Human Rights Watch and its association with FDLR terrorist group

Editor, THIS IS in reference to the editorial, “Human Rights Watch is off track” (The New Times, June 3). I don’t know about its behaviour elsewhere, but in Rwanda Human Rights Watch (HRW) ceased to be a watchdog long ago and became an indispensable ally of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi perpetrators. It has, for instance, been at the centre of a web of organisations and institutions working in overdrive to derail the extradition or expulsion of genocide suspects to Rwanda to face trial for their crimes. HRW is objectively in bed with the génocidaires in all their manifestations, not only with the FDLR militia. Most Rwandans do not understand what our government hopes to gain in engaging a highly compromised organisation like this. We are not surprised that FDLR commanders in the DR Congo integrate close contacts with HRW agents into their instructions to operatives they dispatch to Rwanda on murder, sabotage and intelligence missions. They know this organisation subscribes to their cause. It is essential to close down this FDLR asset immediately. Mwene Kalinda, Rwanda **************************** RWANDA’S DOORS are still open ever since RPA-Inkotanyi toppled the genocidal regime and brought peace to the bereaving country. Since that time, millions of refugees have come home voluntarily and they were given their properties—including houses and land. It’s not only civilians who returned. Even those who were in the armed forces chose to come back from the bush to work with the rest of the population to build their country. There are also those who came from FDLR. They were integrated into societies, and they are among those who are sweating day and night striving to make this country a self-sustainable nation. There should never be some pretext of pushing for dialogue while no one has been barred to come back to his country. The doors are always open. If there are those who don’t want to come, UN must intervene, and if there are génocidaires among them (I know most of them are), they should then be fought until they lay down their arms. This region needs peace, and génocidaires should be stopped. They are the root cause of all of the wars in this region. Mutara Intore, Rwanda

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Human Rights Watch and its association with FDLR terrorist group