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Source: Europa Press Releases Rapid http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-455_en.htm?locale=en Reference: SPEECH/13/455 Event Date:23/05/2013   European Commission Catherine Ashton EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the European Commission Speech by EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger on behalf of HRVP Catherine Ashton on the case of Mrs Victoire Ingabire European Parliament/Strasbourg 23 May 2013 Mr […]

Source:  http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=TA&language=EN&reference=P7-TA-2013-233 Texts adopted Thursday, 23 May 2013-Strasbourg Rwanda: case of Victoire Ingabire The European Parliament , –  having regard to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR),–  having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which was ratified by Rwanda in 1975, –  having regard to the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, […]

From Washingtonpost : http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/2-decades-after-genocide-hutu-refugees-in-uganda-fear-a-forced-return-to-rwanda/2013/04/19/8aa74242-a8e4-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html

By EMMANUEL RUTAYISIRE Special Correspondent The East African Posted  Saturday, March 9  2013 IN SUMMARY: The loans are meant to finance small and medium enterprises in the agricultural sector and electricity rollout in rural Rwanda. Rwanda’s SME segment has been exhibiting a high appetite for investment capital over the past couple of years even as most […]

US tells president he could face prosecution for arming groups that carried out atrocities in Democratic Republic of Congo (source article : theguardian) The head of the US war crimes office has warned Rwanda‘s leaders, including President Paul Kagame, that they could face prosecution at the international criminal court for arming groups responsible for atrocities […]

US tells president he could face prosecution for arming groups that carried out atrocities in Democratic Republic of Congo (source article : theguardian) The head of the US war crimes office has warned Rwanda‘s leaders, including President Paul Kagame, that they could face prosecution at the international criminal court for arming groups responsible for atrocities […]

Questioned last week on the BBC’s Hardtalk about the connection between Rwanda and the M23 rebel movement in eastern Congo, President Paul Kagame denied all involvement………………………………….. Read full article from the source  : Kagame And Congo: How Long Can He Deny Rwandan Involvement In The East? – By Richard Dowden

ARTICLE FROM FOREIGN POLICY : Exclusive: U.N. panel says Rwanda behind Congolese mutiny      

Source : http://therisingcontinent.wordpress.com/2012/01/14/victoire-ingabires-second-anniversary-16-1-12-back-in-rwanda/ Many people, who are not familiar with the Black American civil rights movement, may not recall who Rosa Parks (far left on the picture) was. She was an activist born Louise McCauley Parks on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.  The U.S. Congress called her “the first lady of civil rights”, and […]