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As we announced on Monday July 5, 2010 (see article “Rwandan Dossier Against Kayumba and Karenzi: Part I & II here), AfroAmerica has obtained from our invaluable sources original copies of the dossier concocted by the Rwandan Government  and sent to the South African Government and INTERPOL requesting the arrest and extradition of  the exiled Rwandan General Kayumba  Nyamwasa and Colonel Patrick Karegeya.

AfroAmerica Network promised to progressively share with you, our readers, the content of the voluminous  but extremely interesting dossier. The dossier involves the Rwandan Government and South Africa, but also other countries in the region. Today we will focus on Colonel Patrick Karegeya, a co-indicted with General Nyamwasa.

As we continue with Part 3 of the dossier, another  alleged Rwandan Intelligence services operative has been charged for conspiring to assassinate the Rwandan general. The Rwandan, Pascal Kanyandekwe joins four more already in custody in South Africa: Shafiri Bakari, Juma Husein, Ahmed Ali and George Francis. Another suspect, Francis Gakwerere, who is the initial suspect apprehended after the failed assassination attempt, has disappeared while on a temporary release. He is a Rwandan intelligence operative.

His indictment provoked the ire of the Rwandan government.

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At the African Union Annual Summit held in Kampala, Uganda, under heightened security following the recent terrorist attacks, US Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr.  delivered today on July 25, 2010,  a hopeful but firm and tough speech. The speech, based on President Obama’s goals regarding the future of Africa, was  first a recommitment of brotherhood and shared interests, but also a stern warning to three evils Africa faces: Terrorism; bad governance, corruption and human rights abuses; and poverty.

“There are four specific areas where, I believe, America’s support must continue and where I hope our partnership can be strengthened:

in combating global terrorism and international crime; in promoting good governance and the rule of law; in creating the conditions and capacity for economic development; and, finally, in ensuring that Africa’s women and girls are no longer disproportionately affected by violence or denied basic rights and equal opportunities to learn, to dream, and to thrive, ” US Attorney General Eric Holder, Jr. said in the speech in front of subdued African leaders.

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The Swedish born Inga-Britt Monica Stigsdotter Ahlenius, the Under-Secretary-General for United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS), has openly challenged the UN Secretary General  Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, accusing him of incompetence and lack of leadership, sources at the United Nations tell AfroAmerica.

In an internal damning memo, the outgoing Ms. Inga-Britt Monica Stigsdotter Ahlenius  accuses her soon to be ex-boss of being aloof,  backstabbing her, and undermining the functioning of the United Nations bodies.

Ms. Ahlenius has a long and extensive background in audit and public service. Between 1968 and 1993 she held various posts at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Finance in Sweden, including as head of the Budget Department from 1987. Between, 1993 and 2003, she served as Auditor General of the Swedish National Audit Office, before being the UN Auditor General on Kosovo, with the proposition and the backing of the United States.

On July 14, 2005 she was appointed as Under-Secretary-General for United Nations Internal Oversight Services for a five-year term.

Since 1993 she has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.

The open attack to the leadership of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon  follows another serious controversy involving the UN Secretary General. On July 15, 2010 the Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame, appointed by Mr. Ban Ki-Moon to co-chair the Millennium  Development Goals initiative along with the Spanish Prime Minister Jose Zapatero was shunned publicly, following widespread protests by the Spanish NGOs, political organizations and families of Spanish missionaries allegedly assassinated by General Paul Kagame and his officers (see our article “IS MDG STILL BORN?”)

The succession of the controversies may put pressure on Mr. Ban Ki-Moon and further weaken the UN.

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In his opening remarks in Spain (see below)  at the first meeting of the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Secretary General disappointingly said that nine out of ten US residents do not know what this initiative was or stands for.  He urged the audience to spread the word arround to get people to know and support the initiative.

The problem is: what can such an initiative led by an accused war criminal and “genocidaire”, a de facto fascist and, according to the prestigious Foreign Policy Magazine,  a leader who “practices … ethnic apartheid” in his country, bring.

The UN Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon maya have made a serious mistake by appointing the  Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame to co-chair the initiative. He took an initiative that sought to uplift the poor and to advocate on the behalf of the underprivileged and  the economically oppressed and subjected it to the tyranny of one o the worst oppressors, if not the worst oppressor,  in the world.

Now that the President of the Spanish Government has shunned the responsibility of sharing the job with the alleged criminal, the eyes are on what will become of the MDG. Is the controversy distracting the initiative of its goals? Is the MDG still born?

In his statements to the press on July 16, 2010 the UN Secretary General, through Farhan Haq, the Associate Spokesperson for the Secretary-General, justified his choice of Rwandan Dictator General Paul Kagame in the  following exchange with the press, but quickly acknowledged the problems and the roadblocks of that this choice creates:

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Photo: Juan Carrero Saralegui, President of Fundacion S’Olivar of Mallorca Spain; un Hombre de Paz

The President of the Spanish Government, Prime Minister Louis Zapatero has shunned a meeting that was planned with Rwandan Dictator, General Paul Kagame.

Under pressure from Spanish Non Government Organizations through  the Coordinating Committee for Development NGOs in Spain (CONGDE), Amnesty International, Fundacion S’Olivar and the Nobel Prize Winner the Argentinian Adolfo Esquivel, the Prime Minister Zapatero had to decline meeting the accused criminal Paul Kagame and instead will send his Foreign Affairs Minister,  Miguel Angel Moratino. The venue of the meeting was also changed from the seat of the Government at Moncloa Palace to a luxurious commercial hotel in downtown Madrid.

In June 2010, after the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon had appointed him to serve as Co-Chair of  the UN Millennium Development Goals with the Rwandan dictator General Paul Kagame,

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Foreign Policy Magazine,  the prestigious bimonthly American political magazine, has published  in its July/August 2010 edition a list of the worst of the worst world leaders. It is a dictator “who is who”, a compilation of the 23 worst evil leaders  that the magazine calls “bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.” They are from all continents. Twenty three in all. Africa has  the lion share of 13 , or 3/5.   From Africa we have the usual assassins, wannabe liberators turned exterminators, and self declared medicine men.  The ranking by Foreign Policy Magazine, recognized for its academic rigor in areas of global politics and and economics that won it the 2003, 2007, and 2009 National Magazine Award for General Excellence will likely serve as a reference for politicians in Washington and around the World.

According to Foreign Policy Magazine,  one of the new worst of the worsts, Paul Kagame of Rwanda has become a fascist and “practices the same ethnic apartheid he sought to end.”

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The Rwandan government has recently been the subject of widespread international criticisms for its appalling human rights record, assassinations and assassination attempts on independent journalists and opposition figures,  and systematic repression against the opposition and the independent media in general.  Rwandans are suffering from the abuses, but the Taxpayers from the West are bearing the financial burden: they are footing the bill of the Rwandan repression.

Addressing the Rwandan Senate on Monday July 12, 2010, the Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister, Ms. Louise Mushikiwabo said: “Having negative reporting is better than not having anything said about the country.” Although, this may appear to be a sarcastic comment, the Rwandan government truly seems to enjoy the overwhelming negative reports from the international media and governments on its aggravating human rights abuses. In fact, instead of paying attention to the criticisms and improve its record, the Rwandan government has increased the repression.

However, below the impression of resolve as evidenced by the tough talk by the Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister, the Rwandan government  has started to take the negative press very seriously.

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Sources at the United Nations in New York tell AfroAmerica Network that the UN Secretary General has fired the Force Commander of  United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the COngo (MONUSCO),  Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye from Senegal.
The dismissal of Lt General Babacar Gaye follows acknowledgment by the UN Security Council that the war in the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, especially in the  Kivus,  against rebels, both foreign and local, has failed and only led to a catastrophic humanitarian situation.

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As we announced on Monday July 5, 2010 (see article “Rwandan Dossier Against Kayumba and Karenzi: Part I here),, AfroAmerica has obtained from our invaluable sources original copies of the dossier concocted by the Rwandan Government  and sent to the South African Government and INTERPOL requesting the arrest and extradition of  the exiled Rwandan General Kayumba  Nyamwasa and Colonel Patrick Karegeya.

AfroAmerica Network promised to progressively share with you, our readers, the content of the voluminous  but extremely interesting dossier. The dossier involves the Rwandan Government and South Africa, but also other countries in the region.

Continue with  “Rwandan Dossier Against Kayumba and Karenzi: Part II  in African Great Lakes Pages  of AfroAmerica Network (http://www.afroamerica.net).

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