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Rwanda: A State Without a Statesman

President Kagame has subjected the whole nation of Rwanda, Rwanda's neighbors, and the international community to fear.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In reaction to President Paul Kagame's 9th National Dialogue (Umushyikirano) at the Parliament Buildings, Kimihurura Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa responded on his Facebook page to the controversial remarks made by President Kagame.

It was an annual event that has been erroneously baptized national dialogue.

Rwanda Peoples Party statement to Ambassador Susan Rice

Rwanda Peoples Party to Ambassador Susan Rice, "Kagame has totally failed to reconcile Rwanda"

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Your Excellency, allow me to register my sincere thanks on behalf of my party, the Rwanda People’s Party (RPP) for your recent visit together with your family to Rwanda.

Charles Ingabire, let down fatally by Uganda & UNHCR

Given the track record of Paul Kagame; and emerging evidences that exposed Kagame’s evil facade... it is simple to conclude that he’s behind the murder of Charles Ingabire.

(UGANDA) - In July, I was invited to make a presentation to a panel at the 13th International Association for the Study of Migration Conference held in Kampala.

East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project (EHAHRDP), sponsored my participation in the conference. Hence, I presented a paper titled “The double jeopardy Human Rights Defenders (HRDs) in exile suffer.”

First Anniversary of the Rwandan National Congress

Exclusive Interview with Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa on the First Anniversary of the Rwandan National Congress

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The Rwandan National Congress has just completed their first year as a viable political opposition group to the current ruling regime in Rwanda.

Their accomplishments in this first year are obvious to any political observer as well as their critics. This group has been proactive in its desire to meet face to face with Rwandans in the diaspora while building their platform for a new Rwanda.

PR firm `attacked` critics of Rwandan government

"If I wanted an easy life I’d do PR for housing association." - Mark Pursey, BTP Advisers

(LONDON) - A public relations firm whose senior management have close links to the Liberal Democrats said it had created an internet ‘attack site’ for the government of Rwanda to counter accusations that it had been involved in genocide.

Mark Pursey, head of BTP Advisers, was secretly recorded as part of the Bureau’s investigation into lobbying and PR, saying that the site was targeted at those who ‘over-criticised’ over ‘who did what in the genocide’.

Rwanda Security Operatives Assassinate a Rwandan Journalist in Kampala, Uganda

Press release from the Rwanda National Congress.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On Friday 2nd December 2011, Andrew Bagala of the Monitor Newspaper in Uganda reported that the Editor of Rwanda’s Inyenyeri news, Charles Ingabire who had sought refuge in Uganda for political reasons was shot dead at a Kampala pub.

Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson Mr Ibin Ssenkumbi confirmed the murder. On Sunday 4th December 2011, Andrew Bagala again reported in the Monitor that mourners at the requiem of Ingabire funeral were hiding their faces.

Human Experiments: Outsourcing Tuskegee

News from the Office of Scientific and Medical Justice.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - A new report details human experiments led by US researchers and drug companies on Africans who are typically undereducated, poor, and lack full understanding of their rights. The human subjects often are led to believe that they are receiving medical treatment from governmental health services or health ministries.

The report is titled “Non-Consensual Research in Africa: The Outsourcing of Tuskegee” in reference to the illegal human experiment conducted in Tuskegee, Alabama, on some 600 impoverished African-American men.

Africa `Let Down` by Busan aid agreement says ActionAid

" ...What happens in the next six months is crucial..." - Lucia Fry, ActionAid

(BUSAN, South Korea) - Africa’s priorities were sidelined in a ‘global partnership’ at the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, in Busan, an anti-poverty group says.

Actionaid, which operates in over 20 African countries, called for a global agreement on aid to put poor country governments in the driving seat of development- what ActionAid calls ‘Real Aid’.

UNHCR Complicity Cited in Murder of Rwanda Journalist

We are gravely concerned for the safety of Ben Kimenyi and his brother and sister journalists.

(SALEM) - Our Reporter Jennifer Fierberg, has been covering the developments in Rwanda non-stop and the number of journalists and politicians who have been murdered is staggering.

The trail of bodies is not a hard one to follow; Kagame has been able to insert representatives of the current Rwanda government into extremely important roles within the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR) which is the world body responsible for investigating this type of abuse.

Rwanda: A sick nation in need of healing

Rwanda is a small nation at the heart of a huge continent, neither of which makes the mainstream media as often as they should for the challenges they endure on a daily basis.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - On November 28, 2011 the first annual roundtable on Rwanda Truth and Reconciliation: The Process Begins was held at The International Humanitarian law Institute of Minnesota.

In attendance was Dr. Ali Galayd, the Former Prime Minister of Somalia, Paul Rusesabagina, honored worldwide for his heroic actions during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, recipient of the 2005 U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom and the 2011 Lantos Human Rights Prize.