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Dear @home,
Thank you for your wise words. Let me take this opportunity to point out that I regularly travel to Rwanda therefore I am not far away of what's going in Rwanda as you presumed. I have relatives and friends in Rwanda; I was born and grew up in Rwanda. In fact I spent most of my life in Rwanda. More than Faustin Kagame (spent in his native Ruhengeri) who is pretending to give me lessons on Rwanda of today. That's what me I call ideology: To impose on me the ideals and ideas of his Rwandan Patriotic Army's vision and point of views.

I was in Rwanda before and after 1994, I witnessed what happened while Faustin was safely and comfortably talking from Switzerland. Today here he is again denying the deaths of hundreds of thousands his rwandans compatriots. I am not asking him for any compassion, far from that but as an intellectual he should stop telling lies or at least abstaining denying what we witnessed while he was safely and comfortably in Kigali,.

While I accept and welcome different opinions I equally condemn such brilliant people like Faustin Kagame and Albert Rudatsimbwa who intentionally mislead readers for their ideological purpose.
To come across such denials and lies is inhuman and cynical to hundreds of thousands if not millions of people like me who witnessed horrible crimes and killings of our entire families and beloved ones at the hands of their Rwandan Patriotic Army inside and outside Rwanda. I find difficult to move but for the sack of the country we accept it. But I cannot accept people denying that these crimes did not take place. For that we will fight tooth and nails for the truth to be known in the memory of our beloved ones.
How can we talk about reconciliation in the country where only one part of the population can 'claim' justice while another part cannot moan their beloved ones let alone claim for justice. How can we be asked to move on when people are still being indicted by the same people who committed against them are denying them justice and dignity. How can we be talking about accountability in a country where those preaching accountability are not accountable for crimes they committed or are committing. Understandably the current regime being responsible for very serious crimes of human rights and democracy it's quite normal that no serious investigations or accountability can take place instead they are using any means at their disposal to try to silent it. In the likes of Faustin Kagame and Albert Rudatsimbwa, we are witnessing the Rwandan Patriotic Army’s PR machine creating a smoke screen to divert the attention. So far the machine has successfully managed to buy time and to keep those hideous crimes hidden to the rest of the world although well known to Rwandans and other well informed foreigners. They can hide them but they cannot run away from them. Whatever successes rightly or wrongly attributed to Paul Kagame, only history will tell. But for many in our region he will mainly be remembered for innocent children, women and elderly he massacred across Uganda, Rwanda and Congo.