Rwanda genocide - France, Britain and the UN

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Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler was sanctioned in December 2017 by the US Treasury for bribing Congo officials to get his hand on mining rights (including diamonds). This prohibited Gertler from doing business with U.S. citizens, companies or banks. The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the world’s richest countries in natural resources, while the population is dirt poor.
Dan Gertler is also a business partner of Beny Steinmetz (who was recently convicted in Switzerland), whose nephew is in business with Jared Kushner (husband of Ivanka Trump).

Gertler hired Alan Dershowitz (him again!) and former FBI director Louis Freeh to petition the U.S. government to remove him from the sanctions list.
On 15 January, in its final week as U.S. President, Donald Trump’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (of the Treasury Department) eased sanctions against Dan Gertler. While the license doesn't remove Gertler, or his more than 30 companies, from the sanctions list... it authorises, until 31 January 2022, “all transactions and activities” otherwise prohibited by sanctions against them.

In other words, until 31 January 2022 he can conduct business in the US as if he isn't sanctioned.
The most important aspect is probably that also Gertler’s assets are unblocked that have been held by banks in the US, including Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York Mellon and Wells Fargo.
If he quickly moves his funds it wouldn't matter much if the Biden administrations cancels the license.

This was done secretly, without being announced by the Trump administration. Until somebody leaked this to the press.

Sasha Lezhnev, of The Sentry commented that the license allows “one of the world’s most corrupt tycoons to largely walk free and do business at U.S. banks.
The Biden administration should immediately reverse the decision and revoke the license for Gertler and his corporate empire, as the sanctions already had a wave of impact on corruption in the DR Congo”: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...-israeli-mining-magnate-gertler-idUSKBN29U1M7

 

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In 2013, Newsweek published a surprisingly critical story on the effective dictator of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, who was also responsible for the Rwandan genocide.

Already in 1997, the U.N. estimated that Rwandan forces had caused the deaths of 200,000 Hutus in Congo. French expert Gérard Prunier estimated that the toll is closer to 300,000. According to the U.N. report, "The majority of the victims were children, women, elderly people and the sick, who were often undernourished and posed no threat to the attacking forces".
The UN report concluded that the systematic and widespread attacks, "if proven before a competent court, could be characterized as crimes of genocide".

Filip Reyntjens states that Kagame's crimes rank with those perpetrated by former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein or Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on charges of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

In April 1995, the RPA attacked an internally displaced people's camp in Kibeho using automatic weapons, grenades, and mortars. A team of Australian medics listed more than 4,000 dead when the RPA stopped the count.
According to Gérard Prunier, at least 20,000 more people from the camp "disappeared" after the massacre.

In 2000, after numerous cases of forced exiles, disappearances, and assassinations of politicians, Pasteur Bizimungu resigned as president. Since then, almost every position of meaningful power in the country has been held by a Tutsi.
In 2001, when the Hutu Bizimungu tried to start a political party to run for president, it was outlawed on charges of being a "radical" Hutu organisation. In 2002, Bizimungu was arrested, and later was sentenced to 15 years in prison for "endangering the state" (pardoned by Kagame in 2007).

As early as 2000, some estimated that Rwanda was making $80 million to $100 million annually from Congolese coltan alone, roughly the equivalent of the entire defense budget.
Kagame's former lieutenant, Theogene Rudasingwa, said:

After the first Congo war, money began coming in through military channels and never entered the coffers of the Rwandan state. It is RPF money, and Kagame is the only one who knows how much money it is—or how it is spent. In meetings it was often said, 'For Rwanda to be strong, Congo must be weak, and the Congolese must be divided.'

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In the run-up to the 2010 election, in which Kagame remained president, several journalists and opposition politicians were attacked and/or killed, including a politician who was beheaded.

In Africa, Rwanda has become a prime example of a surveillance state, as "civilised" as the developed world or Communist China. In every Rwandan town and tiny village the RPF is present. Even when a town has a Hutu mayor, it are really Kagame's RPF representatives that call the shots.
RPF regulations govern almost every aspect of daily life and are enforced by local commissars through steep fines. Peasants are obligated to wear shoes and good clothes when not working their fields, are prohibited to drink banana wine from shared straws (a traditional gesture of reconciliation), and myriad other degrading rules.
Rwanda expert Susan Thomson said that everything is reported to the authorities:

The RPF saturates every aspect of life in Rwanda. They know everything: if you've been drinking, if you've had an affair, if you've paid your taxes.

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While our wonderful media are often reporting that Kagame made Rwanda great again, including an impressive annual growth rate of 5% since 2005, in reality it are only the lucky few that profit, while poverty is soaring in the countryside:

There is a real increase in misery. When you speak of Rwanda as a volcano, that's what's involved.

https://archive.is/u4G0a

 

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It should come as no surprise that the Biden administration is literally swamped with Oxford alumni, including my "favourite" Rhodes Scholar, is Susan Rice, who in the 1990s in the Clinton administration orchestrated the Rwandan genocide for which Paul Kagame was used, who was later made into the hero for "stopping" the genocide and installed as de facto dictator of Rwanda.
Rice has continued to cover up what happened to this very day. She later became Obama's Ambassador to the UN before being promoted to National Security Advisor from 2013-2017.

See the genocidal Susan E. Rice (then State Department official) and Paul Kagame (not yet crowned president), 1998.

In 1993, Susan Rice was appointed to President Clinton’s National Security Council and involved in orchestrating the Congo genocide (and Rwandan genocide?).
In 1997, Rise was promoted to assistant secretary of state for African affairs at a time that Rwanda and Uganda were invading eastern Congo, taking control of mineral resources in a sea of blood.

Rice has even worked directly for Kagame’s government, when she worked for strategic analysis firm Intellibridge (in Washington DC).
Other former Clinton administration officials at Intellibridge include: David J. Rothkopf (under secretary in the Commerce Department); Anthony Lake (Clinton’s national security adviser); and John M. Deutch (CIA director).

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I wouldn't rate the following looong New York Times piece as good, but there some genuinely interesting information can be found in it.

Paul Kagame’s tidy little Rwanda, has become one of the most straitjacketed in the world. Few people inside Rwanda dare to ciritcise president Kagame. Many Rwandans feel that Big Brother is watching them all the time: “It’s like there’s an invisible eye everywhere, Kagame’s eye”.
Many aspects of Rwandan (open prison) life are dictated by the government, including an “eradication campaign” of all grass-roofed huts. In some areas, it's prohibited to dress in dirty clothes or share straws when drinking from a traditional pot of beer.

There are no large slums in Kigali anymore, because the government won’t allow them. Kagame has also made an end to homeless youth sleeping on the sidewalks.
Rwandan young vagrants and petty criminals have been arrested and sent to a youth “rehabilitation center” on an island in the middle of Lake Kivu that some people in Kigali compare to Alcatraz.

Kagame’s government has reportedly reduced child mortality by 70%; by reducing the amount of children being born.
Kagame has explained that he will make an end to overpopulation, by stopping (prohibiting?) women having many children: “We educated the woman both in school and generally in society to say: ‘No, go for something else. You deserve better'”.

In the early 1990s, the Congolese government tried to help Rwanda’s Hutu-led government to fight back against Kagame’s genocidal RPA. After the RPF took control of Rwanda, many of the army officers of the Hutu army fled and continued to fight against the dictatorial RPA rule in Rwanda from refugee camps just inside Congo.
Kagame is known to have orchestrated many murderous acts over the years, including hunting down Hutu civilians in Rwanda and massacring Hutu families, who had fled into Congo’s jungles in the 1990s.

Kagame’s has made an end to Rwanda’s independent media.
Rwandan journalist Agnes Uwimana Nkusi was sentenced to a prison term of 4 years for "insulting the president and endangering national security" after she edited a series of articles critical of Kagame. Another journalist, Jean-Leonard Rugambage, was shot in the head on the day he published a story about Kagame’s government trying to kill Kayumba Nyamwasa.
In 2010, Kagame won 93% of the vote after his government effectively banned major opposition parties from running.

In 2010, after criticising Kagame, Nyamwasa was warned that he was about to be arrested. He swam across a river to escape from Rwanda and eventually made his way to Johannesburg, where he thought he would be safe.
A few months later, Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach and but couldný finish him off, because the gun jammed. Nyamwasa responded that “Kagame was trying to kill me, I have no doubt about it”.

After the presidential election in 2010, even though Western officials knew that Rwanda is a one-party state, the aid to Kagame continued. Support from the USA has remained about $200 million a year in direct bilateral aid.
The NYT argues that it really doesn't understand why the dictator or Rwanda Kagame continues to be supported. Here's my 5-letter explanation - CONGO.

Kagame is a regular at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and friendly with the rich and corrupt, like Clinton, Bill Gates and Bono: https://archive.is/sLBxt

 

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The hypocritical Bono (of U2 fame, KBE) has been supporting the mass murdering dictator of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
See Kagame with Bono, 2015.

In 2002, Drummond and Bono were among the founders of the publicity seeking, do nothing DATA – Debt, Aids, Trade, Africa – that later became One. Bono and Co., in support of Kagame, "so far raised almost €290 million" in partnership with organisations like Apple, Bank of America and Starbucks. The money went to the Geneva-based not-for-profit organisation Global Fund, with close ties the genocide-supporting UN and the World Health Organisation.
From 2001 to 2013, Ireland contributed €163 million to the Global Fund. The fund has spent more than €700 million in Rwanda, of which €70 million came from Red. Most of the €700 has been spent to fight Rwandans with AIDS: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/into-africa-with-bono-1.2340451

 

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Have you heard the news? Former Rothschild banker and current French president Emmanuel Macron had an "investigation" started that it was wrong that France sold weapons to the Rwanda Hutu government, because they had no right to defend themselves against the genocidal heroes of Rwanda, the RPF...

In other words, until 31 January 2022 he can conduct business in the US as if he isn't sanctioned.
The most important aspect is probably that also Gertler’s assets are unblocked that have been held by banks in the US, including Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Bank of New York Mellon and Wells Fargo.
If he quickly moves his funds it wouldn't matter much if the Biden administrations cancels the license.

Surprise? On 8 March, the Biden administration has revoked the sanctions waiver for the Chabad-Lubavitch plunderer of the Congo Dan Gertler, earlier granted by president Donald: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2...ons-waiver-for-israeli-mining-magnate-gertler


That was literally within days, after the following "bombshell" article was published on 5 March, that didn't get much publicity...

Navy Malela and Gradi Koko worked in the audit department of Afriland First Bank, the Congolese subsidiary of a Cameroonian bank. When nothing was done when they blew the whistle internally on the embezzlement they witnessed, they took this story to the international press. In July 2020, stories were published by Le Monde, Bloomberg and Haaretz.
It involved Dan Gertler, who used a money-laundering network to circumvent U.S. sanctions, in which the Afriland Bank played a central role.

Both Malela and Koko fled to Europe by the time they were criminally charged in the Congo.
Since then, these whistleblowers were sentenced to death in Congo under Article 156 of the Criminal Code “Offence against Public Security”, so apparently the interests of Afriland and the Congolese government are intertwined. It is strange that they were sentenced to death, as the "crimes" they were found guilty of aren't punishable by death.
There were also some violations of their right to have their case defended, as their lawyer was prevented from attending the court sessions: https://www.corruptionanonymous.org...n-whistleblowers-the-press-and-civil-society/
(https://archive.is/Jf1cW)

 

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Thank you Firestarter for the education in the specifics of the tactics and character of business and government we can expect to call the 'new normal' in our own countries, soon.

 

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When you look at the facts (honestly) it really can't be denied that the "Tutsi" RPF was in large part responsible for the Rwandan genocide (that was blamed on the "Hutu" extremists), and while most people have never heard of the African World War, here once again the RPF played a large role in the killing of millions.
It has been completely confirmed by official sources that the US army trained the RPF militias, but... these mass murderers are still considered the heroes of the sordid affair.


Wayne Madsen in 2001 made some shocking allegations. Unfortunately I couldn't find the most interesting references in the long essay.
Not only was the US army training the RPF, but even the "private" company Brown & Root, subsidiary of Halliburton, was training RPF forces and providing logistic support in the Congo.

Then it gets worse (I couldn't find the source for this)...
Madsen describes reports that US forces have actually participated in the extermination of Hutu refugees in the Congo.

]Moreover, the DGSE reported the Americans had knowledge of the extermination of Hutu refugees by Tutsis in both Rwanda and eastern Zaire and were doing nothing about it. More ominously, there was reason to believe that some U.S. forces, either Special Forces or mercenaries, may have actually participated in the extermination of Hutu refugees. The killings reportedly took place at a camp on the banks of the Oso River near Goma.

US military were locating (Hutu) refugees in the Congo and to give them "humanitarian assistance" gave their locations to the RPF army (RPA).
Every time a camp was discovered, Rwanda and Zaire "rebel forces" attacked them.

US military and aid officials proudly announced that no less than 600,000 Hutu refugees returned home to Rwanda from Zaire.
What they forgot to mention that this left some 300,000 unaccounted for. Many Hutus had "disappeared" from camps around Bukavu.

As there can't be good war without 2 sides, US Special Operations personnel were training troops on both sides of the war in the Congo – Rwandans, Ugandans, and Burundians (supporting the RCD "rebels") and Zimbabweans and Namibians (supporting the central government in Kinshasa of Laurent Kabila that was replaced by his son Joseph).
This must have made it easier to control the massacre from Washington DC: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MAD111A.html
(https://web.archive.org/web/20210504052352/http://www.afrikaglobalnetwork.com/htm/Wayne_Madsen.pdf)

 

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The following 1997 article “US Military Role in Rwanda Greater Than Disclosed” describes the "training" of hundreds of Rwandan soldiers by the Pentagon, since the mass murdering RPF was brought to power.
Presence of US military personnel in Rwanda has been near-continuous since early 1995. Humanitarian groups have questioned the motives of US involvement in the region.

Rwanda's military in turn was training Zairians to fight against the brutal dictator Mobutu Sese Seko.
The USA also had close relations with Uganda, Ethiopia and Eritrea that all played a role in the insurgency against the Zairian government of Mobuto.

In retrospect this was done in preparation of African World War to plunder the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing millions: https://web.archive.org/web/2020100...sclosed/13bd3472-5a0e-4658-9c04-50736bc6c852/

 

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The following long article on the genocide by the "heroic" RPF and Paul Kagame was written by Judy Rever.

It is in large part a summary of the testimony of "Christophe" (of the RPF) about the massive amount of innocent civilians slaughtered in the Gabiro camp by the RPF.

The goal of our group was to kill Hutus. That included women and children. We killed many people, maybe 100 000. Our unit killed on average between 150 and 200 people a day. People were killed with a cord [around their neck], a plastic bag [over their head], a hammer, a knife, or with traditional weapons [machete, panga]. The bodies were then put into mass graves or sometimes burned.

Truckloads of Hutu civilians were brought to the Gabiro camp and massacred for months.
After they were killed, RPF soldiers burned the bodies.

Numerous witnesses corroborated Christophe’s testimony that the RPF had slaughtered (mostly) Hutu civilians "before, during, and after" the genocide.
One soldier said that as soon as the RPF "liberated" an area, all Hutus were systematically slaughtered (to make place for the returning refugee Tutsis): https://glpost.com/top-secret-testimonies-implicate-paul-kagame-rwandas-president-in-war-crimes/
(http://web.archive.org/web/20210217...-paul-kagame-rwandas-president-in-war-crimes/)

 

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The following details the testimony of the late Michael Hourigan about his investigation into the RPF (mostly about the plane crash) for the International Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) being shut down (by Louise Arbour).

Here's some more information...

In January 1997, after telling senior International Criminal Trial for Rwanda judge Louise Arbour by "secure phone" from the US embassy, Michael Hourigan travels to The Hague (in the Kingdom of the Netherlands) where he gives her a secret memo. Arbour orders him to shut down his probe, not long after Hourigan quits as an investigator.
What he detailed, is that Rwandan President Paul Kagame (and the RPF) was behind shooting down the plane with Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana and the president of Burundi Cyprien Ntaryamira in April 1994, which started the genocide.

On 1 August 1997, Hourigan wrote a second memorandum detailing allegations from 3 informants, all 3 claim to have been members of the covert attack team "the network" that shot the plane down on the orders of Kagame.
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"I was in Kigali. It was late one evening. One of my investigators came to me with information that he had met with a source," Hourigan says. A short time later, another source comes forward. And then a third.
"In the next 24 hours, they gave quite incredible information about the rocket attack. We had received lots of information about possible causes, but this was the most detailed, accurate and timely about one target: President Kagame and his administration.
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"The sources have all confirmed that 'the network' under the command of General Paul Kagame planned and executed the rocket attack."
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Hourigan's commander, Jim Lyons, arranges a phone briefing with Arbour. The call takes place in the US embassy in Kigali on a "secure" US embassy line. Later, Hourigan will rue the call.
"I never realised that we may be compromising the investigation. I didn't understand the politics of the region. I didn't realise that Paul Kagame had been trained by the US, supported by the US. I thought that we were keeping the call discrete from the French and the Belgians. I never thought of the US."

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In November 2006, French judge Jean-Louis Brugiere concluded that Kagame is behind the plane crash and issues indictments for Kagame's aides, and the (second) Hourigan memorandum is made public: https://rwandadelaguerreaugenocide.univ-paris1.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Annexe_49.pdf
(https://web.archive.org/web/2021041...1.fr/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Annexe_49.pdf)


In 2013, Hourigan died of a reported "brain haemorrhage"...

 

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Now everybody seems to know that witnesses of the many, many crimes of the Clintons for some reason, often die quite suddenly (I think that the "Clinton body count" is really the "Bush-Clinton body count" though).


In late October 1994, Clinton’s USAID Chief for Africa Brian Atwood met Rwandan Foreign Minister Jean Marie Ndagijimana and the UN’s Kofi Annan in Kigali to discuss what to do with the undeniable mass murders of the RPF that had to be installed as leaders, so a minor technicality as orchestrating the genocide had to be covered up...
At the time Robert Gersony had documented massive military-style executions of civilians by Kagame’s troops.

Brian Atwood and Kofi Annan ordered Ndagijimana to assist in the “cover-up” of the war crimes by the RPF.
As we all know the best way to keep evidence of crimes from ever seeing the light of day, is by "silencing" whistleblowers and (other) witnesses. And it really isn't any secret that many have died, although not many have blamed US intelligence of murdering witnesses to the murderous acts of our "hero" Kagame...

Ndagijimana resigned as minister, fled Rwanda and told his story in 2007.


In the 2003, Chief Prosecutor for both the Yugoslavia and Rwanda tribunals Carla Del Ponte, publicly announced that she would begin the prosecution of members of Kagame’s government. But 18 years later, not one case has been filed against any member of Kagame’s government (including Paul Kagame himself).
Del Ponte was replaced at the ICTR within 90 days of her announcement by Abubacar Jallow, a US/UK-approved Prosecutor who promised NOT to prosecute any on Kagame’s side, no matter the facts: https://www.jurist.org/commentary/2008/02/rwanda-genocide-cover-up/
(https://archive.is/vrbXe)

 

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The following March 2006 article details some of the corporations, and associated people, involved in plundering the Congo (and Zaire before it was renamed)...


US diamond magnate Maurice Tempelsman has profited from Katanga concessions since the 1960s. Lawrence Devlin, the CIA station chief of Lubumbashi when Eisenhower was US president, helped Tempelsman’s in plundering Zaire, and was subsequently hired (kickbacks?) by Tempelsman.
Katanga’s militias and racketeering are connected to criminal businessmen, including Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, Billy Rautenbach, John Bredenkamp, and Marc Rich.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is one of those western agencies whose flights (including illicit activities) remain unaccountable.
IRC directors include Henry Kissinger, whose flights to, from and inside Congo, are unmonitored by MONUC arms embargo inspectors, because IRC flights are not within the MONUC "mandate".

George H.W. Bush's buddy Adolph Lundin from the Kingdom of Sweden controls mining concessions in Lubumbashi, Kolwezi and Mbuji Mayi areas in the Katanga (Shaba) and Kasai provinces.
Phelps Dodge from the US partnered with Lundin’s Tenke Mining in Katanga copper/cobalt mining projects. Phelps Dodge director Douglas C. Yearly is also a director of Lockheed Martin.

The World Wildlife Fund partnered with USAID and CARE in “conservation” projects (or should we say looting?) all over the Congo, while CARE’s “humanitarian” agenda is also financed by Lockheed Martin: http://web.archive.org/web/20080304212908/http://www.alternatives.ca/article2396.html

 

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It could very well be that the Rwanda of the homocidal maniac Paul Kagame has the worst corona lockdown in the whole wide world.
The Rwandan police has arbitrarily locked up tens of thousands of people in stadiums, accusing them of violating "public health measures", without legal grounds or trails.

The Rwandan government is especially rough on dissidents criticising the draconian lockdown or Kagame in general.
At least 8 people were threatened, arrested, and/or prosecuted by Rwandan authorities in the last year after commenting on the current state of affairs in Rwanda on YouTube. In February 2021, singer and poet Innocent Bahati went "missing". Bahati's poems posted on YouTube, focused on social issues like growing poverty or the harsh lockdown and its impact.

The combination of threats, vaguely defined offenses, and disproportionate prison sentences have created an environment of censorship even more extreme than in the "developed" world (sadly this censorship is supported by HRW).
In 2018, legislation was adopted in Rwanda that makes it illegal to "Affirm that there was a double genocide, providing wrong statistics about victims of the genocide and distort the facts about genocide for the purpose of misleading the public”.
This makes it illegal to describe the crimes by the RPF before, during and after the 1994 "Rwandan genocide", punishable by up to 7 years in prison and a fine of at least 500,000 Rwandan Francs ($500).

On 8 May 2019, President Kagame gave a chilling threat to those criticising this psychopath on online platforms:

Those that you hear speak on the internet, whether they are in America, in South Africa, or in France, they think they are far. They are far, but they are close to the fire. The day they get closer, the fire will burn them.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/30/rwanda-arrests-prosecutions-over-youtube-posts

 

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Goldberg and Laniado were also partners in the Angolan diamond monopoly Ascorp, which is controlled by Russian-Israeli billionaire Chabad-Lubavitcher Lev Leviev, the associate of Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Ron Lauder. Leviev also had several numbered accounts at HSBC.
Among Ascorp’s shareholders was the Angolan dictator’s daughter Isabel dos Santos, the richest African woman with nearly $4 billion.

Isn't it strange how continuing to follow the trails of "different" topics so very often connect them to each other?

The Prince Constantijn, Macro Advisory Partners associated Boston Consulting Group (BCG) also worked with Isabel dos Santos.
Some of the world’s largest consultancy firms — including BCG, McKinsey & Company and PwC — helped Dos Santos plunder Angola.

BCG was contracted by the Angolan state oil company Sonango and the jewelry company De Grisogono, owned by Dos Santos' husband Sindika Dokolo through shell companies in Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands. BCG was paid through offshore companies in which a large part of the money paid by the Angolan government was in fact paid to Dos Santos cronies through an offshore shell company. My wild guess is that BCG knew about this...

Isabel dos Santos and husband have been charged in Angola (now that her father is out of power) with stealing $1 billion in state funds, through De Grisogono and Sonangol, with their assets in Angola frozen.
The Angolan population apparently have to pay double, the government borrowed at a 9% annual interest rate from Banco BIC, in which Dos Santos owns a 42.5% stake.

See Isabel dos Santos (centre), hosting a party for De Grisogono in 2018, with celebrity guests (from left) Chris Tucker, Nicole Scherzinger, Paris Hilton and Chris Zylka.

Dokolo controlled the rights to more than 45% of Angola’s diamond sales through De Grisogono.
When the Boston Consulting Group supposedly stopped its involvement with the jewelry company in early 2013, at the same time consultants left BCG to be directly employed as De Grisogono executives, CEO, chairman, chief financial officer and chief operating officer all came from BCG

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We all "know" about the 1994 Rwanda genocide in which savage Hutus chopped up more than half a million innocent Tutsis with machetes.
What most people don't know is that the genocide was orchestrated by Anglo-American intelligence and the plan executed by the "Tutsi" RPF/RPA that was led by the psychopath Paul Kagame and the majority of victims were Hutus. For his starring role in orchestrating this genocide, Kagame was praised as some sort of hero, was installed as Rwanda's dictator, in which role he continues to lock up and murder innocent people.

Most people also don't know about the subsequent "African World War" in which another millions of Africans died, with once again Kagame in a major role. The ultimate prize of the millions of innocent people butchered is the former colony of Belgium, the Congo, which is one of the richest countries in the world in natural resources, and is continued to be plundered as a "democratic republic".


Wouldn't you know it? The Hunter Biden/Christopher Heinz Rosemont Seneca, with the Thornton Group and Chinese state investments - Bohai Harvest RST (BHR) - were (are?) also involved in plundering the Congo.
Hunter Biden actually joined the board of BHR.

In 2016, the Chinese mining outfit China Molybdenum through BHR bought out the Canadian miner Lundin stake in the Tenke Fungurume cobalt and copper mine in Katanga (the Congo) for more than a billion dollar (different amounts are mentioned in different articles, including $1.14 billion and $3.8 billion), in which the majority stake is owned by the American giant Freeport-McMoRan. Funded by the Chinese state.

At the time, Hunter Biden owned 10% of BHR...
He sold his 10% share in BHR in 2019 (for how much?) that had been completely financed by Communist China: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?558689-Heinz-Hunter-Rosemont-and-China


On a related inhumane note, in one of those great examples of "human rights", Queen Elizabeth's government has signed a $156 million deal with Kagame's dictatorship to send asylum seekers on a one-way ticket to Rwanda. Cynically noting that this is expected to deter migrants.
PM Boris Johnson said the deal will become “a new international standard” in handling migration: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...n-to-send-refugees-to-rwanda-sparks-criticism

 

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It's amazing that so very often when I investigate "different" topics, I find information that links them together.

Yoweri Museveni was one of the major operatives that orchestrated the 1994 Rwandan genocide and subsequent "African World War" on the orders of his Anglo-American masters...

Also interesting is that the Executive Director of Oxfam International from 2013 to 2019 was one Winnie Byanyima, who then became Executive Director of UNAIDS.
In January 2015, Byanyima co-chaired the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The Byanyima family sort of adopted the young man that in 1986 became the ruthless long-time dictator of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, with the help of none other than Winnie Byanyima

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Paul Rusesabagina, who has reportedly saved more than a thousand Tutsis in his hotel during the Rwandan genocide, was made famous by the movie "Hotel Rwanda". After he criticised Paul Kagame, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison in Rwanda in September 2021.
Rusesabagina has been released after spending more than 900 days in jail, after his sentence was commuted by Rwandan President Kagame: https://www.france24.com/en/africa/...a-released-after-more-than-900-days-in-prison


In 2014, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson published their book on the Rwandan genocide, homocidal dicator Kagame, the African World War that killed millions and the plundering of the Congo - Enduring Lies: The Rwandan Genocide in the Propaganda System, 20 Years Later.
Unfortunately I couldn't find a freely readable version of this book that could be good. This should have exposed what really happened in the Rwandan genocide, but it never did. While Herman and Peterson aren't famous, Herman has frequently collaborated with the well-known Noam Chomsky....

Here's (the transcript of) a 2016 interview with Edward S. Herman, who has been attacked as a "genocide denier" by mainstream history falsifiers.
His conclusions are very similar to the truth I've discovered behind all the lies about the "Rwandan genocide": https://www.globalresearch.ca/rwand...ed-interview-with-professor-ed-herman/5502707


In 2010, Edward S. Herman and David Peterson already published a book on "the politics of genocide" in which they describe that "genocide" by US allies is never called "genocide", but when it's an enemy of US imperialist politics, it's always called "genocide", even when this isn't true. With a forword by Noam Chomsky and endorsed by John Pilger (another well-known journalist).
So they describe several "genocides" by the US (and their friends) that were described as "benign bloodbaths" by our wonderful media, and "genocides" by their adverseries that weren't really or were blamed on others than the (real) mass murderers (friends of the US authorities).

Here they already deny the official version of the Rwandan genocide "that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down", detailed in Chapter 4, while also explaining that the same mass murdering psychopaths that were declared the heroes of the genocide continued their murdering of Africans in the Congo (while plundering the dirt poor country).

In my opinion the book isn't detailed enough (it's relatively short at only 150 pages)...
Edward S. Herman and David Peterson - The politics of genocide (2010): https://files.libcom.org/files/Edward_Herman_and_David_Peterson_The_Politics_of_Genocide__2010.pdf
(http://web.archive.org/web/20220525075722/https://files.libcom.org/files/Edward_Herman_and_David_Peterson_The_Politics_of_Genocide__2010.pdf)


Another important topic in this 2010 book, are the double standards in the wars that broke up Yugoslavia.
Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman described that preceding the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre, several thousand Serb civilians were killed, which were essentially unreported in the mainstream media, while the numbers of Srebrenica’s executed victims were inflated: https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/


They deny that the Serbs were guilty of genocide, like in Srebrenica, while the murder of Serbs by US allies were described as "benign bloodbaths", similar to what I have argued: Destruction of Yugoslavia – Soros & Mabel

 

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About a month after the Niger coup, another coup d'état took place in another former French colony in West-Africa, Gabon, on 30 August 2023.
Gabon is one of Africa's major producers of oil, a member of OPEC, and neighbours the Congo, arguably the richest country in natural resources in the world.

Opposition parties and independent observers complained of electoral fraud in the 26 August election in which Ali Bongo Ondimba was declared as the (re-elected) president. Bongo placed Gabon under curfew and shut down the internet “to prevent the spread of false news and potential violence”.
The new military leaders said that Bongo and his cronies were arrested on charges of treason, embezzlement, corruption, falsifying the president's signature and drug-trafficking.

The coup brought an end to the 56-year-long rule of the corrupt Bongo family over Gabon. Ali Bongo took over from his father, Omar Bongo, after he died in a Spanish clinic in 2009, following nearly 42 years as president.
While Bongo is called a close ally of France, Gabon joined the (British) Commonwealth of Nations in 2022.

Like in Niger, France also has around 400 soldiers stationed in Gabon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Gabonese_coup_d'état

 

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One of the very few credible reporters in the world, who features extensively in this thread, Keith Harmon Snow, died last December at the age of 64 reportedly from “cancer”.

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart was a director of a director of both Royal Dutch Shell and the Congo-plundering Anglo American, and an advisory member of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s board.
The Anglo-Ashanti Company helped rebel militia leaders with lawyers for their defence in the eastern Congo.

Roger Winter, head of the US Committee for Refugees (USCR), helped whitewash the genocide by the Kagame-led RPA/RPF.
Winter also provided covert support to John Garang, commander of the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), a US proxy force known for its brutality.
Roger Winter got a nice medal from Kagame on 4 July 2012.

Maurice Tempelsman played a key role in driving the “holocaust in Central Africa”.
Tempelsman was chairman of the board of Lazare Kaplan International Inc. (LKI), the largest diamond company in the US, and a partner in Leon Tempelsman & Son with lucrative mining interests throughout Africa.
In the 1960s, Tempelsman was affiliated with Congolese dictator Joseph Mobutu and worked with CIA agent Larry Devlin in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, who wanted to nationalise Congo’s mineral wealth.
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The Kingdom of Belgium has admitted its role in the murder. The execution was commanded by Belgian Captain Julien Gat and Belgian Police Commissioner Frans Verschurre, while President Tshombe and 2 of his cabinet ministers watched.
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The Belgian minister for African affairs Count Harold d’Aspremont Lynden sent a telegram to Belgian officials in the Congo, 3 months before Lumumba’s death, “The main aim to pursue in the interests of the Congo, Katanga and Belgium is clearly Lumumba’s definitive elimination”.

https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=82512#p82512

The Chabad-Lubavitch cartels of Dan Gertler and Benny Steinmetz also took a stake in plundering the blood diamonds in the Congo.

Movie star Ben Affleck also supports the Rwanda genocide propaganda, and even became close to Paul Kagame’s family and met in Central Africa with Rwandan militia leader Laurent Nkunda, who is guilty of crimes against humanity in the Congo.

Keith Harmon Snow also wrote a book about the corruption in the Connecticut family court system, which has been transformed into a “private profit-based system of extortion and criminal racketeering” that “enriches lawyers, judges, doctors and psychologists”: https://covertactionmagazine.com/20...-exposed-lies-regarding-the-rwandan-genocide/
(https://archive.is/Fx5gI)


Snow’s death coincides with the Rwanda-backed M23 militia taking control of the city of Goma in the Congo’s mineral-rich province of South Kivu.


Here’s another long essay by Keith Harmon Snow about the genocide in Rwanda and Congo (the African World War) in which black mercenaries are used as scapegoats (picturing them as black “savages”…) for the ICC political show trials, that ultimately all serve the interests of Western and Chinese corporations that are plundering the natural resources while the population remains dirt poor.

Oil companies that have laid claim to concessions on Lake Albert include: Tower Resources; South African consortiums PetroSA and Divine Inspiration; and H Oil & Minerals Ltd.
Tower Resources is a US-UK firm affiliated with UK-based Hardman Resources and tied to oil exploitation in Kenya and Namibia.

The architects of covert operations in Africa during the Clinton years, including the Rwanda genocide, include: Thomas Pickering, Susan Rice, Gayle Smith, Donald Payne, Ed Royce, John Podesta, Anthony Lake, and (of course) Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Walter Kansteiner III was also deeply implicated in the ongoing wars in the Congo. Kansteiner is the son of a coltan trader in Chicago, and a “National Security” insider and member of the Department of Defense Task Force on Strategic Minerals under president Clinton, and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa under George Bush Jr.

The FNI militia really served as the private proxy army for the gold mining operations of the Swedish Metalor, and AngloGold Ashanti, in a partnership with Barrick Gold.
AngloGold Ashanti, headquartered in South Africa, is the Anglo-American mining conglomerate of the Oppenheimers and De Beers mining cartels of Britain and South Africa, whose interests are aligned with the previously mentioned Belgian-American intelligence insider Maurice Tempelsman.

In 2000-2004, longtime Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni was co-chair of the “Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa” (PCHPA). The PCHPA is a front for USAID and multinational corporations plundering Africa.
Other (former) PCHPA chairs include: former US Senator Bob Dole; President of the International Rescue Committee (once again…) George Rupp; and former Chair of the Commission of the African Union Alpha Konare.
One PCHPA director also represents Bread for the World, another Christian evangelical “charity” whose directors include Bob Dole and former White House officials Mike McCurry and Leon Panetta.

Senator Tom Daschle is a senior fellow of the Center for American Progress (CAP), the US “think tank” behind a multitude of front groups with hidden foreign policy agendas around Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and Sudan. The front groups involving national security insider for president Clinton John Prendergast include: the ENOUGH! Project; the RAISE HOPE FOR CONGO initiative; Genocide Intervention Network, the ONE Campaign and the International Crisis Group (ICG).
The ONE campaign was spearheaded by U2’s Bono and launched by a coalition of 11 prominent corporate “charities” connected to the corrupt Kennedy family, including Bread for the World, CARE, Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee (IRC). CARE has been funded by the giant weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

Moto Gold Mining “lease” has orchestrated a massive land grab of 1,841 square kilometres in Durba, Watsa and Doko. Moto Gold’s partners include Siemens and Ken Overseas.
Siemens director Tiego Moseneke is also a director of PetroSA, the South African oil minor getting lucrative oil concessions on Lake Albert, while Ken Overseas Company is involved in the Minière de Bakwanga (MIBA) diamond mines in Congo’s Mbuji-Mayi province. Ken Overseas is also involved in a MIBA mining consortium linked to the Belgian Philippe de Moerloose and the previously mentioned Dan Gertler (Chabad-Lubavitch): https://www.globalresearch.ca/merch...-corporate-financed-holocaust-in-africa/11311