That some RPF members and supporters still claim that Ingabire's predecessor as RDR president in Europe, Charles Ndereyehe, may be the subject of an Interpol warrant for genocide crimes committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide is not news to anyone and should have no bearing on Ingabire's political credibility. Several members of the current Rwandan government have themselves been indicted by Spanish and French courts for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. RPF supporters have also tried to link RDR and FDU to the FDLR in eastern Congo. To this day however they have been unable to provide any evidence to their unfounded claims.The United States and the United Nations treat the FDLR as a terrorist group; two of its Europe-based leaders are under arrest in Germany.
Alleged Ingabire's personal links to the FDLR now being claimed by RPF and RPF partisans are nothing but a grotesque extrapolation of some undocumented personal phone calls between one or two members of FDU/UDF-Inkingi party in Europe with elements of FDLR in eastern Congo that were cited in a 2009 UN Experts' Report about the FDLR. In the same report, UN investigators tied war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in eastern Congo to RPF army and its proxy generals deployed in Congo by the Rwandan government for reasons not fully understood but only those isolated personal phone calls of a handful of FDU members seem to be newsworthy to RPF.
To make things worse some of Ingabire's public statements in Europe since 2000 are actively being misinterpreted to make them eligible for prosecution under the RPF notorious vague law on genocide ideology and denial. The author of that law, former Senator Stanley Safari, has indeed himself been charged of the same genocide ideology before going in exile, after he fell out of RPF favors last year. Although all of Ingabire's speeches and public statements are published on her website and elsewhere on internet RPF operatives still contend, against every logical human being reasoning, that Ingabire's campaign in Rwanda prior to her arbitrary arraignment was aimed at mobilizing ethnic divisions between Hutus and Tutsis when it is obvious that it was the opposite she was promoting.
Her first stop once back in the country was to visit Rwanda's main memorial to the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis, where she raised the issue of remembrance of forgotten Hutu victims of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, totally in line with the way this genocide was enacted by the United Nations in 1994. RPF operatives cynically compare this honorable reconciliation gesture to going to Auschwitz to raise the issue of the German victims of Dresden. Indeed, we all, and they know that unlike RPF Tutsis, German Jews never attacked Germany, like RPF did before Rwanda descended into chaos marked by the indiscriminate killing of Tutsis and political opponents by the then ruling MRND party and its Interahamwe militia. These unspeakable killings started after the shooting down of President Habyalimana's airplane, killing its French crew, President Habyalimana and his top officials as well as Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira.
To pay homage to freedom fighters that were credited with bringing about independence and democracy in early sixties, Ingabire also chose to meditate at the tomb of the first president of the RwandanRepublic. This president is credited with leading the Rwandan people's struggle to winning independence from Belgium in 1962. For the first time, all Rwandans could compete for political power ending centuries of institutionalized racism against majority Hutu kept in Tutsi servitude for 400 years. The liberation was not free and popular uprising resulted in civilian casualties as Tutsi kingdom protagonist fought ferociously to maintain the status quo. Although no official account of the number of victims of this infighting was published, hatred mongering Tutsis and their partisans will not hesitate to talk about organized mass killings citing numbers as big as 15,000 Tutsis dead. However they omit to say that Tutsis were the ones fighting their way back to power with an organized army using guns against unarmed Hutu masses and an inexperienced national army of the new RwandanRepublic between 1963-64.
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