On 22 January 2011, the Rwanda intelligence controlled news paper ‘the Newtimes ‘ reported that the CEPGL Security meeting in the Rwandan capital observed among other things as follows: ‘Kayumba, Karegyeya have formed armed group – CEPGL’
We would wish to refute those allegations with the contempt they deserve. We are not in any way associated with the said group and we do not know the officers named in the report. We are members of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), a non violent political organisation whose political objectives were clearly articulated in our declaration of 11-12 December 2010 at Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America. We are engaged, together with our compatriots in the diaspora and inside Rwanda to finding a peaceful resolution to the problem of Rwanda. As a result of this, President Paul Kagame swiftly instituted politically motivated charges against us in a military tribunal, tried and sentenced us in absentia to long periods of imprisonment. He instructed the commissioner General of Police to circulate our names in all countries of the world for tracking and arrest against all international norms. The resolution of the CEPGL meeting is therefore a continuation of witch-hunt and harassment employed by President Paul Kagame on his political opponents abroad.
President Paul Kagame is an advocate of violence and does not countenance any other way of resolving the Rwandan political quagmire outside the scope of violence. He has terrorised the Rwandan people by imprisoning credible opposition leaders, competed against himself in national elections registering 93.5% in the recent Presidential elections. He has now embarked on a second project of manipulating his neighbours by extracting unholy concessions as the above mentioned CEPGL Security release demonstrates to galvanise support for an evil agenda. This is not the first time as illustrated below:
a. In 1996 he started a war against DRC and dubbed it a Banyamurenge uprising and many in
the International community were duped. He admitted his involvement after nine months
to spite President Desire Kabila and his neighbours to ensure that he takes personal credit
and minimize the contribution of others. This caused unbridgeable rift between him and
President Kabila that culminated in another DRC war in 1998.
b. In 1998, President Paul Kagame coerced a number of DRC officers deployed in the border
towns into rebellion against their government and formed an organisation known as RCD. As
a result of his divisive nature, President Kagame caused rifts within RCD and fragmented it
into several factions. He denied the involvement of the Rwandan government until he
suspected that the Ugandan troops would take credit of the rapid progress of the war and
he opportunistically accepted his involvement.
c. In 1999, he subtlely engineered a conflict between Rwanda and Uganda that culminated in
the Kisangani battles. He kept denying the knowledge of the conflict he had perpetrated.
d. In 2004 he stated the CNDP and claimed that those were RCD officers who refused to join
the DRC government. He recruited, armed and seconded officers to this organisation.
Otherwise, what was the source of arms and ammunition? He was forced to refrain when the international community threatened to sanction him and he has since incarcerated Gen Laurent Nkunda to avoid leakage and conceal his involvement and the mayhem caused by Kagame in the region during that period.
e. President Kagame is now creating other groups in DRC and associating them with Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa and Patrick Karegeya to dupe and compromise President Joseph Kabila and create and secure an excuse for his troops to go back to DRC. President Paul Kagame is manufacturing all sorts of excuses to again redeploy Rwandan troops in DRC and hence the meeting resolved- ‘this alliance dictates the need to intensify joint operations to curtail and neutralize the activities of these armed groups’. Through threats, deceit and corruption, the Rwandan security organs are engaged in a brainwashing exercise to deflect investigations in the atrocities caused by the Rwandan forces in DRC including the Mapping report on DRC. Over the years, Paul Kagame has always played victim when he is actually the perpetrator. He is trying to shift attention on Gen Kayumba and Col Karegeya.
President Paul Kagame is a controversial and divisive leader both at home and in the region. The media and the international community should be reminded and stand warned that this is not the first time he has manipulated his neighbours in preparation for a military adventure in DRC. We call upon the International community to keep seized of the matter and further warn partner members of CEPGL not to succumb to the too familiar manipulation by President Paul Kagame.
Authors: Gen Kayumba and Col. Karegeya
Submitted by: Jennifer Fierberg, MSW
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