Right to Respond. From: Felicien Kanyamibwa, PhD To: New Times Editors Dear Editors of New Times, As this year 2008 touches its end, I take the opportunity to address you this note: a right to respond. I challenge you to publish this brief commentary, if not out of fairness, at least to show that in…
Rwandan Patriotic Army vs. Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda: The Untold Story of the Congolese Tragedy Beyond the Myth of Ex/FAR Interahamwe. By Felicien Kanyamibwa, PhD* January 15, 2009 On December 5, 2008, the Rwandan and the DRC Governments signed in Kigali yet another agreement for the military disarmament of the armed groups roaming the…
Déclaration à l’ Occasion des Cérémonies Officielles de Lancement du Processus de Désarmement. C’est une grande joie pour moi de prendre la parole en ce jour ci à Kasiki à l’occasion du lancement officiel du processus de désarmement volontaire des combattants du Ralliement pour l’Unité et la Démocratie et le Rassemblement du Peuple Rwandais (RUD/RPR)…
PRESENTATION AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: Requirements for Peace in the Great Lakes Region of Africa Rutgers University, Thursday, December 4, 2008 Day when all began: October 1, 1990 a group of Tutsi refugees, supported by the Government of the neighboring Uganda invade Rwanda. PEACE IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION MUST START IN AND WITH RWANDA 18…
Déclaration à l’ Occasion des Cérémonies Officielles de Lancement du Processus de Désarmement. C’est une grande joie pour moi de prendre la parole en ce jour ci à Kasiki à l’occasion du lancement officiel du processus de désarmement volontaire des combattants du Ralliement pour l’Unité et la Démocratie et le Rassemblement du Peuple Rwandais (RUD/RPR)…
If Rwandan Government Can Stifle International Media, what is it doing to common Rwandans? picture; Tom Ndahiro by Felicien Kanyamibwa, PhD AfroAmerica Network, June 11, 2008 The renowned and mighty British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) is facing an unlikely foe in an unlikely place: a rogue journalist in a tiny country of Rwanda. How media professionals spearhead…
Declaration of Kinshasa on the Peace Process in the Great lakes Region. Kinshasa, January 24, 2008 At the invitation by the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a delegation composed by representatives of the armed political organizations that have fighters in the DRC and observers traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo from…
Welcome to Aroni Blog. With this blog you start a great journey. A journey of Discovery, Brotherhood and Sisterhood, and Sharing. Sharing of ideas, opinions, knowledge and Wisdom. But most importantly a journey to the magic region of the Great Lakes Region of Africa, arguably known as the place where all started, the birthplace of…
*USA** condemns renegade groups FAR/Interahamwe: but who are they? ** *** By AfroAmerica Network. November 16, 2007. AfroAmerica Network has obtained the lengthy “Congolese and Rwandan Joint Communiqué Against Armed Presence in Eastern DRC”, signed in Nairobi, on November 9, 2007 by the Congolese Foreign Affairs Minister Antipas Mbusa Nyamwisi, the Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister…
Memorandum on the 1994 Assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana, President of the Republic of Rwanda English Translation- December 1999 – Original published in French in July 1999 In collaboration with Organization for Peace, Justice and Development in Rwanda (OPJDR) Felicien Kanyamibwa, Ph.D. Email: kanyami@optonline.net TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. History 3. Climate – Spring 1994…
