Michela Wrong: Aiding the last stage of Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Michela Wrong, Rwanda Genocide denier

The International media and journalists were silent when more than one million Rwandans were killed in 100 days in April 1994, in the fastest mass murder ever recorded in human history.

The international community too, looked aside because Rwanda was not on their priority list. Today, international journalists such as Michela Wrong using prominent international media are very active in writing about Rwanda; claiming that the RPF killed thousands of people not only in Rwanda but also in DRC. President Kagame who commanded the war that stopped the genocide is branded all sorts of bad names depicting him as a violator of human rights!

Genocide scholars state that, for every genocide that has taken place in the world, there are people and organizations that have come up to defend the perpetrators by denying their responsibility in genocide, and instead blaming the victims.  

What Michela Wrong writes about on Rwanda, is aiding the last stage of genocide, which is denial. By blaming the RPF that stopped genocide and President Kagame who commanded the RPA, the intent is to turn genocide villains into heroes and Rwandan heroes into villains.  She is in the league of friends of evil against Rwanda, and has traded her journalism ethics for lies and fictitious narratives that serve the interests of those who committed genocide in Rwanda, genocide deniers, Rwandan dissidents in exile, and those who propagate the double genocide theory.

The article by Michela in The Guardian on Feb. 14^th 2021 about the death of Kizito Mihigo which is a sort of serialization of her upcoming book titled, “Do not Disturb- The story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad”, and does not discuss anything new. Rather, she recycles fictitious narratives and ‘testimonies’ gathered from Rwanda dissidents and genocide suspects. For example, her autobiography was edited by a notorious genocide denier- Rene Mugenzi who is convicted in the UK for theft of church money. Mugenzi is also a compulsive gambler.

Nicki Hitchcott, a UK based academic, challenged Michela Wrong’s article on social media by exposing her bias and lack of objectivity.

The death in prison by suicide of Kizito Mihigo was turned into political capital by many haters of Rwanda, blaming it on government is if it never happens in other countries.  Michela should check in the archives of the same publication she used, what happens in UK prisons.

On May 28^th 2020, Jamie Grierson wrote an article in The Guardian, titled, “Alarm over five suicides in six days at prisons in England and Wales.” The article further says that in 2019, there were 80 cases of self-inflicted deaths recorded.

If the UK has far more suicide cases in prison than Rwanda, why does the death of one person although regrettable, become sacrilegious and a measure of lack of human rights in Rwanda? Double standards.

In the US, the National Institute for Corrections (NIC) under the department of justice established that, “The rates of inmate suicide are far higher than the national averages, and even higher still for special populations (including juvenile and LGBTI inmates), even corrections officers have a much greater occupational suicide rate.” How come Rwanda gets branded as a pariah state when in fact, it is doing far much better than the developed world regarding safety of prisoners and the general population at large?

I agree with Michela that indeed Kizito studied music at the famous and prestigious Paris conservatoire, but does she know who was paying for his tuition fees or she deliberately kept silent about it? It was President Kagame who personally sponsored him until he finished his course because he wanted Kizito to perfect his talent and become a professional musician.

What about the image that circulated on social media immediately after the death of Kizito, that Michela claims is the evidence that he was murdered? Ironically, it is only people still living in the analog technology space that could buy such a fake story, but in the digital era, it was apparent that the image was created elsewhere using Photoshop application!

Who is Michela Wrong and what is her connection with Rwanda?

Michela Wrong worked for Reuters News Agency in the early 1980s and operated   in Italy, France and Ivory Coast. In 1994, she was a freelance journalist working in former Zaire now DRC.

She covered the Genocide against the Tutsi for BBC and Reuters. She later moved to Nairobi-Kenya as a Financial Times correspondent covering East, West and Central Africa. During her work in the Great Lakes Region, she became a family friend of Patrick Karegeya, and very close particularly to Karegeya’s wife Leah Kabuto.

When Karegeya fled Rwanda and joined the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) terror group in South Africa, Michela, kept close contact with the Karegeya family. Michela also had close friendship with Judi Reever, who was well known to be Patrick Karegeya’s concubine.

After the death of Patrick Karegeya in South Africa, in December 2013, Michela Wrong and Judi Reever vowed to ‘avenge’ the murder of Patrick Karegeya, which they blamed on the government of Rwanda, with no evidence. They partnered with other likeminded friends of evil and organizations to tarnish the image of President Kagame and the RPF, through writing articles in prominent western newspapers as well as publishing books claiming political murders and propagating a double genocide theory.

On April 1^st 2014, a few months after the death of Patrick Karegeya, Michela started her assault on Rwanda in an article titled; “Leave None to tell the Other Story,” that was posted in Foreign Policy Magazine. She wrote several other articles thereafter, calling on the international community particularly the UK to stop financial support to Rwanda. Her upcoming book title is more like a tribute to none other than Patrick Karegeya.

Michela, having similar views on Rwanda like Human Rights Watch is not surprising as well. She is a trustee of Human Rights Watch Africa, which means that if she is not avenging for Patrick Karegeya, she is acting on the HRW hostile policy against Rwanda.

Those who are surprised by actions of the likes of Michela Wrong.  Should read history books about genocides and the different stages they go through. Denial is the final stage. Holocaust denial gained notoriety in the United States and Europe in the 1980s and spread to other parts of the world.

Today, denial of the genocide against the Tutsi is on the rise in the UK, Canada, and other foreign countries done especially by journalists, academia, politicians and International NGOs friendly to families of genocide suspects and Rwandan dissidents.

For Rwanda, genocide denial is expected to be more intense, due to the fact that foreign countries were highly involved in preparing and supporting the genocide.  It is in foreign countries where we are seeing much publicity of genocide denial with intentions to rewrite the Rwandan history. This is another battle front that Rwandans must fight and win.

The Rwandan spirit and the resilience of the Rwandan people that fought evil and stopped genocide still prevail. These are cherished values by majority Rwandans and are unbreakable under any form of pressure or distraction by naysayers like Michela Wrong. She is always wrong on Rwanda.