Victoire Ingabire continues to stage her usual lies in international media, and human rights platforms. Most recently it was on CNN and Open Democracy.  

 

In her CNN Op-Ed, Ingabire lies that she was denied political space in Rwanda simply because she wanted to register a political party and compete in presidential elections.

 

“But a few months after my arrival I was arrested and taken to the police station, where I was handcuffed and locked in an empty room, devoid even of a mattress,” she wrote.

 

Even if Rwanda was a rouge country, which is not the case, one wonders how an innocent person gets arrested for having ambitions to run for president!  Ingabire is a serial liar, a wolf in sheep’s skin. Many outsiders do not know her double genocide ideology. 

 

An opinion article published by CNN on October 3, titled “Inside the prison where sunlight ceases to exist,” pushes new UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss, to drop the Asylum seekers deal with Rwanda, using Ingabire’s false narrative of “human rights violations” in a prison cell in Rwanda.

 

Second, it intended to tarnish the image of Rwanda before the international community.   

However, before Ingabire wrote the article, or got the article written for her by CNN, she forgot that after her release, she gave an interview in which she praised the prison authorities on how she was well cared for while serving her sentence.

 

Linking Ingabire’s prison experience to stopping the UK asylum seekers deal misses the point. The asylum seekers will not be sent to Rwanda as criminals going to serve sentences in prison.

 

It is true that the large number of prisoners in Rwanda has its own historical background. Genocide suspects who committed the crime in hundreds of thousands could not be let free. Critics though, do not provide an option that can decongest the prisons at the same time deliver justice to the victims.

 

In another Op-Ed published by Open Democracy on October 5, under the title, “It’s time for Rwanda to give non-violence a chance,” Ingabire claims that Rwanda is responsible for the violence in the Great Lakes region. But a peek into her sinister past tells a different story, considering her ties to the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi who continue to maraud in eastern DRC and other parts of the world, including the Netherlands where she lived for a long time.

 

If there were no genocide ideologues like Ingabire and militia like FDLR who have intentions of continuing the genocide against the Tutsi, the region would be peaceful.   

 

Ingabire is wasting her time confusing the world that she is a Rwandan politician.  The law of Rwanda is very clear on the requirements of who should be a politician in the country. She does not qualify to be a politician or to head any political organization.

 

Organic Law n° 10/2013/0L of 11/07/2013,  governing Political Organizations and Politicians 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 served eight years on genocide related crimes. She was not acquitted but released on clemency.  Therefore, her “political credentials’’ in Rwanda are null and void.

 

The DALFA Umurinzi ‘political party’ she claims to own is not legally registered and only exists by wishful thinking. Outsiders who wish to impose Ingabire on Rwandans, as a politician, are frogging a dead horse.

 

Here is the true story of who Ingabire is and what she stands for.

 

Soon after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, in 1995, Ingabire was among the founder members of the Rally for the Return of Refugees and Democracy in Rwanda (RDR) - a party of the defeated genocidal regime in exile in the then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).  At the time, the man who recruited her, Lt Col Juvenal Bahufite, an intelligence chief in the genocidal regime, saw an asset in her. Ingabire was 'clean' since she could not be directly linked to the 1994 genocide - despite her parent’s direct participation in the massacres.

 

Ingabire went to The Netherlands in 1993. Despite her vehement denials, her mother, Thérèse Dusabe, a midwife at the Butamwa Health Center in Kigali nicknamed "the doctor of death" for her cruelty during the genocide first killed Tutsi pregnant women and then killed babies by hitting them on the wall.

 

Ingabire’s father, Pascal Gakumba, who was a bourgmestre for Kibilira commune between 1994 and 1996 was active in inciting people in his commune to carry out genocide. When Ingabire joined RDR, it was reorganizing to return to Rwanda and kill the Tutsi who had survived the genocide.

 

In 1997 RDR tactically changed its name to Partie pour la Libération du Rwanda (PALIR). Its armed wing became Armes de Libération du Rwanda (ALIR). Ingabire continued representing the terror group even as it continuously changed names to escape the genocide tag and sought to rebrand as a legitimate opposition party intent on playing a role in Rwandan politics.

 

In 1999, ALIR militia members murdered eight tourists in Uganda's Bwindi Forest, near the DRC. The US government slapped ALIR with sanctions and designated it as a terrorist organization. In May 2002, ALIR rebranded again and turned into the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) with an armed wing called the Force Combattante Abacunguzi (FOCA).

 

On January 16, 2010 Ingabire landed at the Kigali International Airport, from the Netherlands, and went to the Gisozi genocide memorial site where more than 250,000 Genocide victims are laid to rest. She questioned members of staff there about why there were only remains of the Tutsi, yet the Hutu were also killed. She was blunt when advancing the double genocide ideology.

 

Ingabire and her minders continue to allege that the Rwandan government does not tolerate dissenting voices but they don’t want the world to know that the Rwandan government actually does not tolerate genocide ideology and terrorism. The politics of hate speech and divisionism have no place in today's Rwanda.

 

Ingabire is also affiliated with terror groups, including FDLR. But these facts are swept under the carpet by Western media and human rights organizations which promote her as a politician.

 

Among others, the United Democratic Forces – Inkingi, or FDU-Inkingi, which she led collaborated with FDLR commanders. Evidence provided to Rwandan prosecutors by Dutch Police after a search of her home in the Netherlands, shows that Ingabire travelled from Europe to meet FDLR commanders in Kinshasa. Dutch authorities also shared a document with minutes of the Kinshasa meeting including military deployment plans.

 

Rwandans deserve better. They deserve progressive politicians.  Not collaborators with terror groups. 

 

Like many other children whose parents committed genocide, Ingabire uses the smoke screen of “politician and human rights activist,” as a cover-up to defend her mother and other genocide perpetrators.

 

There are many other children of Genocide suspects overseas who used their connections to reach out to the media and rights organizations to tell lies about their past so as to receive sympathy and cover up their parents’ role in the Genocide against the Tutsi.

 

It has become a common pattern. Western media and rights organizations easily buy into the lies of people like Ingabire and become accomplices.

 

Rwandans know who their politicians are. Ingabire is not one of them.  

 

Like everyone who harbours the genocide ideology, Ingabire should be in prison. She is a danger to society, especially the Rwandan society which is still healing.