Alternative Rwanda of Jeffrey Smith, Judi Rever, Geoffrey York & HRW is Getting More Minute

 

Living on the fringes of conventional social order is an exhausting sport. There is a band of attention-seekers whose circle has gotten so small that they wake up everyday to pat each other for consolation.

They have fabricated their own alternative Rwanda and are so immersed into it that the actual facts on the ground don’t matter anymore.

They have their own social support system whereby they excitingly spread each others’ works.

In any given week, it will be Jeffrey Smith, who runs an extortion ring called Vanguard Africa, claiming credit for spreading democracy in Africa. If it’s not Smith, you will see Judi Rever/Michela Wrong’s conspiracy theories about Rwandan officials. 

At their service too is Human Rights Watch which appears to have run out of what to write, that it is recycling old incidents like they happened yesterday. Throughout the day today, Human Rights Watch’s report has been fact-checked. The results left many in shock.

Human Rights Watch reported about a gay campaign event that took place four years, claiming the participants were detained. It turns out nothing of the sort happened.

If any gay activists, as HRW wants its funders to believe, were in jail, then there would be no near-daily YouTube interviews by self confessed gays speaking about their sexuality with so much comfort. Their love lives are a constant source of news for local tabloids.

In any case, these YouTube interviews and gossip pages illustrate a tolerant society, which has accepted the lives of gays. They go through same daily struggles of putting food on the table like every Rwandan.

Jeffrey Smith has for his part had a field party for past days. He is patting Geoffrey York for regurgitating untruths about the case of Innocent Bahati, the supposed poet who has been missing since February last year.

The authorities in Rwanda came out to report that Bahati had left the territory of Rwanda for Uganda. It is not once, twice, thrice or even four times, that Rwandan authorities have given similar information about other people and it turned to be true.

What a descent writer with some sense of normality would have done is ask the Ugandan government if any such person is on its territory.

Well, I don’t expect the Globe & Mail to require York to undertake that small, yet critical detail. The reason is because York has successfully bundled an international publication into his alternative narrative about Rwanda. The editor don't really care since its Africa.

While you make each other happy by resharing the others' inexistent alternative world, progress in Rwanda isn’t waiting.

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