Muraho mwese,

Abantu mwacitse kw'icumu muba i mu Rwanda, mushobora kuba mutabizi, aliko uyu mugabo Gén. Dallaire abenshi mwabonye cg mwumvise mu gihe cya genocide, yahindutse ibyo mu kinyarwanda twita igihungete. Avuka kandi aba hano muri Canada, mubyukuri kuba kiri umuntu nuko ari umuzungu ufite uko ameze, n'igihugu cye kikaba kimwitaye ho ubundi ....haba harameze urwiri kera.... Genocide y'Abatutsi yaramurondogoje birenze uko mwibaza. Ntakindi kimuva mukanwa !

Ingero ni nyinshi cyane. Dore iz'ingenzi jye niboneye ubwanjye : Ubwambere na mubonye i Québec (Canada), muri Concorde Hotel, yaje gutanga conférénce sur le génocide des Tutsi. Ubwo yaje afite agasachet k'i Rwanda (narakabonye ndakamenya), karimo agafuni bita "nyirabunyagwa" mu Rwanda bateza intabire, umupanga, n'impiri clouté. Ibyo yahavugiye n'agahoma munwa, muzabibaze uwitwa Kamoso, (mwene Vieux-Kamoso). Ubwo yarashatse kumubonerana ngo yazanywe no kuvugira Inyenzi...!

Kugiti cyanjye maze kubonana nawe inshuro zirenze eshanu, (pas en privé), en public, atanga za conférences sur le Rwanda. C'est un homme à terre, vraiment...!

Ubwakabiri namubonye muri basilique i Québec na none, apfukamye imbere y'ibendera rya ONU, ricishijemo ibyuma (un vrai lambeau), ngo ryatanyaguwe n'abasoda b'Abababirigi mbere yo kuva i Rwanda muri 94 bene wabao bamaze kwicwa. Imbere y'iyo drapeau yari iteye kuri Altari muri iy'iyo chapelle, yahapfukamye amasaha arenga atunu, arira nk'uruhinja, avuga impuissance ye muri ako kaga, kuburyo natwe twese twageze aho tukarizwa na culpabilté ashyira sur son seul pauvre dos, ce qui n'est pas vrai.

Ndakibuka ko icyo gihe, dans le même moment, baje kumubikira nyirabukwe wari umaze gupha, (ibyo babitubwiye plus tard) aliko twabonye umuntu waje kumwongorera; nyuma tubona umugore we arasohotse, aliko we n'a pas bougé. Le sommet de l'affaire, yagiye muri park hafi y'i wabo, atera akagwa kenshi cyane kandi adasanzwe annywa, arannywa ararenza kandi ari ahantu yihishe abandi batabona, maze arisinzirira. Haza kugwa imvura ikonje cyane (hari muri automne), aranyagirwa, (mbese arapfa) baje kuhamukura ari intere, il a fait plusieurs jours à l'hôpital avant de se remettre. (C'est sorti sur un quotien local d'Ottawa).

Bref, ibyo yabayemo byose, nk'abandi batemoins ba génocide, il en a été terriblement affecté. Nabanje kumva mwanze cyane ngirango nibyo yigira, nyuma nza kubona ko nibeshyaga cyane. I was totally wrong, nta na intérêt yabigira mo. Hari benshi mubarokotse n'abandi banyarwanda qui l'accusent de tous les maux, entre-autre ngo kuki il n'a pas voulu démissionner pour attirer toute l'attention de l'ONU et du monde ko byari kugira effet rapide d'intervention. Ibyo narabimubajije (amaso muyandi), ansubiza ko ababyibaza batyo bafite raison (somehow), aliko ko babura certains détails muri iyo dossier pour cerner tous les enjeux. Ati Abatutsi basaga n'abam-maze gutangwa, arrêt de mort yabo yari déjà signé et sellé.

Ubo ndagira ngo tuzihutire gushaka iki gitabo (abazaboshora bien-entendu), wenda hari ubwo twakura mo byinshi. Nari nibagiwe kubabwira ko yaje na Hamilton yatumiwe na MacMaster University, (pour juste quelques heures), Abanyarwanda tubimenye tujya yo, amaze kumenya ko muri iyo hall harimo Abanyarwanda, ibyo kwihuta abivamo, récéption bamutuguriye yanga kuyijya mo, araza turiganirira abazungu arabareka, baratumba, babimubwira ati baramaze nibashaka baturike.........!

Please, tuzabe mubambere bazasoma iki gitabo nigisohoka, ngira ngo tuzahamenyera byinshi, tutari tuzi.

Arthémon Rurangwa

 
Dallaire book slams U.S.
U.N. on Rwanda

Article de Stephanie Nolen
"The Globe And Mail"


No amount of its cash and aid will ever wash "The UN's" hands clean of Rwandan blood."

France and Unated States stood by and let 800.000 people be murderded in Rwanda in April, 1994, retired Canadian peacekeeper Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire writes in a PEWERFUL new book to be published this autumn.

The account also indicts the United Nations for its failure to respond adequately to the genocide. Ultimately, led by the United States, France and the United Kingdom, this world body the “UN” aided and abetted genocide in Rwanda. Gen. Dallaire writes in the book.

“No amount of its cash and aid will ever wash its hands clean of Rwanda blood.” Shake hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda is Gen. Dallaire account of his tenure as head of the UN assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), a story that has taken him almost a decade to tell.

It goes on sale in November; an advance copy was obtained by The Globe and Mail. The UN and the secretariat are small-time culpable compared to the US and France and their actions and inactions, Gen. Dallaire said in an interview yesterday. “The UN mostly in its ability to handle so many very complex problems. France and the US were dominated by self-interest and the psychology of still having imperial, colonial traits.”

Genocide witness details struggle with posttraumatic, stress

Using the detailed daily notes that were taken by his assistant in the field, Gen. Dallaire painstakingly recreated the events leading up to the genocide and provides a minute-by-minute account of the eruption of bloodshed in April, 1994, as his pleas for reinforcements to UN headquarters in New York were ignored.

The Security Council and the office of the secretary-general were obviously at a loss as to what to do, he writes. “I continued to receive demands to supply them with more information before they would take any concrete action. What more could I possibly tell them that I hadn’t already described in horrific details? The odour of death in the hot sun; the flies, maggots, rats and dogs that swarmed to feast on the dead. At times it seemed the smell had entered the pores of my skin…We had sent a deluge of paper and received nothing in return; no supplies, no reinforcements, no decisions.”

The book describes how the United States sent a tip one night based on detailed intelligence in formation that Gen. Dallaire was targeted for assassination by a Rwandan militia. Yet at the same time, US officials claimed to have so little information about what was going in Rwanda that they could not intervene.

General Dallaire also describes watching the departure of a Belgian peacekeeping unit, withdrawn just as the killing, reached its height: “I gave myself over to hate of a nation that had not only lost its nerve to stay in the fight but that was prepared to sacrifice the names and reputations of its own soldiers to soothe its own conscience.”

The book chronicles horrifying scenes from the genocide, when the Hutu majority, led by a band of western-educated extremists, launched a savage attack on Tutsis and Hutu moderates. Gen. Dallaire describes picking his way over stacks of bodies clogging a creek; driving between piles of them along roadsides, bones jutting through flesh and starting to whiten in the sun, and walking in front of this vehicle to move pieces of bodies out the way.

What’s in the book is what we felt people could bear, said Anne Collins, his editor at Random House Canada, which will publish the English edition. “But, Gen. Dallaire had to remember all of it. We only put in the minimum – he wanted to show what it was like, to walk through slurry of blood and mud up to your knees. But he did not want to make a document that you could not bear to read.”

Gen. Dallaire also provides a frank account of his own struggle to live with what he has seen, which has led to his sometimes public struggle with posttraumatic stress disorder. “People thought maybe writing it was going to be therapeutic, but I don’t think it really was, “he said yesterday. The only positive aspect is that I don’t have it all in my head any more. The book is 600 pages, but I wrote a couple of thousands pages, and a lot of the weight in having it all in memory – it’s taken away at lot of pressure.”

Ms. Collins spoke of the immense effort it took Gen. Dallaire to tell the story. “He had so many things to wrestle with including his extraordinary sense of responsibility to the people of Rwanda and the soldiers he lost, “she said.