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05:05
VI- Interview with FDU-UDF chairwoman Victoire Ingabire
The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but the opposition in exile is already getting ready for it. The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) have already announced their participation and are even optimistic. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza heads that organisation and has been presented by Dutch and Belgian media as UDF candidate. That is not the case, at least for the time being, says Ingabire in an interview that I am pleased to present in several parts covering Ingabires biography, democracy and governance in Rwanda, genocide and ethnicity, UDFs relations with other organisations, and their diplomatic relations, including Ingabires meeting with Barack Obama TRADUCTION FRANCAISE: Alors qu il reste encore à peu près deux ans avant les élections présidentielles, on s'y prépare déjà, surtout du côté lopposition en exile. Les Forces Démocratiques Unifiées, FDU, viennent dannoncer quelles allaient y participer et sont même optimistes. Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est à la tête de cette organisation et a été récemment présentée par les média surtout belges et néerlandais comme étant candidate des FDU, ce qui nest pas tout à fait vrai, du moins pour le moment, comme Madame Ingabire me la dit dans linterview que jai le plaisir de vous présenter en plusieurs parties, touchant notamment à la biographie de Madame Ingabire, à la démocratie et à la gouvernance au Rwanda, au génocide et à la question ethnique, aux relations entre les FDU et les autres forces politiques, ainsi qu' à leurs relations diplomatiques, y compris la rencontre de Madame Ingabire avec Barack Obama
04:31
V- Interview with FDU-UDF chairwoman Victoire Ingabire
The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but the opposition in exile is already getting ready for it. The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) have already announced their participation and are even optimistic. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza heads that organisation and has been presented by Dutch and Belgian media as UDF candidate. That is not the case, at least for the time being, says Ingabire in an interview that I am pleased to present in several parts covering Ingabires biography, democracy and governance in Rwanda, genocide and ethnicity, UDFs relations with other organisations, and their diplomatic relations, including Ingabires meeting with Barack Obama TRADUCTION FRANCAISE: Alors qu il reste encore à peu près deux ans avant les élections présidentielles, on s' y prépare déjà, surtout du côté lopposition en exile. Les Forces Démocratiques Unifiées, FDU, viennent dannoncer quelles allaient y participer et sont même optimistes. Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est à la tête de cette organisation et a été récemment présentée par les média surtout belges et néerlandais comme étant candidate des FDU, ce qui nest pas tout à fait vrai, du moins pour le moment, comme Madame Ingabire me la dit dans linterview que jai le plaisir de vous présenter en plusieurs parties, touchant notamment à la biographie de Madame Ingabire, à la démocratie et à la gouvernance au Rwanda, au génocide et à la question ethnique, aux relations entre les FDU et les autres forces politiques, ainsi qu' à leurs relations diplomatiques, y compris la rencontre de Madame Ingabire avec Barack Obama
04:58
IV- Interview with FDU-UDF chairwoman Victoire Ingabire
The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but the opposition in exile is already getting ready for it. The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) have already announced their participation and are even optimistic. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza heads that organisation and has been presented by Dutch and Belgian media as UDF candidate. That is not the case, at least for the time being, says Ingabire in an interview that I am pleased to present in several parts covering Ingabires biography, democracy and governance in Rwanda, genocide and ethnicity, UDFs relations with other organisations, and their diplomatic relations, including Ingabires meeting with Barack Obama TRADUCTION FRANCAISE: Alors quil reste encore à peu près deux ans avant les élections présidentielles, on sy prépare déjà, surtout du côté lopposition en exile. Les Forces Démocratiques Unifiées, FDU, viennent dannoncer quelles allaient y participer et sont même optimistes. Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est à la tête de cette organisation et a été récemment présentée par les média surtout belges et néerlandais comme étant candidate des FDU, ce qui nest pas tout à fait vrai, du moins pour le moment, comme Madame Ingabire me la dit dans linterview que jai le plaisir de vous présenter en plusieurs parties, touchant notamment à la biographie de Madame Ingabire, à la démocratie et à la gouvernance au Rwanda, au génocide et à la question ethnique, aux relations entre les FDU et les autres forces politiques, ainsi qu' à leurs relations diplomatiques, y compris la rencontre de Madame Ingabire avec Barack Obama
05:34
III- Interview with FDU-UDF chairwoman Victoire Ingabire
The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but the opposition in exile is already getting ready for it. The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) have already announced their participation and are even optimistic. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza heads that organisation and has been presented by Dutch and Belgian media as UDF candidate. That is not the case, at least for the time being, says Ingabire in an interview that I am pleased to present in several parts covering Ingabires biography, democracy and governance in Rwanda, genocide and ethnicity, UDFs relations with other organisations, and their diplomatic relations, including Ingabires meeting with Barack Obama TRADUCTION FRANCAISE: Alors quil reste encore à peu près deux ans avant les élections présidentielles, on sy prépare déjà, surtout du côté lopposition en exile. Les Forces Démocratiques Unifiées, FDU, viennent dannoncer quelles allaient y participer et sont même optimistes. Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est à la tête de cette organisation et a été récemment présentée par les média surtout belges et néerlandais comme étant candidate des FDU, ce qui nest pas tout à fait vrai, du moins pour le moment, comme Madame Ingabire me la dit dans linterview que jai le plaisir de vous présenter en plusieurs parties, touchant notamment à la biographie de Madame Ingabire, à la démocratie et à la gouvernance au Rwanda, au génocide et à la question ethnique, aux relations entre les FDU et les autres forces politiques, ainsi qu' à leurs relations diplomatiques, y compris la rencontre de Madame Ingabire avec Barack Obama
02:55
II- Interview with FDU-UDF chairwoman Victoire Ingabire
The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but the opposition in exile is already getting ready for it. The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) have already announced their participation and are even optimistic. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza heads that organisation and has been presented by Dutch and Belgian media as UDF candidate. That is not the case, at least for the time being, says Ingabire in an interview that I am pleased to present in several parts covering Ingabires biography, democracy and governance in Rwanda, genocide and ethnicity, UDFs relations with other organisations, and their diplomatic relations, including Ingabires meeting with Barack Obama TRADUCTION FRANCAISE: Alors quil reste encore à peu près deux ans avant les élections présidentielles, on sy prépare déjà, surtout du côté lopposition en exile. Les Forces Démocratiques Unifiées, FDU, viennent dannoncer quelles allaient y participer et sont même optimistes. Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est à la tête de cette organisation et a été récemment présentée par les média surtout belges et néerlandais comme étant candidate des FDU, ce qui nest pas tout à fait vrai, du moins pour le moment, comme Madame Ingabire me la dit dans linterview que jai le plaisir de vous présenter en plusieurs parties, touchant notamment à la biographie de Madame Ingabire, à la démocratie et à la gouvernance au Rwanda, au génocide et à la question ethnique, aux relations entre les FDU et les autres forces politiques, ainsi quà leurs relations diplomatiques, y compris la rencontre de Madame Ingabire avec Barack Obama
03:13
I- Interview with FDU-UDF chairwoman Victoire Ingabire
The next presidential elections in Rwanda are about two years away but the opposition in exile is already getting ready for it. The Unified Democratic Forces (UDF) have already announced their participation and are even optimistic. Mrs Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza heads that organisation and has been presented by Dutch and Belgian media as UDF candidate. That is not the case, at least for the time being, says Ingabire in an interview that I am pleased to present in several parts covering Ingabires biography, democracy and governance in Rwanda, genocide and ethnicity, UDFs relations with other organisations, and their diplomatic relations, including Ingabires meeting with Barack Obama TRADUCTION FRANCAISE: Alors quil reste encore à peu près deux ans avant les élections présidentielles, on sy prépare déjà, surtout du côté lopposition en exile. Les Forces Démocratiques Unifiées, FDU, viennent dannoncer quelles allaient y participer et sont même optimistes. Madame Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza est à la tête de cette organisation et a été récemment présentée par les média surtout belges et néerlandais comme étant candidate des FDU, ce qui nest pas tout à fait vrai, du moins pour le moment, comme Madame Ingabire me la dit dans linterview que jai le plaisir de vous présenter en plusieurs parties, touchant notamment à la biographie de Madame Ingabire, à la démocratie et à la gouvernance au Rwanda, au génocide et à la question ethnique, aux relations entre les FDU et les autres forces politiques, ainsi qu' à leurs relations diplomatiques, y compris la rencontre de Madame Ingabire avec Barack Obama
06:40
Interview with Eugène Shimamungu
Eugène Shimamungu is editor and author of a number of books on Rwanda. He is the director of Editions Sources du Nile, which published Ferdinand Nahimana’s Rwanda: les virages rates. He also taught at the University of Rwanda. He says that his publishing house is not ethnically or ideologically oriented as some people think. For Shimamungu, the only criterion that guides his choices is quality.
03:24
Interview with Déo Mushayidi
Deo Mushaidi is a Tutsi oppositionist living in exile in Belgium. He once worked with the RPF. Deo Mushayi is among the leaders of opposition Partenariat Intwari, which accuses the current regime of committing atrocities. Regarding the analysis made by Ferdinand Nahimana in Rwanda: les virages ratés, Mushayidi says it is a big contribution to the need dialogue among Rwandans.
06:41
Interview with Hervé Déguine, Brussels 15-03-2008
Hervé Déguine was head of the Africa Desk at Reporters Witohut Borders in the early 1990s. He particularly followed the case of Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines and contributed to the charging of its initiators. Déguine is currently completing a biography of Ferdinand Nahimana, one of RTLM founders. He admits having been manipulated and having belonged to the Blancs Menteurs, to borrow the words of Pierre Péan. Regarding the latest book by Nahimana, Rwanda: les virages rates, Déguine criticizes it as being below the usual level at which Nahimana writes.
05:51
Interview with Helmut Strizek
Helmut Strizek is a German Historian. He prefaced Nahimana’s Rwanda: les virages rates. He says that Nahimana’s historiographical analysis and his political background put him in an excellent position to study his country’s past.
09:42
Interview with Faustin Twagiramungu
Faustin Twagiramungu is among the first Hutu leaders who called for a multiparty system in Rwanda in the early 1990. He co-founded the MDR which later split into two fractions. Twagiramungu became he first post genocide Prime Minister, and embodied for one year a semblance of multiethnism in Rwanda. He entered the opposition in 1995 but has since been distant from the Hutu opposition and the RPF-dominated regime. Twagiramungu disagrees with the theories put forward by Ferdinand Nahimana, especially regarding the responsibilities in the failure of the peace process.
04:48
Interview with Dutch MP Chantal Gill'ard- The Hague 26 April
Chantal Gill'ard is member of the Dutch Labour Party PvdA. She is the spokesperson of the Dutch parliament’s development cooperation commission. She was one of the speakers at the International conference on peace in the Great Lakes Region. In her address, Gill’ard emphasized the need for mankind to go beyond differences to form one human race. Gill’ard also told the audience that some people had requested her not to attend the conference. She rejected the request, saying she would attend any other conference those people would organise on the same subject. In this interview, she explains the reason why and how her country is granting 17 million euro to Rwanda. She also commented on Hotel Rwanda and condemned Rwanda’s hostility to that film. However, she encouraged the announced film project aimed at destroying Hotel Rwanda, provided that Rwanda has no hand in it.
05:06
Interview with Charles Ndereyehe - The Hague 26 April 2008
Charles Ndereyehe is an agronomist who entered politics in the mid-1990 in eastern DR-Congo. He was then among the senior leaders of the Hutu opposition movement known as Rassemblement pour le Retour et la Démocratie (RDR). He currently live in the Netherlands and is still active within another umbrella body known as Forces Démocratiques Unies. I met him in The Hague on 26 April 2008 during the international conference on pace in the Great Lakes region. I asked him about his current political activities, his views on the FDLR and on the current situation in Rwanda.
04:32
Interview with Ambassador Robert Krueger- The Hague 26 April
Dr. Robert Krueger is a former US senator and Ambassador to Burundi where he served between 1994 and 1995. He was among the key speakers of the 26 April 2008 International Conference on peace in the Great Lakes Region. In his address to about 400 people, Krueger said that he was a fervent supporter of a truth and reconciliation commission in Rwanda. He added that he did not believe that bringing criminals to justice would bring peace to Rwanda. Admitting that his position was not supported by many, he said that taking president Paul Kagame to court would not solve the issue. “What I want is to see him confess”, he said. In this interview, Krueger says that Rwanda’s ambassador to the US had accused him and Paul Rusesabagina of buying arms in South Africa for Rwandan rebels, FDLR, based in the DR Congo. He denies these allegations.
05:32
Rwandans discuss peace in The Hague - 26 April 2008
Hundreds of Rwandans met on Saturday 26 April in the Dutch Capital the Hague to talk of Peace in their country. I should rather say to talk of peaces as the notion of peace is viewed differently by the Hutu and Tutsi communities. On the one hand, Hutus from all over Europe and a number of Europeans, were patiently and silently queuing in front of the ICJ, where a heavy police presence could be seen. On the other hand were Tutsi protestors, who were having banners announcing that the Peace Palace, the seat of the UN Court of Justice was not appropriate for the Peace Conference. Unfortunately, protestors refused to answer my questions, preferring to direct me to their leader who had their official message. Paul Rusesabagina, the man who inspired the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda was the key speaker of the day The public was given a chance to ask questions, even though many of them remained unanswered. Among other key speakers was Rober Krueger, former Senator who served as US Ambassador to Burundi from 1994 to 1995. Kruger said that bringing president Kagame and other criminals to court would lead nowhere. What I want from him is confession, he said. Belgian Christian de Beule, founder of SOS Rwanda-Burundi and Dutch Labour Party MP Chantal Gillard also spoke, both emphasizing the need for peace, justice and reconciliation in the Great Lakes Region. The reality at this moment is that some Rwandans think they have made a giant step towards justice inside the symbolic premises of the International Court of Justice, while others, looking from a distance, think it was a profanation of that temple of international justice. The April 26 conference proves once again that Rwanda, as professor Mahmood Mamdani said, is sitting on a simmering volcano that can blow up again at any time.
06:51
Interview with Paul Rusesabagina, The Hague 26 April 2008
At least 400 Rwandans and non-Rwandans gathered on Saturday 26 April in the Hague-based UN Court of Justice to talk of Peace in the Great Lakes Region. Despite a fierce opposition of the government of Rwanda and Tutsi diaspora organisations, the conference took place without any incident.
