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Ingabire, the so called Rwandan ‘opposition leader’ making headlines in Western media
Following
the Kigali High Court’s verdict on March 13, in a case where previously
convicted self-proclaimed opposition leader, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza,
demanded to be rehabilitated, Western media quickly wrote that she was barred
from the July election.
The
High Court denied her clearance on grounds that she is not eligible to apply
for it. Ingabire has not yet met the conditions to apply for clearance. She was
released from prison in September 2018, after President Paul Kagame commuted
her prison sentence of 15 years in jail, and granted her clemency after serving
only eight years.
In
article two, the presidential order granting clemency provides that all the
conditions shall cease to apply at the end of the remaining period of
imprisonment, which the grantee of mercy was supposed to serve. Ingabire’s jail
sentence was supposed to end by 2025.
As the
law gives a grantee of mercy the right to seek clearance five years after the
end of the commuted jail sentence, Ingabire’s eligibility to apply for clearance
would only be in 2030. Western Media’s narrative which is ignoring Rwandan laws
and opted to present Ingabire as innocent, is serving political interests of
super powers, while demonizing as well as threatening developing countries like
Rwanda.
Why does
Western media never bother to check facts on the profile of their ‘heroine’,
Ingabire? Their standards and ethics remain questionable.
How
can they consciously provide a platform for someone with a criminal mindset to
propagate dangerous lies, labeling her as an opposition leader despite being an
advocate for genocide ideologues?
The
55-year-old woman, is a daughter of Therese Dusabe who was nicknamed ‘the
doctor of death’ during the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, for executing
pregnant Tutsi women in Butamwa health center, where she worked as a nurse. She
often removed their fetuses and slaughtered the new borns by hitting them
against walls.
Dusabe’s
atrocities drove her into exile in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after
the genocide. Dusabe was tried in absentia in 2009 by Rwanda’s Gacaca courts
and sentenced to life in prison.
Ingabire’s
husband, Lin Muyizere, notoriously known for his double genocide ideology, saw
the immigration service in the Netherland revoke his citizenship in 2014. It
was after his role in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi was revealed.
Ingabire headed genocidaire movements
Ingabire
who lived in the Netherlands during the Genocide was nominated, in 2000, the
leader of the Republican Rally for Democracy in Rwanda (RDR), an extremist
organisation in exile supported by ex-FAR and Interahamwe in DRC’s Mugunga
refugee camp. Formed in March 1995, RDR’s objective was to re-organise, re-arm,
and forcefully return to Rwanda and finish the mission of exterminating the
Tutsi.
Ingabire
later also headed RDR’s successor, FDU-Inkingi, since 2006.
After
her release, in 2019 Ingabire formed a new political party and called it
DALFA-Umurinzi ,as a cover for FDU-Inkingi's agenda. But the Ingabire of RDR is
no different from the Ingabire of Inkingi, or Umurinzi. She is still the same
extremist, and the same criminal.
Her
new deception project, DALFA-Umurinzi, came to covertly carry on political
ambitions of advocating for genocide ideologues and divisionism.
Rwandan
law prohibits anyone who has been sentenced to an imprisonment equal to or
exceeding six months; or committed
crimes of Genocide against the Tutsi, to be in the management of a political
organization.
Ingabire pleaded for presidential pardon but refused to change
Ingabire
pleaded for presidential pardon but refused to change. In 2012, Ingabire was
found guilty of inciting the masses to revolt against the government, forming
armed groups to destabilise the country, and minimising the 1994 Genocide
against the Tutsi. She was sentenced to eight years in prison, which increased
to 15 years after appeal. In prison, she penned a number of letters to
President Paul Kagame, requesting for pardon.
In her
“Gusaba Imbabazi” – translated as “requesting for forgiveness” – she promised
the Head of State that, upon release, she would become a better citizen who
will contribute to Rwanda’s development.
In the
last paragraph of Ingabire’s pleading letter dated June 25, 2018, she wrote:
“Your Excellency President, in your discernment if you find that I deserve
pardon and release me from prison, personally I am committed to working
together with all Rwandan citizens peacefully towards our country’s sustainable
development.”
On
September 15, 2018, after serving eight of her 15 year prison sentence, she was
released on presidential clemency.
Right
after being discharged from prison, Ingabire told local media that she is
“grateful for the presidential mercy because the president decided to pardon me
so that I can go out and live a normal life.” Once outside prison, the
ungrateful and arrogant Ingabire told foreign media that she was released due
to international pressure.
Western media promoted Ingabire’s agenda
Western
media promoted Ingabire’s agenda.
Ingabire is a darling of the West despite her criminal record. Western
journalists have shown a great deal of creativity in spreading fake news about
her real purpose and intent, including and mainly through a denial campaign of
the genocide against the Tutsi translated into a persistent negation of
Rwanda’s self-realization since July 1994.
Western
media tirelessly publishes her articles criticizing Rwanda’s system of
governance while turning a blind eye to her genocide ideology. From Aljazeera,
the Guardian, Times, to BBC and CNN, Ingabire always plays a victim of
political oppression, violation of rights and freedom of expression. But she lives
an unhindered cozy life, often having her friends from the West over for wine
and subversive talk against Rwanda.
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