“Master and Slaves”: Daily life in the FDLR-controlled areas of Mwenga and neighbouring territories in South Kivu (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Goma’
Slavery in the DR Congo: FDLR are the masters
Posted: September 2, 2013 in AnalysisTags: FDLR, genocide, Goma, Interahamwe, Kivu, Mwenga, Rwanda
Friends of Evil (Chapter 9) Other initiatives of Rwandans living in Exile
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Bukavu, Civil society, Dialogue, genocide, Goma, Rwanda
Now that we have taken a first look at the complicity of Northern NGOs in the efforts of Rwandan NGOs to deny the Tutsi genocide, let us examine the various initiatives of the group RWANDAN CIVIL SOCIETY IN EXILE (SCRE) towards the same end. (more…)
Friends of evil (Chapter 8): Rwandan civil society in exile–villains posturing as victims
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Bukavu, Civil society, genocide, Goma, NGOs, Rwanda
After the departure of Frans Van Hoof and Ivan Godfroid, the Rwandan NGOs in areas controlled by the genocidal interim government effectively went to work. (more…)
Friends of evil (Chapter 3): Refugees in captivity
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Army, France, genocide, Goma, Rwanda
In a December 1994 report, the French NGO called Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) reported about a meeting between the Rwandan government in exile, the FAR, and the Interahamwe which was held in Bukavu at the beginning of October 1994.[1] The decision taken at the meeting was to seize power over the camps and make the government in exile the sole representative of all refugees. (more…)
Friends of evil(Chapter 2): The FAR’s Vision for the Future
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Army, France, genocide, Goma, IDC, Rwanda
Soon after the September meeting of the FAR leadership, and the Bizimungu report sent to Sindikubwabo and Kambanda, and as recommended by the French and the IDC, the FAR began work on a post-mortem of its defeat in Rwanda and a course of action for the future. (more…)
Friends of evil (Chapter 1): Refugees’ Camps under the Military
Posted: August 28, 2013 in BookTags: Army, Evil, genocide, Goma, Refugees, Rwanda
The pre-genocide government army (FAR) were very instrumental in the planning and execution of the genocide of the Tutsis in Rwanda. (more…)
The roots of war in eastern Congo
Posted: January 4, 2011 in Genocide DenialTags: Bukavu, Chris McGreal, Democratic republic of Congo, Exodus, FDLR, genocide, Goma, Hutu, Mobutu Sese Seko, North Kivu, Refugee camps, Refugees, Rwanda, South Kivu, The Guardian, Tutsi, UN High Commissioner for Refugees
By Chris McGreal May 16, 2008
To the outside world it has become as known as Africa’s First World War with its foreign armies and invasions, and ceaseless killing and dying that seems to achieve nothing. (more…)
A week in Goma
Posted: January 4, 2011 in Evidence MaterialTags: Armenian Genocide, Cholera, Concern Worldwide, Europe, genocide, God, Goma, Holocaust, Holocaust Denial, Hutu, Interahamwe, Juvenal Habyarimana, Médecins Sans Frontières, Refugees, Robert Block, Rwanda, Rwandan Patriotic Front, The Independent, Tutsi, Zaire
By Report by Robert Block Sunday, 31 July 1994
THE slaughter in Rwanda may have been an expression of the bestiality of man, but what is happening in the refugee camps in Zaire today is surely the wrath of God. Epidemics of biblical proportions sweep the land. Water is poison. (more…)
The UNHCR and Refugee Return from Zaire to Rwanda
Posted: December 29, 2010 in Genocide DenialTags: Failure, Genocidaires, genocide, Goma, Great Lakes region of Africa, Humanitarian, Hutu, Interahamwe, Kivu, Kurt Mills, Rwanda, Rwandese Patriotic Front, UNHCR, Zaire
By Kurt Mills
Introduction
A simmering humanitarian and security crisis in Eastern Zaire came to a head in late 1996 when a civil war broke out and hundreds of thousands of refugees returned to Rwanda. (more…)