Links April 2014

Economic and environmental news:
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22584-neoliberalism-as-social-necrophilia-the-case-of-greece
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/100026913/consumer-credit-and-falling-savings-are-indeed-driving-britains-unhealthy-boomlet/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-global-banking-game-is-rigged-and-the-fdic-is-suing/5377703
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/15/we_are_in_great_danger_ex_banker_details_how_mega_banks_destroyed_america/
http://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/attachments/financial_lobby_report.pdf
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/radical_un_report_promotes_democratic_control_of_food_20140320http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002257/225741E.pdf
http://www.srfood.org/images/stories/pdf/officialreports/20140310_finalreport_en.pdf
http://sandiegofreepress.org/2014/03/were-finished-now-what/#.U0JHGCigGqk
http://www.testosteronepit.com/home/2014/4/5/inflation-watch-global-food-disruptions-commodity-prices-soa.html
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/debt-rattle-apr-1-2014-what-kills-the-economy-kills-the-planet-kills-us/
http://www.globalwitness.org/sites/default/files/library/Deadly%20Environment.pdf
http://www.shareable.net/blog/comprehensive-disobedience-occupying-the-sharing-economy-in-spain
http://personal.ce.umn.edu/~marshall/NO2_white_nonwhite.php

Technology news:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/social-media-and-the-destabilization-of-cuba-usaids-secret-cuban-twitter-intended-to-stir-unrest/5376720
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/cuban-twitter-heads-hearings-congress
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/04/14/heartbleed-is-about-to-get-worse-and-it-will-slow-the-internet-to-a-crawl
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/tails/
https://tails.boum.org/

Imperial news:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/04/the-monster-on-the-hill/ This is written by Uri Avnery, a warmonger who poses as a peace activist, and a person who I truly despise. But this article is brilliant, pointed, and enlightening. (Good, that I didn’t read the authors name before reading the analysis, otherwise my prejudices would have gone in the way of the appraisal).
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2014/04/mccutcheon-meets-adelson-what-a-campaign-donor-wants.html
http://www.pruningshears.us/pruning-shears/2014/4/4/coates-chait-and-the-iraq-war-understanding-of-gratitude.html
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/survivalist-expo-draws-preppers-from-around-the-country/article_980faf22-bc44-11e3-a759-001a4bcf6878.html About the US-American mindset. (Preppers will succumb a few hundred days later).
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fort-hood-shooting-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-and-the-mental-illness-crisis-in-the-us-armed-forces/5376709
http://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/supreme-court-campaign-donations-limit-105284.html
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/04/02/wealth_inequality_is_it_worse_than_we_thought.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/80-percent-of-us-adults-face-near-poverty-unemployment-survey-finds/
http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/04/17/automation-threatens-47-percent-u-s-jobs/
http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/04/12/war-public-education/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/school-privatization-and-the-charter-school-scam-corporate-americas-assault-on-education/5377537

Inperial conquest news:
http://inserbia.info/news/2014/03/not-to-forget-15-years-since-nato-aggression-against-serbia-and-montenegro/
http://rt.com/news/yugoslavia-kosovo-nato-bombing-705/
http://vineyardsaker.blogspot.co.at/2014/03/the-empires-war-against-serbian-nation.html
http://en.ria.ru/world/20140404/189037804/OPINION-US-Instigating-Yugoslav-Scenario-of-Fraternal-Genocide.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/21/putins-triumph/
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/20/the-rise-of-fascism-in-the-west/
http://www.roitov.com/articles/bashan.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/on-third-anniversary-of-syrian-rebellion-assad-is-steadily-winning-the-war/2014/03/14/f189649a-bd1a-4c9e-9060-755984ea92c8_story.html
http://www.aina.org/news/20140321125653.htm
http://www.almanar.com.lb/english/adetails.php?eid=144462&cid=31&fromval=1&frid=31&seccatid=71&s1=1
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/syria-deraa-USA-Jordan-FSA-regime-CIA
http://consortiumnews.com/2014/04/06/was-turkey-behind-syrian-sarin-attack/
http://www.lrb.co.uk/2014/04/06/seymour-m-hersh/the-red-line-and-the-rat-line
http://en.alalam.ir/news/1583138
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/security/2014/03/fall-kassab-syria-costly-turkey.html
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/04/libya-foreign-minister-interview-return-monarchy.html
http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/04/09/gathering-brussels-undermines-african-unity/

Everything else news:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/propaganda-psy-op-worldwide-wave-of-action-the-global-springbegins/5372295
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/22880-occupy-sandy-and-the-future-of-socialism
http://blogs.reuters.com/photographers-blog/2014/04/02/the-tower-of-david-venezuelas-vertical-slum/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-declares-all-atheists-are-terrorists-in-new-law-to-crack-down-on-political-dissidents-9228389.html
http://www.workers.org/articles/2014/04/07/several-african-states-boycott-eu-summit-2/
http://www.moderntokyotimes.com/2014/04/07/armenian-christians-and-syria-crisis-turkey-is-a-dangerous-shadow-under-erdogan/
http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2014/04/bbc-service-israeli-propaganda/
https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/president-vladimir-putin-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-godspeed-president-putin-and-foreign-minister-lavrov

This post is published because it rains and I cannot work in the garden. The rain is very welcome, because the winter was mild and dry (one could have called it as well a prolonged autumn) and there was no snow or any other precipitation except the morning dew.

From March on I worked in the garden preparing everything for the moment when it finally would start raining. I was convinced that rain would arrive and rescue the plants, all of my activity was geared towards the great moment when the first raindrops would reach the thirsty soil.

Because of the drought I had to water the plants in the first two weeks of April. Irrigating in the garden is a very laborious and time consuming task and watering just the most important plants takes nearly four hours, time that I rather would have liked to use for other tasks.

The reorganization of the garden is nearly completed. I created a stripe which is a small potato field and four new beds for general use. There are only two small patches of meadow left. The biggest one of the new beds is home to nine new blueberry bushes, some sedum colonies as ground cover, and moss that I fetched from the forest. I put also four tiny peach tree seedlings into this bed.

Last year a friend gave me a basket with peaches that were from a wild peach tree which he discovered on his farm. The peaches were a bit greenish and harder than the cultivated ones but nevertheless eatable. They were not especially delicious but I liked them. I saved all stones and put everyone in a flower pot on the balcony. Eight of them developed into little seedlings and they have been now transplanted to various locations of the garden to become one day great peach trees.

Yet, though there are high expectations for the future, my present peach-outlook is grim. A few weeks ago I discovered that all four peach trees and one nectarine tree were infected with leaf curl, a devastating fungal disease which causes red blisters and deforms the leaves — it looks terrible. Once the symptoms of leaf curl are visible, nothing can be done against it, the disease will take its course no matter what.

The five year old peach tree had this disease already last year and he didn’t produce any fruits. A small three year old tree was completely healthy and produced 33 wonderful fruits, really great for such a young tree. I was very proud of my peach tree friend. Two other newly planted peach trees didn’t bloom but they were healthy and I was appreciative for this season to get lot of peaches.

Now I have to scale back my high expectations and I would be already glad if I could cure the three young trees. The prospect of curing the two old trees were not great so I had to cut them down.

Beside the peach leaf curl disaster there was also a second blow which dampened my spirits this spring.

The spawn of a toad who was born in the garden pond and grew up in the garden is again not developing into tadpoles. I neglected the pond last year because I was busy with reorganizing the garden and creating new beds. I also had lost interest because the pond was occupied by dragonfly nymphs, which had whipped out all other animals in the pond. Dragonflies may look interesting, but the nymphs are ugly and they are merciless predators.

As the dragonfly nymphs had also killed all the little snails and other beneficiary water animals which feed on algae, the algae bloomed and became a severe problem. In the end the algae bloom led to an oxygen deficiency which killed also the dragonfly nymphs. This is how nature works. If the population of an invasive species explodes, the particular ecosystem breaks down, eliminating everything including the invasive species to allow a fresh new start.

Are humans an invasive species?

Right now I try several methods to reestablish a balanced pond environment but the little toad had its own plan and laid her spawn strings into the water just as I started with my treatment. The eggs got instantly covered with algae and did not develop. I can only hope that my dear toad friend will try it once more next spring. I would be so glad if I could watch the tadpoles swimming around in the pond.

I had this toad already two times in my hand, one time when I met her on the path along the house wall and she became confused and didn’t find a suitable cover, the other time when I caught her hiding in a pile of old planks. Both times I grabbed the toad carefully with a paper tissue and carried her to the raspberry hedge which is very dense and a great hideout for little toads.

I have voiced my sympathies for toads already in earlier posts and I’m not alone with my preferences. Last year Reverend Billy (William Talen) and his church of Stop Shopping (aka the Golden Toads), performed in the Manhattan branch of JP Morgan Chase Bank as a protest against the companies policies. They were wearing toad like hats at this occasion.

Billy was arrested and faced one year in prison for that stunt but fortunately the charges were dropped one week ago.

Back to the garden work:

I have put a lot of onion and garlic bulbs into the new beds and the glasshouses are full of pots with various other seeds of herbs and vegetables. A few spinach and broccoli plants are out in the open beds. The broccoli is doing fine but the spinach is severely decimated, not by snails but by big beetles which are quite active now. I will not plant any more spinach, because chard has just the same nutritional composition and is far less vulnerable. All chard is doing fine here, it is frost tolerant, many chard plants survived the winter and can be harvested right now.

Chive and ramson are growing fast and can be also harvested since the start of April.

The two with leave curl infected trees were not the first ones that died this year because already in March I ended the life of a huge pine tree which had no less that four tree tops.

The wood of this pine tree will heat the house for at least one year. The tree was some 16 meters high and it had at the bottom a radius of 46 centimeters. I cut the wood logs in 30 cm pieces and split them with a hydraulic log splitter, the pieces are now piled up in three stack around the garden. The wood has to dry at least one year before it is used.

This is expensive firewood though because I paid some 400 Euros for the logger who cut down the tree and for another worker to assist me with processing the logs and branches. The logger was a highly qualified man who climbed up the tree and cut it down from the top in pieces of one meter length.

This was the only possible method to remove the tree because simply cutting it at the bottom would have jeopardized two nearby houses and there was no place to which the tree could have fallen without damaging installations in the garden or my house or the neighbors house.

The action took nearly three hours and all the time the logger operated the chainsaw with only one hand while holding on to the tree stem with the other. When he had finished the job he was visibly exhausted. I don’t know anybody else who would have been able to do this job, and he really deserved the 200 Euros that I paid him.

I always had a special relations with trees and they are one of my favorite plants. I consider them as my friends. This tree was approximately 70 to 80 years old, older than the house and older than me. It grew up unfortunately in close proximity to a fir tree. The fir tree is beautiful and majestic, it is even higher than the pine tree was. As the two trees grew bigger decade after decade, they competed for sunlight and hindered each other. The fir tree was stronger and the pine in the last years looked not good anymore because the branches opposing the fir had become scraggy and had lost their needles.

I pondered about this problem already for two years and the decision to cut the pine didn’t come lightly.

I didn’t kill the tree completely, I have left a three meter high stump standing with the lowest branches intact and I hope that the crippled tree will live on and get new sprouts and branches. I covered the biggest wounds with a special paste and put a coper plate on top of the stump, that is all I can do for my poor tree friend.

As I wrote before, trees are most times not cured, when they get sick, they are killed, Trees are defenseless, they cannot run away, they cannot defend themselves against the chainsaw massacres that are ongoing all the time.

The mentioned three trees were not the first which I have assassinated. Last year I cut down a big birch tree, a dozen thuja trees when I replaced a thuja hedge against a hornbeam hedge, and a wild cherry tree that was in the way when I unearthed and secured an old and nowhere documented cesspool (I had discovered the cesspool while cultivating a new and until then unused area in the garden).

All kind of little trees (birch, beech, ash, oak, larch, pine, spruce, fir, and others) are coming up in the garden. The seeds are carried by the wind from the surrounding forests. Most times I let them grow up to a heigh of two meters and then either put them on a place where they are not in the way or cut them. As I have planted many new fruit trees in the last two years, there is no space left for other new trees in the garden and the trees babies that come up now will all have to die one day.

I feel sad and guilty again about killing my friends, the trees. Feeling guilty seems to be one of the constants of my life and all the time I’m working to make good on the many misdeeds (real or perceived) that I committed. But that is another story and a private one which will not be published here.

This is the reality of our human existence. Whatever we do, whatever step we take, we are competing with other species and we are destroying lives. I don’t buy the ironic argument of meat eaters, that “carrots feel pain too,” yet there could be indeed some kind of consciousness in plant species. Many people claim, that talking with their houseplants makes a difference, and I had the same experience with the plants in my garden. Last year I adopted an old strawberry plant which seemed to be withering away but when I focused my attention on it and talked to it the plant started to flourish again and delivered wonderful fruits. It has survived the winter and I think my little strawberry will live another year.

I don’t know how this talking with plants could work. Maybe the plants can detect the smell or the electromagnetic fields of the body, maybe the sound waves make the leaves vibrate, or some other signaling is happening that we don’t know. Human knowledge is very limited indeed.

It is time to close this post. The music of the falling raindrops together with the purring of the cats will accompany me into sleep. It has rained for days now, exactly as I had hoped. All the rain barrels are full and the soil is soaked, the plants will have enough water for weeks.

When the rain ends, I will continue to work in the garden, seeding, planting, transplanting, weeding, watering, and digging in the dirt all day long. It would be so much easier to buy all food in the supermarket.

It would be so much easier to just gratefully accept the offerings of the food industry and of industrial agriculture.

The cats are fine except Gandhi Jr., who apparently was involved in a fight and was bitten by another animal. He had to take antibiotics for a week (what he really didn’t like) and he is still limping, but he will recover completely.

“Don’t dare to laugh because I’m hiding every time a visitor enters the house. You are a big animal and  you can defend yourself against the visitors, if you would be a small cat like me, you would be hiding too!”

Rwanda and Western media brainwashing

Every year in the first week of April Western media channels are flooded with statements about the anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, “where at least 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus died at the hands of Hutu extremists.”

These statements recount the official narrative about the genocide in Rwanda, a narrative that has seven key elements which have been almost canonized and are repeated mechanically by Western news consumers from all walks of life, economic classes, and political leanings.

1. At least 800,000 people were killed.
2. They were mostly ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
3. They were slaughtered with machetes or other crude tools.
4. It was meaningless tribal savagery.
5. It was committed by Hutu extremists.
6. The genocide lasted for 100 days.
7. The Western powers were  helpless bystanders.

These jingoistic phrases have been systematically cemented into the minds of the public through more than 20 years of insidious media propaganda, including the press, radio, photographs, videos, and films, recently also reproduced ad nauseam by new social media platforms.

But there is little truth to the official narrative and to get an idea, what really happened it is necessary to recapitulate the background of the so-called “100 days of genocide” (from April 6, 1994 till July 15, 1994). The following paragraphs present crucial facts that anyone who mourns the genocide victims in Rwanda and who wants to help prevent a reoccurrence of such an event ought to understand.

To begin with, Hutu and Tutsi are socio-economic or socio-political categories, and not African tribes, a very important distinction because most of the Rwanda Genocide narrative is mythology relying on simplifications, stereotypes, and misrepresentation about Hutus and Tutsis as tribal savages. This is not the reality, it is stuff right out of Hollywood Tarzan movies.

Prior to the colonial occupation that began after 1890, Tutsi kings ruled Ruanda-Urundi. Tutsi cattle herders comprised some 20 percent of the population, ruling over the 80 percent Hutu majority with egregious violence. First the Germans (till 1916) and then the Belgians (till 1960) managed their colony by nurturing a Tutsi power structure to exploit the Hutu masses. The Tutsi comprador class served the colonial occupation, where brutal suppression, slavery, and terrorism were used to keep the Hutu masses in the fields. A Tutsi could lose all his cattle and descend into the ranks of the peasant Hutu agriculturalists and, though far less likely, a Hutu could gain cattle and join the Tutsi elites. The colonial fathers issued ID cards, measured noses and cranial dimensions, and duly clarified who be Hutu and who be Tutsi.

Witnessing the global Third World independence movements of the 1950s, and supported by Belgian Catholic priests, the Hutus in Rwanda overthrew the Tutsi aristocracy in the revolution of 1959-1960. Many Tutsis fled to Uganda, Tanzania, Europe, and the USA, while others stayed, and the next 30 years saw majority Hutu rule, with Rwanda under constant attack by Tutsi guerrillas.

Noting the winds of change, Belgium quickly swapped their support to the Hutu majority and established a comprador class of Hutu elites to protect the colonial interests. There was, of course, much money to be made.

At the height of the Cold War, the Tutsi refugees influenced the Non-Aligned Movement (comprised of newly-independent states like Brazil, India, and Malaysia), claiming to be “victims of imperial aggression” and agitating for reestablishing their rule. They laid the groundwork for the falsified history of Tutsis as victims and Hutus as oppressors.

Like any aristocratic class, the Tutsi elites believed (and still believe) that they are “god’s chosen people” and the natural-born rulers over millions of Hutu (and lower class Tutsi) peasants.

Adopted by the Non-Aligned Movement, the Tutsi guerrillas — funded, armed by the West, and trained in neighboring countries — attacked Rwanda throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, committing the most egregious terrorism, usually under cover of night. Every time the Tutsi guerrillas attacked Rwanda — whether from outside during the 1960s or from inside during the 1990s — the local French-speaking Tutsis suffered reprisals. The “Tutsis as victims”-narrative continued to expand, and while the Hutus were blamed for occasional retaliatory atrocities, the Tutsis were supported and protected.

Guerrilla incursions involved bombings of cafes, bars, restaurants, and buses. The very real suffering of the French-speaking Tutsi people inside Rwanda was accepted by the RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front, a political party created in 1987 by the Tutsi refugee diaspora in Uganda) as collateral damage. The English-speaking Tutsi refugees, who had Ugandan citizenship and high posts in the Ugandan military, defined them as Hutu collaborators and didn’t care, if they died.

Enter, by coup d’etat, the Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana, who ruled Rwanda from 1973 to April 6, 1994, backed by France. Historically, France was to Africa what the USA was to Latin America. Britain and Portugal controlled a few protectorates, Belgium plundered the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, but Francophone influence in Africa was supreme, all-encompassing, and deeply entrenched.

Habyarimana ran a one-party dictatorship, but French-speaking Tutsis who had stayed in Rwanda were able to achieve economic improvement, though this was overall not significant, given their small numbers.

It was not significant and it was not good enough for the Tutsi elite outside Rwanda. So the Tutsi compatriots under Paul Kagame looked for help and found it easily, because the USA, Canada, and Britain wanted more of the African pie, and Kagame was the man to get it for them.

English-speaking Tutsis who grew up in Uganda, like Paul Kagame, James Kabarebe, Fred Rwigyema, Patrick Karegeya, and Laurent Nkundabatware, were officers in Yoweri Museveni’s guerrilla army. They committed massive atrocities in Uganda through 1980-1985, when absolute terrorism was used to remove the socialist government run by Milton Obote. The victims in Uganda were also blamed for genocide, though crimes against humanity clearly were committed by both sides.

This is how Museveni and Kagame (his director of military intelligence) brought Uganda back into the fold of the West: They burned entire villages. The RPF deceived peasants into coming to meetings only to obliterate them coldly. The RPF even created crematoriums to disappear the dead bodies, using the model of the Holocaust death camps in World War II.

The Nazis, Pol Pot (Killing Fields) in Cambodia, and the Museveni terror apparatus in the Lowero Triangle of Uganda all used the same techniques, yet as only the designated demons of the day are allowed to be accused of genocide, Museveni was never mentioned.

The NY Times led the charge into Rwanda, and Western media started to beat the “Tutsis are victims’” drum roll. Wall Street vultures began drooling and military and intelligence operatives like David Kimche (Israel) and Roger Winter (USA) jockeyed for positions — organizing logistics, maintaining supply chains, arranging weapons shipments — to support Kagame and his guerrilla army RPF. The Washington Post, Boston Globe, CNN, the Guardian, all described the RPF guerrillas as a highly disciplined army. If any women were raped or civilians massacred, it was an accident, a rogue soldier, and said soldier would be duly punished (when they of course never were).

Paul Kagame put into practice what his teachers, the military strategists at the US Army Command and Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, taught him: Use psychological operations, relentless propaganda, and terror to overthrow the government.

As the English-speaking Tutsis marched into Rwanda they conscripted and lured Tutsi youth to their  “freedom cause”. These were young French-speaking Tutsis who were despite bearing the right label subjected to Kagame’s ruthless modus operandi: Many of them were tortured, killed, disappeared, the chosen ones survived the initiation into the RPF. Kagame and his elite Ugandan comrades didn’t trust Tutsis who had stayed in the country, and they nonchalantly sacrificed the French-speaking Tutsis of Rwanda for the cause of assuming power.

While the military strengths of the RPA grew day by day, supplied from Uganda and funded by World Bank loans to Museveni, the Habyarimana government was attacked by the international community, shackled with debt, subjected to weapons blockades, and demonized by the international press.

Meanwhile, next door in Burundi, the Tutsi-dominated regime committed a genocide in 1972 when some 200,000 to 300,000 mostly Hutu people were tortured, raped, and massacred, while hundreds of thousands others fled to neighboring countries, including Rwanda. The preeminent Africa scholar Rene Lemarchand describes this as a genocide “denied and forgotten.”

Instead of punishing the invading Tutsi Ugandan forces, led by Kagame, the world punished the Habyarimana regime: Political pluralism, multiparty elections, peace accords assuring power-sharing for the RPF: No diplomatic or political sacrifice was good enough to sway world opinion. Meanwhile, Kagames RPF increased its military efficiency and its numbers, it was better equipped, better trained, striking under cover of night like cockroaches (Inyenzi) — the term that Tutsi guerrillas of the 1960s proudly self-identified with.

Just as Museveni had infiltrated, massacred and terrorized Uganda in the 1980s, RPF soldiers disguised as civilians infiltrated Hutu villages, Hutu political parties, even Hutu youth groups, organized to defend Rwanda from the invading terrorist guerrillas. While the RPF used the airwaves to terrify the people, scapegoating and stereotyping enemies real or perceived, and whipping up fear of “Hutu power,” the Western audience only heard about “Hutu hate radio.”

In April 6, 1994, President Habyarimana, his chief of staff, the president of Burundi, and the French pilots died near Kigali in a surface-to-air missile attack on the presidential jet. This is another pivotal world event that has to be commemorated and remembered in connection with the Rwandan genocide: The RPF assassination of two presidents.

The Western media soon began describing this terrorist action as a mysterious plane crash and, using the now-entrenched upside-down narrative that defined Tutsis as the victims and Hutus as killers, the double-presidential assassinations were blamed on Hutu extremists.

The USA blocked every attempt to investigate the plane crash and the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda (ICTR) suppressed any evidence which emerged, even removing officials who touched the truth too closely. UN investigator Michael Hourigan charged Kagame for this crime but his report was suppressed. FBI agent James Lyons and Col. Luc Marchal, the second-in-command of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda, who came to similar conclusions, were similarly ignored.

UN investigator Robert Gersony confirmed in his report, that RPF cells hat infiltrated Rwanda and at least shared the responsibility for the genocide, yet no Western journalist ever mentioned this. UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali’s repeatedly said: “…The genocide in Rwanda was one hundred percent the responsibility of the Americans.” The only reaction was his replacement.

What was a Hutu extremist? According to the official mythology, it was a Hutu who ruthlessly and coldly set out to wipe every Tutsi off the face of the earth. In reality, a Hutu extremist was any Hutu who saw total war coming at the hands of their erstwhile elite Tutsi oppressors. A Hutu extremist was someone who understood only too well that the elite Tutsis, after infiltrating social, economic, military, and political institutions, were invading from Uganda and massacring thousands of people, wiping entire Hutu villages off the map, bombing public places, and assassinating politicians and journalists.

A Hutu extremist was someone who believed that Hutu’s had a right to defend themselves against the aggressors.

What was a Hutu moderate? Any Hutu who believed that the RPF offered a democratic alternative to a one-party dictatorship and that Paul Kagame was sincere in his proclamations of political pluralism, freedom and brotherhood. They found out too late that these were empty promises.

The genocide of the majority Hutu people proceeded unabated during the RPF march to power in Rwanda, and it was even more clearly executed during the RPF hunting and slaughtering of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo).

The Tutsi incursions into Congo were organized campaigns of genocide, with intent to rape, murder and disappear Hutu people because they were Hutu people, and the perpetrators were Kagame’s Tutsi troops. The genocide of Hutu refugees and Congolese alike, committed by Rwandan troops from 1996 until recently, more than equals the Rwanda genocide, but it was a “friendly” genocide, done by an US ally, so there was no need to write anything about it.

No such planning or organization of genocidal intent has been proven against the Hutu government of Juvenal Habyarimana (which, in any case, was decapitated with the plane crash in 1994) or against the interim Hutu government that briefly was in office after April 6, 1994, and the judges at the ICTR have found no evidence of a conspiracy. There were indeed hundreds of thousands of French-speaking Tutsis raped, brutalized and massacred, but there were also hundreds of thousands of Hutus killed, and far more Hutus than Tutsis.

Hutu lands were cleared of their owners and taken by foreign Tutsis who flooded in on the heels of the RPF.

About the myth of the machete swinging Hutu murderers: practically everyone in Rwanda owns a machete. There were massive imports in January of 1994 by a British company and purchases of machetes were facilitated by World Bank funds for agricultural use, not for an evil genocide conspiracy. Anyway, the RPF routinely killed people with machetes, to save bullets and to disguise the perpetrators.

Today, the Tutsi aristocracy reigns unchallenged in Rwanda. Paul Kagame’s government asserted its power in the run-up to the 2010 presidential elections, when authorities barred most opposition political parties from registering for elections, closed down many independent newspapers, and witnessed the flight into exile of several prominent government officials who said they “feared for their lives.”

One of the exiled officials, Kagame’s former chief of staff, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, was shot in the stomach in South Africa after openly criticizing the Rwandan government. A Rwandan journalist, Jean Léonard Rugambage, was killed shortly after his article, which pointed to government complicity, was published. The deputy leader of the Green Party, which was among those unable to register, was found dead with his head partly severed. A UN report led by veteran Rwanda expert Filip Reyntjens stated that “there is overwhelming evidence of responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity” against Kagame.

Rwanda’s Supreme Court recently sentenced opposition leader Victoire Ingabire to 15 years in jail. Ingabire is a Hutu and a leading critic of President Paul Kagame, she joins the likes of Deo Mushayidi, Bernard Ntaganda, and Dr. Theoneste Niyitegeka, who are also languishing in prison for political reasons.

As the most important mining areas of the DRC have been conquered and made ready for the exploration by Western companies, Kagame’s troops are on the move again to the next venues, which are the CAR (Central African Republic) and South Sudan. The USA just airlifted a Rwandan mechanized battalion with giant C-17 Globemaster III planes to the CAR.

History is written by the victors and it always reflects the view of the victors. Winston Churchill once said: “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it” (which he in fact he did in no less than 1031 pages). Kagame doesn’t need to write a history book by himself, the Western journalists and pundits do that for him and take care that the readers and viewer believe exactly what Kagame and his backers want them to believe. “We stood by, we did nothing, we should have stopped the genocide.”

The alternative narrative about the RPF incursion and Kagame’s crimes against humanity is hidden from the eyes of the world. Nobody dares to tell, that a proxy army of elite Tutsis murdered undisturbed and unrestrained in Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, and Congo, and that this proxy army still continues to murder largely undisturbed and unrestrained.

Further reading: http://www.rwandahope.com/RwandaMythandreality.pdf