How Kagame became Rwanda's leader (read stories about liberation). NewTimesUrugwiro, May 30, 2006

Rwanda's living legend in London (torch bearer deservedly supported). NewTimesUrugwiro, May 27, 2006

ELEPHANT RIDERS REBEL (reader asks what can be done) & Roque elephant escapes in Rwanda (Mutware usually has good character; normally found wallowing in Lake Ihema)

Rwanda Disowns Hotel Rwanda Movie Hero (portrayal of Paul Rusesabagina is a "falsehood". May 26, 2006 Rusesabagina did not do anything special to save the lives of people at the Hotel to deserve heroism. Hotel Mille Colline was a UN protected site at the time and the focus of the UN forces in Rwanda. He instead was fulfilling his business interests...Kagame's quotes: "My humble opinion is that the issue of Rusesabagina distorts our history. They (refugees) did not survive because of Rusesabagina. Actually negotiations were going on between the XFAR and RPF. Demands were sent through the UN. We were communicating for a long time because there were people we had in our hands and the XFAR were saying give them to us and we save the Mille Colline people..."

Rwanda is uneasy with Genocide movies. Kampala Monitor, May 21, 2006
Senior government officials in Rwanda have expressed their discomfort over new movies on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide...The movies are Hotel Rwanda and Sometimes in April...The problem with the movies is not the plots or the narratives. It is the heroes. The new movies seem to be obsessed with the portrayal of a benevolent Hutu man married to a Tutsi woman as a central theme....The psyche of Rwandans does not seem to be ready for a Hutu hero...

Genocide ghost haunting Hotel Rwanda ("hero's" scam hijacking heroism). New Times, May 21, 2006

Rwanda Senator castigates Rusesabagina (revisionist hero in Hotel Rwanda film). May 15, 2006

Sad revisionism over Hotel Rwanda (producer/director of film says Rusesabagina is being denounced by some in his country as a traitor and a criminal). WashingtonPost, May 10, 2006

Rusesabagina fears Rwanda's backlash (Hotel Rwanda hero promoting his book "An Ordinary Man"). Deseret News, Apr 23, 2006

Reader appreciates Rwanda being understood

RPA-KAGAME A PT-109 MOVIE (reader describes how Kagame started with zero after saving Rwandans from the genocidaires)

SABIZEZE IN RWANDA HISTORY & SPIRITUALLY CONNECTED TO RWANDA (reader tells the story)

RWANDA RWIGEMA'S HERO RUTAREMARA (reader sends photo of Tito)

KAGAME'S HERO FRED RWIGEMA (reader sends photo of Fred)

Reader was in London seeing President Kagame and sends words of praise and encouragement

Reader wants to interview a journalist who was in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide

Oklahoma gives Kagame standing ovation (spoke to joint State legislature). NormanTranscript, Apr 27, 2006

"We have so much in common" (need vital tourism & inflow of people). CHNI/NewTimes, May 3, 2006

RWANDA'S LIVING LEGEND IN LONDON (Jackie Jura covers President Kagame's first visit to Canada in April 2006)

Kagame seeks peace ("Rwandan genocide victims have paid a huge price for peace") & Kagame: Sinner or Saviour? ("doesn't fit African leader mold, he isn't anyone's puppet"). Toronto Star, May 2, 2006

Kagame castigages ICRT on West's role (France and Belgium were involved). NewTimes, May 2, 2006

ICTR 'shoots down' genocidaire's lawyer ("his views don't express tribunal"). NewTimes/AllAfrica, May 2, 2006

LOVE'S BLIND SAYS KAGAME HATER (reader says Orwell Today coverage of Rwanda is one-sided)

KAGAME IS WELCOME IN CANADA ("the Napoleon of Africa is the personifcation of hope after horror"). MontrealGazette, Apr 22, 2006

RWANDA REP DEFENDS KAGAME (reader sends Rwanda response to ICTR defense lawyer in Arusha)

GENOCIDAIRE'S LAWYER WRITES CANADA

Rwanda wounds reopened in Canada (genocide inciter still here). EpochTimes, Apr 22, 2006

Rwanda's President visiting Canada (star attraction at conference for Education & Economic Development) & Canadian univeristy assissting Rwanda (in public health & hospitals). EmbassyNews/UWO News, Apr 19, 2006

RWANDA'S ROSE (reader sends photo of lady war hero)

RWANDA'S WARRIORS (reader sends photo of Kagame and liberation army)

SA Envoy defends Kagame's comment (lauds Rwanda's Gacaca system of resolving Genocide judicial cases). NewTimes, Apr 13, 2006. Go to A GACACA TRIAL

Rwanda: desertion & conspiracy (gov't bought pangas-machetes-AK47s; churches knew about the Genocide). AllAfrica, Apr 10, 2006

Rwanda's history should be a lesson ("so that what happened here cannot be repeated anywhere in the world"). NewTimes, Apr 10, 2006

RWANDA DEVELOPMENT GATEWAY (all you need to know about Rwanda)

Rwanda leader Kagame slams critics ("your unfounded criticism is not welcome"). ReutersAlert, Apr 7, 2006

Documents shed new light on Genocide ("military-administrative-political authorities used the machinery of the state"). ReutersAlert, Apr 7, 2006. Go to HOW RWANDAN GENOCIDE WAS PREPARED

RWANDA HAS BEEN REBORN. SummitCommunications, Apr 6, 2006
(The national plan designed by President Paul Kagame, Vision 2020, seeks to turn Rwanda from a low-income into a middle-income country, focusing on poverty reduction, infrastructure development and expansion of the export base. To achieve the growth it needs, Rwanda has to move away from being a largely subsistence economy which is heavily dependent on agriculture. The nation must concentrate on becoming a services-oriented economy that maximizes the contribution of its most important asset, its people....)

KAGAME'S ARMY RWANDA'S HEROES (Rwandan soldier defends Kagame)

2,700 refugees to return to Rwanda (a country enjoying unprecedented peace and tranquility). New Times, Apr 3, 2006

Rwanda is the source of the Nile ("This is the most incredible country of all. We'll help put Rwanda on the map.") & Team reaches Nile's true source (many rivers feed Lake Victoria). Telegraph/BBC, Apr 1, 2006. Go to LIVINGSTONE FINDS VICTORIA FALLS & STANLEY FINDS LIVINGSTONE ("Doctor Livingstone, I presume?")

Reader asks what drives my interest in his native country, Rwanda

MYTH OF SAINT ROMEO

University honours General Dallaire ("foe of genocide, complacency"). GeorgetownNews, Mar 23, 2006

BBC Rwanda film criticized (making money from "Shooting Dogs"). DigitalSpy, Mar 23, 2006

Reader tells about Yolande Mukagasana and her contribution to Rwanda after surviving the genocide

Reader apologizes for Rwandan compatriots who repeat the tired refrain of genocide apologists

Readers says she doesn't believe Kagame is a good man

Reader says the truth about Kagame is an honour and a tribute

DRINKING TOAST TO RWANDA (Reader is mystified how Kagame, who stopped the dying of a million people in 100 days, is not appreciated)

Mixed perceptions of "Heroes' Day" (February 1 will be public holiday). NewTimes, Feb 2, 2006
"...The dead people and the living gallant soldiers contributed a lot to Rwanda's liberation from the past political turmoils the country experienced. Heroism should not be a reserve of the dead only; even the living ones need recognition and praise." But to Maria Mukankomeje, 45, a resident of Gikondo,the only person she regards as a hero is H.E Paul Kagame, because he rescued them from the Interahamwe and helped create peace and stability in the country.

HOLLYWOOD HUTU HOTEL HERO (Reader explains what ururo n' icyatsi means)

"Hotel Rwanda" Rusesabagina no hero. All Africa, New Times Kigali, Mar 1, 2006
..."Rusesabagina came in as a businessman who threw out whoever failed to pay for the room. He sacrificed nothing. He was just managing a hotel in a way that did not reflect the presence of a crisis..."

Reader wants me to open my eyes and think about Kagame's heroism

Reader says I may be wrong about Rwanda's Kagame

Belgian priest gets Peace Prize (masterminded killings in Rwanda church). All Africa, Feb 16, 2006

Rwanda president says priest is guilty (published articles that incited genocide). UPI, Jan 30, 2006

Rwanda becoming "world's first purpose-driven nation". Christianity Today, Oct 2005
Right now, HIV/AIDS grant money is flooding into African nations like Rwanda. It's drawing some of the nation's most talented local individuals into HIV/AIDS programs. But other programs focused on killers like malaria are getting very little new money...Back in Rwanda, Christians were sorting out their feelings and discovered their enthusiasm was mixed with worry. Public support for the PEACE plan may not translate well long term to the grassroots, he said. Others are more skeptical still. "It has taken centuries for Rwandans to descend into the hell in which they exist. Not even becoming a purpose-driven nation is likely to bring them to heaven anytime soon."

"Mugabe hates his own people" ("crawling mass of maggots" say police; priests told "don't aid filth"). Times, Jun 19, 2005. Go to ZIMBABWE GOING RED CHINESE

Letter-to-the-editor, Ron Bezant, Captain (ret'd). National Post, Apr 14, 2005
Warrant Officer Roy Shaver suggests that one of the reasons Gen Dallaire was selected to lead the Rwandan mission may have been that he was perfectly bilingual. I would suggest that was the ONLY reason. I was in an Armed Forces conference room in 1975 when a policy was announced that would see francophones promoted over personnel above them on merit lists, in order to fill government-designated quotas. These quotas have since been surpassed. One wonders at the opportuniities denied by the unfair and immoral linguistic largesse that tilted the playing field and, if anything, has since mushroomed to unexplored heights of idiocy.

Rwandan president to be at U of Pacific (speaking to students & public & receiving honourary Law degree). Tri-Valley Herald, Apr 6, 2005

USA UNIVERSITY HONORS KAGAME (reader says her university is awarding Rwanda's president)

Dallaire's frenzied quest for land. Globe & Mail, Mar 25, 2005
It was a hurried purchase but a significant one because without that land Mr. Dallaire, one of the country's military heroes, could not have accepted Prime Minister Paul Martin's offer to sit in the Senate...

Reader says the UN's report about the Congo contained false accusations about Rwanda

Rwandan genocide militias get refuge in Congo (11,000 UN troops lack authority to go after killers). ABC News, Feb 11, 2005
The leaders of a genocide that resulted in the deaths of nearly 1 million people have regrouped, rearmed, and opened camps in the deep forests of Congo. The United Nations knows where the murderous Rwandan militias hide, according to a confidential map obtained by ABC News, but says it lacks the authority to go after and capture the killers. "We would need a different mandate than the one we have now," admitted William Swing, head of the U.N. Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire). "The mandate from the United Nations Security Council." Similar to the Rwanda genocide of 1994, the U.N. peacekeeping troops in the affected areas of Congo, some 11,000 in number, have the sanction to monitor the conflict and protect civilians and foreign aid workers, but not to seek out and stop the killers, known as Interahamwe and by their political groupings, FDLR and FOCA...These militias include some of the same men from the ethnic Hutu extremist groups that the United Nations says led the mass murders of people of Tutsi descent across the border in Rwanda 11 years ago. Tutsi people have a long history in Congo, having settled in the Kivu provinces since their ancestors migrated generations ago from Rwanda and Burundi. Tutsi leaders in eastern Congo say they fear another genocide is in the offing. "They know our Tutsi face, my nose is long," said Dunia Bakarani, a member of the Congolese parliament. "The same program from 1994 is continuing, until every Tutsi is dead." Wamba dia Wamba, a Congolese senator, also sees similiarities to the conditions that led to the Rwandan genocide. "It sounds like a replay," he said. "It is the same sort of feeling one may have that the U.N. knows where they are, where the camps are and then they don't want to do anything about it."

Reader says giving Paul Kagame a Nobel Peace Prize would honour those who offered their lives in order to stop genocide

RWANDA 10th ANNIVERSARY ESSAY COMPETITION, by youth from Rwanda

NEVER AGAIN (reader sends link to Rwanda youth website NEVER AGAIN which aims to provoke ideas and actions for peace)

Rwanda/Uganda slam UN report ("panel has very tenuous relationship with the truth"). ReliefWeb, Feb 2, 2005. Go to 28.Reality Control & RWANDA BEFORE & AFTER

ABANDONING RWANDA & MAKING MOVIES (reader shares admiration for Kagame)

H. E. PAUL KAGAME (Official Website for the President of Rwanda)

Reader fails to understand why the international community wants to condemn Rwanda to ethnic slaughter. Dec, 11, 2004

"Western propaganda minimizes President Kagame's role in stopping the genocide", says reader from Rwanda, Dec 7, 2004

Rwanda denies UN report of Congo meddling. BBC, Jul 18, 2004
Rwanda has rejected UN accusations that it played a "destabilising role" in eastern areas of the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. A draft report written by UN-appointed experts said Rwanda had actively supported renegade Congolese troops who seized the town of Bukavu last month. A Rwandan spokesman told the BBC that the findings were "total rubbish". He said the panel had provided no proof to support their conclusion that Rwanda had maintained a presence in DR Congo. In its draft report issued on Friday, the UN-appointed panel said Rwanda recruited, trained and sheltered the renegade soldiers who staged last month's mutiny. The experts, who visited the region last month, said Rwandan officials rounded up potential fighters in the border town of Cyangugu and offered them money or phones to fight with dissident Congolese troops. "The group of experts concluded that Rwanda's violations involved direct and indirect support, both in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in Rwanda, to the mutinous troops," the draft said. But these conclusions were flatly denied by the spokesman for Rwanda's armed forces, Colonel Patrick Karegeya. He told the BBC that the experts had not been impartial, and that their report served as a public relations exercise for Congolese President Joseph Kabila.The BBC's Robert Walker in Kigali said the findings come as a serious blow to Rwanda and will be seen as vindication by Congo, which had claimed Rwandan troops backed the rebels.

Kagame: Resolution to prevent genocide a failure. AllAfrica.com, Apr 12, 2004
Recalling the December 1948 adoption of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Rwandan President Paul Kagame said: "We should always bear in mind that genocide, wherever it happens, represents the international community's failure, which I would in fact characterise as deliberate convenient failure." Close to one million Rwandan people were in 1994 brutally massacred within three months across Rwanda while the world silently watched and chose not to act. Rwanda turned into one massive slaughter place as neighbour killed neighbour on 7 April 1994, a day after a plane carrying Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, leader of a Hutu-dominated government, was shot down killing him as he returned from a meeting with minority Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels in Tanzania. Soon after the attack, which also claimed the life of Burundi President Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu-dominated government troops and allied militia started killing thousands of Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, accusing them of collaborating with the RPF rebels led then by Paul Kagame. As the days drew on the mass killings, looting and raping spread across the Central African country with officials and media outlets inciting the massacres turning churches and hospitals into human slaughterhouses. The withdrawal of UN peacekeepers from the Great Lakes Region country as RPF rebels advanced into Kigali exacerbated the problem. ...Meanwhile as investigations into the Rwanda killings continue fingers are being pointed everywhere with France, Belgium, the United States, Britain, the United Nations and the Roman Catholic Church coming under fire for allegedly contributing to or failing to prevent the mass ethnic bloodshed. Recently Rwandan President Kagame reportedly told the French state-owned RFI radio that the French "directly" took part in the genocide by supplying arms and giving orders to the perpetrators. "The French were there when the genocide took place. They trained those who carried it out. They had positions of command in the armed forces who committed the genocide," said President Kagame.

Kagame speaks at sombre ceremony (says France trained & armed soldiers & militias for genocide). News Asia, Apr 7, 2004

Rwanda remembers its dead (but western heads of state were conspicuous by their absence). Guardian, Apr 7, 2004

Drunks & machetes began nightmare (Hutu militia named "Interahamwe" went house to house with names). Reuters, Apr 7, 2004

Rwanda, Ten Years Later (ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front that toppled genocidal regime has abolished ethnic divisions). National Geographic, Apr 6, 2004

Country profile: Rwanda, BBC

HOW PAUL KAGAME BECAME RWANDA'S LEADER

Kagame is a rare incourrptible leader. Rocky Mountain News, Mar 23, 2004
John Dick of Project Cure made an enormous commitment to Rwanda because Kagame is a rare "incorruptible" African leader - in a continent ravaged by genocide, civil war, AIDS, famine, drought, with numerous dictators who'd rather steal donations than improve the lot of their people. He is unique among African nations, in that he runs a totally straight government. If he finds a little bit of corruption, he'll ruthlessly root it out," Dick said. "His vision for the future is one of a true democracy, even though Kagame essentially has ruled as a dictator for the past 10 years."

INTERVIEW WITH PAUL KAGAME. Talking Point, BBC

JFK CRIED FOR CONGO and JFK WAS GOOD, THAT'S WHY THEY KILLED HIM

When good men do nothing, BBC, Mar 30, 2004

BROKEN SOLDIER. ABC Nightline. ("In peacekeeping you are not fighting. An individual sergeant or corporal who witnesses such actions and cannot use force goes through a mental crash. His moral values, his ethical values, his religious beliefs are brought together and they're all crashing," says D'Allaire.)