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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Machaon who wrote (21368)	3/15/2003 7:10:08 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

It doesn't blame America for ALL of Columbia's ills. That is a false assertion on your part. It addresses people, US trained and backed, sent into the region who are terrorists.

To: Machaon who wrote (21368)	3/15/2003 7:20:13 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 25898

Rwanda, rogue sponsor of international terrorism? President Paul Kagame, Rwanda, mastermind of the invasion and occupation of DR Congo. International terrorist? Headlines around the world are pointing fingers of blame squarely at Rwanda and the Congolese RCD rebels it created for a variety of crimes against humanity. Mail & Guardian is reporting that rape is a deadly horror in the Rwandan occupied zone of eastern DR Congo. UN IRIN is reporting that MONUC, the UN mission in the DR Congo, has accused the Rwandan-backed Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma) armed opposition movement of "grave violations of human rights and humanitarian law" in the eastern city of Kisangani. BBC has picked up on the story and is adding its own perspectives. Human Rights Watch has just today issued an immediate release saying "Kisangani residents again under fire Rwanda's Congolese proxy force killing civilians, closing civil society groups." The UN Security Council met this afternoon on the matter and strongly condemned the killings, in particular of civilians, that recently took place in Kisangani, and called for an immediate cessation of all violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. AP is reporting that the UN has said again that plundering of the Congo by invasion and occupation forces continues unabated. The world can no longer avoid the question as to whether Rwanda is a rogue state sponsor of international terrorism. If it is, the world will have to shut it down. marekinc.com Up to today, US-sponsored terrorism through Jonas Savimbi, Alfonso Dhlakama, Paul Kagame etc, has resulted in the bloodiest conflicts in Africa. ______________________________________________ Source: UN OCHA Integrated Regional Information Network Date: 5 Mar 2003 Rwanda: Kagame briefs Bush on situation in Great Lakes region NAIROBI, 5 March (IRIN) - During a visit to the White House on Tuesday, Rwandan President Paul Kagame briefed US President George W. Bush and US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on the political and security situation in Africa's Great Lakes region. According to a statement issued on Wednesday by his office, Kagame said the presence of ex-FAR [Rwandan former army] and Interahamwe [Hutu extremist militias] - largely responsible for the 1994 slaughter of about 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus - in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) "continued to pose a threat to Rwanda's security". He urged the US government to bring pressure to bear on the DRC government "to fulfil its commitments under the Lusaka and Pretoria agreements", adding that the formation of a national unity government in Kinshasa "would stabilise the region and improve the prospects for peace". For his part, Bush "congratulated Rwanda on the decision to withdraw all its troops from the DRC", and expressed Washington's support for efforts to achieve peace, security and democracy in the region. Kagame, who has been in the United States since Saturday, thanked Bush for the continuing economic support of the US government for various development projects in Rwanda, particularly in HIV/AIDS prevention and development of the agricultural sector. Kagame also briefed Bush on the constitution-making process, the forthcoming referendum and elections to be held later this year in Rwanda, calling for further US government support for these processes. Kagame's office reported that both leaders had "expressed satisfaction about the warm and strengthening relations" between their countries, and "committed their respective governments to working together to consolidate these ties". This is Kagame's first visit to the US at the invitation of Bush. He is accompanied by Foreign Minister Charles Muligande; Rwanda's ambassador to the US, Richard Sezibera; Director of Cabinet in the Presidency Theogene Rudasingwa; and Presidential National Security Adviser Emmanuel Ndahiro. Also on Tuesday, Muligande and US Secretary of State Colin Powell signed an agreement on the reciprocal exemption of citizens of both countries from prosecution by the International Criminal Court without the consent of the government of the concerned country, Radio Rwanda reported. Rwanda thus became the 22nd country to sign the accord with the US. Among other items on his agenda while in the US, Kagame is scheduled on Thursday to discuss "Current Prospects for Peace in the Great Lakes Region" from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. Chester Crocker, the institute's board chairman and former assistant secretary of state for African affairs, will chair the visit. The address will be followed by questions from the floor and will be webcast live. For further information, go to usip.org [ENDS] [This Item is Delivered to the "Africa-English" Service of the UN's IRIN humanitarian information unit, but may not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations. For further information, free subscriptions, or to change your keywords, contact e-mail: Irin@ocha.unon.org or Web: irinnews.org . If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this item, please retain this credit and disclaimer. Reposting by commercial sites requires written IRIN permission.] marekinc.com