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| Tanzanian President Jakawa Kikwete whose forces are part of the international brigade of intervention of which objective is to target armed forces operating in Eastern Congo. |
The one highlighted here is an open letter that the Rwandan
Diaspora living in the United States and supportive of the Kagame regime
has written to President Barack Obama in relation to his upcoming visit
to Tanzania and the suggested talks between Rwanda and its opposition
represented by FDLR .
The letter is published to inform i the readers about the tactics
that RPF uses. It has used them so often since taking power that nobody
should continue to be fooled while the criminal regime claims its
innocence about the suffering of millions of Congolese and Rwandans and
at the same time appears ready to carry it on.
Open Letter to H.E. Barack H. Obama, the President of the United States of America
May 27th, 2013
Subject: Remarks by H.E. Jakaya Kikwete, the President of the United
Republic of Tanzania at the 21st African Union Summit on May 26th, 2013
in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Your Excellency the President of the United States of America
We, the undersigned, being survivors of the genocide against Tutsi
and Rwandans legally living in the United States of America are appalled
by the statement made by H.E. Jakaya Kikwete, the President of the
United Republic of Tanzania at the 21st African Union Summit on May
26th, 2013 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in which he called upon the Rwandan
government to “negotiate” with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation
of Rwanda (FDLR), a rebel group predominantly composed of members of the
Interahamwe militia and the Armed Forces of Rwanda that carried out the
1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda and for the killings of
millions of innocent people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
We salute the United States of America’s leadership and commitment to
fight the international terrorism, particularly your government’s
collaboration with the regional and international players to find a
solution to the crisis in the Great Lakes region. Not only you were
among the first countries, alongside the United Nations, to name the
FDLR, formerly known as the Army for the Liberation of Rwanda (ALIR), as
a terrorist group but also you have placed many five-million-dollar
bounties on some Rwandan genocide perpetrators’ heads, including
Sylivestre Mudacumura, the FDLR supreme commander who is wanted by the
International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges of crimes against humanity
and war crimes, including murder, rape, torture and attacking innocent
civilians.
We believe President Kikwete is fully informed of these still ongoing
heinous crimes committed by FDLR towards millions of innocent Congolese
and many foreigners, including innocent Americans Rob Haubner and Susan
Miller killed in Bwindi Forest in 1999, to name but a few who lost
their lives at the hands of FDLR. In 1994, when more than one million
innocent Tutsi were brutally murdered, President Kikwete, then the
Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tanzania did not speak up.
Since then, he has seen his country burying hundreds of thousands of
Rwandans whose bodies were damped into Akagera River, in Rwanda by the
same genocidaires who formed FDLR with the intent to “finish the job
“flooding all the way to Tanzania. Given that the International Criminal
Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) is based in Tanzania, we have no doubt that
President Kikwete has been following the court proceedings and should
comprehend the threat posed by the FDLR to Rwanda’s and the region’s
peace and security.
We appreciate the support you have provided to Rwanda since 1994. As
you know, our country has worked tirelessly, despite many challenges, to
successfully repatriate millions of Rwandan refugees since the genocide
and have reintegrated many FDLR fighters in the Rwandan Defense Forces.
As the concerned citizens of Rwanda and legal residents of the United
States of America, we acknowledge that Rwanda has paid too big a price
for too long and feel obliged to openly and strongly question President
Kikwete’s hidden intentions behind such dreadful remarks and hereby
request your office to join us in our call to him to immediately
withdraw this shocking statement made at the time when as Rwandans, we
are still commemorating the 19th anniversary of the genocide and
grieving the loss of our beloved ones. President Kikwete should openly
apologize to us as survivors of the genocide in Rwanda and Rwandans in
general, Congolese, Americans and many more people who have suffered
from the FDLR terrorism.
Your Excellency, we trust that the United States of America cannot
support this kind of political dealings that serve, if anything, as a
setback to any progress led by Rwanda and many regional and
international players to restore peace in the democratic Republic of
Congo. Though we welcome your upcoming visit to our beloved continent,
we recommend you cancel your trip to Tanzania unless President Kikwete
openly apologizes and disavows any relationship he might have with the
FDLR.
We look forward to our continued collaboration as we strive to fight
impunity and international terrorism in order to ensure a peaceful and
secure world for all.
Yours faithfully,
Alice Umutoni
Vice Coordinator of the organizing committee
The 19th Commemoration of the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda in the U.S.A.
Vice Coordinator of the organizing committee
The 19th Commemoration of the Genocide against Tutsi in Rwanda in the U.S.A.
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