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Bosco Ntaganda is the Rwandan warlord
Bosco Ntaganda is the Rwandan warlord and Congolese Tutsi (?) Who has been tried before the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague since 2015. Nicknamed “Terminator” for his cruelty, he is prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against Humanity committed in Ituri to the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo between 2000 and 2003.
Bosco Ntaganda, who began to testify before the Court in his own defense, immediately justified his enlistment in various rebellions for saying he “stop the genocide”. Thus, he claims that as a combatant between 1990 and 1994 in the Tutsi rebellion from Uganda, that of the RPF, which seized power in Rwanda in 1994, he was participating in the “arrest of the genocide”. Similarly, by devastating Ituri at the head of the Hema militia fighting the Lendu, he wanted to “stop a genocide”!
By adopting this defense strategy, Bosco Ntaganda intends to make genocide the backbone of his defense. And yet he is mistaken, unless he meets a benevolent ear of the judges and the prosecutor. This defense is far from the indictment made against him. There is no question of genocide in Rwanda, but of war crimes committed in the DRC and specified in the indictment. Bosco Ntaganda and his lawyers seek either mitigating circumstances or have the ICC accept the thesis of the orders received, and thus implicate President Kagame, the hierarchical superior. Except luck, he will not succeed in moving the judges. The prosecutor has no interest in involving Kagame. Nor do the judges. This would go against the general imperialist policy. Everyone knows that the Congo war was approved and financed by the great powers, which at the same time provided vital information to the Rwandan and Ugandan troops. These are not arguments that have been lacking in the various jurisdictions to condemn Kagame. The evidence is overwhelming and innumerable. On the other hand, it is easy to show that Ntaganda participated in the provocation of the genocide in Rwanda and that the claims to have arrested him are unfounded and are far from the truth.
As a Rwandan born in Rwanda in 1973, Bosco (or Enéas) Ntaganda had no serious reason to complain. His father, Kanyabugoyi, an engineer, was general manager at the Ministry of Public Works in Rwanda. He was a Mugogwe. He was not a Tutsi civil servant. His son’s motivation is unique: to restore Tutsi, hegemonic and exclusive power. To pretend that he stopped the genocide is farcical. Participate in its programming yes. At his stop, no. In the Congo, Ntaganda applied the instructions of Kagame, emptied eastern DRC of any Bantu element, leaving a Tutsi or affiliated population there. It is in this sense that one must understand the words of Kagame when he regrets not having been able to reach and liquidate all the Hutu refugees in the DRC. This was one of the missions, not to mention the one entrusted to him by the imperialist powers to drive Mobutu out of power, in order to encourage plunder. Ntaganda was sent to the DRC to continue this action, which continues to this day. Racism has always been the basis of the ideology of the RPF. The rank of General and Commander-in-Chief in this region of Ituri is sufficient to account for the atrocities committed by his troops in this very remote region of Rwanda.
By highlighting the genocide case in Rwanda and the DRC, Ntaganda blurs the trail. It is not true that the RPF stopped the genocide in Rwanda. He provoked it, yes! But he did not want him to stop before Kagame took over the total power. The assassination of President Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 was committed to ignite the fire, sacrificing the Tutsi. This was reflected in the statement of Claude Dusaidi and Gérard Gahima to the Security Council on 30 April 1994, in which both delegates categorically denied the existence of the genocide and opposed, on behalf of the RPF, Peacekeepers to bring order back to Rwanda. And they won! Let us add that the demands of the FARs of ceasefires were rejected by the RPF in April 1994. Several dissidents of the RPF, refugees abroad, maintain that: the RPF caused the genocide, murdering President Habyarimana, Whereas the consequences for the Tutsi population were predictable; By forbidding APR soldiers to rescue the Tutsi; By refusing to cease the fire before Kagame took over all power. It was this RPF action that led to the continuation of the massacres, often with the active and visible participation of the RPA soldiers.
Unlike Kagame and his companions who have never been disturbed by the ICTR, Bosco Ntaganda is in the hands of the ICC and has to answer many specific charges. It is therefore unnecessary for him to assert the arguments put forward by the RPF to rule out prosecutions before the ICTR.
Unless we keep hidden surprises behind this approach, it seems that Ntaganda and his lawyers are mistaken in court. To claim that Bosco Ntaganda should not be condemned by the ICC like the RPF people who were not harassed by the ICTR is simply irrelevant. Ntaganda’s indictment contains several counts, including 13 for war crimes and 5 for crimes against humanity. He is said to have been one of the most important commanders of ethnic crimes that killed 60,000 people. He is accused of orchestrating attacks by the FPLC, the armed wing of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) predominantly Hema fighting mainly Lendu militias for control of this region with many gold mines. These attacks left behind bodies tied up in the arms, in underwear, disembowelled, heads crushed by drumsticks. Several witnesses have reported it to the Court. Very imbued with himself and known for having the trigger easy, the warlord would have given the orders, planned and scheduled operations, coordinated logistics and provided weapons. He also allegedly recruited children. “Kadogo”, “youth” in Swahili, girls and boys, whom he chose for his personal escort and whom he dressed and armed for combat.
In conclusion, instead of seeking loopholes, the “Terminator” Bosco Ntaganda should courageously face these charges without seeking to instrumentalize the Rwandan genocide. His defense team should abandon this strategy of playing on the “Rwandan genocide”. Let us hope that the judges are vigilant and will not fall into the same trap in which some of their colleagues from the former ICTR have fallen. Affair certainly to follow.
Emmanuel Neretse
Rwanda
