PRM/MRP-ABASANGIZI PARTI RWANDAIS DES MODERES/ MODERATE RWANDA PARTY

PRESS RELEASE MODERATE RWANDA PARTY PRM/MRP-ABASANGIZI WELCOMES TANZANIAN EFFORTS IN SEEKING PEACE FOR THE AFRICA GREAT LAKES REGION Moderate Rwanda Party PRM/MRP-ABASANGIZI warmly welcomes the fact that Tanzania was chosen and mandated by the SADC, the UN and the AU to facilitate the process of peace building in the African Great lakes Region. Such a trust and peace reputation Tanzania enjoys in the eyes of foreign nations and international organizations is self explanatory since Tanzania has never known inter-ethnic bloody wars owing to its broadly recognized and sustained good governance history making of it one of the rarest African nations with practically no one under refugee status. Conversely, Rwanda in its politically very troubled history since its existence, has become as a kind of refugee generating machine that produces large numbers of refugees to be regularly accommodated by neighboring countries namely Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo (former Zaïre), Uganda, Burundi and by many other countries all over the world. It is a pity that the extravagant dictatorial regime of H.E. President Kagame and his Party RPF that clings on power for over 19 years in Rwanda, dares to fiercely oppose the very constructive suggestions from the Tanzanian Government in a bid to restoring peace in the Eastern Part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The strongly promising suggestion of H.E. President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania seeks a sustainable solution to the bloody complex wars of Eastern Congo through a negotiated triangular process of formal direct talks between the Governments of Rwanda, Uganda and DRC with FDLR, ADF-NALU and M23, respectively. The Government of Tanzania may need to be made aware that M23 is nothing but a Rwanda Government’s marionette, and that the Government of Rwanda feeds on the presence of FDLR in the Eastern Part of DRC in the sense that such an armed rebel movement’s presence becomes a pretext to keep invading neighbor DRC with the hidden spirit of looting minerals and massacring innocent people. FDLR combatants are Rwandan and M23 rebels are Rwanda Defense Forces fighters whom the government of Rwanda mixed with a few Kinyarwandaspeaking Congolese so as to fool the world that M23 is a group of Congolese Tutsis who are fighting for their rights. It is wise an advice that DRC government holds talks with them and attends to the concerns of its Kinyarwanda-speaking citizens which might be real, but all Rwanda government troops making up the M23 rebel group are to be thoroughly segregated from the rest and repatriated unconditionally. The FDLR as well as the other political or non-political organizations opposed to Kigali regime are all Rwandans and should enjoy the right of contributing to their country’s political

PRM/MRP-ABASANGIZI PARTI RWANDAIS DES MODERES/ MODERATE RWANDA PARTY life and to the installation of a state of law and human rights respect. It is now close to twenty years since the occurrence of Rwanda genocide against the Tutsis, and the present FDLR troops are not genocide perpetrators as alleged by the RPF government and its propaganda instrument known as IBUKA (a Tutsi genocide survivors local NGO that often puts forward the interests of Kagame and RPF at the detriment of those survivors it is supposed to be advocating for). In reality, FDLR rebel fighters are mainly young Hutu people who survived the Hutu mass killings (a real Hutu genocide though not yet qualified as such by the international community) by Rwanda government troops in DRC since year 1996, most of whom were born shortly before, during or after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. In real facts, the disastrous permanent state of war in Eastern DRC, and in the whole Great Lakes Region, is in essence one of the externalized aspects of the imbroglio of internal political problems characterizing Rwanda under the ruthless dictatorial regime of President Kagame and his Political Party RPFInkotanyi. Such externalization and exportation of Rwanda governance failures to neighboring countries was made successful by the means of creating and vitalizing the M23 rebel movement. It is also regrettable that the Governments of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda were misinformed on the Human Rights Respect plight in the country before accepting Rwanda into the East African Community - EAC, since the true intention of Rwanda government was to dump its many unresolved political and governance failures in the EAC. Failures that Rwanda dictatorship refuses to resolve include the bad seeds of inter-ethnic hatred, and ethnic conflicts and massacres. These political failures were exported to the DRC since 1996 up to now. It is now clear that the Eastern DRC conflicts directly derive from the very complex political failures of the dictatorial regime of President Kagame and the RPF who just decided to make of DRC their scapegoat. For this reason, and in order to restore peace in Eastern DRC, which is the core mandate Tanzania was given by SADC, UN and AU, the RPM/MRPABASANGIZI’s Political Party believes it is imperative that Rwanda government led by President Paul Kagame and the RPF accepts to hold a formal political dialogue with all the opposition political Parties, Associations, Armed rebel groups and others. Let us note that there are currently more than twenty political Parties working from exile outside Rwanda. It is the dialogue of this kind (between Kigali regime and all its opposition parties and organizations) that can usher the DRC and the entire Great lakes region in a new age of sustainable peace. Negotiations between FDLR and the RPF government led by Paul Kagame are important, but they may only lead to a very short time solution for DRC crisis, since there will always be a high risk of creation of new armed rebel groups due to the large number of Rwanda refugees in the region and to desperation of a population tired with the ruthless dictatorship of the current Rwanda government characterized by assassinations of innocent citizens, non-respect of the Human Rights, suppression of the press and speech freedom, preventing opposition political parties from exercising their activities in the country while illegally detaining or physically

PRM/MRP-ABASANGIZI PARTI RWANDAIS DES MODERES/ MODERATE RWANDA PARTY eliminating the few who take the risk to do so, regardless whether they are Hutu or Tutsi; examples: Dr Theonete Niyitegeka (Hutu) and forgotten in prison, Déogratias Mushayidi (Tutsi) under life imprisonment, Victoire Ingabire (Hutu lady) under detention, Bernard Ntaganda (Hutu) under detention, André Kagwa Rwisereka (Tutsi) assassinated (beheaded) by the RPF regime death squad, and many others. All this shows that the governance problem poses a serious concern in Rwanda, which the East African Community (EAC) ought to deal with before it degenerates into a generalized crisis in the Great Lakes and the East African regions. The RPM/MRP-ABASANGIZ Political Party reiterates that the only route for achieving a sustainable and definite solution to the African Great Lakes peace crisis, is to call on the International and the African countries, Tanzania and South Africa in particular (two countries that have played a notable role in resolving Burundi crisis which has similarities with Rwanda crisis), for them to use their powerful influence and advocacy in order to make the dictatorial regime of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) and President Kagame unconditionally accept a broad dialogue with the opposition, FDLR included.

Done in Savannah, Georgia United States of America June the 4th, 2013; -

Dr . Gasana Anastase, Chairman (sé) Mukeshimana Isaac, Vice-Chairman in Charge of Political Affairs (sé) Batungwanayo Janvier, Executive Vice-Chairman (sé) Bamara Prosper, Vice-Chairman in Charge of National Security Affairs (sé)