Election Rwanda 2010: Paul Kagame, Victoire Ingabiré, & Memories of Genocide

On February 7, 2010, I spoke to the Rwandan FDU-Inkingi Party's presidential candidate Victoire Ingabiré Umuhoza, on the phone from San Francisco, California to Kigali, Rwanda. Though she is the broad-based FDU-Inkingi's candidate, she has not yet been allowed to register her party or her candidacy, and it now seems unlikey that any candidates with a chance of winning will be allowed to enter the race.

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• Victoire Ingabiré Umuhoza
• Umuhoza
• Ingabiré
• Rwanda
• Kigali
• FDU-Inkingi
• Kagame
• Paul Kagame
• Rwandan Patriotic Front Party
• U.S. Armed Forces

[bigcountry1974]

Update:4/21/10 - Ingabire arrested. Now she has a chance to explain why she is being funded by genocidal killers. The genocidal exiles now hiding in Europe ruled Rwanda for 30 plus years and all they produced was an illiterate, unproductive and subservient country. Rwanda is now a competitive country. We do not have welfare rolls where most of the critical posters here would live on. Unproductivity, genocidal tendencies and clueless whites have no place in the new 6% growth Rwanda.

[AnnieGetYourGang]

@bigcountry1974 The majority of Rwandan people are hungry. Fourteen percent of children born die at birth. And your "president" is not only a dictator but also a proxy for the U.S. Pentagon.

[Squadrazul]

First, I am not on the RPF rollpay as one of you suggested but simply visited your country and simply wish the best to all ethnic groups. So, when you talk about Rwanda's fragility, just be honest with yourselves and do not think Rwanda as it ought to be but as it should be; and not by emotions but reasons.

(Annie): remember to put "political rhetoric" into perseptective and context. Rwanda's political campaign isn't that of the Democrats vs Republicans :))) You wanna see another genocide?

[AnnieGetYourGang]

Squadruzul: You suggest, like the ruling RPF that Rwandans should not engage in politics, should not have a free and fair presidential election, should not be allowed to select their next president. Correct?

[rwandankunda]

Great post Annie.If Kagame is defeated, perhaps we count on Ingabire for an end to the rapes in Congo. This is essentially a Rwandan war being fought on Congolese soil. Unfortunately, Kagame (a beneficiary of conflict minerals) has no interest in bring the war to an end.

[AnnieGetYourGang]

rwandankunda:

I'm glad you brought up the Congo War. When I try to explain the stakes in this election to Americans, who know so little of the Great Lakes region, I say that it's not only Rwanda, but also Eastern Congo.

[tambane1]

Annie, forget Squadra, I am sure he is on RPF's payroll! RPF should come to realize that sooner or later its oppression, abuses, lies will come to an end!!. Rda needs courageous people like Ingabire&Sebarenzi to denounce RPF's criminal and terrorist actions. Gacaca and genocide ideology are their lethal weapons to silence, jail, kill the opposition! Rdans should come to realize RPF's regime consequences will be very devastating!Rdans themselves will bring the change that's very needed in Rda!

[tambane1]

Squadra,

I have no doubt you are working for the RPF (the governing party in Rda) otherwise you wouldn't denying the indeniable. Rwanda today, under Paul Kagame is worse than Rwanda of 1994; people are oppressed, human rights are abused daily and what is happening to Ingabire and her team is nothing but the every day life of Rwandans under Paul Kagame. Rwanda needs change now before it is too late!! Kagame's government&public institutions are run by a few Uganda-born tutsi elites.

[petitprincenl]

The History must be rewritten:

Kagame is the Cause of all of this. and everywhere in Rwanda during

People have been killed by RPF under Kagame'orders in Byumba, Kibeho and many places.

Stop lying to the International Community. Stop Lying to people who do not know the really RPF and Kagame. Stop seeing him as a Hero. Then you will start to understand the Rwandan Tragic History, to see the Secrets and unrevealed truth about the Genocide and crimes against humanity that happened 1990 to 2006.

[mosebu]

@AnnieGetYourGang Have you ever been in Rwanda?

[mosebu]

@tambane1 Are you serious? Rwanda today is worse than Rwanda of 1994?? You need some help

[DAVIDGIDEON1]

@Sam1Mr Am neither Rwandan not African. The case of Rwanda should be compared to Germany after WWII. When Nazi Germany was crushed (not with flowers, but crude bombs), there was "De-Nazification". The Human Rights Industry is absolutely hypocrite in their criticism on Genocide denial. Genocide happend because of brainwashing and this ideology has to be uprooted. Am with u Sam.

[bigcountry1974]

@AnnieGetYourGang Per capita GDP was 190 5 years ago. It is now at $500. A target of $1000 has been set for 2020. We will hit that before then; setting us up as a middle income country. The only countries in the world that the Pentagon does not control are Zimbabawe, Iran, Venezuela, Syria and Myanmar. If your country did not interfere in other countries as much as it has, you probably would not be sitting pretty and free to spew falsehoods as a disgruntled and misinformed buffoon.

[bigcountry1974]

@AnnieGetYourGang Can't be bothered with this thread.

[bigcountry1974]

@AnnieGetYourGang You just showed your total ignorance with that post. Kagame is forever enshrined as a hero and he will leave Rwanda with an institutional legacy that cares for all Rwandese, irrespective of Tutsi, Hutu or Twa origins. I know people like yourself and others live off the miserable lives of Africans.....our development shuts off your source of funding and justification. You know nothing, have never been there, do not care and have no interest in the country.