Reinventing Rwanda

Hat tip: Kareem

“HEALING OR HARMING?: Rwanda’s Paul Kagame has increased development, but at what price?

“During one of my interviews with Kagame, I asked him why, despite decades of study and the expenditure of hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, no one has come up with a formula for ending poverty in Africa. He rejected the premise of my question. “Everyone knows how to develop Africa,” he said. “The problem is that no one does it.”

“Human rights advocates also reject Kagame’s view that Rwandans must view themselves only as Rwandans and stop using the words “Hutu” and “Tutsi.” He allows people to complain, for example, that the country is ruled by a small clique, but not that it is ruled by a small clique of Tutsi. A reporter may assert that Rwandans are miserable, but not that Hutu are miserable. Last year, a journalist was sentenced to a year in prison for writing that “those who killed Hutu are free” because national leaders “think the Hutu who perished are not human beings.”

TheStateOf . . . Rwanda.  Interesting that the bloody, short, civil war in Rwanda in ‘94 was not the “mindless genocide” it was portrayed to be - but, instead, the calculated extermination of a small tribe of Tutsis who collaberated then, and still do now, with European colonizers.  Looks like the Tutsis are trying to set up Round 2.