The Rwandan Patriot

Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza is being sanitized in a carefully choreographed campaign. She has published in Aljazeera, the Guardian, OpenDemocracy and different other media. Ingabire’s backers want to change her from the ethnic extremist she is, to an international female face of opposition in Rwanda. However, either knowingly or unknowingly, Ingabire’s financiers are letting her continue spreading an old divisionist ideology. Ingabire knows she is fooling non-Rwandan readers, while sending her coded messages to Kinyarwanda speakers both in Rwanda and outside. In a recent interview with British newspaper The Times, Ingabire depicts herself as concerned about unemployment in Rwanda. When Ingabire claims “we have so many young people without jobs”, in actual sense is saying “rubandanyamwinshi”, which is the RTLM hate radio narrative to refer to “Hutus”. For the article for OpenDemocracy, Ingabire writes about the policy to help women work from gazetted places. She alleges the wome...

  The falsehoods. The fabrications. The Rwandaphobia. Ladies and gentlemen, join me in a rapturous welcome to the Genocide denial lobby unwilling to let us mourn our dead in peace. The chorus we are seeing this week is expected. First, it was Human Rights Watch through the usual brands Lewis Mudge and his mentor Keneth Roth. Then came caste-traumatised Indian Anjan Sundaram via The New York Times. The latest, is the Patrick Karegeya pained concubine. She is definitely not the last. The perpetrators of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, their offspring, and their white backers, are running a well-oiled campaign to maintain the alternative “truth”. The script is the same. Single out President Paul Kagame. Paint him as self serving dictator reigning over a powerless people, and solely responsible for the mess in Congo. However, those happily insulting Kagame, are quickest to petition Twitter or Facebook to ban people who come to his defense. The other bit of the script is ...