Rwandan President Paul Kagame
IN SUMMARY
- President Kagame said aid cannot be used to compromise Rwanda’s peace. While closing the Umushyikirano - the country’s annual national dialogue on Friday in Kigali, President Kagame warned that Rwanda would not accept dictates from donors because “their money is always accompanied with hypocrisy, double standards and lies” which Rwandans should never apologise for.
Kampala, Sunday. Rwandan President Paul Kagame has warned the West against using aid to meddle in Rwanda’s internal affairs.
President Kagame said aid cannot be used to compromise Rwanda’s peace. While closing the Umushyikirano - the country’s annual national dialogue on Friday in Kigali, President Kagame warned that Rwanda would not accept dictates from donors because “their money is always accompanied with hypocrisy, double standards and lies” which Rwandans should never apologise for.
“We have our right to life. If anyone thinks they can take it away through radios, I have my freedom to be. I will manage my problems plus the ones you cause, but there is a line you will not cross,” he told Rwandans of all walks of life, some of whom were following the proceedings at Parliament through various media.
President Kagame, who started off his closing remarks on the day’s subject regarding prevention of re-occurrence of genocide and the progress the country had made to address the challenges that followed the 1994 genocide, reminded the Western powers, particularly the UN, of how they failed to stop Rwandans from butchering each other.
He warned the donors that Rwanda would no longer accept their dictates and whoever attempts to destabilise Rwanda today would find it too expensive a venture to attempt.
“Nobody should dictate to Rwandans or even attempt because we have the right to be. BBC is supposed to be the standard of freedom of speech but all they do is politics. They belittle people. We are not people to be belittled and they know it more than anybody,” he said in reference to an undercover documentary which BBC released in October.
The documentary was purportedly revealing what it said was the true unknown story behind the 1994 genocide. In the hour-long documentary, Rwanda, The Untold Story, US researchers are quoted suggesting that many of the more than 800,000 Rwandans who died in the 1994 genocide may have been ethnic Hutus.(NMG).
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