and carried out this heinous Bwindi massacre and blamed it on their enemies. Such criminal framing of suspects is a well-known trademark tactic of the RPF as a rebel group and a government: Kagame and his army have made a career out of perpetrating crimes and placing the blame on their enemies after framing them as suspects. Since taking up weapons and invading Rwanda in October 1990, the RPF has operated
like a steam-roller criminal organization that will stop at nothing, eliminating Rwandans and foreign nationals alike, in order to achieve its diabolical goals.
The people of Rwanda and the Great lakes region of Africa have suffered immeasurably because of the criminal predatory activities of the RPF. All we want is peace, democracy, and genuine reconciliation. But these noble goals will not be achieved until equitable justice is served. Unfortunately, justice will not come until the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) indicts and prosecutes criminals within the RPF government and the RPA army in Kigali. Justice will not be served until the world community holds accountable leaders such as Paul Kagame, who have been implicated for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and crimes of genocide.
Jérome Nayigiziki
General Secretary
PDR-Ihumure