Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New-York-based so-called rights group, has never hidden its insidious agenda against Rwanda, for more than two decades now.

The organization continues publishing fabricated reports aimed at smearing the Rwandan government and its institutions.

The latest smear campaign comes in a ‘report’ published on October 10, titled “Join Us or Die’ Rwanda’s Extraterritorial Repression”. As always, the report ‘documented’ killings, kidnappings and attempted kidnappings, enforced disappearances, and physical attacks targeting Rwandans living abroad.

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To back their baseless accusations, HRW claims to have interviewed over 150 people who have fled the abuses in Rwanda, or abroad.

Beyond the hearsays, the credibility of individuals HRW interviewed is questionable as well. Who are these people really?

While advancing the claims of kidnappings, attempted kidnappings, and physical attacks, one of the sources HRW reportedly talked to is Serge Ndayizeye, who claimed that he was attacked while attending a “Rwanda Day” event in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 2015.

HRW deliberately chose a member of a terror group. Ndayizeye is a member of RNC who runs Itahuka radio, a medium used by the anti-Rwanda government terrorist group to spew hate and propaganda.

RNC is part of a larger terrorist group, P5, operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), along with the genocidal militia called FDLR. Between 2010 and 2014, RNC carried out grenade attacks in Rwanda which left more than 10 people dead and more than 400 injured.

In October 2019, the group carried out the bloodiest attack in over two decades, in Musanze district’s Kinigi. The attackers used knives and rudimentary weapons to kill 14 innocent civilians and wound 18 others.

All these facts were ignored by HRW which, instead, tried to whitewash RNC as an opposition group to give credibility to their source. What can anyone expect to be told by an individual such as Ndayizeye other than accusations he cannot prove?

HRW also interviewed a certain Joseph Mazimpaka, who served in the Rwandan genocidal forces, Ex-FAR. After the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Mazimpaka was reintegrated into the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), but it was later discovered that he was one of the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide.

He was arrested in 2009, for his role in the Genocide, but escaped from prison, fled to Uganda, then to Kenya and later ended up in Tanzania. While in Tanzania, he collaborated with other anti-Rwanda government groups, such as RNC and FDLR terrorists.

While talking to HRW, Mazimpaka, narrated a made-up story of a failed kidnaping in Tanzania; and the supposed harassment of his wife in Mozambique, by “Rwandan operatives.”

For HRW, tarnishing the image of Rwanda is the priority and to achieve that, the ends justify the means, even if it means whitewashing a génocidaire, and ignoring all the crimes he or she committed.

Other interviewed ‘credible sources’ include self-exiled individuals like Richard Eugene Gasana, Théobald Rutihunza, whose only agenda is to disrupt peace in Rwanda, while working with negative groups.

For instance, Gasana has, on several occasions, met with Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi in a quest to rally support for anti-Rwanda negative groups operating in eastern DRC.

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Robert Mukombozi is a name that did not miss in the HRW report. The Ugandan journalist, claims that he was forced to leave Uganda because of ‘pressure from the government of Rwanda’.

However, HRW explicitly left out the fact that Mukombozi is not a Rwandan. He was neither arrested, nor persecuted in Rwanda, as he claimed.

All these questionable interviewed individuals expose HRW’s agenda; its deliberate, sustained, and politically motivated propaganda campaign against the government of Rwanda, for nearly 30 years.