Kagame is a Despot Behind the Veil of a Genocide
Here is
the thing; Rwanda’s Paul Kagame is simply a despot just as any other African
and/or world despots. In my life time (since my world was created that is), I
have only met one Rwandese Tutsi man who agreed with me that Rwanda is a going
problem. Otherwise majority of Rwandan men and women have been captured,
brainwashed and they sing the Kagame praises like a chorus. One of the best
ways that Kagame has used to entrench his autocracy without any much criticism
is using the genocide. He knows how emotive that tragic occurrence was. For a
tiny country as Rwanda to lose well over a million of its people in a span of
just about 100 days, starting April 1994 was horrendous. But, you see Kagame
Paul is not the savior of Rwanda as he has since packaged himself. If anything,
the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) under Kagame equally committed genocide in
Rwnda; in fact two of them.
Unless we
want to compete against history (which we are sure to lose) then we must agree
that RPF, with the support from Uganda – Museveni’s National Restitance
Army/Movement (NRA/M) that had just captured Kampala few years earlier – committed
a lot of atrocities especially along the Rwanda-Uganda borderlands where they
invaded many Tutsi villages, killed, maimed, tortured and pillaged. The tactic
was simple and it certainly paid off. Since RPF was a Tutsi militia, committing
such odious crimes was a good strategy since they then turned around and
accused the genocidal Hutu regime and so attracted international sympathy and
support. So, the first genocide that the RPF was engaged in is the first
(official one) in which they took part in the very acts that the wicked Hutu
regime was engaged in. The second genocide is the revenge killing after the
capture of Kigali. It is out there that, led by RPF, many Hutus were murdered
upon the defeat of the Hutu regime. Those who were killed were, many of them
innocent people who, like many Tutsis, died because of their identity. There
cannot be two ways about it is we are to grant that life is simply that, life.
Today,
nobody in Rwanda questions Kagame and walks free; he has put nearly everybody
under lock and key and he rules Rwanda the way he chooses how and until when he
will be tired and obviously he will impose his son or daughter as next ruler.
Rwanda is not a shining gem. Apart from clean towns and a militaristic
government that forces the populace to tore the line, millions of Rwandese are
languishing in poverty and many are thronging neighboring countries in search
of opportunities. You can go to Kampala and Nairobi and conduct a head count of
Rwandese. An average Rwandan young man or woman in Rwanda is a hopeless person
only reduced to singing the praises of Kagame. They have no opportunities; no
means of making a living. Meanwhile, everybody who cares to know should be
aware that Kagame has a taste for luxury; his son and daughter are living large
in the US. The luxuries that Kagame’s son and daughter often display cannot be
out of some hard earned money; it is state money, it is money belonging to
millions of poor Rwandan people working so hard to make ends meet in the hilly
country in our region. How Kagame is different, for example, from Equatorial
Guinea’s, Teodoro Obiang Nguema who appointed his son as Vice President or
Angola’s JosĂ© Eduardo dos Santos who decided to have a sizable amount of his
country's money managed by his daughter, I am yet to be educated.
Kagame is a Despot Behind the Veil of a Genocide
Reviewed by Ibrahim Magara
on
January 08, 2019
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