There are some who will claim that Bill Clinton was the first African president of the United States. Those people clearly do not know that Bill Clinton is the one who established the stranglehold that the murderous gang of General Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda have on the people of central Africa. Those people clearly do not know that as American military satellites showed evidence of the millions of civilians being butchered by General Kagame's and Museveni's forces, Bill Clinton doubled down on his financial, political and military investment in this gang of murderers. Unless of course these people mean that Bill Clinton has the same cold-heartedness that many African presidents have when they order their troops to kill innocent African civilians. The kind of cold-heartedness where your troops come to report that today they butchered an entire village of unarmed civilians because they do not support your dictatorship and you respond "Great job! Other villages now got a good lesson that you're either behind me or you're dead."
In 1990, General Kagame who was the Chief of Military Intelligence of Uganda led a violent invasion of Rwanda from Uganda, with the approval and support (financial, military and political) of the United States government. This violent war changed the landscape of that region forever. By landscape, I also mean the number of mass graves that dot every of inch of that region now. The two final years of President Bush the father, during which his American government supported the murderous gang of General Kagame and Yoweri Museveni resulted in the deaths of many innocent Rwandan and Ugandan civilians. During those two years, there are thousands who lost their lives at the hands of General Kagame's soldiers and Yoweri Museveni's soldiers. But this was nothing compared to the more than 6 millions of civilians that would later die under Bill Clinton's 8 year reign, with American money, American weapons and American political support.
In a September 30, 2010 New York Times article titled Dispute Over U.N. Report Evokes Rwandan Dà ©jà Vu, it is
mentioned how in the fall of 1994, a United Nations investigation discovered
that General Kagame's forces had killed tens of thousand of innocent civilians
that year. That under pressure from Bill Clinton's government, the United
Nations was forced not to publish that report. In that New York Times article, they
talk about how the 1994 UN report describes General Kagame's soldiers
"rounding up civilians and methodically killing unarmed men, women and children."
But that was 1994, a year that is famous for extremist Hutus who went on a rampage and butchered hundreds of thousands of innocent Tutsi and Hutu civilians. The fact that extremist Tutsis under General Kagame went on a rampage in 1994 killing innocent Hutu and Tutsi civilians was totally blacked out due to pressure from Bill Clinton's government. The existence of that 1994 UN report was denied by some American officials and was only revealed recently.
One would think that after that, Bill Clinton's government would have kept a tighter leash on its African stooges General Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda. Far from that, the two stooges used American money, American weapons and with American political support attacked neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, where their forces butchered so many millions of civilians that it is in fact surprising that there is anybody alive left in that country today. As American military satellites recorded evidence of millions of civilians being butchered by this gang of murderers, Bill Clinton smiled away as his government gave more money and more weapons and more political support to these two stooges so they can use this support to keep doing what they do best: kill a multitude of unarmed civilians. They just kept killing and killing and Bubba kept making sure they had the money and weapons necessary to continue the killings and provided political cover whenever anyone asked questions.
Fast-forward to 2010. On October 1st, 2010 the
United Nations released a report on the Mapping
Exercise documenting the most serious violations of human rights and
international humanitarian law committed within the territory of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo between March 1993 and June 2003. Regarding General
Kagame's extremist Tutsi forces behavior during the 10 year period, especially
1996 to 1998, the report says that "The extensive use of edged weapons
(primarily hammers) and the apparently systematic nature of the massacres of
survivors after the camps had been taken suggests that the numerous deaths
cannot be attributed to the hazards of war or seen as equating to collateral
damage. The majority of the victims were children, women, elderly people and
the sick, who were often undernourished and posed no threat to the attacking
forces. Numerous serious attacks on the physical or mental integrity of members
of the group were also committed, with a very high number of Hutus shot, raped,
burnt or beaten. If proven, the incidents' revelation of what appears to be the
systematic, methodological and premeditated nature of the attacks listed
against the Hutus is also marked: these attacks took place in each location
where refugees had allegedly been screened by the AFDL/APR over a vast area of
the country. The pursuit lasted for months, and on occasion, the humanitarian
assistance intended for them was allegedly deliberately blocked, particularly
in the Orientale province, thus depriving them of resources essential to their
survival. Thus the apparent systematic and widespread attacks described in this
report reveal a number of inculpatory elements that, if proven before a
competent court, could be characterized as crimes of genocide."
How did Bubba react to this latest report? The report was
published on October 1st, 2010 however its contents had been leaked
earlier and published in the media a month before. So, on September 23, 2010 the Daily Beast site asked Bill Clinton
about this report. Bill Clinton said this about his buddy General Kagame "Right now I'm not going to pre-judge him
because there's this huge debate about what happened in the Congo and why,
and I don't know." To which human rights researcher Carina Tertsakian
responded to the Daily Beast that "It is
not a matter of pre-judging. ... The facts are well-established. ... There is no
doubt that Rwandan troops, together with their Congolese allies, committed
large-scale massacres and other grave human-rights violations against Rwandan
and Congolese civilians. The evidence is there for all to see. What more does Clinton need?"
But then again, when you are Bill Clinton whose government provided the money, the weapons and the political cover for General Kagame's forces to commit that genocide, I don't know what else you can say. There is a high chance that the long arm of justice will catch up with General Kagame and his commanders in our lifetime. As for Bill Clinton, the enabler, whose government's financial support, military support and political support were crucial in perpetrating this genocide against Africans and covering it up afterwards; I am afraid he will retire peacefully at some mansion. But for those of us Africans who lost many of our loved ones to Bill Clinton's African gang of murderers General Kagame and Yoweri Museveni, we will always remember. We will always remember that Bill Clinton smiled away and gave more support to those butchers as they murdered more and more of us.