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olny76 uploaded a new video
(2 months ago)
The Hotel Rwanda hero, Paul Rusesabagina is worried about the direction ...
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The Hotel Rwanda hero, Paul Rusesabagina is worried about the direction Rwanda is taking, especially with an unfairly managed reconciliation process through popular tribunals known as Gacaca. Rusesabagina denounces that system, where judges are illiterate and have no understanding of laws. He is more upset about the so-called public interest labour that replaces jail sentences for repentant genocidaires, which reminds of, and resembles the banished feudal system. This report was made on 25 April 2009 in The Hague, where Rusesabagina held a lecture in front of 500 people at the Hague University.
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olny76 uploaded a new video
(2 months ago)
The Hotel Rwanda hero, Paul Rusesabagina is worried about the direction ...
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The Hotel Rwanda hero, Paul Rusesabagina is worried about the direction Rwanda is taking, especially with an unfairly managed reconciliation process through popular tribunals known as Gacaca. Rusesabagina denounces that system, where judges are illiterate and have no understanding of laws. He is more upset about the so-called public interest labour that replaces jail sentences for repentant genocidaires, which reminds of, and resembles the banished feudal system. This report was made on 25 April 2009 in The Hague, where Rusesabagina held a lecture in front of 500 people at the Hague University.
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olny76 uploaded a new video
(2 months ago)

The 2010 polls in Rwanda promise to be different from the 2003 ones. No ...
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The 2010 polls in Rwanda promise to be different from the 2003 ones. No candidate is officially known but there is little doubt about president Paul Kagame running for another term, as the Constitution allows him to do so. There is also little doubt about opposition leader Victoire Ingabires ambitions. For her, things are yet to go through bureaucratic and administrative procedures that might pose serious problems. She has first to back to the country she left 15 years ago, and where those she fights politically are the masters of the land. Ingabire seems to have started her European campaign. She is going from one conference to another. From one lecture to another. International media are dedicating long reports on her, which is rather making her popular at least among the Rwandan diaspora and the Westerners. But these will not take part in the election! She will have to conquer the Rwandan populations inside Rwanda, a country she describes as a land of anguish and repression. This video report is about the lecture she held on 15 April 2009 at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. She was invited by the United Nations Students Association to discuss Rwandas history and politics, as well as her presidential ambitions.
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olny76 uploaded a new video
(3 months ago)

Experts have been cogitating about the virus that infected Rwanda and is...
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Experts have been cogitating about the virus that infected Rwanda and is obviously resisting any cure. Others rather think that they have identified microbe and are fighting it using the Gacaca system among others. Yet others think that the virus has no cure but rather remedies that can render it inoffensive. I have already given my view on that virus in an article with the title Memory Crisis: What Rwandans Remember and Forget. My analysis remains the same, namely that Rwanda and Rwandans are making themselves victims of their past. The successive leaders of Rwanda have failed to go beyond their ethnic memories, which they turn into history. They also turn it into the absolute truth, taught in school, preached in media (film, radio, tv and papers), and backed by judges, whether trained on non trained.
However, one thing needs to be noted in addition to my above-mentioned analysis: the conflicting memories the true virus can be spoken about and confronted. The debate that took place in The Hague on 6 April 2009 in the framework of Amnesty Internationals Movies that Matter Festival, gave me a golden occasion to test my theory. I managed to interview both to some Tutsi who survived the 1994 genocide and lost their loved ones in it and to the Hutu survivals of the RPF massacres who also lost theirs in the same year. I asked them three questions: Is the Gacaca system contributing to the reconciliation process? Is justice rendered for the RPF Hutu victims? How will Rwanda be like in 2020?
With these questions, I wanted to test the Past-Future bridging theory. I realized that the future of Rwanda is strongly tied on its past much more than on its present. The present is about the Gacaca and the thousands of Hutu confessed prisoners released and being sentenced to general interest labour. What about the Tutsi killers? My interviewees (both Hutu and Tutsi) agree that the Tutsi too killed. Yet, none of them is likely to face justice, at least for the time being. That explains why all my interviewees hesitated to fully say that Rwandas future is bright. There are conditions for that, and these are all memory-related, past-related and needs solutions in the present so that effects can be filled in the [near] future.
To end with, I got an impression from my interviewees that talking can be a good start. If every body, whatever their ethnic group, can speak out their minds and suggest solutions, without having to weigh their own memories to the dominant, official, ethnic memory, I am convinced that the Rwandan virus would end up be a peaceful companion of each and every Rwandan. Unfortunately, there is no depoliticized framework allowing such talks, far from government officials and their diplomatic representatives.
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olny76 uploaded a new video
(5 months ago)

The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but t...
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The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but the opposition in exile is already getting ready for them. The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) have already announced their participation and are even optimistic. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza heads that organisation and has been presented by Dutch and Belgian media as UDF candidate. That is not the case, at least for the time being, says Ingabire in an interview that I am pleased to present in several parts covering Ingabires biography, democracy and governance in Rwanda, genocide and ethnicity, UDFs relations with other organisations, and their diplomatic relations, including Ingabires meeting with Barack Obama
TRADUCTION FRANCAISE:
Alors quil reste encore à peu près deux ans avant les élections présidentielles, on sy prépare déjà, surtout du côté lopposition en exile. Les Forces Démocratiques Unifiées, FDU, viennent dannoncer quelles allaient y participer et sont même optimistes. Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est à la tête de cette organisation et a été récemment présentée par les média surtout belges et néerlandais comme étant candidate des FDU, ce qui nest pas tout à fait vrai, du moins pour le moment, comme Madame Ingabire me la dit dans linterview que jai le plaisir de vous présenter en plusieurs parties, touchant notamment à la biographie de Madame Ingabire, à la démocratie et à la gouvernance au Rwanda, au génocide et à la question ethnique, aux relations entre les FDU et les autres forces politiques, ainsi quà leurs relations diplomatiques, y compris la rencontre de Madame Ingabire avec Barack Obama
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