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25 november 2006, 10:05
Bush Administration Hindering Prosecution of Rwandan President for
Fomenting Genocide
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_wayne_ma_061122_bush_administration_.htm
French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere is expected to issue
international arrest warrants for nine Rwandan government officials
close to the pro-U.S. Rwandan President Paul Kagame for the 1994 missile
attack on the presidential aircraft that killed the Rwandan and
Burundian Presidents, members of their cabinets and staff, and the
French crew.
Although Bruguiere also said Kagame should be brought to trial at the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania on
charges of ordering the attack on the aircraft, an act of international
terrorism that resulted in the mostly Hutu on Tutsi genocide in Rwanda
that led to the deaths of some 800,000 people. As a sitting head of
state, Kagame has immunity from prosecution under French law, but he can
be prosecuted by the ICTR under international law.
Kagame was trained by the US Army in 1990 and was a U.S. client when he
executed the terrorist attack on the "Rwanda One" aircraft. Kagame has
also been a frequent visitor to the Bush White House, a supporter of
Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq, and has become a celebrity among
certain sectors of the human rights community, having attended several
Washington, DC events sponsored by non-profit think tanks and even the
Holocaust Museum.
Unbelievably, at a 2005 appearance at a Woodrow Wilson Center function
chaired by Lee Hamilton, an official of the Holocaust Museum actually
praised Kagame, now a wanted international terrorist, as a man of vision.
Members of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), including their
top operatives in Rwanda, Uganda, and the then-Zaire, were aware of the
plans for the attack and actually helped train Kagame's Rwandan
Patriotic Front (RPF) forces in the use of Soviet-made SAM-16 missiles
captured by US forces during Operation Desert Storm in the attack on the
aircraft.
Bruguiere's determination that Kagame and his US-supported forces were
responsible for the missile attack on the aircraft mirror the
conclusions found in two books written by this editor: Genocide and
Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 and Jaded Tasks: Brass Plates,
Black Ops & Big Oil.
The arrest warrants against Rwandan government officials include Rwandan
Armed Forces Chief James Kaberebe (alias Kabare) and Army Chief of Staff
Charles Kayonga. The editor has also testified before the US Congress on
official US backing for Kagame and America's role in the terrorist
attack on Rwanda One.
The Bush administration's special ambassador for war crimes, Richard
Prosper, intervened twice with the ICTR to prevent the testimony of this
editor on the US involvement in Kagame's RPF attack on Rwanda One. One
cancellation came from Arusha as the editor was en route to Dulles
International Airport and after being inoculated against cholera and
yellow fever and being on anti-malaria medication for two weeks.
A third invitation to Arusha, one cleared by Prosper and the Bush State
Department, was issued only after the editor's personal safety could not
be guaranteed by the United Nations authorities in Tanzania.
Under pressure from both the Clinton and Bush administrations, the ICTR
has avoided prosecuting the perpetrators of the attack on the Rwandan
presidential plane. Successive ICTR chief judges, including Louise
Arbour of Canada and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland, under pressure from
Washington and London, have maintained their mandates did not include
investigating the attack on the Rwanda One aircraft.
Del Ponte regretted that she left "unfinished business" in Arusha. That
"unfinished business" clearly included investigating Kagame and the
current US-backed Rwandan government.
It was clear then and remains clear now that the Bush administration did
not want the issue of US support for an act of international terrorism
over the skies of Kigali on April 6, 1994 to be brought up before an
international tribunal by this editor or any other special or expert
witnesses.
In fact, Prosper and chief UN prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow of Gambia
have been aided and abetted in their cover up of Kagame's crimes by US
military Judge Advocate General lawyers seconded to the ICTR
prosecutor's office in Arusha and on loan from the UN International
Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague.
The actions Judge Bruguiere in prosecuting a US-client state for
terrorism, especially after considering the same judge successfully
prosecuted Carlos the Jackal and Corsican terrorists and investigated
Muammar Qaddafi and Zacarias Moussaoui, point to the fact that the US
government can now be counted among the other state sponsors of global
international terrorism.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
Wayne Madsen, publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report, is an investigative
journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered
Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues
since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ,
Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris).
Madsen is the author of Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa
1993-1999 and co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George
Bush II. His latest book is Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass
Plates. Madsen is also the author of The Handbook of Personal Data
Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on
international data protection law.
Madsen is a former U.S. Naval officer who was assigned to the National
Security Agency during the Reagan administration. He also has some
twenty years experience in computer security and data privacy. He has
also worked for the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State,
RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Fomenting Genocide
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_wayne_ma_061122_bush_administration_.htm
French anti-terrorism judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere is expected to issue
international arrest warrants for nine Rwandan government officials
close to the pro-U.S. Rwandan President Paul Kagame for the 1994 missile
attack on the presidential aircraft that killed the Rwandan and
Burundian Presidents, members of their cabinets and staff, and the
French crew.
Although Bruguiere also said Kagame should be brought to trial at the
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania on
charges of ordering the attack on the aircraft, an act of international
terrorism that resulted in the mostly Hutu on Tutsi genocide in Rwanda
that led to the deaths of some 800,000 people. As a sitting head of
state, Kagame has immunity from prosecution under French law, but he can
be prosecuted by the ICTR under international law.
Kagame was trained by the US Army in 1990 and was a U.S. client when he
executed the terrorist attack on the "Rwanda One" aircraft. Kagame has
also been a frequent visitor to the Bush White House, a supporter of
Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq, and has become a celebrity among
certain sectors of the human rights community, having attended several
Washington, DC events sponsored by non-profit think tanks and even the
Holocaust Museum.
Unbelievably, at a 2005 appearance at a Woodrow Wilson Center function
chaired by Lee Hamilton, an official of the Holocaust Museum actually
praised Kagame, now a wanted international terrorist, as a man of vision.
Members of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), including their
top operatives in Rwanda, Uganda, and the then-Zaire, were aware of the
plans for the attack and actually helped train Kagame's Rwandan
Patriotic Front (RPF) forces in the use of Soviet-made SAM-16 missiles
captured by US forces during Operation Desert Storm in the attack on the
aircraft.
Bruguiere's determination that Kagame and his US-supported forces were
responsible for the missile attack on the aircraft mirror the
conclusions found in two books written by this editor: Genocide and
Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 and Jaded Tasks: Brass Plates,
Black Ops & Big Oil.
The arrest warrants against Rwandan government officials include Rwandan
Armed Forces Chief James Kaberebe (alias Kabare) and Army Chief of Staff
Charles Kayonga. The editor has also testified before the US Congress on
official US backing for Kagame and America's role in the terrorist
attack on Rwanda One.
The Bush administration's special ambassador for war crimes, Richard
Prosper, intervened twice with the ICTR to prevent the testimony of this
editor on the US involvement in Kagame's RPF attack on Rwanda One. One
cancellation came from Arusha as the editor was en route to Dulles
International Airport and after being inoculated against cholera and
yellow fever and being on anti-malaria medication for two weeks.
A third invitation to Arusha, one cleared by Prosper and the Bush State
Department, was issued only after the editor's personal safety could not
be guaranteed by the United Nations authorities in Tanzania.
Under pressure from both the Clinton and Bush administrations, the ICTR
has avoided prosecuting the perpetrators of the attack on the Rwandan
presidential plane. Successive ICTR chief judges, including Louise
Arbour of Canada and Carla Del Ponte of Switzerland, under pressure from
Washington and London, have maintained their mandates did not include
investigating the attack on the Rwanda One aircraft.
Del Ponte regretted that she left "unfinished business" in Arusha. That
"unfinished business" clearly included investigating Kagame and the
current US-backed Rwandan government.
It was clear then and remains clear now that the Bush administration did
not want the issue of US support for an act of international terrorism
over the skies of Kigali on April 6, 1994 to be brought up before an
international tribunal by this editor or any other special or expert
witnesses.
In fact, Prosper and chief UN prosecutor Hassan Bubacar Jallow of Gambia
have been aided and abetted in their cover up of Kagame's crimes by US
military Judge Advocate General lawyers seconded to the ICTR
prosecutor's office in Arusha and on loan from the UN International
Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia in The Hague.
The actions Judge Bruguiere in prosecuting a US-client state for
terrorism, especially after considering the same judge successfully
prosecuted Carlos the Jackal and Corsican terrorists and investigated
Muammar Qaddafi and Zacarias Moussaoui, point to the fact that the US
government can now be counted among the other state sponsors of global
international terrorism.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com
Wayne Madsen, publisher of the Wayne Madsen Report, is an investigative
journalist, nationally distributed columnist, and author who has covered
Washington, DC, politics, national security, and intelligence issues
since 1994. He has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ,
Counterpunch, and the Intelligence Newsletter (based in Paris).
Madsen is the author of Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa
1993-1999 and co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George
Bush II. His latest book is Jaded Tasks: Big Oil, Black Ops & Brass
Plates. Madsen is also the author of The Handbook of Personal Data
Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), an acclaimed reference book on
international data protection law.
Madsen is a former U.S. Naval officer who was assigned to the National
Security Agency during the Reagan administration. He also has some
twenty years experience in computer security and data privacy. He has
also worked for the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State,
RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.