Editor,

Refer to the article, "Gen Karake’s arrest is based on absolute arrogance and contempt, says Kagame” (The New Times, June 26).

I will tell you what these western regimes are after: a weak Africa that will ever allow their easy exploitation. They’re nervous of Rwanda being strong because it may become a model that other Africans will emulate.

We really need to pray that the whole of Africa will stand as one against these neocolonialists, and make them realise they should mind their own business. And we should realise that hurdles have never hampered progress of a spirited and determined people, and I am convinced Rwandans we are.

They are the same colonialists they always have been, and they wish to keep Africa the colonies and slaves hunting bushes they had once made them. Africans must wake up!

Gallant African brothers and sisters everywhere must stand up and be counted. The great Congo must break free; great Nigeria must stand tall and shine. I wish space would allow me to hail the great Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, South Africa, Uganda, Mali, Ghana, and all of you Egypt, Morocco…I really mean all of us. Together no power on earth can subdue us.

This arrogance, contempt and servitude attitudes over us must stop. This is what they are actually doing the world over: see Middle East, Asia, and Latin America. Fortunately, some countries have shown that it is possible to defeat them, such as the great China, Cuba, and a number of others.

I do have a humble request to make to our President and the Government of Rwanda in general: We’re all disturbed by this demeaning incident, it defeats all logic that our top official could be humiliated in this manner and for the fact that the hero who played an important role in stopping the Genocide against the Tutsi — orchestrated by the very powers — can be tried for the same.

Since these countries have their representatives in Rwanda, as ambassadors and heads of organizations and NGOs to get a day and tell Rwandans if that is the way they also know about these facts. They are here long enough to know all the truth.

We shall overcome; yes we will.

Donart

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In their Orwellian upside-down world, those who alone fought and died to end the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 (while the world callously looked on indifferently or were purely and clearly in active league with the butchers) are the génocidaires while the real killers and their accomplices are victims.

This level of cynical re-writing of history, even while we who lived it directly have not passed on, shows there is something extraordinarily sick at the heart of western "civilization”.

A narcissistic arrogance that seems to believe they have the power to turn reality on its head. But then what would you expect from those who truly believe the world turns around them? That they, and only they, are the world in which everybody else is nothing more than background?

Thus that usual term, international community — as they like to refer to themselves — actually represents less than one out of ten of humanity.

Mwene Kalinda