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Aloys RuyenziYesterday

Paul Kagame was responsible for this assassinationYesterday

Interviews with Dr. Helmut Strizek:

Today we know, among other things through a Rwandan dissident's sworn affidavit to the Rwandan-Court in Arusha on March 9, 2006, that Paul Kagame was responsible for this assassination(the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, who were killed April 6, 1994). His military victory was made possible through the power vacuum thus created. But in this chaos the genocide of the Tutsis could also take place. So as not to jeopardize Kagamé, no German government has insisted on a neutral investigation of the terrorist downing of the plane.

And all the king's men and all the king's horses.November 19

Alvaro Vargas Llosa wrote an article that shows that slowly opinion is shifting on the conflict in eastern-congo. Paul Kagame as the great hero is falling apart.

"The conflict represents the failure of two Western-backed transitions to democracy in Africa -- Congo's and Rwanda's."

former MONUC Force Commander Cammaert: FDLR no threat to Rwanda!November 16

Former MONUC Force Commander, General (generaal-majoor der mariniers b.d) Patrick Cammaert was interviewed today concerning the conflict in eastern Congo on dutch tv in the program buitenhof. He clearly stated in this interview that he disagrees with Paul Kagame on wether the FDLR poses a threat to Rwanda. The interview is available online here.

In dutch he says:
"De problemen moeten politiek opgelost worden. Dat zelfde geldt voor de genocide hutus. President Kagame zit daar sterk in. De president van Rwanda ziet de genocide-hutus als een bedreiging voor zijn land, waar ik het helemaal niet mee eens ben, volgens mij zijn deze genocide hutus helemaal geen bedreiging voor zijn land. Maar goed, hij zegt dat."

Which I can translate as: "The problems have to be solved politicallly. That is true also concerning the genocidal hutus. President Kagame is strongly (involved) in that. The president of Rwanda sees the genocide-hutus as a threat to his country, I don't agree with that, I don't think that those genocide-hutus represent a threat to his country at all. However, that is what he says."

Patrick Cammaert received The Carnegie-Wateler Peace Prize 2008 this week week in the Hague.

Patrick Cammaert was interviewed in The Hague in april on the situation in the great Lakes Region.

Stephen Kinzer’s Tendentious Editorial on the Kabuye ArrestNovember 16

Kevin Jon Heller from the team ofOpinio Juris wrote this article. Opinion Juris is a forum for informed discussion and lively debate about international law and international relations