Scrawny killer guy doesn't need a new thread.
Kagame publicly threatening to hit President KikwetePosted on July 4, 2013
By Dr Alexis Habiyaremye
Tanzanian President Jakawa Kikwete whose forces are part of the international brigade of intervention whose objective is to target armed forces operating in Eastern Congo.
This is an article Dr Alexis Habiyambere wrote after the speech of the Rwandan president Paul Kagame had in Kigali while addressing the youth on Sunday 30/6/13. Every Rwandan everywhere is talking about that speech. The tone and the message presage difficult times in the years ahead. Kagame is deliberating preparing another genocide through such speech. Is the international community getting ready to intervene before it is too late. This time it should not pretend that it didn’t see it coming.
It is remarkable that the Rwandan president’s own wife has already understood the dangers of criminalizing a whole population group. In her own speech in the same event, she emphasized that criminal responsibility was individual and “every knee will have to kneel for itself”.
It has almost become a tradition in his improvised speeches to hear Rwandan president Paul Kagame spit his anger and express his contempt for Western donors and other foreigner s who do not share his peculiar ideas about governance and political freedom. He does not miss any opportunity to slam what he calls their attempts to give him lessons, while he has no lesson to receive from anybody. We have heard many insults and derogatory words, but an outright threat to “hit” the president of a sovereign neighbouring nation, this is something even those who know him for a long period would not easily had predicted. On Sunday June 30, in a speech to the “youth connect” meeting convened by the Ministry of Youth together with his wife’s own Imbuto foundation, Paul Kagame threatened Tanzanian President Kikwete in unmistakable terms that he will wait for him at the right place and hit him, in response to the latter’s suggestion that Kagame initiate talks with the armed Hutu opposition FDLR.
“And those whom you recently heard speaking for the Interahamwe and FDLR, saying that we should negotiate with them. Negotiate with them? As for me, I do not even argue about this issue because I will wait for you at the right place and I will hit you!! I really did not… I didn’t even reply to him, I never arg… uh… it is known, there is a line you can’t cross. There is a line, there is a line that should never be crossed. Not once. It’s impossible!!…”
From these words pronounced partly in his hallmark unstructured Kinyarwanda mixed with English, Kagame made clear that he is still deeply angered by the mere suggestion to engage in talks with political opponents. That is why he vowed to wait for the right opportunity to strike back at Tanzanian President. It is unheard of in world diplomacy, to see a head of state threatening to hit another head of state of a sovereign nation in time of peace.
This threat should be taken seriously. Kagame has already proven in the past that he is able to strike his adversaries and silence them. Whether fellow presidents or his own (former) trusted collaborators, his prowess in murdering those he thinks are his enemies would not shy from a comparison with L. Sulla’s famous bragging. Melchior Ndadaye, Juvénal Habyarimana, Cyprien Ntaryamira, Laurent-Desiré Kabila are all heads of states in whose assassination he has allegedly had a hand. Théoneste Lizinde and Seth Sendashonga, are former collaborators eliminated in covert operations from afar. The last known feat in this series is the failed assassination of his former army chief of staff Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, who survived a shooting in Johannesburg, South Africa. The lesser known cases of eliminated military officers who had knowledge of damaging secrets of his cruelty or could become rivals for power in the military, is no less impressive.
The grudge against Kikwete has other sources as well. Kagame’s big ego does not suffer being second to anybody. Being overshadowed by Kikwete as the most visible leader in the region is an additional source of personal resentment towards the charismatic Tanzanian President who, in less than a year, has been honoured by the official visits of the presidents of the two most powerful nations in the world. The recent attempt by Kagame, Museveni and Uhuru Kenyatta to bypass Kikwete and meet in Entebbe without him underscores a rampant feeling of discomfort at the growing strategic importance of Tanzania in the region.
Tanzania’s resolve to play its full role in restoring peace in the region has borne him many enemies among the neighbours who most benefit from the chaos they have helped perpetuate in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Uganda and Rwanda will namely be the losers if peace returns in the region because violence has long been their cover and their opportunity to loot Congolese resources. But whether they like it or not, Kagame and Kaguta will have to understand that time for peace has now come.
Kagame doesn’t seem to notice the changing circumstances however. In his self-righteousness, he said in the same speech that he was the paramount example of tolerance because he accepts to live in the same country with an ethnical group of genocidaires. He said that allowing Hutus to stay alive is the biggest political space he could think of, anywhere in the world. He urged the Hutus, even those who were not born at the time of the mass slaughters of 1994 to repent and ask forgiveness on behalf of their ethnical group (Suddenly. There are ethnical groups in Rwanda again!). He made them understand that they owed their lives to him because his soldiers would have slaughtered the entire Hutu population that he characterizes as a genocidaire ethnical group, was it not for his magnanimity that forced him to stop the RPA soldiers. In return for RPF soldiers not slaughtering all Hutus, he urges them to bear the burden of perpetual guilt, because, according to him, crimes were committed on their behalf.
It is remarkable that the Rwandan president’s own wife has already understood the dangers of criminalizing a whole population group. In her own speech in the same event, she emphasized that criminal responsibility was individual and “every knee will have to kneel for itself”. She underlined the importance of liberating the youth from the burden of event in which they did not take part. When Kagame’s own wife starts signaling that she has understood the dangers of his principal political principle (criminalizing all Hutus), the peace in the region can’t continue to be held up by just one individual.
This is what Tanzania has understood much earlier. But Kikwete also knows that those who sow chaos in order to harvest in violence will not easily give up their booty. By accepting to step in, to make his voice for peace heard, Tanzanian President Kikwete knew there was a price. It is now up to the entire population of the region (Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda and obviously Tanzania) to step in and stand with President Kikwete, ensure his protection and denounce any attempt to threaten his physical integrity.
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therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2013/07/04/kagame-publicly-threatening-to-hit-president-kikwete/[/quote]HAS TANZANIA BITTEN MORE THAN SHE CAN CHEW? ----winning in the Congo, loosing in the EAC?GENESIS:
Sultani Makenga in more powerful days. He is now a guest/prisoner of Museveni in a Kampala safe-house. ---He feared fleeing to Rwanda where Kagame would have him roasted for failure, and to shut him up forever, for he knows a thing or two about Rwanda’’s official involvement in the DRC. Where is Gen.
Laurent Nkunda by the way? ---See why
Ntaganda fled direct into American custody?
Has Tanzania bitten more than she can chew? Purely as a cost-benefit sheet. Credit in the Congo, loss in the brotherhood of the EAC?
In the month of May 2013, Tanzania troops deployed to the Eastern Congo, as part of the African Intervention Unit. This group consisted of majorly South Afrika and Malawian troops. SADEC, as opposed to EAC.
Tanzania had from the beginning insisted, that two important conditions had to be met.
1. A ne UN resolution authoring the deployment of additional troops.\
2. An annex resolution that allow SADEC as a unit to be involved in the solution and fact-finding.
3. TANZANIA according to the defence spokesman, did not do unilateral interventions, possibly a swipe at the Kenyan incursion into Somalia.
But this is not the whole story. I will leave out the ancient part,
(the Nyerere Kabila senior pact which, with Rwanda and Uganda turning against Kabila Laurent, set Tanzania and her two neighbours on opposite sides of the DRC conflict.)Instead I WILL FF to two events this year.
1. In April 2013, Tanzania, satisfied the resolutions would come, sent a beach-head to East Congo, in preparation for a large military deployment later.
2. Finally, earlier this year, the Tanzanian analysis, that Rwanda’s Kagame was part of the problem in the rebellions in East Congo, gained upper traction in Washington.
3. Jakaya Kikwete publicly announced a
new initiative, an alternative to the deadlocked status quo. ---Kagame lost it. Enraged beyond control, he poured vile upon vile atop the Tanzania president, in Kinyarwanda in public. Even threatening his life.
[see Kathure-K's missive above]Super venomous Kagame waxed, degenerating into expletives to describe the falsely dimunitive Tz prezzo, during a public rally in his freedom-starved hilly Kingdom of living ghosts. But really what had Jakaya done to ignite the otherwise customarily totally composed brother Paul?
Kikwete had dare give the DRC a sane look, peer through the nonsense, and call for
Kagame to negotiate with the FDLR –-the Hutu militia operating from the East of the Congo. [And these Hutu –genocidaire- guys are what the Gestapo are to Holocaust survivors in the Jewish state!
Inyono kamalutu]
Told of Kagame’s moment of public insanity, Kikwete held his tongue, but I can now report that he only held it in public. In private he talked to the designated commander of the Tanzanian force in East Congo, Brigadier General
Alloisi Mwakibola. ---
homophobic sluria hii M23, na uumize kabiza, sehemu zake nyeti, huyu mwenda wazimu wa Kigali!sabahionline.com/en_GB/articles/hoa/articles/features/2013/11/21/feature-01He gave him a robust mandate that is. What that looked like, would soon be visible, with Tz accounting for 30% of the UN combat deployment in East Congo, and turning hunter.
Kagame saw the rain coming, and did not go to sleep neither. Recognising
Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya as not only gullible but also in ICC dire-straits that made him susceptible to control by blackmail, he promised him total help and solidarity, locally and internationally, diplomatically and militarily in Somalia, monetary and politically too, if Uhuru
did him a return favour. De-link Kenya from Kikwete’s Tanzania and isolate the traitor Jakaya. Kagame could no longer stand Kikwete. He had psychologically vomited him out.
He now not only considered Kikwete responsible for Washington’s
freeze on funds and the subsequent cooling of Susan Rice’s heart, he suspected the Tanzanians to have compiled a file on the atrocities in East Congo, files that implicated the Rwandese elite and possibly fingered Kagame, files that Washington had been unable to ignore, and could use later.And Obama and ex prezzo Bush had both visited Kikwete simultaneously. It was obvious this Jakaya had gone rogue and could not be trusted as a brother. To Kagame this means he now counted him amongst the apologists of the Rwanda genocide, a revisionist. An apostate. Few men do understand what this means in the mental outlook of Tutsi traumatised nationalism.
When you see Kagame loose his ever cool, think of Achebe’’s Igbo saying: when you see a frog jumping in broad daylight, know there is something after its life!
TRAPPING UHURU KENYATTA IN.
Uhuru Kenyatta, seeing Tz is not exactly doing Kenya’s bidding on the ICC ''deferral con'' as
otishotish puts it, aligned himself fully with Kagame. And the
coalition of the willing was borne [see regional intergration cab-sec
Kandie in her latest equivocation] which is code for maligning Tz and her friend Burundi, to appease the maniacal rage of Brother Paul.
Tanzania took the battle to
Sultani Makenga’s M23. M23 was all along a Kigali project, and the TZnians made mince meat of Kagame’a pet. Paul is down but not out in the Congo.
Raila I saw offered to mediate. He may not really be aware of just how deep this rift is. The TZ army is facing the Rwandese army inside the Congo. Two members of the community are effectively at war. And this is not a Migingo thing.
Kenya is east africa's biggest economy. Pure economic logic would dictate Tz is a bigger asset to us than Rwanda. Uhuru Kenyatta, fired by his personal predicament, has made a strategic mistake in turning Kenya's back to Tanzania. When it comes to trade, I check my neighbour first, before I do far-off friends!
Inyono kamalutu]