http://www.theproxylake.com Views and News on the African Great Lakes Region Tue, 21 May 2013 22:33:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.theproxylake.com/2013/01/is-the-us-government-funding-a-silent-genocide-in-rwanda/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2013/01/is-the-us-government-funding-a-silent-genocide-in-rwanda/#comments Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:05:45 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1171 Article 2 of the Convention on Genocide stipulates that « genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) [...]]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2013/01/is-the-us-government-funding-a-silent-genocide-in-rwanda/feed/ 0 http://www.theproxylake.com/2013/01/general-paul-kagame%e2%80%99s-psyche/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2013/01/general-paul-kagame%e2%80%99s-psyche/#comments Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:04:50 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1160 Reacting on a piece in Inyenyeri newspaper that Kagame exhumed his father and brother’s remains and ‘reburied’ them on his farm (Kagame’s father died 40 years ago, his brother died 27 years ago), a  certain Shaquana is of the view that Kagame has a psychological problem with “human remains”. Shaquana calls upon psychologists to analyze [...]]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2013/01/general-paul-kagame%e2%80%99s-psyche/feed/ 0 http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/06/why-rwanda-will-not-let-go-the-eastern-d-r-congo/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/06/why-rwanda-will-not-let-go-the-eastern-d-r-congo/#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2012 20:05:04 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1137 The recent revelations of the material and military support to Rwanda’s Congolese rebels of M23 have cast a chill in diplomatic relations with the DRC. But for a long time, the Rwandan regime earns huge profits by controlling financial and geo-strategic province of North Kivu. Explanations: The news has sparked excitement in the Democratic Republic [...]]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/06/why-rwanda-will-not-let-go-the-eastern-d-r-congo/feed/ 1 http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/05/how-reconciled-is-rwanda%e2%80%99s-ethnic-divide/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/05/how-reconciled-is-rwanda%e2%80%99s-ethnic-divide/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 22:56:56 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1118 Despite relative cohesion on the surface, deep ethnic animosity, bitter memories and hatred lie beneath, writes Didas Gasana Testifying before the packed audience at Telecom House in the capital Kigali about Rwanda’s successful reconciliation story, on Sunday, January 29 2012, Louise Uwamungu from Rweru Sector in Bugesera District, noted thus: “Unity and reconciliation can never [...]]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/05/how-reconciled-is-rwanda%e2%80%99s-ethnic-divide/feed/ 0 http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/05/the-rwandan-despot-leader-brand/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/05/the-rwandan-despot-leader-brand/#comments Tue, 15 May 2012 21:13:45 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1103 The General’s public-relations team and lobbyists must find a Western university to decorate their principal with an honorary doctorate, for as minor a government function as repairing a 25km road. One of General Kagame’s public-relations agents is Andrew Mwenda, a prominent and respected Ugandan journalist.]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2012/05/the-rwandan-despot-leader-brand/feed/ 0 http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/12/documentary-victoire-ingabire-vs-paul-kagame/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/12/documentary-victoire-ingabire-vs-paul-kagame/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:42:54 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1092 This documentary video on Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza shows how Rwandan government always reacted disproportionately and desperately against her and other people or organisations who slightly disagrees with its policies. The video also documents how the government uses any means to silence any voice that talks about the RPF Crimes committed on the Rwandan people. ]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/12/documentary-victoire-ingabire-vs-paul-kagame/feed/ 1 http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/12/presidents-widows-appeal-obama-immunity/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/12/presidents-widows-appeal-obama-immunity/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:39:06 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1083 The widows of two African Presidents slain in the 1994 missile attack on the Presidential plane that triggered the “Rwanda genocide,” filed notice with the 10th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals challenging “head-of-state” immunity granted to the current President of Rwanda, by the Obama administration in Habyarimana v. Kagame.]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/12/presidents-widows-appeal-obama-immunity/feed/ 2 http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/10/question-to-immaculee-and-pauline/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/10/question-to-immaculee-and-pauline/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:42:54 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1068 Do Pauline and Immaculee ever take the opportunity to acknowledge to their audience that, although their parents' killers were hutus, also ordinary Hutus people have suffered during the same period you survived the genocide? Do their believe that there are thousands of Hutus boys and girls, who were going through almost the same experience as they and other many Tutsi did in 1994?]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/10/question-to-immaculee-and-pauline/feed/ 4 http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/10/ingabire-divisionist-speech/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/10/ingabire-divisionist-speech/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:50:11 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1048 Victoire Ingabire's speech on unity and reconciliation has been submitted as evidence in the court of law on divisionism and revisionism charges leveled against her. We took a close look at the content of her speech and we are asking our leaders which part is really evidence of divisionism.]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/10/ingabire-divisionist-speech/feed/ 4 http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/07/crisis-in-the-congo-uncovering-the-truth/ http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/07/crisis-in-the-congo-uncovering-the-truth/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 10:53:30 +0000 TheProxyLake http://www.theproxylake.com/?p=1026 Millions of Congolese have lost their lives in a conflict that the United Nations describes as the deadliest in the world since World War Two. United States allies, Rwanda and Uganda, invaded in 1996 the Congo (then Zaire) and again in 1998, which triggered the enormous loss of lives, systemic sexual violence and rape, and widespread looting of Congo’s spectacular natural wealth.]]> http://www.theproxylake.com/2011/07/crisis-in-the-congo-uncovering-the-truth/feed/ 0