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Through Victoire Ingabire the West wants return of Hutu Power in Rwanda
State
and non-state actors as well as media in Western capitals refer to Victoire
Ingabire as a fierce opposition politician who was jailed on trumped up charges
and barred from competitive politics to deny her the opportunity to challenge
Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
During
the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) hosted by Rwanda in
June 2022, some UK Members of Parliament visited Ingabire at her home which was
seen as a political statement to the government of Rwanda to show their solidarity
with ‘the fierce opposition politician and human rights activist.’
On the
other side, the act was cynical and a betrayal to the Rwandan people for the
MPs to support tropical Nazism.
The
West, when dealing with developing countries which they arrogantly refer to as
third world countries, decide not to pay attention and understand the history
and political landscape but simply take things for granted that all countries
are the same, and the politics in these countries should be a reflection of
Western models or else they are branded dictatorial, authoritarian and lacking
democratic values.
They
also tend to give orders on how developing countries should govern themselves,
as if the countries do not have their own values and choices.
In Rwanda, Ingabire does not qualify to be
called a politician because she shares the same divisive ideology as the
extremist regime (HUTU POWER) that was responsible for planning and executing
the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.
Her
dangerous ideology, similar to that of the Nazis, was made known to the world
on January 16, 2010, when she arrived in Rwanda, from The Netherlands. Her
first stop was at Kigali Genocide Memorial where she publicly announced that
she could only see remains of the Tutsi, and yet the Hutu were also killed.
Ingabire
is a double genocide ideologue. She thinks that by playing the ethnic card she
will be appealing to the ‘majority HUTU’ who will rally behind her to defeat
the “minority TUTSI’’, the same kind of politics and ideology of Hutu Power
that dominated the genocidal regime of President Juvenal Habyarimana.
Under
the new leadership of Rwanda led by President Kagame under the banner of RPF
that defeated Hutu Power ideologues and stopped the genocide against the Tutsi,
Rwandans have rejected politics of division.
Rwandans
choose to have a national identity as Rwandans casting aside ethnic divisions
under the ideology of “Ndi Umunyarwanda.”
While
still in The Netherlands, on March 30, 2009, Ingabire told BBC-Radio
(Kinyarwanda service) that if the government in Kigali does not change their
ways there will be another 1994.” Ingabire shares this kind of language and
ideology with FDLR, a terrorist group formed by remnants of the perpetrators of
the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi who want to return to Rwanda to “complete
the genocide against the Tutsi.” She is also an unapologetic supporter of the
Wazalendo militia in DRC responsible for killing Congolese Tutsi.
In
September 2016, a delegation of EU MPs visited their Rwandan counterparts to
share best practices on the rights of women and gender equality. Some EU MPs
attempted to visit Ingabire in prison but they were denied access as it was not
on the agenda of their visit.
After
returning home, the MPs wrote in a report complaining about Rwanda’s
constitutional amendment, lack of political space, media freedom and being
blocked from accessing Ingabire in prison.
Would
any delegation from Rwanda be allowed access to prisons in EU countries just as
they wish?
This
was a provocation of the Rwandan people and a statement to insinuate that
Ingabire was a political prisoner denied her rights to challenge the status
quo.
On
September 13, 2012, European MPs nominated
Ingabire to receive the 2012 international edition of the Andrei
Sakharov prize of the European Parliament for Freedom of Thought. Other former
recipients of the prize include Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi of Myanmar.
This
not only constituted an abuse of the prestigious prize but showed that European
MPs were hell bent on the return of Hutu Power ideologues into Rwandan
politics.
During
the trial of Ingabire and her co-accused, in 2011, on charges of fueling
insecurity and ethnic divisions, evidence in court showed that Ingabire was in
constant contact with senior FDLR officers.
Ingabire’s co-accused, Lt Col Tharcisse Nditurende, Lt Col Noel
Hitiyaremye, Capt Jean Marie Vianney Karuta and Maj Vital Uwumuremyi, were
formerly in FDLR ranks and pleaded guilty to the charges of trying to
destabilize Rwanda.
The
court established that Ingabire got in contact with Nditurende, who was heading
a battalion in FDLR in 2008, and asked him to break away and form an armed wing
called Coalition des Forces Democratique (CDF) that was to be affiliated to her
unregistered party, FDU-Inkingi.
After
the 1994 genocide, a number of genocide suspects sought refuge in European
countries. To cover up their crimes, they claimed to be politicians and human
rights activist because they knew well that such a cover sales in Western
countries, turning themselves victims rather than wanted criminals on the run.
Although
Ingabire was not involved in genocide, she shares the Hutu Power genocide
ideology and ethnic divisionism with those who committed the genocide against
the Tutsi.
In
2018, Ingabire was released from prison on a presidential pardon, before
completing a 15-year prison sentence, but she remains an unrepentant Hutu Power
Ideologue. Similar to Nazism, people like her cannot be allowed to play
politics in the new Rwanda however much Westerners and other actors dress her
as a representative of the opposition.