KAGAME REJECTION AS KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT GENOCIDE CONFERENCE: THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Dear Mr President, Sacramento State University, changed its mind on having you speak at their international conference on genocide. Why? Because members of that community opposed your presence. So did hundreds of Rwandans, Congolese and Americans from all over who pressed the University to dis-invite you.

Mr President, a comment by a blogger named Dunia in San Francisco Bayview put it best, when he explained why it would have been inappropriate to have you speak at the genocide conference:

“If this conference is about how to prepare and implement the genocide, then Kagame is the right man because he is expert in genocide implementation. He has more experience in organised killings, massacres and hiding evidence by lies, burning human bodies as he has done in Rwanda and Congo genocide. But if the conference is about the truth, reconciliation, and conflict prevention, then this invitation is completely wrong and Kagame should not be allowed by any human rights organisation, independent institutions in such a conference.”

Mr President, you and your supporters don’t seem to read the signs of times.

You are now totally exposed. Your PR machinery will not reverse the known truth. Just like the above quoted blogger described you Sir, you are the world’s most qualified  expert in genocide implementation. You have more experience in organised killings, massacres, intimidation, assassination, imprisonment and exiling. You have a PhD in hiding evidence by lies and grotesque manipulation.

What does this rejection of your presence at the Sacramento conference mean for you Sir?

The rejection  means that the writing is on the wall. You are finished. You are history. You should have realised last year that the outside world knows you are damaged goods, and that they can do something about it, unlike us Rwandans that you crushed like flies in your own words. Last year at Oklahoma Christian University, you had to run like a thief to avoid receiving court summons for your past crimes. Everywhere you go now you are shunned – you are in fact a monster, only protected by presidential immunity.

Mr President, there are more land mines ahead in you rocky path. The French judges are about to confirm what the world already knows – that you killed the dictator you replaced as head of state of Rwanda.

All of these things Sir you need to ponder about. You are trapped for sure. Your world is unravelling and this process is unstoppable.

Let me end my letter with the words of a Rwandan blogger Sam Yongwe who regularly contributes to AfricanDictator.org. He writes:

“Its hard to believe but its happening for sure: Mr Kagame is history. Mark my words: Mr Kagame is gone within the next three years at most. That’s my prediction. His supporters will say that this is wishful thinking, but I know what I am talking about. Those of his supporters who are smart enough to see the writings on the wall should try to be on the right side of history and join us. The biggest challenge I see for us is to figure out who will lead us post Kagame, because of the huge challenge to undo the damage that Kagame has done.”

Mr President, I personally believe that even you can still play a part in saving Rwanda before you go down with it. You can for example free political prisoners, remove the illegal court sentences against your opponents and have a national dialogue in which you work yourself out of a job. You would in fact redeem your reputation that now lies in shambles. This way you can avoid the miserable end you have recently witnessed on our continent – Ghaddafi hiding in a sewer like a rat, Ghagbo and his wife flashed out of a hideout like petty criminals, and Mubarak brought in a courtroom caged like a monkey.

But President Kagame, are you man enough to save yourself and our country?

Ngangurarugo, San Francisco, USA