After the independence, Patrice Lumumba, independent Congo's first elected charismatic leader was killed, replaced during the Cold War by Mobutu's 32 year-long dictatorship. A recently declassified document in the CIA's archives, says that Sydney Gottlieb, a psychiatrist and head of chemistry of the Agency Mind Control Program, is supposedly the person responsible for having made available the poison that was going to be used in the assassination attempt on Patrice Lumumba.

"It is notable that the administration which has declassified the least information in the history of the United States, and which has even started a process of reclassifying information that was previously declassified, now makes the decision to make these revelations. I believe that such an action could be an attempt to present an image of transparency when the government is at an all time low rate of acceptance and popularity, and to show that those methods belong to another era and are no longer in use. When he announced the decision, General Hayden, current CIA Director, said: “The documents offer a look at very different times and at a very different Agency. Needless to say that everything described here is still being done, only in a more brutal manner and all around the planet, including a growing number of illegal actions within the very United States." - Fidel Castro

The overthrow of Mobutu by Lumumba's disciple Laurent Kabila was followed by a war of invasion carried out by troops from Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi and orchestrated by Britain, America and South Africa and with the complicity of the so-called Congolese of Tutsi origin in Rwanda and the so-called congolese rebels; and in which more than 5.4 million congolese have been massacred and Congo's natural and mineral resources systematically looted! You can see that the West (and Arab slavers too) shot Congo in the feet and in the legs in the last 500 years and now turns around and says: "Poor Congo (or poor Africa for that matter), you can't walk! How can we help you?!" BUT CONGO IS RISING AGAIN!

"After its flag and anthem political independence, Africa must now wage the struggle for complete, full economic independence. And Robert Mugabe is today at the forefront of that struggle" - Lokongo from Congo

Tutsi are responsible for crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing (Congolese autochtons are driven out of their land) and genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo. To see for yourself, please click on the link below:

http://www.deboutcongolais.info/genocide-----brochure--14-.pdf/

Tusi warlord Nkunda's secret backers: click on the link below:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6828/

Father Mario Perez, a Catholic Missionary serving in North Kivu told the BBC on 18 March 2008: "It seems clear to me that civilians are being driven from their homes by force. In the past, they were just running from the fighting between the armed groups, and they were able to go back as soon as things had settled down," he said.

"But now they're being pushed out with aggression, and humanitarian groups are being prevented from helping them. I think the militias are trying to clear the countryside and push people to Goma."

According to the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Karel de Gucht, what is going on in eastern Congo is "sexual genocide". The International Rescue Committee's recent report said 5.6 million Congolese have been killed since Rwandan and Ugandan Tutsi regimes invaded Congo in 1998. The Congolese people are systematically targeted, raped and killed by Tutsi militia in order to drive them out of their land. That is GENOCIDE! But what is the whole world waiting for to call it a GENOCIDE?!

Read about Congolese Women’s Campaign Against Sexual Violence, a weapon of war by Tutsi soldiers in the DRC, by clicking on the link below:

http://www.rdcviolencesexuelle.org/site/en/node/58//

EDITORIAL: What is this new heightened media and conference blitz on the Congo in London about? And now all of a sudden they love and care about Congo?! We know that each time there is heightened media hype, there is something up their sleeves.

There is a new trend now as the crunch begins to bite (I hope there will no new wars in Africa as a result) to organise meeting about Congo' energy sector like the one the World Energy Council organised a week ago and Congo's mining sector (diamond, copper, coltan, cobalt...) here in London, the financial capital of the world. That is unacceptable. Congo is a sovereign country - although it had been plundered by the West for centuries - no decisions regarding our natural and mineral resources should be made away from Congo.

That is why we organised a pararell meeting with our SADC friends to harness the power of Inga ourselves. That is why we are from now onward going to sell our diamond on the auctions so we can more values out of them because the money the West promised to help Congo, a post-conflict country is not coming!

Having said that, China will help us rebuild our country on the basis of a barter trade. Minerals for infrastructures. There is room for everybody in Congo, but no more plunder. Our true friends will share their technologies with us so that we can dig our minerals ourselves, transform them on the spot and thus create jobs for our people and improve their living standard. That is the way forward for Africa - long term.

Patrice Lumumba's Congo often offers you surprises! Now Britain and America and all other Western powers which back Nkunda and Kagame are really embarrassed!

The Internation Criminal Court now wants Bosco Ntangama, a Tutsi Rwandan to be tried for crimes against humanity. Ntangama Is Nkunda's chief of staff, Nkunda is supported by Kagame. Kagame and Nkunda say they will never hand over Ntangama. The powers that be that back them say there is nothing they can do about it! Well! If they are fighting terrorism, they must lead by example and have this terrorist arrested and sent to the Hague! No beating about the bush, no red herrings!

Moreover, a BBC investigation has just uncovered yet another scandal by the UN Mission in Congo (MONUC). The United Nations ignored or shelved serious allegations of misconduct by UN Pakistani and Indian peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), basically covering up trafficking in gold and arms by Indian and Pakistani peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including the rearming of Congolese murderous militia and involvement in gold trading.

The UN's Organization of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) did not follow up on information that DRC militia commanders themselves later publicly stated they had received weapons from Pakistani peacekeepers.

Second Round of voting in Zimbabwe:

MDC wants "international observers" deeming African observers "not international enough". Africa is not part of the international community according to MDC, meaning it has no weight in international affairs. MDC is therefore just a puppet party of imperialists, a sell out, which in power we can see whose interests it will serve.

World Exclusive: Zimbabwean Ambassador to the US Machivenyika Mapuranga explains the situation in his country as we have not heard it before. It is a real scoop. Watch his interviews on the links below:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=chUpfOYZI5A&feature=related

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWO6S3AcFO4&feature=related

US President George Bush accuses President Mugabe of "failing" and now "intimidating" the people of Zimbabwe.

Now we ask: "Who won the 2002 presidential election in the US in general and in Florida in particular? Was it Mr Bush or Al Gore?" All we know is that the dispute went up to the Supreme Court which favoured Bush.

"The will of people needs to be respected in Zimbabwe.And it is clear that they voted for change [MDC] as they should have because President Mugabe has failed the country," Bush said. (BBC, 30 April 2008).

At the U.N. Security Council meeting on Tuesday 29.04.2008, Western powers pressed for a U.N. mission or envoy to visit Zimbabwe, where the results of a disputed presidential election four weeks ago have still not been released.Zimbabwe's opposition has failed in its bid to have the United Nations Security Council appoint a special envoy.

"For us, this (U.N. session) is a sign of desperation by the British and their MDC puppets. It is sinister, racist and colonial for Britain to try to rope in everyone to support its neo-colonial agenda here ... but it will fail," Zimbabwe's Deputy Information Minister Bright Matonga told Reuters.

Former colonial power Britain has been at the forefront of international pressure on Mugabe. It is seeking an arms embargo on Zimbabwe, an investigation into post-election violence, and has called for the election results to be issued immediately.

"While we condemn all these machinations, we are also sure that the larger international community are getting to understand that our main problems are with the British. They are behind all these moves against us, but we will stand our ground," Matonga said.

MDC is responsible for electoral violence in Zimbabwe. Read the following:

Zimbabwe's police chief has accused the opposition of trying to rig elections and stirring political violence.

Augustine Chihuri said more than 100 cases of fraud had been found following last month's elections, whose results have not yet been published, describing such fraud as "evil" and a new phenomenon".

"The old trick of claiming human rights violations when somebody steps on your toe, yet you yourself are poking out other people's eyes, will not work this time around," he said.

Mr Chihuri said that 108 suspects were helping the police over allegations of fraud.

"Placing wrong candidates in office who were not selected by the people is evil and should never be allowed at all cost," he said.

"This is a new phenomenon in the electoral history of Zimbabwe."

MDC should learn to tell the truth - Nyasha — Opinion in The Guardian, Harare, Wed, 16 Apr 2008

DEAR EDITOR — I voted the Movement for Democratic Change at the last election in my constituency of Warren Park here in Harare. I expected my vote to count and it did. That makes me really happy. I have a few concerns though about the party that I voted for.

Firstly, I was shocked that they would go on to illegally announce the results without giving an opportunity to electoral body mandated for that task to make that announcement. As much as we might all have doubts about the impartiality of that body, the announcememnt was still illegal and counter-productive. It also attracted reprisals from the ruling Zanu PF party, who it seems, were embarassed by the announcement. I could not believe my ears when I heard Tendai Biti saying that Morgan Tsvangirai was the next President of Zimbabwe. Even though I had voted Morgan, I felt ashamed and embarassed by this immature move.

Secondly, I have noticed that violence perpetrated by the MDC is covered up and made to look like it's caused by Zanu PF. Yesterday, MDC youths here in Warren Park D set alight a bus that was stationary and the MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa refused to make a statement regarding violence by their youths. I can tell you that it is very dangerous being a Zanu PF supporter here in Warren Park. I have seen beatings of Zanu PF supporters who have gone into hospital unreported and sometimes the MDC has taken pictures of these people and claimed that they were MDC activists who had been beaten up by Zanu PF thugs.

Thirdly, I think the MDC has now gone into overdive about these violence claims and are peddling a lot of lies. They are claiming dead bodies that are not even politically motivated and sending pictures to international media. This is not to say that all pictures are not authentic; but some of them are not.

They should tell the truth about what is happening on the ground, because being in victim mode all the time is not going to do them any favours. We know MDC youths are some of the most dangerous and most violent in the country and to assume that all the skirmishes happening in the country are being perpetuated by Zanu PF is just not true.

If MDC wants to be respected by people, they should also learn to tell the truth and not peddle lies.

Nyasha, Warren Park

American singer, Pete Wentz, stages silent diamond protest at NME awards

By WENN world entertainment news, 25.04.2008

Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz got political at the NME Awards in Los Angeles on Wednesday night by scribbling 'Coltan Is A Conflict Diamond' on his T-shirt.

The bass player was protesting the mining of coltan diamonds in Africa.

The gem, which is used in the manufacture of mobile phones, has become a massive commodity that some say is now more valuable than gold.

It's mining has led to warring rebel groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo exploiting coltan to help finance war - an issue raised in Leonardo DiCaprio's hit film Blood Diamond.

Wentz told reporters, "People have got to be careful what they buy."

The rocker went on to state that the engagement ring he bought his new fiancee Ashlee Simpson was not made with conflict diamonds: "I trust the jeweller. He's a reputable person."

Breaking News: Zimbabwe police raid opposition HQ, scores held - 25.04.2008

Police said the raid targeted people who had sought refuge with the opposition after committing crimes outside Harare.

"Some of them are not office workers at all. We are busy screening them. There are some cases we are investigating and we will release those who have not committed any crime," said police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena.

Police also raided the offices of the local election observer group ZESN, but no arrests had been made.

No going back on land: President Robert Mugabe at the opening of Zimbabwe's international trade fair in Bulawayo on Friday 25.04.2008.

Addressing thousands of people at the official opening of the 49th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair in Bulawayo, Cde Mugabe said all land which was legally acquired and settled would never be returned to its white former owners.

"When the West — led by the British — shamelessly continue to denounce our country, what is our crime? We are simply claiming our birthright, defending our hard-won national sovereignty. ZITF grounds stand on that precious land. Most exhibits have a connection with the land. That’s why we love our land.

"Better all those who shake and quiver at every word of our colonial masters please know Zimbabwe will never be for sale. Zimbabwe is not for sale and will never be a colony again."

Before amending the Constitution to compulsorily acquire land, the Government had tried to get land through the willing buyer-willing seller concept but failed.

"Land was subsequently acquired in the national interest following the amendment to the Constitution. Land acquired and legally resettled will never revert to the previous racist owner settlers. It is our land, our treasure. Inhaka yedu, lilifa lethu.

"Let the colonist know this is the final solution," he said.

The President paid tribute to local business for its resilience in the face of illegal sanctions imposed on the country by the West that have resulted in local industry grappling with hyperinflation, a shortage of foreign currency and failure to access foreign lines of credit.

All these challenges had affected capacity utilisation.

He said the road to success was never easy except for those who used crooked ways to acquire wealth. But he said those who break the law to get rich quickly would eventually be caught, leaving them with an unforgettable lesson.

The President said only through perseverance could success come.

Celebrations marking 28 years of independence in Zimbabwe.

President Robert Mugabe, centre, is seen at the 28th Independence Celebrations in Harare, Friday, April, 18, 2008.

"You saw what happened when you heard the MDC was winning: those who ran away started coming back," Mugabe said Friday in an apparent reference to Rhodies.

"Down with the British. Down with thieves who want to steal our country. Today they are like thieves fronting their lackeys among us, which they give money to confuse our people. Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. Never shall we retreat."

"Beware. Be vigilant in the face of the vicious machinations of Britain and its other allies. Yesterday they ruled by brute force to subjugate our people and plunder our natural resources. Today they have perfected their tactics to be more subtle," Mugabe said. "They are literally buying people to turn against the government. We are being bought like sheep because they have money and because we are suffering."

Today we hear the British saying there's no democracy here, people are being oppressed, there's dictatorship, there's no observance of human rights, rule of law. We, not the British, established democracy based on one person one vote, democracy which rejected racial or gender discrimination and observed human rights. We are the ones who brought democracy to this country, we are the ones who removed the oppression which was here."

President Mugabe congratulated the people for taking part in what he called peaceful elections on March 29 but said the British were behind post-poll violence. "There are a few of you who are engaged in fights. We want peace and stability to be maintained but we understand that there are some who have been planning political violence, burning buses, burning cars. These things that are being planned by these people have the support of the British," he said.

The Zimbabwean leader acknowledged that the country was facing hardships. "We are not saying there's nothing we can do about our hardships. We are trying in all areas. We want the farmers to be able to produce so we have more food and less hunger -- that's why we gave them tractors and other farming equipment. We are trying even in the cities to alleviate the suffering. We know that the biggest problems is the prices," he said.

President Mugabe thanked southern African leaders "for clearly articulating our case over the ... elections."

"I want to thank South Africa in a special way for the role it has played in brokering our dialogue."

HEAR ME SAY:

Is the MDC really a "MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE" or "MOVEMENT FOR DISCARDED COLONIALISM"?

From now, expect a massive and sustained campaign of interference, blackmail and propaganda by western media to undermine electoral support for Zanu-PF in case of a second round, but there is still everything to play for.

Pour qui roule le MDC?

A leaked report from the Office of MDC's General Secretariat we obtained shows just that! Entitled "Addendum: The Transition Strategy, Critical Elements", the document was confidentially issued on 25 March 2008, and circulated among the new would be MDC cabinet.

In the document, we learn that election officials were bribed to the tune of Z$3 billion to $50 billion to ensure the victory of Morgan Tsvangirai.

The Secretary general admits: "We are under pressure from our internation partners to repeat that the conditions under which the lections were held were not free and fair..."

"Zanu-PF will probably decline to relinquish power...We must render the country ungovernable, even resorting to armed insurrection... We should not discount the possibility of a clear Zanu-PF win. It still enjoys substantial support inspite of economic strife..."

For Tsvangirai's swearing in ceremony, "we have already sent invitation to President Bush, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Prime Minister Kelvin Rudd, Chancellor Angela Merkel and our other international partners in the 'people's project'. They will guarantee our assumption to power including by force of arms if need be... We have also sent invitations to selected African and SADC leaders but we can expect little or no sympathy or help from these in the event of a contested transition because most them still support Mugabe."

"Under Scenario one, we expect our President Morgan Tsvangirai to be sworn in Monday or Tuesday (31 March or 1 April 2008). Our international partners in the people's project have advised us that his first act as president will be to go onto national television and radio and address the Nation... As soon as Morgan Tsvangirai is declared winner, we should take control... of strategic institutions: the Reserve Bank, the command centres for the security services (Intelligence, Army, Police and Air Force), the Ministry of Finance and Home Affairs. We can ignore the less strategic institutions unitli the cabinet is formed... The President has already instructed Retired Colonel DR AT Mudzingwa to go Army Headquarters next Tuesday morning, where he will confront the Army Commander, Lieutenant General PV Sibanda to discuss the modalities of his ejection from office and our take over of that institution."

About Mugabe:

"We are under pressure to fulfill the undertakings we made to our international partners in the People's Project regarding this evil man. Our partners, in particular, the Australian, the British and American governments, are united in their deterrmination to have Mugabe arrested and handed over to the Hague as soon as possible to face trials for crimes against humanity relating to "Gukurahundi", Operation "Murambatsivina", his looting of the mineral resources of the DRC during the war of 1998-2002 and, above all, his violation of property rights in the land reform and his other populist indigenisation policies. We agree with them unequivocably. Mugabe needlessly and disastrously enmeshed us in the war in the DRC in 1998 where he went on to preside over the looting of DRC's diamionds and to trample in the interests of many of our friends in the process. We are determined, as our friendsare, to see him brought to justice for this and other crimes.

"His handover is a linchpin of our whole transitional strategy. The Australian, British and American governments have poured more money into our campaign for this election than ever before since 1999 specifically because of the undertakings our President made to them, on our behalf, to deliver to them this important defendant. Our credibility as aviable alternative to Zanu PF also rests on this single undertaking, since in return, it will unlock all the support from our friends that we promised our electorate during our electoral campaign. This includes a $1 billion that we have been promised for our 100-Day Economic Re-start Agenda, shipments of basic commodities from outside to immediately alleviate the current shortages, repeal of the US Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001 and the lifting of the sanctions imposed against Zimbabwe by the USA, Britain, the EU, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

Security sector transformation:

"It is paramount that new commanders of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Zimbabwe National Army and the Air Force of Zimbabwe, as well as a new Commissioner of Police, Director General of Central Intelligence Organisation and Commissioner of Prisons be selected ansd appointed immediately. We cannot risk having Mugabe's partisan war veterans in charge of thse institutions for a day longer than necessary (We must proceed immediately to the "De-Zanufication of the Civil Service and Zim Politics). Many of the current commanders have to be arrested and charged for various crimes ranging from corruption to war crimes. Any current members of the Cuban-trained security forces who which to join the new dispensation will have to re-apply and must first pass a rigorous vetting exercise to establish if they have any lingering loyalties to Zanu-PF.

"As an interim measure, we have secured the agreement of some selected reputable generals and senior officiers of the former Rhodesian Security Forces who are presently in Australia, Britain, South Africa and take charge of our Security Forces while we train our young leaders.The British government has kindly agreed to assist aus with our fast track security sector reorm programme.Under this arrengement, we will be sending our young officer cadets to Sandhurst and other British military training institutions soon after our inauguration. The British government has also undertaken to bring back home the 1,500 or so Zimbabweans who joined the Royal Army, Navy and Air Force in various capacities since 2000 as part of our long term preparation for this historical day, to become the nucleus of our new Zimbabwe Defence Forces. We are starting afresh on a clean slate.

Economic Recovery and Fiscal Management

Mugabe's so-called "Look East Policy" has brought nothing but disaster to Zimbabwe's economy.It is our intention to do away with zhing zhongs within the shortest possible time, and to re-orient our economy back to the West. We do not see the logic of looking east or anywhere else when our whole financial system and the technology that drives our industry and our armed forces is from the West. Our partners expect us to set this paradigm shift as one of our top priorities projects soon after assuming power. As an interim measure, we will appoint the current Deputy Governor of the Central Bank as Acting Governor and bring in two specialists from thje German central Bank who must be put on standby this week. The German Ambassador has kindly accepted our formal request for this and has assured us that the individuals selected have already been put on standby to come at 48 hours notice."

The Land Question

"Our international cooperating partners also expect our new government, as soon as possible after entering office, to return at least 200 farms illegally seized to Mugabe's chaotic, violent ans self-serving land grab back to their former owners. In order to send the correct political signals to both the illegally resettled new farmers and our intyernational partners, all our white farmers who are still in the country have been instructed and encouraged to visit their former farms during the week leading to the election and soon thereafter to assess the level of vandalism and disuse they have been subjected to, and therefore, to give us some idea of the amount of money required for their resettlement. Wec are also reaching out to our good and competent farmers who were forced to stray to Zambia, Nigeria, Mozambique and as far as Australia and New Zealand, with a view of persuading them to come back to their farms. President Tsvangirai has personally made contact with many of the farmers in Nampula (Mozambique), the Nicols in Zambia and their counterparts in the Kora State Project in Nigeria. The beneficiaries of Mugabe's land grab should quickly be made to understand that their number is up. Their honeymoon of chaos is over. Everything must be done to drive this point home. We have also directed some of the the remaining white farmers in the country to mobilise their workers to poison cattle, slash or burn crops in the fields and carry out many other acts of sabotage on the resettled farms."

"We will want to accord the heroes of our liberation struggle theb decent and honourable place they deserve at the National Heroes Acre in the shortest possible time after we enter office. We will also, of course, exhume most of the chefs'girfriends and cronies who are presently buriend at the Heroes Acre and hand them over to their relatives for their properly deserved burial at their villages.

De-Zanufication of the Civil Service and Zim Politics

"We will purge the civil service, parastatals and government institutions of all so-called war veterans and other ZANU PF zealots as amatter of priority. We will immediately stop the undeserved pensions that are being paid to the war veterans, including school fees that are being paid for their children and the medical benefits they have been given by the regime as a bribe for their allegiance."

"Our international partners have asked us to ensure that ZANU PF as a political party and all that it represents must be eliminated both physically and ideologically during our tenure, never to rear its head again in Zimbabwean politics [in Congo, it the opposite! MDC's partners, the same, ensured that Mobutu's cronies must be maintained in office]. This is because ZANU PF's ideology, attitude and policies are injurious to their interests. They are determined, with our help, to ensure that Mugabe's land nad private property grab must be discredited and should never be allowed to set an example to such countries as South Africa and Namibia where there similar land tenure problems to Zimbabwe's." YOU HAVE HEARD IT FROM THE HORSE'S OWN MOUTH!

Conclusion

Clearly there are those in Zimbabwe who haven’t understood that the carrots being put in front of them by imperialism will only benefit a few and will be accompanied by the complete pauperisation of the masses of Zimbabweans. If Tsvangirai wins, public spending will be massively reduced, agriculture will be re-focussed on export crops, and the people of Zimbabwe will be subjected to the iniquities of the IMF’s ‘severe austerity’ programme.

It’s not possible to say at this point exactly what the next government of Zimbabwe will look like; however, it is our sincere hope that the Zimbabwean people will not be tricked by the honeyed words of imperialism, and that they will hold true to their slogan: Zimbabwe will never be a colony again!

Zim govt exposes Tsvangirai, Brown letter - By Floyd Nkomo

http://talkzimbabwe.com/ - Thu, 17 Apr 2008

THE Movement for Democratic Change and the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown’s office plotted to bring the issue of Zimbabwe elections onto the Southern African Development Community’s agenda in an extra-ordinary meeting, outside the normal working mechanisms of the southern African body, according to a confidential letter obtained by the government of Zimbabwe.

THE Movement for Democratic Change and the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown’s office plotted to bring the issue of Zimbabwe elections onto the Southern African Development Community’s agenda in an extra-ordinary meeting, outside the normal working mechanisms of the southern African body, according to a confidential letter obtained by the government of Zimbabwe.

The letter, allegedly written by Prime Minister Brown, on 9 April 2008, to Morgan Tsvangirai proves that the extra-ordinary summit called by Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa was a brainchild of the British government and the MDC; not an initiative of Sadc.

The letter, republished here was written by Gordon Brown, apparently in response to earlier communication by Morgan Tsvangirai.

Brown says in the letter: “Thank you very much for your letter dated 3 April 2008. We have noted all your concerns and try and use diplomatic means to ensure that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) is more directly involved in this crisis in Zimbabwe.”

The letter added, “The British Government is supportive of change in Zimbabwe…” confirming President Robert Mugabe’s concerns that change in Zimbabwe was being orchestrated by ‘outside forces’.

“The UK Government believes that the situation is now untenable and a Zanu PF Government is no longer relevant to the people of Zimbabwe.”

In the letter Gordon Brown also promises the MDC leader that he will try and push the ‘Zimbabwe crisis’ onto the United Nations Security Council adding that the “only alternative left is to lobby for more direct sanctions against President Robert Mugabe’s illegitimate government.”

An email sent by the Zimbabwe Guardian to Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office early Thursday morning had not been responded to at the time of going to press.

The Zimbabwean government has responded to the letter.

Justice Minister, Patrick Chinamasa said "The UK has imposed comprehensive sanctions against Zimbabwe in contravention of international law. The correspondence confirms that Tsvangirai is not his own man and that he is working for the British interests to recolonise Zimbabwe.”

He added: "The British are driving an agenda to put their puppet at the helm of this country so that the gains of the revolution which they opposed throughout the liberation struggle can be reversed. The people of Zimbabwe will not allow this country to be taken over by a British surrogate."

Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu also claimed the letter confirmed Tsvangirai was a puppet of the British, from whom Zimbabwe gained independence on April 18, 1980.

"This is all what we have always said that MDC is a creation of the British and Tsvangirai a puppet of the British. So Tsvangirai is a puppet of Gordon Brown," said Ndlovu.

In a speech at the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, Brown said "no one thinks" Mugabe won the March 29 presidential election against Tsvangirai, the results of which are still to be announced.

"A stolen election would not be a democratic election at all," he added.

Efforts to get hold of MDC spokesman, Nelson Chamisa, proved fruitless as his cellphone went unanswered.

SPECIAL ELECTIONS IN ZIMBABWE:

The Issue is not the departure of Mugabe. What is at stake in these elections is the fact that foreign forces in cahoot with the MDC want to reverse the land reform program in order to take back the land from Africans. Zanu-PF: Our land! Our sovereignty!

There have been 3 candidates in this election: (1) Candidate one: Robert Mugabe. (2) Candidate Morgan Tsvangirai + British money + illegall western sanctions. (3) Simba Makoni.

MDC, Britain, America and their kith and kin state of Australia panick. This is shown by contradictory messages they issue over the elections results in Zimba. Let them relax. Whatever the outcome, what will be will be! Let the democratic game take its course!

Why are they worried? Is it because they invested so much money in bankrolling the MDC that if Zanu-PF convincingly wins yet again - and this remains a strong possibility because unlike the MDC, Zanu-PF is very much rooted in the rural areas with the grassroots - it represent a great loss?!

We know that in February 2008, The British Government increased its funding towards "civil society" in Zimbabwe (doctors, lawyers, NGOs) "that are working for democratic change" - READ MDC - from £2.5 million to £3.3 million. The Britsih Government pledged: "We will continue to support them just as we will continue to make representations to the Government of Zimbabwe when those who advocate reform are beaten and arrested by the state police." - Source: http://talkzimbabwe.com

Are the confusion sown ahead of the announcement of the final official results aimed at engineering chaos, let us say a coup, if it happen that Mugabe and Zanu-PF are elected again by the masses?

Suppose the MDC wins, will Tshangirai give jobs to all these MDC city youths in Harare and Bulawayo as if by magic? Even an economically-strong South Africa is struggling to deliver after the demise of apartheid. Do the Westerners love MDC black supporters so much that they will open their purses instantly and solve all problems? No! 80% of South Africa's wealth is still in the hand of 5% white. Westerners have no permanent friends, they have only permanent interests. Soon the illusions will turn into reality.

MDC Cheated by bribing election officials. Zanu-PF party would contest the results of 16 parliamentary seats

If successfully contested, these would be enough for the party to regain the majority it lost for the first time since 1980 in Saturday's poll.

Zanu-PF party has given its backing to President Robert Mugabe's participation in a possible run-off vote.

Hundreds of Zanu-PF supporters - some of them veterans from the war against white rule that led to independence - marched through the capital, Harare.

Jabulani Sibanda, head of the Zimbabwe War Veterans' Association, which has been associated with past election violence, said Zanu-PF had lost the elections because "people were pushed by hunger and illegal sanctions".

"Under current circumstances the spirit of our people is being provoked," he said.

"We will be forced to defend our sovereignty."

Kagame is a liar! Through and Through!

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has said Fernando Andreu, a Spanish judge who issued arrest warrants for 40 Rwandan army officers can "go to hell". Kagame said Judge Andreu had not distinguished between genocide perpetrators, and those who stopped it, such as his own forces (BBC 2.04.2008).

Well! General Romeo Dallaire - an incontrovertible eye witness of the tragedy in Rwanda in 1994 because he led the UN forces - gave an interview to the French daily le Monde on 10 December 2003 in which he said: "Kagame and his RPF were not interested in stopping the genocide. What interested them most and first of all was to get to power."

This writer challenged General Dallaire in London at the War Museum to repeat his assertions in front of everybody. It was during the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the genocide. General Dallaire said he was on his way to Rwanda and that was exactly one the questions he was going to discuss with President Kagame.

Because of that question, this writer received warnings and death threats from the then Rwandan Ambassador to the UK Rosemary Museminali.

Mining deals cancelled in Congo, Full report on www.miningcongo.cd

But will Congo now keep 75% out of each new renegotiated mining or timber contract? Doing otherwise is a farse and the looting goes on!

Many Congolese work sometimes illegally as artisanal miners, while the profits go abroad!

(BBC News, 20 March 2008) - The Democratic Republic of Congo has cancelled at least 60 mining contracts after a review into the deals.

The government said it wanted to ensure that the country's vast mineral wealth was used to benefit its people.

Many Congolese suspect that mining deals are often corrupt and campaign group Global Witness says the review was hit by a lack of transparency.

DR Congo has huge reserves of gold, diamonds, copper and more than a third of coltan, used in mobile phones.

Correspondents say these riches have been a key factor in the wars of inavsion by neighnours, instability and bad government the country has known since independence.

'Tragedy'

DR Congo's Deputy Mines Minister Victor Kasongo said it is clear "that none of the contracts met international standards of contracts".

"Many of them need to be re-negotiated and some of them have to be terminated, because when you do business every partner must be remunerated proportionate to their input," he told the BBC's Focus on Africa programme.

"The state assets were undervalued, making our contribution seem smaller. In essence we are contributing too much. This creates some unfairness."

The enquiry into the mining deals has not been made public, sparking condemnation by Global Witness.

The campaign group said a government task force had been set up to start renegotiating the contracts.

"We're calling on the government to make sure this process of re-negotiation is transparent and open," Global Witnesses' Carina Tertsakian told the BBC.

"The task force is composed entirely of government ministers and we're worried about what this might mean a lack of independence in view."

President Joseph Kabila won the country's first democratic elections in 40 years in 2006.

His critics accuse him of agreeing deals with foreign mining companies which do not benefit local people.

Professor Peter Rosenblum from the US-based Carter Center, a consultant to the commission, said mining deals lie at the heart of DR Congo's problems.

"The tragedy of the many tragedies in the Congo was that the people woke up after years of war and found that the family wealth had been given away, or sold off, or at least as far as people knew, it seemed to have just flitted away."

For wars to end in the DRC...

Jonathan Powell, who served as Tony Blair's chief of staff from 1995 to 2007 and is widely regarded as having been instrumental in negotiating a settlement in Northern Ireland with the IRA, said his experience in the province convinced him that it was essential Western governments talk to terror groups including al-Qaida and the Taliban if they hope to secure a long-term halt to their campaigns of violence (Interview, The Guardian, London, Saturday March 15 2008).

Tony Blair has become Paul Kagame's special adviser. He must therefore push him to talk to the Interahamwe/FDLR for war to end in Congo.

They now dare to speak out openly in Rwanda...

Kagame has launched a witchhunt against the editor of the Rwandan daily Umuco Jason Mukasa, for comparing Kagame to Hitler and the FPR to the Nazis on the basis of the latest international arrest warrant against Kagame and 40 of his most close acolytes. Kagame is like Hitler. There is no doubt about it.

That is why in the article, the journalist urged Kagame to and hung himself because he does not see how, after two international arrest warrants against (more are still in the pipeline), he will escape justice!

Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF poised to win the 29 March 2008 elections and win convincingly by a landslide and thus humble the opposition!

Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi has announced that African countries would be allowed to send monitors, as would allies such as China, Iran and Venezuela.

"Clearly, those [who do not invite Africans to monitor their elections] and who believe that the only free and fair election is where the opposition wins have been excluded since the ruling party, Zanu-PF, is poised to score yet another triumph," Mr Mumbengegwi told the state-owned Herald newspaper.

Comrade Mumbengegwi said the electoral commission would not be partisan and the talks with the opposition had resulted in the relaxing of tough security and media laws, the Herald reports.

He also urged diplomats to be wary of allegations of electoral fraud.

"All those who do not expect to win the election would want to discredit the process. Therefore, you will come across all sorts of allegations in volumes and volumes," he said.

"My appeal to you is please try your best to ensure that any allegation that is made is verified."

Former Finance Minister Simba Makoni was expelled from ZANU-PF after registering to run as an independent in March 29 presidential, parliamentary and council elections.

"What has happened now is absolutely disgraceful. I didn't think that Makoni, after all this experience, would behave like this," Mugabe said in an interview broadcast on state television late on Thursday to mark his 84th birthday.

"I compared him to a prostitute. A prostitute could have done better than Makoni, because she has clients. Don't you think so?" said President Mugabe.

President Robert Mugabe warned the opposition against Kenyan-style violence if they lose the 29 March 2008, saying security forces stood ready to crush such protests.

Mugabe said security forces would put down any violence similar to clashes in Kenya that killed more than 1,200 people after the opposition challenged the results of an election in December.

"If Tsvangirai and his (MDC) group have such plans, they must stand warned," Mugabe told about 20,000 cheering supporters in his rural home area of Zvimba, 100 km north-west of Harare.

"That will never happen here, never, never. We will never allow it. We have enough security forces to handle that."

Just dare try it," said the 84-year-old leader at one of his final campaign rallies. "We don't play around while you try to please your British allies."

"When you join a political fight by way of an election, you must be prepared to lose. If Zanu-PF [ruling party] wins, you must accept it, if you win we will accept," he said, in comments quoted by the state-owned Herald newspaper.

The minister for indigenisation and economic empowerment, Paul Mangwana, told the BBC that reports alleging that they had printed millions of surplus ballot papers were false.

"There's nothing this government has done to cheat on the electoral process."

He added that Zimbabweans wanted him to continue leading them.

"People know the contribution he has made to the well-being of Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans in particular. So they love him and they want him to continue leading them until he completes the goals of the revolution."

Mugabe said he would romp to a landslide victory to shame former colonial power Britain, which he accuses of funding the MDC and Makoni.

The veteran leader threatened that his government could in future retaliate against British interests in Zimbabwe, saying sanctions -- designed to target Zimbabwe's leaders -- were hurting his country.

"To the British, your sanctions will demand that in future we retaliate and when we reciprocate, we will hit your businesses," Mugabe told his supporters.

He said he was disappointed that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown had taken over from predecessor Tony Blair by pursuing a hostile policy against Zimbabwe.

Mugabe also rejected comments by British officials casting doubt on 29 March 2008 presidential, parliamentary and council polls would be free and fair. The European Union has also raised doubts over the process.

"We had hoped for a repair of relations but Blair and Brown are both blooming fools."

"They have already rejected our elections and prejudged the process, these devilish liars" said Mugabe.

The only way forward for Africa!

President Mugabe has approved the "Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Bill", a legislation giving local owners the right to take a majority share of foreign companies.

Under the legislation, every company must have at least 51% of their shares owned by black Zimbabweans. If not, the government will block new investment, mergers or restructuring.

The bill will give black Zimbabweans the power to share in the wealth of their country, according to Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, Mr Mugabe's information minister. "It is an historic economic empowerment bill that has been signed," Mr Ndlovu told the BBC. "It is the first of its kind in the whole of Africa."

'Merchant of Death' Viktor Bout Is Arrested in Thailand

A Russian arms dealer thought to have inspired the lead character in the blockbuster film Lord of War was arrested in Bangkok on 6 March 2008.

Viktor Bout, 41, was detained while allegedly attempting to buy weapons for Colombian rebels.

Dubbed "the merchant of death", he has been accused of breaking UN embargoes since the early 1990s by selling arms to conflict-torn regions in Africa and around the world.

In the DRC, he sold arms to RCD-Goma. a Rwanda masterminded rebel movement during the war of aggression there, killing 5.4 million Congolese and systematically looting Congo's mineral wealth.

Now it is Museveni and Kagame's turn!

In kenya, President Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga accept to share power. In Congo, Kabila accepted to share power with criminals. Now for a lasting peace in the region, Museveni must accpet to share power with LRA and Kagame must accept to share power with the Hutu. Why is the international community not exerting pressure on Museveni and Kagame to do so?

Kagame is avoiding the very much needed inter-rwandan dialogue. In a rare interview with the BBC (30 January 2007), Mr Kagame angrily said: "Would I care that bloody Habyarimana died? I don't give a damn." He killed him and thus kick started the inter-ethnic killing spree in 1994!

The US government backed Rwanda and Uganda to invade the DRC, killing 5.4 million Congolese and systematically looting Congo's mineral wealth.

Now Amériacns in Denvers are organising afund raising to collect money and save gorillas "threatened by war" in East Congo! Judge for yourselves!

Punish buyers of rebel DRC ore, UN panel says. Behind Tutsi inusrgents you find American, British, Belgian, Swiss, Rwandan, South African and Ugandan mineral dealers! Rwanda even launched a stock exchange sure of continuing to loot minerals in Congo! Those days are soon over!

By Joe Bavier | Rueters, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, 29 February 2008

Buyers of minerals from rebel areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) should be punished under a United Nations arms embargo, a group of experts has told the Security Council.

A five-year war in the vast Central African nation that ended in 2003 has left much of DRC's eastern borderlands a volatile patchwork of rebel fiefdoms and militia-controlled zones.

The panel, investigating breaches of a weapons embargo aimed at illegal armed groups, found they were continuing to buy arms with revenues from mines and illegal taxation of minerals.

Mineral buyers are complicit in the process by not verifying the origins of the ore they buy, the independent experts said in their report, which was commissioned by the UN Security Council.

"The group considers that individuals and entities buying mineral output from areas ... with a strong rebel presence are violating the sanctions regime when they do not exercise due diligence," the report said.

Many of the mines in the DRC's violent eastern provinces of North and South Kivu are either under the direct control of illegal armed groups or are taxed by them.

The two provinces produce the bulk of the country's cassiterite, the primary tin ore used by the electronics and computer industries.

The report cited renegade General Laurent Nkunda's Tutsi insurgency and the rebel Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) as two groups using mineral revenues to buy arms.

Nkunda and the FDLR have been at the centre of fighting in North Kivu that forced about 450 000 civilians to flee their homes in the year leading up to a January 23 ceasefire deal.

Watchdog groups say mineral buyers make little effort to ensure the ore they buy does not help fund the conflict.

"Because the traders know that no one else is doing it, they don't do it either," said Carina Tertsakian, lead campaigner for the London-based Global Witness, an independent group that aims to expose the corrupt exploitation of natural resources.

"And they know that, if they did insist, the acceptable sources that comply with these standards are few and far between."

Embargo vote: The Security Council is expected to vote in late March on whether to renew the arms embargo. If it heeds the panel's recommendations, it will also tighten the embargo resolution to enforce sanctions on those buying ore from rebel-held mines.

To avoid breaking the embargo, the report said companies must be able to trace the precise origins of mineral desposits from which they buy, and refuse to buy ore originating from mines controlled or taxed by illegal groups.

Failure to do so constitutes a "violation of the arms embargo for provision of assistance to armed groups", it said.

"Quite a lot of purchasers would fall into that category ... I don't get the impression that anyone doesn't buy material because it comes from rebel-held areas," Tertsakian said.

Brian Christophers, managing director of Mining Processing Congo, one of North Kivu's largest cassiterite exporters, said his company had its own verification process and had done nothing wrong. He said he could not vouch for other buyers.

"We do that anyway. We know exactly where our minerals come from. For the others who don't, that's their problem," he said.

Other mineral exporting companies could not be reached.

Three-month tin prices hit a record high on Monday, a day after the DRC's mines ministry announced the suspension of all mining in the tin-rich Walikale district of North Kivu. The move aimed to restore order to a local mining sector long plagued by the presence of rebels, militia and the government's own army. – Reuters

Might is right: when international law means a different thing to different people!

Jeremy Scahill writes in AlterNet: "News Flash: The Bush administration acknowledges there is a such thing as international law. But, predictably, it is not being invoked to address the US prison camps at Guantanamo, the wide use of torture, the invasion and occupation of sovereign countries (including Irak and Congo, in the latter case by proxi using Tutsi soldiers), the extraordinary rendition program. No, it is being thrown out forcefully as a condemnation of the Serbian government in the wake of Thursday's attack by protesters on the US embassy in Belgrade following the Bush administration's swift recognition of the declaration of independence by the southern Serbian province of Kosovo."

Note that after Bush, Tony Blair is in Kigali to lend his moral support to Kagame after a Spanish judge has issued yet another arrest warrant against the Rwandan terrorist leader. And what is the focus of their talks with Kagame? The threats of FDLR coming from Congo. What a diversion! It does not bite anymore!

Rwandan prisons or hell on earth!

This is according to a new book published by Carina Tertsakian of Global Witness and entiltled: "Le Château: the lives of prisoners in Rwanda". Kagame uses prisons asa political tool after the inter-ethnic killing of 1994. Innocent people languish in jails in Rwanda under the pretext that they committed "genocide"!

Yet another massacre of at least 30 Congolese civilians by Rwandan Tutsi troops under the command of Nkunda in North Kivu. Yet another crime by the Tutsi that goes unpunished!

The massacre took place in the Kalonge area in North Kivu in January of this year. The UN Mission in Congo, MONUC's investigation of these killings was conducted with professional care and its findings reflect credible information received from a number of eye witnesses and other sources. The Mission believes that any other independent and impartial enquiry will confirm the outcome of the investigation and MONUC is ready to cooperate with such an enquiry.

This investigation was carried out in accordance with MONUC's mandate to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence and to assist the fight against impunity. MONUC has conducted similar investigations several times in the past when serious allegations have been made against armed groups or the national forces and has subsequently made the findings public.

How American president George Bush, the most powerful man on earth, by choosing to visit Rwanda at the end of his mandate, has no shame to contradict himself.

Delivering his remarks to the 85th American Legion Convention on 26 August 2003, President Bush said:"We've sent a message that is understood throughout the world: if you harbor a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists."

Or Bush support Museveni and Kagame, two greatest terrorists in the region financially, politically and militarily. Therefore Bush is just as guilty as the Tutsi terrorists.

The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte was right after all when he called George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world” in Caracas on 8 Janvier 2006?

Moreover, the UN Security Council has renewed an arms embargo against the Democratic Republic of Congo which has to pacify its eastern parts where armed groups backed by Rwanda and Uganda are murdering and looting there. That is what you call disarming Congo in the face of its bellicose neighbours whom Bush supports in every way! The UN Security Council only follows America's orders anyway!

After the French anti-terroriste judge Jean-Louis Bruguière, another Spanish judge issues an international arrest warrant against Paul Kagame and his entourage.

A Congolese proverb says: "Truth is like daylight. The night might seem to be too long but daylight will always break.

MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- A Spanish judge Wednesday indicted 40 current or former Rwandan military officers for several counts of genocide and human rights abuses during the 1990s when several million Rwandans died or disappeared.

General James Kabarebe, left, is one of the 40 indicted for several counts of genocide and human rights abuses.

The judge issued international arrest warrants against the 40, including Gen. James Kabarebe, whom the judge said is believed to be the chief of staff of Rwanda's military; Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa, whom the judge said is believed to be Rwanda's ambassador to India; and Lt. Col. Rugumya Gacinya, whom the judge said is believed to be a military attaches at Rwanda's embassy in Washington, according to court documents viewed by CNN

Rwanda does not have an extradition treaty with Spain, a court spokeswoman told CNN.

The indictments against the 40 are for "crimes of genocide, human rights abuses and terrorism," during the 1990s in Rwanda, "when more than four million Rwandans were killed or disappeared under an extermination plan for ethnic and/or political reasons," the court documents said.

The judge, Fernando Andreu, named nine Spaniards who died or disappeared during those tumultuous years in Rwanda. Their plight prompted his investigation at Spain's National Court in Madrid, which previously has investigated human rights violations against Spaniards during past military regimes in Chile, Argentina and elsewhere.

Six of the Spanish victims were missionaries. The bodies of five of them were found in late 1996 after they were tortured, and shot or hacked to death with machetes, the documents said, while a sixth is still missing.

Three other Spaniards were shot to death in early 1997 while working for a non-profit medical group providing aid to Hutu refugees in Rwanda, the documents said.

The majority of the victims during the wave of terror, the documents said, were Hutu Rwandan refugees or Congolese civilians, mainly Hutus as well.

The judge did not indict Rwanda's president, Paul Kagame, because he has immunity as head of state, the documents said. But the judge also found evidence of criminal activity by Kagame, based on the testimony of an informant who told the judge he previously worked on Kagame's security detail, the documents said.

In preparing the indictments, the judge heard testimony from 22 people who said they witnessed the horrors in Rwanda in the 1990s. All of them live in exile, mainly in Europe, and all have changed their identity for security reasons, except Maria Beatrice Umutesi, who lives in Belgium and has written a book about the killings, the documents said.

The documents included a 182-page indictment and two accompanying summary documents.

An earthquake adds to the woes of the people of Congo!

While still under the yoke of some superpowers who had used the Tutsi to invade the DRC, rape, kill and loot, the Congolese people in South Kivu stricken by an earth quake!

AT least nine people were killed and almost 200 injured when a powerful quake struck the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, hospital sources said.

The quake, which measured six on the Richter scale, shook several countries in the Great Lakes region.

One of the victims, a young man, died when his home collapsed in Bukavu, capital of South-Kivu province. Another victim died in Bukavu's general hospital.

Several dozen injured were admitted to the general hospital and at least another 12 casualties to Panzi hospital, Bukavu's two biggest hospitals, medical sources said.

In Kabare, north of Bukavu, the walls of a church collapsed on the congregation during the mass and there were "a large number of casualties" taken to hospital in Mukongola, according to hospital workers contacted by AFP.

"We don't know if there are any dead. But there are a lot of injured at the hospital, several of them are in a coma," a nurse, who asked not to be named, said.

The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 0735 GMT (1835 AEDT) was 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Bukavu.

It was also felt in the bordering countries of Rwanda and Burundi, Francois Lukaya, a scientific official at the Goma observatory in North Kivu told AFP.

UN confirms what we already knew and reveals its own complicity with the Tutsi!

UN evidence suggests Rwanda role in Congo - By Andrew England in Kinshasa

Financial Times, 3 February 2008

Renegade soldiers fighting the Congolese army have received weapons and support from neighbouring countries, United Nations officials said on Thursday, suggesting that Rwanda is fuelling the conflict in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.

The clashes in Congo's North Kivu province, which began at the weekend, present the latest in a long line of threats to a shaky peace process that ended a five-year war in Congo.

Rwanda denied the allegations, but last month warned that it would send its troops back into its western neighbour to attack Rwandan rebels based in eastern Congo. "Clearly weapons have come into that area," William Swing, head of the UN mission in Congo, told the Financial Times.

"Obviously supplies are coming from somewhere, probably from the east, and we are looking to continue to investigate."

Mr Swing said there was also "clear evidence" that foreign troops had entered Congo after Rwanda made its threats about sending soldiers back into the country on November 23.

He declined to give details. But Mamadou Bah, a spokesman for the UN mission (Monuc), said: "It's no secret any more, we are talking about Rwanda," in reference to the foreign troops' incursion and the weapons supply.

A UN report into separate attacks on a group of villages in North Kivu from November 24 to the end of the month says that witnesses "unanimously described the assailants as Rwanda Tutsis".

"It appears that the assailants were more intent on sending a warning signal to Interahamwe [Rwandan rebels] in the area as well as the local inhabitants and on gathering intelligence for a future attack," says the report, a copy of which was obtained by the FT.

"It appears to the Monuc team that Rwandan troops were responsible for these operations."

Witnesses told Monuc that 66 people were killed in the attacks, but the UN team was only able to corroborate 13 deaths, the report said. Richard Sezibera, an adviser to Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president, said Rwanda had not supplied weapons to any Congolese groups nor did it have troops in Congo.

"When it comes, everybody will know," Mr Sezibera said.

"We hope it does not come," he added, arguing that more had to be done to disarm the Interahamwe.

Rwanda invaded Congo in 1996 and 1998, accusing Kinshasa of not doing enough to disarm Rwandan rebels who took part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide before fleeing into eastern Congo. On both occasions civil war then erupted in Congo.

The 1998 conflict - which formally ended in June 2003 when the Congolese government and rebel groups set up a transitional government - drew in at least six countries. Rwanda backed rebels, known as the RCD-G, sought to oust the government in Kinshasa during the war.

The foreign forces formally withdrew in 2002 but there have been previous unconfirmed reports of Rwandan troops re-entering Congo.

A contigent of British marines to be stationed in Brazzaville to intervene in the DRC, just in case...

There is no smoke without fire! Is there something sinister being cooked up in the West against the Congolese people, yet again?

The British army and the government of Congo Brazzaville (on the other side of the river Congo) have signed a convention to have a contigent of British marines stationed in Brazzaville to intervene immediately in neighbouring Kinshasa to evacuate British nationals in case war errupts there. Is there something being prepared that only London and Brazzaville know that we don't know?

Elsewhere, after a new american american consulate in Goma, the French have announced that they will open two more consulates in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Democratic Republic of Congo appears to be kind of sandwished currently, between Tutsi regimes in the east and now western troops in the west (...).

FLASH NEWS: After backing Kagame to invade the DRC when he was Prime Minister, during which 5.4 million Congolese were killed (see International Rescue Committee's latest report), Congo's natural and mineral wealth systematically looted, Tony Blair self-appoint himself a "special adviser" to the Rwandan government!

Rwanda get an extra $7 million from the United States to boost its military budget. So we told you. They have not abandonned the idea of carving a buffer state out of eastern Congo, which justifies the Tutsi's war of agression still going on there!

If Tony Blair, then prime minister engaged in dialogue with the "Terrorists IRA", and Paul Kagame is Britain's beloved at theis moment, Britain must push Paul Kagame to talk to his Hutu opposition whom he always brands as "terrorist", "Genocidist" and "divisionist", to conceal his own "terrorism", "divisionism" and "genocidism" in Rwanda and in Congo. Simple logic Mr Blair! Kagme must give Congo the list of the "genocidists" that are hiding in Congo to make Congo's work in tracking them down easy. Why is Kagame not providing the list? Do we have to wait until cows come home?

Yet another "peace accord"

According to the latest news, the government of Congo has signed yet another peace agreement with Rwanda's Nkunda (Rwanda signed another agreement with Congo not to aide Nkunda. It was not worth the paper it was signed on). This will not put an end to killing, raping, kidnapping and looting, especially the fraud of minerals from Congo into Rwanda! UNLESS KAGAME CONCEDE TO TALK TO THE HUTU (REBELS/OPPOSITION) NOW, THE SAME CONCESSIONS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY HAS ASKED CONGO TO MAKE. TIME HAS COME FOR AN INTER-RWANDAN DIALOGUE NOW MR BLAIR, NOT A TUTSI-LED BUFFER STATE OUT OF EASTERN CONGO, RICH IN MINERALS!

DRC-RWANDA: IT IS WAR: Rwanda planning to attack the Democratic Republic of Congo as the "International Community" turns a blind eye!

Proof, just when the DRC is setting up a peace conference to try to resolve the conflict in its volatile eastern region, seven Tutsi soldiers were arrested on 9 January 2008, by the Congolese Naval Forces when they were trying to ferry arms to Congo's South Kivu volatile province using two boats. Six escaped and one is under interrogation!

Rwanda has been caught red-handed. How come there no reaction from Paris, Brussels, Washington and London?

A question: were Ugandan and Rwandan special forces involved in the post-electoral massacres in Kenya? Possibly! Raila Odinga's campaign was: "equal redistribution of natural rssources". Or the main natural resource Kenya boasts is its fertile land vastly occupied by majority tribes and descendent of British settlers. Like in Zimbabwe, there is need for land reform. Who were not happy with Raila Odinga's "equal natural resources redistribution"? And who used who "to stop him"?! On 7 January 2008, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki wrote to President Paul Kagame explaining the general situation in his country and particularly the ongoing post-election violence that has rocked the East African nation following a widely disputed presidential poll held over a week ago. Why does Kagame of all people need Kibaki's explanation?

North Kivu: Tutsi armed militia led by Nkunda, backed by Kigali and Kampala, responsible for crimes against humanity in the Democratic Republic of Congo

It is the World upside down. The United States of America which lock up "terrorists", including innocent people in Guantanamo have urged the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to talk to Nkunda, wanted for crimes against humanity! The dialogue will take place soon. Kinshasa of course obliged!

The Pentagon is behind warlord Laurent Nkunda. He is protecting the mines where the slave-master is feverishly digging for tantalum, Niobium, and all manner of strategic minerals in Eastern Congo.

In fact, even the so-called United Nations not only pays a fee to Nkunda whenever UN planes land on airstrips in that area, but UN medical personnel have been treating Nkunda's fighters who get injured while fighting the DRC army.

Recently President Joseph Kabila deployed troops and 'drove' Nkunda's Tutsi forces from near the mines that produce these strategic minerals.

When the DRC forces arrived at Nkunda's HQs they found that every human being in that small town had 'fled'. It was a big trap.

Behind Nkunda is Bechtel, Harliburton, the Pentagon etc.... A few days ago in Addis Ababa, Kabila refused to turn up for a meeting with Museveni and Condoleezza Rice. Now Museveni, Kagame and the West are teaching him a lesson ?!

The latest outbreak of violence began with an army offensive against the rebels and has fed U.N. fears for the welfare of tens of thousands of people already displaced by months of unrest.

Less than a week ago the government described its capture of Mushake as a "great victory" in the fight against Nkunda's estimated 4,000 loyalists, who claim to be defending Tutsis against Hutu rebels from neighbouring Rwanda.

UN sources in DR Congo confirmed the rebels were back in control of Mushake and Karuba, while army troops were pulling back to the nearby village of Kingi.

MONUC has established mobile bases at Kirolirwe which houses about 14,000 displaced, the majority of them Tutsis, and at Kitchanga where another 18,000 refugees are eking out an existence.

Along with Congolese officials and humanitarian organizations, the peacekeepers are now drafting evacuation scenarios for civilians caught in the war zone.

The roughly 25,000-strong army vastly outnumbers the estimated 4,000 Nkunda loyalists. But the rebel general has so far rejected demands by Kinshasa and the UN to disarm -- and by Washington to surrender and go into exile. Exile? He is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity! He sould be sent to Guantanamo instead!

Zimbabwe ruling party endorses Mugabe for 2008 poll

Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF endorsed veteran leader Robert Mugabe as its candidate in next year's presidential polls at a congress in the capital Harare, the party's chairman said Thursday.

"I did not hear any dissenting voices," John Nkomo, the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) national chairman after representatives of various party wings read their declarations in favour of Mugabe's candidature.

"It means this congress has fully and unreservedly declared Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe as the presidential candidate for next year's presidential elections."

Mugabe told his party faithful in the opening ceremony broadcast on state television and radio he would not abandon them or the people in hard times.

"Every one of them matters to me. Can I let them down? No. Their welfare is my welfare. Their suffering is my suffering," he said.

However he also appealed to his supporters to refrain from violence and felt the need to issue a rare plea for unity within the ranks of ZANU-PF.

"We don't want any violence during campaigns. Campaign peacefully," said Mugabe of the joint parliamentary and presidential elections expected in March.

Referring to his Western critics, Mugabe said he would only accept the involvement of fellow African nations in Zimbabwean affairs.

"We are an independent state. If we need any assistance, we have our own neighbours to turn to," he said.

Mugabe criticised the British no-show, saying dialogue would have been useful if not welcome.

"We don't desire to talk to them but there is an issue between us and them. How do they expect the issue to be resolved?," Mugabe told thousands of party members who were decked in T-shirts bearing his image.

Mugabe hits back at 'arrogant' critics

Lisbon, 9.12.2007 - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday hit back at a group of four "arrogant" European countries for criticising his human rights record, saying democracy only came to Africa in the post-colonial era.

"It is important that people keep in mind that Africans fought for human rights from oppressive rule," Mugabe said in a speech at an EU-Africa summit in Lisbon.

"There was no democracy in Zimbabwe for nearly a hundred years and we had to fight for one person, one vote."

Mugabe criticised the "arrogance from the EU side", saying a so-called gang of four - Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden - had no right to claim a better understanding of the situation in Zimbabwe than the African Union and the Southern African Developments Community.

President Mugabe's comments came the day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel slammed Mugabe for "harming the image of the new Africa" with his human rights record, oblivious to what the Germans did in Namibia.

Mugabe said the four countries' leaders who had spoken out earlier against his rule were acting as puppets for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown who boycotted the summit over the Zimbabwean leader's presence.

"Why is the prime minister of Britain not here? Because he has his spokespeople here." - Photo below: Herero people of Namibia, victims of genocide committed by German troops against them on their ancetral land in 1904!

Mugabe was attending the summit despite an EU travel ban and said "Europe simply could not accept the democratic will of the Zimbabwean people".

"Europe will not accept (the results of elections) that are properly held in our countries because they don't like the winner," he said.

He also defended his programme of land reform saying Zimbabwe had the right to deal with its "heritage". - Sapa-AFP

DR Congo army makes ground against Rwandan troops commanded by Tutsi General Laurent Nkunda, a refugee in Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo army claimed fresh gains Thursday 6.12.2007 in heavy fighting against demobilised troops from Rwanda fighting along side Nkunda, on the fourth day of a major offensive in the east of the country.

Army commanders and UN military sources confirmed that fighting raged throughout the day as troops advanced north from Mushake, a hillside village in Nord-Kivu province that fell to government forces on Wednesday 5.12.2007.

No casualty figures were immediately available but commanders said at least 13 troops had died in the battle for Mushake, scene of some of the heaviest combat since the government launched its campaign on Monday 3.12.2007.

Armed forces Colonel Delphin Kahimbi, second in command in Nord-Kivu, said "several dozen" demobilised troops from Rwanda commanded by general Laurent Nkunda were also killed when government troops overran Mushake.

President Joseph Kabila paid homage to the "bravery" of his troops, who are aiming to crush a rebellion that has sowed insecurity across a swathe of the DR Congo and created a humanitarian crisis.

"The government is determined to put everything in place to quickly re-establish a sustainable peace and security," Kabila said in his annual state of the nation address to both houses of parliament.

Troops encountered strong resistance again Thursday as they advanced from Mushake towards Kirolirwe, another Nkunda stronghold around 10 kilometres (six miles) to the northeast, a UN military source said.

Fighting was intense around Kingi, a village which controls the access routes to Kirolirwe, but the rebels were eventually overcome, he said.

"The FARDC (army) have taken Kingi but it's difficult to get information because there's no telephone network in that zone," he said.

Troops also recaptured positions they had been forced to abandon on the weekend at Kikuku and Nyanzale, Colonel Joseph Tokolonga said.

Mugabe hails Zimbabwe 'new dawn'

Negotiations have continued for six months between Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

They are aimed at paving the way for free and fair elections next year.

BBC correspondent Peter Biles says the talks have been conducted in conditions of secrecy but a surprising degree of consensus now appears to be emerging.

In his annual state of the nation address to parliament in the capital, Harare, Mr Mugabe thanked South Africa's Thabo Mbeki for mediating.

He said the dialogue represents constructive engagement across the political divide and a narrowing of differences.

With presidential and parliamentary elections expected in March 2008, Mr Mugabe said Zimbabwe would invite "friendly and objective" members of the international community to observe the polls.

Foreign relations

Mr Mugabe said "a sinister campaign" by former colonial power Britain to isolate Zimbabwe, and bar the country from the forthcoming Europe/Africa summit in Lisbon, was disintegrating.

He said the problems between the UK and Zimbabwe should be addressed bilaterally.

Mr Mugabe told parliament that the country continued to defy predictions of economic collapse and social upheaval.

He said in the past year Zimbabwe has moved towards "sustained economic recovery notwithstanding the suffering endured by many of our people."

Long live the China-Africa Cooperation!

I was struck by an opinion piece in the November 2007 issue of New African magazine, published in London, penned by Femi Akomolafe, probably a Nigerian by the sound of it. The piece epitomised the common thinking of Africans on the Sino-African relations:

“The Chinese, as history records, were on the African shores long before Europeans could navigate outside their waters; yet the Chinese didn’t think of conquest, slavery or colonisation. They engaged in honourable trade and went back home… Today, the children of those Europeans who came to Africa to rob, plunder and settle are telling me that I should be afraid of the Chinese. I ask: What the hell for?”, Femi Akomolafe wrote.

Ian Smith would be remembered for his racism and the deaths of many people - Zimbabwe National Radio.

"We offered him the hand of reconciliation which he never accepted - good riddance - Bright Matonga, Zimbabwe Deputy Information Minister.

Mr Smith died in South Africa aged 88. He had been ill for some time.

Mr Smith declared unilateral independence (UDI) from Britain in 1965, and led the country for 14 years amid international scorn and sanctions.

Following a bitter bush war with black nationalists, the Smith government gave way to a new administration in 1979, leading to the creation of Zimbabwe.

The former premier remained active in Zimbabwean politics until the abolition of seats reserved for whites in 1987.

The BBC's James Robbins says that to the end of his days Ian Smith was convinced that Rhodesians, black and white, would have fared better under his leadership than that of Mr Mugabe and his Zanu-PF party.

Zimbabwe's Information Minister, Sikhanyiso Ndlovhu, told the BBC's Network Africa programme that Mr Smith did well under President Mugabe.

"He had a good life here in Zimbabwe after independence, just living on his farm and walking in the streets freely, and doing shopping in a free Zimbabwe," he said.

"He enjoyed a better Zimbabwe after independence, after his rule - or after his misrule, because during his rule, there was no democracy in this country."

Mr Ndlovhu's deputy, Bright Matonga, described Mr Smith as a man who brought untold suffering to millions of Zimbabweans.

"We offered him the hand of reconciliation which he never accepted," Mr Matonga told the AFP news agency. "Good riddance."

Congo army has green light to disarm Nkunda - President Kabila

At the same time UN Sec. Gen. Banki Moon says the UN Mission in Congo (MONUC)'s mandate must be prolonged by one year. Well, each prolongation has always coincided with new wars by the Tutsi in eastern Congo (to justify MONUC's new mandates?) which MONUC can stop! Noe we know the game we are in!

GOMA, Congo, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Congo's army has orders to forcibly disarm soldiers loyal to TUtsi renegade General Laurent Nkunda, President Joseph Kabila said on Wednesday, but he declined to say when the offensive would begin.

"The armed forces ... have received the green light to begin or rather to prepare the forced disarmament of Mr. Nkunda and those who remain with him," Kabila told a news conference in Goma, capital of the eastern province of North Kivu.

"I won't give you the date for these operations to start but the army has already been given its mission to disarm these people," he said.

Kabila said the operation would not necessarily begin immediately but made clear he hoped to definitively pacify the violence-torn province on Democratic Republic of Congo's eastern border with Uganda and Rwanda by the end of the year.

Nkunda's forces have battled government troops in North Kivu since August, forcing thousands of civilians from their homes.

The United Nations made a last-ditch appeal on Monday for the renegade soldiers to rejoin the national army after Nkunda ignored a government deadline to disband his forces in the east.

The West still continues to employ its "divide and rule" tactics in Africa!

After a Scottish University, the Edinburgh University withdrew a degree it awarded to President Mugabe after he launched the land reform, another Scottish univeristy, the University of Glasgow has confered an honorary degree on Kagame who killed millions in Rwanda and in Congo. Kagame invaded Congo and Mugabe sent troops to defend Congo's national sovereignty and its territorial integrity!

On 6.11.2007, Kagame received a Doctor of Laws in recognition of the role he played in "putting an end to the genocide and for promoting women's rights as well as in the development of his country".

Well! Well! Just because Rwanda is joining the Commonwealth, it does not make Kagame its leader a lesser terrorist! Mind you President Bush said "if you praise a terrorist, you are also a terrorist!". So...!

FACE TO FACE WITH THE BUTCHER OF KIGALI

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, responsible for crimes against humanity in Rwanda his own country and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, paradoxically was invited on 4.10.2007 by the London School of Economics’Centre for the Study of Human Rights to give a public lecture on “The Challenges of Development and Environmental Sustainability in Africa: The case of Rwanda”.

Kagame of course repeated the same mantra of the “1994 genocide” in Rwanda, 14 years after which he had strived to rebuild a “prosperous and reconciled Rwanda after bad leadership (under a Hutu government) and a genocide during which one million Tutsi were killed; building democratic institutions, boosting the private sector, so that Rwanda can play an effective role in the regional, African and global level.

Kagame also said that his government has enacted environmental and conservation laws to protect Rwanda’s biodiversity and natural resources and will host an international conference on this subject in Kigali next year.

Let us note first of all that Rwandan President Paul Kagame is a manipulator who is using the 1994 genocide as a trump card!

1. Kagame goes to the Western powers and tell them: where were you when the Hutu nearly exterminated us, and they feel guilty, apologise and keep quiet, give him all the means possible (money and arms) to loot the mineral wealth of Congo.

2. Kagame goes to the Tutsi survivors of the genocide and tell them that they owe their lives and survival to him because he saved them from the Interahamwe, the Hutu genocidaires. And they keep quiet, vote for him, no opposition. But we know that Kagame was only interested in taking power, not saving the Tutsi, as General Dalaire revealed. Under President Kagame’s “Imidugu” policy or the “Politics of villagisation”, most of the villagers have been forced to built their huts along the main roads so that the notorious Local Defense Forces will keep a vigilant eye on them and to wield off infiltrators. The countryside is therefore deserted and Catholic missions there forced to close. Survivors of the genocide feel abandoned to themselves. Ordinary Rwandans say their leaders all returned from exile do not identify with them. In fact the new regime keeps a grudge against Tutsi who stayed behind and never went into exile, accusing them of having collaborated with the former Hutu regime.

3. Kagame goes to the Hutu in Rwanda and say, it was me who restrained my men from exterminating all of you in a gush of revenge, and they keep quiet and dare not oppose him. Yet we know that when accompanying Laurent Kabila to power, Kagame ordered his men to exterminate all the Hutu in refugee camps in eastern Congo, which they did. Nick Gordon, a BBC reporter investigated and reported that the Kigali regime has built crematorium at Bugasira, Ruhengeri, Byumba, Kibungo, Inyungwe and other locations where thousands of Hutus and Congolese deportees (80 Congolese youth were deported from Uvira, South Kivu into Rwanda in January 2001 and are unaccounted for today, according to the Missionary News Agency MISNA), were killed daily and their bodies are incinerated under the program called "MANPOWER DUTIES" while US officials are looking the other way (do you beleive that all thse skulls in memorial sites in Rwanda are all Tutsi's? How do you scientifically verify it?. The Tutsi regime is conducting genocide in Rwanda to reduce the Hutu population to a “manageable level”. Any Tutsi minister or politician who disagreed with the policy is either in exile or has been assassinated.

4. Kagame goes to the Tutsi living in Congo and say, if you do not do anything for yourself, the Congolese will exterminate you. You know what happened in 1994 in Rwanda. It is not a surprise that The Economist in London called the Tutsi, the Jews of Africa. Bolstered by western support, Kagame branded the Congolese “the Ibicucu” in his native Kinyarwanda language – which means, the “nobodies, good for nothing, therefore kill them as many as you like”. Hence the a war of invasion (1998-2003) carried out by troops from Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi and orchestrated by Britain, America and South Africa and with the complicity of the so-called Congolese of Tutsi origin in Rwanda and the so-called congolese rebels; and in which more than 5 million congolese have been massacred and Congo's natural and mineral resources systematically looted! Ando so you have Tutsi warlords like Nkunda, a so-called Tutsi congolese killing, raping and looting under the pretext of protecting his own Tutsi community in Congo, you see! Where does he get guns from? From top Business people in Europe and America with the tacit blessing of their governments in return for looted minerals. Kagame and Museveni should be tried for crimes against humanity in the region.

Secondly, Rwanda and Uganda invaded Congo with the full backing of Britain and America, raped millions of women, killed 5 millions Congolese and systematically looted Congo’s natural and mineral resources. Rwandan elite’s money is blood money looted in Congo and it does not benefit the ordinary Rwandans, let alone the victims of “the genocide” who are left to fend for themselves.

Kagame systematically looted Congo’s fauna and flora. And now to portray himself as an environmentalist is foolish but Kagame will only fool those who choose to be fooled.

I gathered the courage to go and to sit in the same room with the butcher of my people instead of demonstrating outside to prove that I was more civilised than he is and so "I gave him back his humanity", as Mugabe would say.

I was the second person to be given the microphone by he chair Professor Conor Gearty.

I began by saying how interesting it was, if not a paradox that Kagame of all people should be the first person to address the first lecture of the Centre for the study of Human Rights!

I reminded the audience that I stood day and night outside the London School of Economics (LSE) to campaign against “this man” whom you have invited here to talk about human rights, development, peace and environment .

“There will never be peace and development in the Great Lakes Regon, in Rwanda, in Congo or anywhere else in the world without justice,” I said, “devastated by the crimes of Museveni and Kagame.

Then I turned to Kagame and asked him:

“When are you going to apologise to your own people for putting them through what you have put them through? You invaded Rwanda from Uganda and killed millions of people. Then you shot down Habyarimana’s plane [at this point the chair intervenes and ask me to as my question straight away otherwise he will stop me and pass on the microphone to another person. I tell him to hold on just a minute and I pursue my charge], by shooting down Habyarimana’s plane, you kick-started the killing spree during which many Hutu and Tutsi lost their lives. And you move to Congo, you invade that country, you raped, killed 5 millions Congolese and systematically looted Congo’s natural and mineral resources.

“My question is: do you sleep easy at night after killing so many people? [the audience laughed!] And when you no longer enjoy presidential immunity as well as the support of Britain and American, you will have to be tried for crimes against humanity Are you prepared for that?”

Kagame replied to me that my question deserved a simple answer.

“If there is one thing I enjoy, it is my sleep. Yes I sleep at ease at night and because of me that sleep is now enjoyed by many in Rwanda. The speaker compensated his biases for a lot of vigour but he must know that the history of our region is not sacred. Rwanda and Congo share the same colonial history and despite the arbitrary colonial borders that separates us, there are blood relationships still intact on both sides of the border.

“Our recent history is dominated by the event of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and bad leaders. Congo’s problems date from colonial days and after because of bad leaders, especially under Mobutu since the 1960s. Congo s a wealthy, rich country, but since colonial days, independence and even up to this moment, Congo has never developed and the people of Congo have never benefited from that wealth. The problem of Congo is not Rwanda, the problem of Congo is not Kagame. Congo is rich in natural resources, but despite this wealth, there are no roads, no clinics, nothing! There is nothing! And the gentleman could have helped the situation by being there and doing something about it, raising these issues!

“The 1994 genocide is not blamed on Congo but after, the genocidists went there and benefited from Mobutu’s support. The whole genocidist army and government settled in refugee camps, benefiting from Mobutu, organising and preparing themselves to go back to Rwanda. I became a refugee when I was three years old. I was able to go back to Rwanda when we organised ourselves. My life is a struggle. We associated with the people leading Congo today and they are there today because of us. It is better Rwanda and Congo work together to address development issues. If there were Congolese who understood these issues, we would not have come to where we came.

“The FDLR are still in Congo. They are terrorising the Congolese citizens. Our armed forces went to Congo and killed and displaced many of them. We and the Congolese government estimate that there remain 8,000 FDLR in Congo. We have tried to solve this problem in the last 14 years. The problem has subsided but it can only be eliminated by the Kinshasa government and the UN Mission in Congo, otherwise we will deal with it.”

Kagame said that in response to other questions put to him by other people in the audience that he was ready to welcome all the Rwandan refugees back to their country of origin (from Tanzania and Uganda especially) if they are not responsible for the genocide in one way or the other and if they don’t harbour that genocidist ideology, but they prefer to remain there because they have more land there to farm.

“That is their choice. I am not responsible for making Rwanda small in the size that it is today. There are parts of Rwanda that today belong to Congo and to Uganda especially the Kisoro region [where Museveni a Tutsi from Rwanda grew up) where you can identify people by their way of life as Rwandans”, said Kagame,in other words, there is a problem with living space in Rwanda.

When I interjected that that is not true, Kagame looked at me and said: "He is saying that is not true. What does he know. He was born only yesterday!"

Kagame hinted here at the Tutsi Hima Empire ideology (expansionism Tutsi) and his rhetoric for the “Need for a second Berlin Conference rhetoric” but he added that Rwandans’way of life was more attuned to the people of East Africa, that is why Rwanda is a member of the East African Community and Rwanda has its own reasons why it wants to join the Commonwealth.

“It is ourselves to make it work. We have to look at how this coming together will serve us and how we will also bring our own contribution to it, which will make it easier for our citizens to join the London School of Economics for instance.”

On Zimbabwe, Kagame said in reply to a question:

“There are African institutions such as Nepad, the Peer Review, African Union and son on, which encourage African leaders to do the right thing and remind all of us of such a collective responsibility. So there’s forum where we talk to each other frankly. Where we take collective and corrective measures. In the case of Zimbabwe, efforts have been deployed by the SADC and the EU to address the situation. President Thabo Mbeki has been designated by the SADC to mediate. But change will have to come from within Zimbabwe itself. I know I have not satisfied you (the question was asked by a young white Zimbabwean woman) but for the time being we leave it like that (…)” Beware! THEY may use Kagame to invade Zimbabwe like they used him to invade Congo. But Zimbabwe is not a walk over and is prepared.

After the lecture, I stood outside the building and addressed some of the people who made up the audience that Kagame had just addressed and to put the record straight after Kagame’s so many lies.

I was surrounded by so many people and the police was called by the university security officers at one point. I saw them but they did not talk to me because I was not doing anything illegal.

I told my audience not to be fooled by Kagame, a terrorist that Britain and America were protecting because he was doing their bidding at the expense of the people of Congo. Despite Kagame’s criminal record, he can just easily walk here and meet the Queen. At the same time Britain is roaring about Mugabe. Kagame is worse than Mugabe And if Mugabe did not send troops to Congo when we were invaded, we would not be talking about a country called Congo today.

I said what happened in Rwanda was a civil war and Kagame is cooperating with the FDLR whom he releases from prisons in Rwanda and uses them in the mines in Congo. The UN Mission in Congo recently repatriated an FDLR man who was fighting with Nkunda. That tells it all.

Kagame said that there is nothing in Congo. I explained to my audience that just when we wanted to rebuild our country under Laurent Kabila, Britain and America fretted his determination to safeguard Congolese interests first and used Tutsi troops from Rwanda and Uganda to clog our wheels through a barbaric and unjust war.

Kagame claims that our leaders in Congo now were out there by him Well, we have just had elections in Congo and during the AFDL, Laurent Kabila hd 47,000 Congolese men and there were 3,000 Rwandan and Ugandan officers masterminding them. How could they liberate the big Congo from Mobutu’s dictatorship just with 3,000 men? I said that I have set the record straight in my web site www.congopanorama.info and a process to have Kagame tried for crimes against humanity has already been launched and well under way in Spain.

I saw Kagame with his delegation leaving the LSE. I shouted "Kagame killer! Kagame terroriste! Kagame Hitler!" They turned and looked at me, smiled and went.

"Zimbabwe will never be a colony again! Never!" - President Robert Médard Mugabe's speech at the 2007 UN General Assembly. Drink it for yourselves, dear Africans!

Mr. President,

Once again we reiterate our position that the Security Council as presently constituted is not democratic. In its present configuration, the Council has shown that it is not in a position to protect the weaker states who find themselves at loggerheads with a marauding super-power. Most importantly, justice demands that any Security Council reform redresses the fact that Africa is the only continent without a permanent seat and veto power in the Security Council. Africa's demands are known and enunciated in the Ezulwini consensus.

Mr. President,

We further call for the U.N. system to refrain from interfering in matters that are clearly the domain of member states and are not a threat to international peace and security. Development at country level should continue to be country-led, and not subject to the whims of powerful donor states.

Mr. President,

Zimbabwe won its independence on 18th April, 1980, after a protracted war against British colonial imperialism which denied us human rights and democracy. That colonial system which suppressed and oppressed us enjoyed the support of many countries of the West who were signatories to the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Even after 1945, it would appear that the Berlin Conference of 1884, through which Africa was parcelled to colonial European powers, remained stronger than the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is therefore clear that for the West, vested economic interests, racial and ethnocentric considerations proved stronger than their adherence to principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The West still negates our sovereignties by way of control of our resources, in the process making us mere chattels in out own lands, mere minders of its trans-national interests. In my own country and other sister states in Southern Africa, the most visible form of this control has been over land despoiled from us at the onset of British colonialism.

That control largely persists, although it stands firmly challenged in Zimbabwe, thereby triggering the current stand-off between us and Britain, supported by her cousin states, most notably the United States and Australia. Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

Mr. President,

Clearly the history of the struggle for our own national and people's rights is unknown to the president of the United States of America. He thinks the Declaration of Human Rights starts with his last term in office! He thinks he can introduce to us, who bore the brunt of fighting for the freedoms of our peoples, the virtues of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. What rank hypocrisy!

Mr. President,

I lost eleven precious years of my life in the jail of a white man whose freedom and well- being I have assured from the first day of Zimbabwe's Independence. I lost a further fifteen years fighting white injustice in my country.

Ian Smith is responsible for the death of well over 50 000 of my people. I bear scars of his tyranny which Britain and America condoned. I meet his victims everyday. Yet he walks free. He farms free. He talks freely, associates freely under a black Government. We taught him democracy. We gave him back his humanity.

He would have faced a different fate here and in Europe if the 50 000 he killed were Europeans. Africa has not called for a Nuremberg trial against the white world which committed heinous crimes against its own humanity. It has not hunted perpetrators of this genocide, many of whom live to this day, nor has it got reparations from those who offended against it. Instead it is Africa which is in the dock, facing trial from the same world that persecuted it for centuries.

Let Mr. Bush read history correctly. Let him realise that both personally and in his representative capacity as the current President of the United States, he stands for this "civilisation" which occupied, which colonised, which incarcerated, which killed. He has much to atone for and very little to lecture us on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. His hands drip with innocent blood of many nationalities.

He still kills. He kills in Iraq. He kills in Afghanistan. And this is supposed to be out master on human rights?

He imprisons. He imprisons and tortures at Guantanamo. He imprisoned and tortured at Abu Ghraib. He has secret torture chambers in Europe. Yes, he imprisons even here in the United States, with his jails carrying more blacks than his universities can ever enroll. He even suspends the provisions of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. Take Guantanamo for example; at that concentration camp international law does not apply. The national laws of the people there do not apply. Laws of the United States of America do not apply. Only Bush's law applies. Can the international community accept being lectured by this man on the provisions of the universal declaration of human rights? Definitely not!

Mr. President,

We are alarmed that under his leadership, basic rights of his own people and those of the rest of the world have summarily been rolled back. America is primarily responsible for rewriting core tenets of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We seem all guilty for 9/11. Mr. Bush thinks he stands above all structures of governance, whether national or international.

At home, he apparently does not need the Congress. Abroad, he does not need the UN, international law and opinion. This forum did not sanction Blair and Bush's misadventures in Iraq. The two rode roughshod over the UN and international opinion. Almighty Bush is now coming back to the UN for a rescue package because his nose is bloodied! Yet he dares lecture us on tyranny. Indeed, he wants us to pray him! We say No to him and encourage him to get out of Iraq. Indeed he should mend his ways before he clambers up the pulpit to deliver pieties of democracy.

Mr. President,

The British and the Americans have gone on a relentless campaign of destabilising and vilifying my country. They have sponsored surrogate forces to challenge lawful authority in my country. They seek regime change, placing themselves in the role of the Zimbabwean people in whose collective will democracy places the right to define and change regimes.

Let these sinister governments be told here and now that Zimbabwe will not allow a regime change authored by outsiders. We do not interfere with their own systems in America and Britain. Mr Bush and Mr Brown have no role to play in our national affairs. They are outsiders and mischievous outsiders and should therefore keep out! The colonial sun set a long time ago; in 1980in the case of Zimbabwe, and hence Zimbabwe will never be a colony again. Never!

We do not deserve sanctions. We are Zimbabweans and we know how to deal with our problems. We have done so in the past, well before Bush and Brown were known politically. We have our own regional and continental organizations and communities.

In that vein, I wish to express my country's gratitude to President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa who, on behalf of SADC, successfully facilitated the dialogue between the Ruling Party and the Opposition Parties, which yielded the agreement tha