There was a time when Kagame denied the ethnic nature of the massacres that followed the assassination of Rwanda’s President.
Reminder: An explicit passage from Roméo Dallaire’s book reports these words spoken by Paul Kagame at the very beginning of the genocide:
“The UN thinks it is going to send an intervention force for humanitarian reasons. But the people who were supposed to die are already dead.
We will fight any intervention army that comes to Rwanda.
Let us solve the problems of the country ourselves.
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It (the UN) presents the problems of Rwanda as ethnic issues, which is inaccurate since the massacres were perpetrated against the Tutsis and the opposition.”
Everyone read that clearly.
Kagame therefore explicitly denies the ethnic character of the massacres.
Cynical opportunism, indifference, lack of emotion?
And above all, he declares: “Let us solve the problems of the country ourselves.”
So why has he spent the last thirty years opening his mouth to reproach the West for not intervening?
He should stop with his endless “Where were you in 1994?”
He should stop with his semantic traps for gullible fools: “You abandoned us,” “Where were you when we were being killed?” “You looked the other way.”
He should stop with his hypocritical “You have no moral right to lecture us,” when he is the greatest mass criminal still in power.
This systematic victimhood rhetoric for over thirty years serves only one purpose: to divert attention, evade the overwhelming responsibilities of the RPF, conceal its own well-documented mass killings, and hide the genocide it carried out in the Congo.
This manipulative rhetoric also serves to neutralize any criticism of the ruthless dictatorship he imposes on what has become a vast open-air prison.
Yes, life was happier in Rwanda in the 1980s, before the aggression — and not the so-called war of liberation.
It is high time for the international community to stop naively accepting this instrumentalized guilt-tripping.
It has little to reproach itself for — with the notable exception of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Uganda — other than having been foolishly manipulated by Kagame.
It is more than time to stop submitting to the outrageous instrumentalization of the Tutsi genocide, which serves only to indefinitely and illegitimately immunize the corrupt regime in Kigali.