It is the 6th of April again and the western establishment\u2019s corporate media intelligence propaganda system has again been cranking out black propaganda that continues to buttress the false narratives about genocide in Central Africa. Under this falsification of consciousness, the victims become the killers and the killers become the victims, and the true role and involvement of the Western powers remains entirely obscured.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn eve of the 27th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda being observed on Wednesday,\u201d writes one popular journal, echoing the establishment line, \u201cexperts are debating the role of media that played a critical role in inciting and prolonging the violence. The massacre that started on April 7, 1994, killed one million people belonging to a mainly Tutsi ethnic community and moderate Hutus in a span of 100 days.\u201d<\/p>\n
The establishment narrative excludes the long history of violence perpetrated by the elite Tutsi monarchy; it excludes the deep historiography of elite Tutsi hit-and-run terrorism against the newly independent Rwandan nation, 1959-1970; it excludes the invasion of the sovereign country of Rwanda by Ugandan soldiers in October 1990\u2014soldiers backed by the United States and its allies; it excludes the four years of mass atrocities, war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide by the invading Ugandan soldiers\u2014led by Paul Kagame\u2014against Rwandan Hutus, Tutsis and Twas, from October 1990 to April 1994; and it excludes the definitive proof that Paul Kagame and the Rwandan Patriotic Front\/Army orchestrated the double presidential assassinations of 6 April 1994.<\/p>\n
Instead we get Hollywood fictions, emotionally potent oversimplifications, racist mythologies and media soundbites cranked out, over and over, to cement the false narrative into the heads of the infotainment consuming western public. Instead we get \u201cexperts\u201d regurgitating old stale theories and citing fabricated evidence to perpetuate the deeply seeded and deeply seated mythology. Instead we get the whitewashed \u201cmiracle\u201d of Rwanda\u2019s economic recovery\u2014achieved at the expense of over 7 million Rwandan, Ugandan, Burundian and Congolese lives.<\/p>\n
Rwanda\u2019s rise to power has been achieved through a perpetual orgy of war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, misery and suffering and pure starvation on an unprecedented scale, and it comes through the ongoing rape and plunder of the resources and people of Central Africa. This is what Hotel Rwanda<\/em> hero Paul Rusesabagina calls the \u201cgrinding machine\u201d.<\/sup> <\/p>\n While the world is subjected to the annual onslaught of insufferable propaganda, the latest victim of the Rwandan genocide industry\u2014Paul Rusesabagina of Hotel Rwanda<\/em> fame\u2014is being quick-shuffled through the corrupt Rwandan court system in a sham \u201ctrial\u201d reminiscent of the judicial charade that led to the brutal and botched execution of Nigerian playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa. The parallels are unsettling, and the outcome may be equally unconscionable.<\/p>\n Ken Saro-Wiwa was the leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni people, a human rights defender who struggled to free the indigenous peoples of the Niger River Delta from the yoke of slavery and destruction and the great western corporate petroleum genocide. While the truth was obscured by a massive propaganda campaign orchestrated by Shell Oil Company with the complicity of Newsweek<\/em>, the New York Times<\/em> and all the rest, Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists suffered on death row until their execution by hanging on 10 November 1995.<\/p>\n Like Ken Saro-Wiwa, Rwanda\u2019s humanitarian freedom fighter Paul Rusesabagina has been framed, faces false charges fabricated by a brutal arrogant pathological military regime, and the complete obliteration of all due process in Rwanda\u2019s caricature of judicial proceedings. As it was with Saro-Wiwa, so it is with Rusesabagina: the world \u201ccommunity\u201d is engaged in hand-wringing, denials, apologetics, mental masturbation, blatant disinformation, and outright lies.<\/p>\n \u201cThe nickname for my country is \u2018the land of thousands of hills,\u2019\u201d wrote Paul Rusesabagina, in his autobiography, An Ordinary Man<\/em>, \u201cbut this signifies a gross undercount. There are at least half a million hills, maybe more we are the children of the hills, the grassy slopes, the valley roads, the spider patterns of rivers, and the millions of rivulets and crevasses and buckles of earth. In this country, we don\u2019t talk about coming from a particular village, but from a particular hill.\u201d<\/p>\n Paul Rusesabagina was born into a family of nine children, farmers, on the side of a steep hill, in a home made of mud and sticks. The Rwanda of his youth was green and bright, full of cooking fires and sisters murmuring and drying sorghum and corn leaves in the wind and in the warm arms of his mother. But this image of a happy, quiet youth spent in the quaint hills of some far-off place is not one the western world holds in its modern memory of Rwanda. Instead we are confronted by a perpetual pornography of horror.<\/p>\n Paul Rusesabagina can no longer visit his particular hill. He was made famous by the film Hotel Rwanda<\/em>,<\/sup>, a Hollywood story inspired by his actions in the face of inhumanity, but Paul Rusesabagina fled Rwanda on 6 September 1996, after an attempted assassination, and he is today in exile from his own country. Paul Kagame\u2019s agents tracked him in Belgium, where he was awarded citizenship after arriving there as a refugee, and even in the United States, where he toured and spoke. He has been derided and threatened. He also received the Medal of Freedom hung round his neck by then president George W. Bush.<\/p>\n In an 7 April 2007 ceremony held in Rwanda to mark the 13th anniversary of the genocide, President Paul Kagame called him a \u201cswindler\u201d and \u201cgangster\u201d who works with other swindlers and gangsters who support him. The speech has raised fears in Rwanda, and amongst the Rwandan Diaspora<\/em> around the world. It was not the slander of Paul Rusesabagina that has upset the Rwandan people, but the other things that President Kagame said, and the way that he said them, in Kinyarwanda. In keeping with the general climate of silence and disinformation about the political realities in Rwanda, Paul Kagame\u2019s words went untold by the Western press.<\/p>\n A once-revered citizen living in Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina became one of Paul Kagame\u2019s fiercest critics in exile. On 27 August 2020, Rusesabagina was lured and kidnapped by the Rwandan government, renditioned to Kigali in complete contravention of international laws and treaties. Even Rwanda\u2019s own Penal Code qualifies abduction as a serious and punishable offence:<\/p>\n Article 151: Abduction and unlawful detention of a person:<\/p>\n Any person who, by violence, deception or threats, abducts or causes to be abducted, unlawfully detains or causes to be detained another person, commits an offence. Upon conviction, he\/she is liable to imprisonment for a term of not less than five (5) years and not more than seven (7) years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n \u201cRwandan dictator Paul Kagame is a dictator who does not tolerate dissent,\u201d wrote Brian Endless, PhD, Director of African Studies and the African Diaspora at Loyola University Chicago, in a lengthy report detailing the true history and false charges brought by the Rwandan government. Kagame \u201cslanders and intimidates critics of his government, including calling them \u201cterrorists\u201d, who has a long record of imprisoning and even killing those he considers to be critics or political opponents.\u201d<\/sup> <\/p>\n For Paul Kagame and the RPF, the goal of their seizure of power\u2014premised on the aristocratic Tutsi\u2019s historical and deeply inculcated psychological narrative of Tutsi entitlement\u2014has always been to eliminate as many Rwandans inside Rwanda<\/em> as possible, seize and occupy the long-dreamed of but heavily populated Rwandan hills, and take revenge. Hutus were the primary targets, but \u2018interior\u2019 Tutsis were also targeted.<\/p>\n The RPF\u2019s ascension to power in central Africa parallels the rise of the Directorate of Military Intelligence, a complex, ultra-secretive, layered organization comprised of thousands of military and civilian intelligence operatives, assassins, infiltrators, informants and handlers. Under the direct control of Paul Kagame and his top Tutsi commanders, the structure, methods and tactics of the DMI resemble the structures of intelligence and control that obtained during the bloody terror epochs under the last Tutsi kings (mwamis) of the Nyaginya dynasty: Kigeli IV Rwabugiri (reign: 1853-1895) and Yuhi Musinga (reign: 1896-1931). The DMI watches everything and everyone.<\/p>\n Kagame uses the DMI and special \u2018technicians\u2019 to instill fear in everyone, modeling his reign of power on the reign of absolute terror that obtained under King Rwabugiri. The system of power and control relies on structures, concepts and systems that originated in the traditional precolonial Nyaginya kingdoms. The Intore<\/em>, for example\u2014\u2018the chosen ones\u2019\u2014were elite fighters attached to the king\u2019s household. The RPF has deployed thousands of Intore<\/em>, chosen from all walks of life\u2014\u201cbus drivers, teachers, nurses, doctors, civil servants, journalists and other professionals\u201d\u2014as infiltrators, spies, informants, murderers and assassins trained at secret camps and diffused throughout Rwanda and its thousand hills.<\/sup> Kagame and the DMI\u2019s network of spies and assassins also proliferate outside Rwanda.<\/sup><\/p>\n Rwanda is built on a culture of lying and deception\u2014a very sophisticated intellectual and psychological practice known as Ubwenge<\/em>\u2014inherited from the aristocratic Tutsis and their pre-colonial and colonial traditions.<\/sup> Lying is routine, calculated, without conscience. Paul Kagame is the supreme liar, and the \u2018Rwanda genocide\u2019 is the supreme lie.<\/p>\n The greatest difference between Rwabugiri\u2019s reign is that Kagame has adapted modern technologies and perfected the techniques, methods and sophistication of the system of power, intimidation, and control.<\/p>\n For one stark example, the Arusha Peace Accords (1993) legitimized the RPF\u2019s illegal invasion of Rwanda and they gave the RPF a disproportionate share of power. The accords served as a devastating policy instrument used against the Rwandan government of Juvenal Habyarimana to force concessions favorable to the RPF: the accords were a monumental charade that the RPF had no intentions of honoring. The accords also served the duplicitous RPF tactic of \u2018fight and talk\u2019 and each diplomatic demarche of this sort allowed the RPF to further infiltrate and consolidate its power.<\/p>\n Under the accords the RPF troops demanded a military presence to protect RPF officials in Kigali: a contingent of 600 RPA soldiers (with over 100 DMI operatives) were stationed at the Centre Nationale de Developpement<\/em> (CND) parliament in Kigali. Kagame\u2019s DMI operatives and technicians used the CND as a base to terrorize Kigali from August 1993 to April 1994: RPF dissidents have confessed to bombing cafes and buses, assassinating Hutu leaders, fomenting chaos everywhere.<\/p>\n The \u2018technicians\u2019 reported to the DMI high command, directly under the control of Paul Kagame. Even before the 100 days of carnage, the DMI was enacting the most horrible, cold-blooded revenge. While \u2018interior\u2019 Tutsis were also targeted, the actions against Hutus\u2014 described by RPF defectors\u2014constitute genocide on no uncertain terms.<\/p>\n Commanded by Paul Kagame, the Rwandan Patriotic Army\u2014comprised of English speaking Tutsis (many with Ugandan citizenship) who had fought for Yoweri Museveni in the genocidal war in Uganda and funded by powerful Tutsi elites in the diaspora\u2014killed hundreds of thousands of Hutus between 1990 and 1995, and they killed Tutsis by staging attacks so that the blame would fall on the Habyarimana government.<\/p>\n From October 1990 the RPA scorched earth through northern Rwanda, obliterating entire villages. Practicing a bad-faith strategy of \u201ctalk and fight,\u201d the RPA displaced over a million Rwandans. Famine, starvation, assassinations, and massacres attended the RPA\u2019s every duplicitous advance. The masses in Rwanda justifiably feared renewed subjugation under the exiled Tutsi guerrilla from Uganda\u2014who they saw depopulating and seizing their beloved Rwandan hills. Meanwhile, the RPA solidified their victor\u2019s narrative\u2014Hutus as killers, Tutsis as victims\u2014through the Western press and human rights nexus.<\/p>\n Hutus suffered most, but \u201cinterior\u201d Tutsis\u2014 French-speaking Tutsis who stayed behind or returned to Rwanda after the \u201cHutu revolution\u201d of 1959 and the subsequent Tutsi refugee warrior Inyenzi<\/em> attacks of the 1960s\u2014were also churned to blood and dust by the RPA grinding machine. The elite Tutsi military\u2019s assassination of Burundi\u2019s Hutu president (1993) and the RPA\u2019s double-presidential assassinations of Rwanda and Burundi\u2019s Hutu presidents on April 6, 1994 sparked the violence of the so-called \u201c100 days of genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe thesis of Mr. Kagame\u2019s RPF, considered today as the \u2018official\u2019 thesis, claims that the Hutus prepared acts of genocide against the Tutsis.\u201d Cameroonian journalist Charles Onana nailed it. \u201cThat genocide would not have been possible, however, without the attack against the airplane. The key question is, therefore, who shot down the airplane?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bush and Clinton administrations, with their British counterparts, supported Kagame and the RPA because Habyarimana, though originally installed in a CIA-supported coup in 1973, had become a proxy of the French. After Habyarimana\u2019s killing Clinton urged the removal of UN forces so the RPA would win Rwanda\u2019s civil war.\u201d How deeply did the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), USAID, U.S. Special Forces, Canadian Security Intelligence Services, and MI-6 back the RPA juggernaut?<\/p>\n French journalist Charles Onana reported that the UN\u2019s Rwanda Emergency Office, set up in Nairobi (Kenya) in April 1994, was staffed by U.S. Army officers (and others) who acted as the Operational Headquarters for the RPA, listened in on all the Rwandan government\u2019s military (Forces Arm\u00e9es Rwandaises)<\/em> communications, provided intelligence, and directed RPA field operations.<\/p>\n \u201cWhoever shot down the plane, the killing began within hours, as Kagame and his Tutsi army fought their way toward Kigali to stop the genocide they had helped provoke.\u201d U.S. scholar-diplomat Stephen Weissman wrongly asserts the false narrative where \u201cKagame and his Tutsi army\u201d stopped the genocide, and the authors of the assassinations are unknown, but he also flags covert operative Roger Winter. \u201cTraveling with them, by his own account, was at least one American\u2014[Kagame\u2019s] friend Roger Winter. Should Congress ever investigate America\u2019s role in the Rwandan holocaust, Mr. Winter would be a star witness.\u201d<\/p>\n Roger Winter was not the only foreign intelligence operative involved in the aristocratic Tutsis\u2019 war to reclaim Rwanda. Israeli Mossad spy-master David Kimche was believed to be in the field with the RPA. Other officials who should be tried in an international war crimes and genocide tribunal include: Herman Jay Cohen, Prudence Bushnell, Richard A. Clarke, Brian Atwood, Andrew Young, Madeleine Albright, and U.S. defense attach\u00e9s Lt. Col. Thomas P. Odom, Richard Skow, Lt. Col. Richard K. Orth, Lt. Colonel Bud Rassmusen, and the DIA\u2019s Africa spymaster William G. Thom.<\/p>\n On April 6, 1994, at 8:22 PM, two MANPADS surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) were fired at Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana\u2019s presidential plane as it prepared to land at Kigali International Airport. One missile missed; the second missile hit the plane causing it to explode over the Habyarimana presidential residence. The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, their aides, Rwanda\u2019s military chief of staff, two Burundian cabinet ministers, and the French crew of Jacques Heraud, Jean-Pierre Minaberry, and Jean-Michel Perrine were killed. The French crew were operating \u201cin official service\u201d to France.<\/p>\n Within hours of the murders the RPA had mobilized a major assault on Kigali, impossible absent substantial a priori planning. Luc Marchal, the Belgian UNAMIR commander of the UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR), \u201cwas astounded how fast RPF forces\u2014between 25,000 and 30,000 troops\u2014moved into position after the plane was shot down.\u201d<\/p>\n The U.S. military heavily backed the RPF tactically and strategically. Key to the operation were \u201cformer\u201d Special Operations Forces (Ronco Company) providing military equipment and ferrying RPA troops from Uganda to Rwanda, the Pentagon\u2019s logistical and communications support, and DIA and CIA operatives.<\/p>\n The SAMs used in the double presidential attack came from U.S. military stockpiles seized during the first Iraq war and were reportedly assembled at a warehouse in Kigali rented by a CIA Swiss front company. French anti-terrorist Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere spent several years investigating the shoot-down on behalf of the families of the French flight crew. Bruguiere told Boutros-Boutros Ghali, secretary-general of the UN in 1994, that the CIA was involved in shooting down the plane.<\/p>\n Contrary to Pentagon and U.S. State Department claims that satellite reconnaissance photos of Rwandan (or Zaire) territory were unavailable, the Pentagon provided very clear satellite imagery shot over Rwanda at the height of the \u201c100 days of genocide\u201d to the Department of Homeland Security for its unjust framing and prosecution of Rwandan refugees hunted by the Kagame regime.<\/p>\n What happened in Rwanda from 1990 to 1994 can be counted amongst the Western defense and intelligence apparatus\u2019 most sanguinary achievements: a U.S.-sponsored coup d\u2019etat<\/em> that displaced French interests in Central Africa in favor of North American, British, Belgian, and Israeli interests. These interests revolve around plunder and private profit, and they prevail through de-population, destruction, and terrorism as policy.<\/p>\n In 1990, the RPF created the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) to oversee their military structure. \u201cThe DMI is hated and feared by most of the Rwandan population, inside and outside of Rwanda due to its reputation for cruelty and killing operations,\u201d reads a \u201cTop Secret\u201d UN report documenting RPF terrorism (suppressed by the UN for years). \u201cMost of the massacres attributed to the RPA were committed by the DMI.<\/p>\n Under Jack Nziza, head of special actions at the DMI, operatives infiltrated government-controlled zones wearing Hutu army uniforms and assassinated prominent Hutus and Tutsis, while routinely committing sabotage. On the hills of Rwanda, the RPF massacred Hutus in batches of tens, hundreds, and sometimes thousands, buried them in mass graves, dug up these graves, and burned the bodies to disappear all evidence.<\/p>\n The crimes committed by the RPF are so horrible that the perpetrators only want to forget them: \u201cInjecting syringes of kerosene into ears. Smothering people with plastic bags. Choking with ropes and cords. Impaling women and girls with tools. Using agafuny<\/em>\u2014the RPF\u2019s war hammer\u2014to crack skulls and spill brain matter out like porridge. Burying people alive. Shooting women and children in the back. Forcing victims to dig their own graves. The methods are intimate, sadistic. They were used before, during and after the genocide, and are still being used on civilians by the Directorate of Military Intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n In the environment of lies, distortions, and terror, no one can be trusted, informants proliferate, people are perpetually watched, and friends and neighbors are interrogated, arrested, charged with crimes they didn\u2019t commit. Rwandans are forced to confess and recant (depending on the prerogatives of the day), while the highest officials are sometimes assassinated, and people are routinely disappeared. Survivors of atrocities suffer unbearable grief, social isolation, and loss of meaning in life due to their inability to exhume, celebrate, bury, and mourn their dead loved ones, and the suffering is worsened by the political climate of unspeakability that prevents victims from discussing who was killed and who killed them.<\/p>\n Power and control are maintained by instilling terror, and this translates to silencing all dissent, all discussion. The DMI provides a structure that is both hierarchical and overlapping, with checks and balances ensuring total domination and total subservience. Hutu, Tutsi, Twa, anyone and everyone in Rwanda from the poorest peasant to Kagame\u2019s closest military \u201ccomrades\u201d are living and dying in a climate of absolute fear and insecurity dictated by a twisted, modernized, more fascistic and sadistic version of the traditional pre-colonial ideology of aristocratic Tutsi supremacy. At the pinnacle of this elite extremist terror space is Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n The RPF war created a huge population of internal refugees and a state of absolute terror across the northern sectors of Rwanda. UN Rapporteur Ndiaye cited 350,000 displaced prior to February 1993, and between 800,000 and one million by August 1993. These desperate internally displaced people fled to and surrounded Kigali.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Byumba\u2014where the RPF first invaded Rwanda from Uganda in October 1990\u2014Kagame went to a market and committed so many atrocities,\u201d says Dr. Eliel Ntakirutimana, a Rwandan medical doctor practicing in Laredo, Texas. Philip Gourevitch judged and convicted Pastor Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, Eliel Ntakirutimana\u2019s father, in his fictitious book even before the pastor had been arrested. \u201cMore than a million people fled to Kigali. All their farms had been taken, all their goats killed, they were living on the streets. When these people hear that the RPF is coming to Kigali, what do you think they are going to do? They are going to FIGHT!\u201d<\/p>\n Rwanda was no tragedy in the geopolitical eyes of Western capitalist corporate power; it was a resounding success story celebrating the implementation of the new \u201chumanitarian\u201d intervention and the whitewashing of genocide. Paul Kagame and his elite Tutsi commandos committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide before, during, and after the \u201c100 days of carnage\u201d of 1994, and they continue doing so to this day. They are also responsible for the genocide against Tutsis. <\/p>\n\n