Editor,

RE: "Why Rwanda gets punished for doing right” (The New Times, August 18).

We could also add, having endured and successfully repulsed aggression from some members of the Exclusive Club of the Powerful (some countries and global institutions) used to running (and ruining) our affairs, and not being shy about telling them off, we are seen as challenging the established order and a bad example to the lower ranks who might, in turn, become uppity, and forgetting their place in that pecking order.

Media in the west is mostly a megaphone of their power elites who wish to keep that established order going for as long as possible, if not forever.

Rwanda, with its brash belief in its own Agaciro, refuses to fit into the kowtowing role it has been assigned.

It must, therefore, be brought back to order or vilified and punished – an example for other periphery countries that might get similar "funny” ideas about their own sovereignty and of the right to run their own affairs.

Mwene Kalinda