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RALLY FOR THE RETURN OF REFUGEES AND DEMOCRACY IN RWANDA Date:From:
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great lakes - central africa
no. 18 - september 13, 1998
Each of these documents represents the voices of ordinary people caught in war
in Eastern D.R.Congo.
They have been received with the urgent request to make their contents known as
widely as possible - in the hope that they will be heard.
Rally for the Return of Refugees and Democracy in Rwanda
August 27, 1998: The Rally for the Return of Refugees and Democracy in
Rwanda (RDR) firmly denounces and condemns the Clinton administration military
training and arms supplies to the abusive Rwandan troops who invaded the
Democratic Republic of Congo in 1996 and 1997.
By providing military support to the abusive Rwandan troops without any regard to their human rights record, the US government is allowing death to become a banality not only in Rwanda but also in the entire African Great Lakes region.RDR firmly denounces and condemns the new US (...) policy of preparing and backing invasion of sovereign states in the African Great Lakes region, (...) and propping up dictatorships of extremist Tutsis who instead of spending a large portion of the national budget and export earnings to improve the welfare of the African masses, allocate much needed millions of dollars to imports of US -made sophisticated weapons to protect their tyrannies and slaughter the people.
With US military assistance Rwandan troops are massacring unarmed civilians without mercy and in complete impunity in all parts of Rwanda and the D.R.Congo. The RDR denounces and condemns the Clinton administrations indifference, if not complicity, to acts of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace and other human rights violations committed and still being committed by the Rwandan Patriotic Army in Rwanda and the D.R. Congo.
In press interviews Rwandan General Paul Kagame said (he had) previously warned the US government of his intentions and commended the US administration for subsequently taking the right decisions to let him proceed.The oppressed people of Rwanda appeals to the American people who love peace, freedom and prosperity for all to demand the Clinton administration to cease all military assistance to the so-called new breed of African leaders who (...) represent a permanent danger for peace in the African Great Lakes region, and
On August 5, 1998 we learned from Agence France Press that a 10 member team from the 3rd Special Forces Group in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, had been training Rwandan officers since July 15, 1998. Since the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) took power, US military training and arms supplies have intensified. An internal Pentagon chronology draft prepared in response to congressional questions about the US military role in Rwanda revealed that the US military role in Rwanda is greater than disclosed. (...) With the tacit US support, the small, poverty-stricken, war-torn Rwanda and Uganda are suddenly emerging as regional power brokers!
The oppressed people of Rwanda say no to war, no to US military training and arms supplies to the abusive Rwandan Patriotic Army, no to dictatorship.Ndereyehe Charles, Chairman
We want to live in peace, we want love in place of hatred, peace in place of war, democracy and freedom in place of dictatorship and oppression.
We want health centers, hospitals and medicines, roads and communication links, schools and jobs for ourselves and our children instead of arms and ammunitions, poverty, hunger and misery. Up to now US military assistance has brought nothing than more bloodshed, poverty, misery, sufferings, ethnic divisions, insecurity and hatred among the Rwandan people.
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