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The genocide fugitives, deniers, revisionists in Australia
The
Great Lakes Eye has previously reported that a number of genocide revisionists,
deniers and fugitives are roaming freely in Australia, with the country's
Parliament especially used as their den.
Most
highlighted was Frodouard Rukeshangabo, a fugitive who directed the mass murder
and torture of the Tutsi in Rwanda's Eastern Province during the 1994 Genocide
against the Tutsi. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison by the Gacaca courts
before fleeing to Malawi, and then to Australia where he was given citizenship
despite his past criminal records.
Rukeshangabo
hails from the former Rubona Sector, in the former Kigarama Commune, Kibungo
prefecture. He was nicknamed “trophy hunter” for his enthusiasm in hunting down
the Tutsi during the genocide. In 1994, he was serving as an inspector of
schools in the area and he led a group of Interahamwe militia in the area,
requesting them to bring him the heads of murdered Tutsi.
It
is now custom that a section of Rwandans living in New South Wales, a
southeastern Australian state, together with regional lawmakers commemorate
what they call a “Rwandan genocide." They never use the correct, and
universally acknowledged, terminology, “the genocide against the Tutsi”.
A
closer look at the people behind this double genocide theory construct and the
reasons why they want to differ from the rest of the world in honouring the
lives of more than one million Tutsi slaughtered by Hutu extremists in 1994
reveals close ties to the perpetrators of the genocide.
Even
though Australia welcomed a diverse community of Rwandan refugees, the
majority, especially those in New South Wales are at the heart of misleading
the public opinion through the Rwandan Association of Queensland (RAQ).
They
infiltrated all spheres of national life there. It is difficult to know the
exact number of genocide suspects and genocide deniers living in Australia scot
free. But The Great Lakes Eye has been able to track some of them, besides
Rukeshangabo.
Theogene Ngabo
Ngabo
is the current president of the Rwandan Association of Queensland. He is believed
to be the MRCD-FLN representative in Australia. He is alleged to have committed
atrocities in the former Muvumba Commune, Byumba.
Pacifique Gakindi
He
was charged for genocide crimes in former Gishyita Commune, Kibuye, after which
he fled to Zambia, and ended up in Queensland, Australia.
Jean Baptiste Nshimiyimana
Apart
from being a genocide suspect, he is also a chief fundraiser for the National
Front for Liberation (FLN) of Paul Rusesabagina, who is now under trial in
Rwanda for terrorism. He is also accused of supporting other terrorist
organizations like the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) which is hell bent on
destabilizing Rwanda.
Home to genocide deniers
Apart
from genocide suspects, Australia is also home to promoters of genocide denial
and revisionism. Among these individuals is Amiel Nubaha, the son of
Rukeshangabo. Nubaha is one of the leaders of the Rwandan Association of
Queensland which has been commemorating what it calls ‘Rwandan genocide.’
Then
there is Noel Zihabamwe and his wife, Delphine Uwamwiza. They very often call
themselves genocide survivors. But they are not. Zihabamwe has been spreading
rumours in the Australian media alleging that Rwanda’s security agencies
abducted his siblings and they may have been killed. Zihabamwe left Rwanda in
2000 as the beneficiary of a Government scholarship to attend university
studies in Australia.
He
went to study using his real birth name, Noelle Yandamutso. But when the
duration of his university course was over and he was supposed to return, he
did not. He then changed his names to Noel Zihabamwe.
That
is when he began his activities as a supporter, fundraiser and propagandist for
anti-Rwanda terrorist groups like RNC and other armed groups. If Australian
authorities care to bring to book criminal Rwandan networks in their country,
they can easily trace his change of identity through immigration records.
Nelson
Muhirwa and his wife, Yvette Muhirwa are part of the criminal network too. They
live in Perth, West Australia. They fled from refugee camps in eastern DRC to
Zambia, from where they later found their way to Australia.
Robert
Mukombozi, a Ugandan, is the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) terror
organisation’s coordinator and financial mobiliser in Australia. He is another
virulent genocide denier. Mukombozi who has in the past posed as a ‘crusading
journalist’, calling himself the “voice of Rwanda” was expelled from Rwanda in
2008 and declared persona non grata by the Government of Rwanda, which partly
explains his anti-Rwanda stance.
Then
there is Pacifique Gakindi, the RNC Secretary in Australia. This former
chairman of the association in Queensland is originally from Kamonyi. Other fugitives are holed up in New Zealand,
the most prominent being Enoch Ruhigira, who was counsellor of President
Juvenal Habyarimana.
What
is most troubling is that local authorities and the media, in Australia and New
Zealand, have fallen for the lies of these genocide suspects, deniers and
anti-Rwanda subversive groups.
It
is high time Australian authorities seriously examined whether it is right
continuing to shelter criminals like Rukeshangabo and others accused of
horrendous crimes against humanity