Regional
Open letter to Dutch Members of Parliament
Dear Hon MPs, Agnes Mulder
and Joop Atsma,
I
hope this letter finds you well. It is good to know that you joined other members
of parliament from all over the world to attend the 145th Assembly
of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in Kigali, Rwanda. The reason I am
compelled to write to you is that you used the occasion of your presence in
Rwanda to visit a woman called Victoire Ingabire.
You
know that she was convicted and jailed – before being released when President Paul Kagame
exercised his prerogative of mercy – for genocide crimes
especially propagating a double genocide theory and collaborating with terror
organizations like FDLR, which comprises remnants of the masterminds of the
1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
The
FDLR has intentions of coming back to Rwanda to kill more people. Theirs is a
genocidal agenda and, they believe they have unfinished business in Rwanda. The
photos you took, together with Ingabire, clearly show how you keenly listened with
interest to what she had to tell you.
I
was not there to know what exactly she told you, or what you told her, but the
script of her story to foreigners is always monolithic, and predictable. “There
is no respect of human rights, there is no democracy in this country, you know
I am innocent, and I was only taken to jail on trumped up charges simply because
I wanted to run for presidency, the government refused to register my political
party DALFA Umurinzi, there is no political space...” This is the usual song
Ingabire sings to foreigners.
Let me ask this
question. If you went to Germany, would you proudly identify with, and take
photos, with a person who trivializes or denies the Holocaust, or who questions
why there are graves of Jews but not for Germans? Secondly, would you pose for photos with a
neo-Nazi wearing Swastikas?
When Ingabire arrived
in Rwanda, from your country, on
January 16, 2010, she went straight to the Kigali Genocide Memorial where more
than 250,000 genocide victims are laid to rest. At the Memorial, she asked
staff why there were only remains of the Tutsi, yet according to her, the Hutu
were also killed. This is evidence enough that Ingabire is a double genocide
ideologue, a tropical-Nazi.
I know that in Europe you do not empathize or associate with
anti-Semitism and xenophobia because it constitutes a crime. But, in Rwanda, you
proudly empathize and associate with genocide ideologues like Ingabire and
Bernard Ntaganda. Genocide ideology is a crime punishable by Rwandan law. Your association
with such people does not surprise me and other Rwandans. But it annoys us, and,
at the same time tests our resilience. The genocide against the Tutsi
originated from the Belgian colonial policy of divide and rule. They turned
social-economic classes into “ethnicities,” and pitted one against the other.
The Genocide against
the Tutsi was foreign instigated. Foreigners created zone Turquoise to protect
those who had committed Genocide against the Tutsi. They protected them in
camps in the then Zaire, now the Democratic
Republic of Congo. You are happily supporting Ingabire and Ntaganda who share
the same ideology as those who committed genocide in my country. Genocide
suspects are given sanctuary in your country. What a hypocritical world we live in!
Honorable MPs, I hope you know that in 2010, Dutch Police carried out an official search at Ingabire’s
home. A lot of documents showing her collaboration with FDLR commanders, and
money transfers to them, in DRC were found. It leaves us, as Rwandans, speechless to hear,
and see, that Ingabire is a person you support, and would even want to lead our
country. She is your choice, but, good enough, Rwandans are the ones who decide
the leaders they want. The truth of the matter remains that the likes of
Ingabire and Ntaganda do not qualify to be elected as village chiefs in the new
Rwanda.
Honorable
MPs, let me suggest that, as legislators, there is a better service you can
render, for the benefit of the people of our two countries. There are genocide
fugitives in your country who, including Victoire Ingabire’s mother Dusabe Thérèse
and Ndereyehe Charles. Rwanda has long sent indictments for their arrest and
repatriation, to no avail.
Dusabe’s
crimes during the 1994 genocide are beyond imagination. Know why she was nicknamed
“the doctor of death?” Dusabe
was nicknamed "the doctor of death" for her cruelty. She first killed
Tutsi pregnant women and then killed babies by hitting them on the wall.
Dusabe cut open wombs of pregnant mothers, removed the babies and smashed them
on walls to death!
Ndereyehe who was a director at an agricultural institute (ISAR
Rubona) played a key role in the massacres carried out at the institute. He is
freely continuing to spread genocide ideology in your country. He is one of the
leaders of FDU-Inkingi, a terrorist organization founded on genocide ideology,
by Ingabire. Your voices in the Dutch Parliament to apprehend and send these
fugitives to Rwanda would be appreciated by millions of Rwandans.
Honorable MPs, you must have heard, clearly, President Kagame’s
speech at the opening of the IPU meeting, where he called upon global
parliaments to collaborate and fight Genocide ideology. President Kagame noted
that “it is about recognition of our shared humanity, for the
betterment of our societies, and the protection of future generations.”
You
visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial and witnessed the horrendous acts of
genocide. Rwandans would be happy with
your well wishes to overcome the bitter past. In the absence of the wishes, Rwandans
will be fine. But I beg you not to fan genocide ideology by supporting the acts
of Ingabire and Ntaganda, acts which are hinged on ethnic hatred and genocide
ideology.
Sincerely,
Musonera
Didas
CC:
Dutch
Parliament
EU
Parliament
Dutch
Embassy in Rwanda
Rwanda
Embassy in the Netherlands