May 20th 2024
RWANDA/GACACA – GACACA RESULTS PRESENTED TO CHERIE BLAIR
22 February 2007
Arusha, February 22, 2007 (FH) – On visit to Rwanda, Cherie Blair, the wife of the British Prime Minister, met with a delegation of senior Rwandan judicial officials in Kigali on Wednesday, who presented the results of semi-popular Gacaca courts in charge of trying individuals presumed responsible for the 1994 genocide, according to an official Rwandan source. “There were representatives of the Gacaca judges who came from all four provinces of the country and the city of Kigali. We mentioned the achievements made since her last visit in 2005, ”the executive secretary of the National Service in charge of Gacaca Courts , Domitille Mukantaganzwa, told Hirondelle News Agency. In 2005, Mrs. Blair attended a Gacaca court hearing in Nyarugunga, in a Kigali suburb. “This time she wanted to have an idea of our progress since then,” added Mrs. Mukantaganzwa….
…During the meeting in which the Ministry of Justice, Tharcisse Karugarama, and the President of the Supreme Court, Aloysie Cyanzayire, participated, Mrs. Blair was accompanied by Jeannette Kagame, the wife of the Rwandan president. “The work is going forward very well, despite certain gaps associated with providing security for the survivors, the witnesses, and the judges,” declared Mukantaganzwa. Among the other difficulties she mentioned were fear on the part of certain witnesses of telling the whole truth, corruption, or partiality on the part of certain judges. She also mentioned that 47,000 Gacaca judges-about fifteen are currently detained- have been accused of having played a role in the genocide.”…
…The Gacaca courts have no jurisdiction over genocide suspects in the first category, such as the planners of the genocide and rapists. The accused of this category are eligible for the death penalty, which the Rwandan government meanwhile hopes to abolish from its criminal code. …”
Tony to be crowned ‘Chief’
in Sierra Leone
King Tony BlIAR
12 April 2012
“…Prime Minister Tony Blair flew into Sierra Leone today on his farewell African tour – to be made a Paramount Chief.
His wife Cherie will look on as the villagers of Mahera garland him in honour of Britain’s role in helping free the country from years of bloody civil war.
The 6,000-strong villagers elect their own Paramount Chief and are also allowed to choose honorary chiefs who deserve special recognition. As well as his garland Mr Blair will be presented during the colourful ceremony with a big stick, denoting his status.
Mr Blair’s official spokesman joked: “But what he can’t do is raise taxes or make people labour unpaid in the fields.”
Blair arrives in Sierra Leone, where he will be ‘crowned’…”
…”After his trip to Libya where he and Cherie met Colonel Gadaffi, Blair plans to fly to Sierra Leone, where he will be hailed a “hero”.
The wartorn country’s rulers plan to make the British Prime Minister a ‘paramount ruler’ – the highest honour that can be bestowed – for sending troops to help end civil war in May 2000.
A grateful British public – who are paying for the trip – will doubtless be pleased to hear that no detail of the Premier’s style and grooming is apparently to be lost to posterity”…
Source: The Voice on line
10th February 2023
The ‘new King of Africa’ is busy hooking up African leaders
with international bankers.
RWANDA HAS been at the centre of world attention lately. From accommodating Britain’s first offshore immigration detention centre (yet to receive its’ first resident), to joining the Commonwealth, to backing of the ‘M23’ militia currently destabilising its’ giant neighbour the Democratic Republic of Congo, to president Paul Kagame continuing to face questions about current political oppression and his role in the 1994 genocide.
But one story has slipped under the radar. And that involves Britain’s former Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Since being wrenched from Number 10 in 2007, Blair and his charity has been earning big money from several African nations, not least Rwanda, for services helping those nations develop and implement policy.
Does Africa, still recovering from colonialism, really need Blair to tell them what to do? Probably not, but his policy advice may not be his real selling point. Because the true value of Blair lies in his contact book; making introductions between African heads of state and international financier big cheeses like the Rockefeller Foundation.
Kagame has hailed Blair as “a visionary”, while Blair has been appearing in the media arguing that the West should not withdraw international aid over Rwanda’s involvement in bloodletting in DRC, arguing that the “economic miracle” in the central African state would be put at risk.
Rwanda has been getting assistance from the Tony Blair Africa Governance Initiative (AGI) charity. Kagame, who has ruled his country for 29 years, wrote a gushing testimonial to the work of the AGI in the charity’s annual report, saying: “In the last two years, it has produced substantive and tangible results.”
AGI, which has partly rebranded to become the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBIGC), claims to be delivering ‘support’ to Rwanda’s government departments – even while the central African country is still involved in the DRC conflict.
Kagame remains accused by a United Nations report of horrifying war crimes and human rights abuses, mainly concerning the 1994 Rwandan genocide but also regarding Rwanda’s involvement in a decade of blood-letting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Social commentator and campaigner Maurice Mcleod said: “Once a Prime Minister has finished their stint you could argue they’re free to go off and make money how they want, but I do think there’s something wrong with a Prime Minister using contacts he has made for financial gain.
“It’s not like Blair has stood down from speaking publicly about British politics. It seems he makes a ‘rare return to British politics’ every week.
“Who pays the piper calls the tune, and they know what they’re buying when they buy someone like Tony Blair; they’re buying his contacts and his knowledge, but they’re also buying a spokesman who will go out there and spin their lines for them.”
Michela Wong, in her 2021 book Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad, writes that “the Western media had been duped into believing this ‘economic miracle’” in Rwanda by Blair.
Since The Voice was used by Prince Charles for 40th issue, so can see how Africa is still being pulled in and deceived….
Sierra Leone need remove Tony Blair as Chief of SL Kamara tribe. They put him as spiritual head, the 14 African countries /leaders he’s trying usurping power control by deception. … Watch out for King Charles visit to Kenya,.”
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