Archivo etiqueta «Ruanda»
Par Benjamin Abtan, secrétaire général du European Grassroots Antiracist Movement – EGAM (LE MONDE, 18/01/12):
Le rapport des juges Trévidic et Poux sur l’attentat du 6 avril 1994 contre l’avion du président rwandais Habyarimana, qui a été l’élément déclencheur du génocide des Tutsis, est formel : contrairement à ce qu’avait affirmé le juge Bruguière, ce ne sont pas les Tutsis du Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) qui en sont les auteurs.
Dès lors, la question se pose : qui sont les responsables de l’attentat ? Si le rapport n’en apporte pas la preuve matérielle, il désigne implacablement les extrémistes du “Hutu Power”. … Seguir leyendo
By Linda Melvern, an investigative journalist (THE GUARDIAN, 10/01/12):
Few events have been the subject of as many rumours and lies as the assassination on 6 April 1994 of Rwanda’s President Juvénal Habyarimana. We may never know the identity of the assassins who fired the two missiles that blew his jet apart as it came in to land at Kigali International Airport; yet this one key event signalled the targeted elimination of Rwanda’s political opposition, and triggered the genocide of the Tutsi people.
Since that night there has been a ceaseless propaganda war, with each side blaming the other … Seguir leyendo
By Agnes Kalibata, minister of agriculture and animal resources for Rwanda and Joseph Sam Sesay, minister of agriculture, forestry and food security for Sierra Leone (THE GUARDIAN, 26/09/10):
The word “hunger” connotes two different experiences: deprivation and desire. In our two African countries, and in the developing world in general, nearly 1 billion people experience a severe lack of food and yearn to lift themselves out of poverty. For our world to be stable, it must become free of the worst forms of deprivation. For our world to be more just, the desires of the poor must be … Seguir leyendo
By Linda Melvern, an investigative journalist and author who worked for several years at the Evening Standard and at the Sunday Times, including on the latter’s Insight team (THE GUARDIAN, 15/09/10):
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, made a hurried and unexpected visit to Kigali last week to persuade Rwanda’s president, Paul Kagame, not to carry out a threat to withdraw all Rwandan peacekeepers from UN duty – including troops protecting civilians in Darfur. The UN delegation would be well aware of the security council’s shameful decision to pull its peacekeepers out of Rwanda in 1994, at the … Seguir leyendo
By Charles Landow, associate director of the Civil Society, Markets and Democracy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/09/10):
No one is quite sure what to make of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame. Since his re-election this month with 93 percent of the vote, the United States has reacted warily. The White House cited “a series of disturbing events” in a statement that pointedly congratulated “the people of Rwanda,” not Kagame himself. “Democracy is about more than holding elections,” the statement said.
This is a step in the right direction. The United States and others … Seguir leyendo
By Peter Guest, editor of This is Africa for The Financial Times (THE GUARDIAN, 15/07/10):
In 2009 I visited North Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a region that for decades has been locked in a seemingly intractable conflict. Peacemaking had for a long time seemed an impossible task. Monusco, the UN force deployed to the region – lacking proper helicopter lift capacity and struggling with the vast and impenetrable jungle – had been unable to fulfil even the most basic duties of civilian protection.
The state capital, Goma, a town struck by conflict … Seguir leyendo
By Clive Owen, English film, stage and television actor (THE TIMES, 07/04/10):
‘When are we going to Rwanda?” my 13-year-old daughter kept asking. She wanted to go there as soon as I was asked to visit the country to show solidarity with its people. She wasn’t asking in a naive, childish way; she knew that it was a serious thing, marking the anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Initially, the scheduling wasn’t working out, but Hannah kept on reminding me.
And so, almost a year later — thanks to her and the Aegis Trust — I’m standing in the Kigali … Seguir leyendo
Par Thierry Vircoulon, chercheur associé à l’Institut français des relations internationales (LE MONDE, 07/01/10):
Alors que le ministre des affaires étrangères français, Bernard Kouchner, entreprend une tournée africaine qui l’amènera au Rwanda et en République démocratique du Congo (RDC), la situation à la frontière de ces pays ne cesse d’être volatile. Longtemps à couteaux tirés, ces deux pays se sont rapprochés en 2009, à la suite des pressions de la communauté internationale. Ce rapprochement s’est traduit par l’arrestation d’un des principaux seigneurs de guerre de la région, Laurent Nkunda, ex-leader du mouvement rebelle tutsi, le Congrès national pour la … Seguir leyendo
Africa Report N°151 (CRISIS GROUP, 09/07/09):
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The joint Congo (DRC)-Rwanda military push against the Rwandan Hutu rebels has ended with scant results. Fifteen years after the Rwanda genocide and the establishment of those rebels in the eastern Congo, they have not yet been disarmed and remain a source of extreme violence against civilians. While they are militarily too weak to destabilise Rwanda, their 6,000 or more combatants, including a number of génocidaires, still present a major political challenge for consolidation of peace in the Great Lakes region. They must be disarmed and demobilised if the eastern Congo is … Seguir leyendo
By Herman J. Cohen, the assistant secretary of state for Africa from 1989 to 1993 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 16/12/08):
THE conflict in eastern Congo over the past 12 years has been as much a surrogate war between Congo and neighboring Rwanda as an internal ethnic insurgency, as a United Nations report underscored last week. The only way to end a war that has caused five million deaths and forced millions to flee their homes in Congo’s two eastern provinces is to address the conflict’s international dimensions. The role of Rwanda — which borders the provinces and which denied … Seguir leyendo
Patrick de Saint-Exupéry, rédacteur en chef de la revue XXI (LIBERATION, 13/08/08):
Après le réquisitoire du juge Bruguière, qui fit porter la responsabilité du génocide des Tutsis du Rwanda en 1994 sur les actuelles autorités de Kigali, voici venu le temps de la réplique. Dans un rapport rendu public le 5 août, une commission rwandaise chargée, voici près de deux ans, de «rassembler les preuves montrant l’implication de l’Etat français dans le génocide» conclut à la «responsabilité» de la France dans «la préparation et l’exécution du génocide».
Les deux thèses sont aujourd’hui sur la table. Elles sont bien sûr … Seguir leyendo
By Linda Melvern, the author of Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide (Verso 2006) (THE TIMES, 08/08/08):
There is remarkable television footage shot in the first days of the genocide in Rwanda. It shows a large room in the French Embassy in Kigali filled floor to ceiling with shredded documents. This was probably the paper trail that might have revealed the depth of involvement between the Elysée Palace and the Hutu faction responsible for massacring hundreds of thousands of Tutsi and opposition Hutu.
This week Rwanda’s commission of inquiry published its findings into the role of France in the … Seguir leyendo
By David Ignatius (THE WASHINGTON POST, 29/05/08):
It happened just 14 years ago — the slaughter of roughly a million people here in only 100 days. “More people had been killed more quickly than in any other mass killing in recorded history,” writes Martin Meredith in his book “The Fate of Africa.”
And yet today there are few visible traces of the genocide that began in April 1994. It’s not that Rwandans have forgotten, but that they seem to have willed themselves to live in the present. That makes this place feel different from other post-conflict states I know, such … Seguir leyendo
Por Nicole Muchnik, pintora y escritora (EL PAÍS, 14/05/08):
Ruanda es un pequeño país anclado en la región de los Grandes Lagos y fronterizo con Uganda, Tanzania, la República Democrática del Congo (ex Zaire) y Burundi. Un 80% de sus ocho millones de habitantes son hutus; casi todo el resto, tutsis.
Desde el fin de los años 1980, Francia apoyaba abiertamente al presidente hutu Habyarimana, a pesar de lo que se sabía en todos los observatorios internacionales: que las Fuerzas Armadas Ruandesas (FAR), junto con las milicias hutus, estaban involucradas en una feroz represión de todos los opositores tutsis; … Seguir leyendo
Por Juan Carrero, presidente del Fórum Internacional por la Verdad y la Justicia en el África de los Grandes Lagos, y Jordi Palou-Loverdos, representante legal de las víctimas españolas y ruandesas y del Fórum ante la Audiencia Nacional (EL PAÍS, 21/03/08):
En febrero, el juez de la Audiencia Nacional Fernando Andreu dictó 40 órdenes de arresto internacional por delito de genocidio en Ruanda y la República Democrática del Congo contra otros tantos militares que ocupan altos cargos en el actual Gobierno. Entre los muertos, nueve españoles: seis misiones y tres miembros de Médicos del Mundo.
En Ruanda, el misionero Joaquim … Seguir leyendo