Mtandao wa Newsof rwanda Tarehe 19 Aug 2013 uliandika habari nyenye kichwa cha Habari kisemacho Tanzania President married to Habyarimana cousin habari hii ndivyo ilivyokuwa inasema Habari yenyewe hii hapo chini
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New details obtained by News of Rwanda
may give insight into why Tanzania’s President Jakaya Kikwete came out
as the sole global leader sympathetic to Rwandan FDLR rebels based in DR
Congo jungles since 1994.
According to secret US State Department
cables published by whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, President Jakaya
Kikwete’s wife fondly known in Tanzania as “Mama Salma Kikwete” is a
cousin of former Rwanda leader Juvenal Habyarimana. The shocking details
are contained in a cable sent to Washington on Thursday May 5th, 2005,
by Shabyna Stillman, a senior diplomat at the US embassy in Dar es
Salaam.
The US embassy was giving update on the
selection of Mr Jakaya Kikwete to be the CCM flag-bearer in the
presidential election late that year. “For years, observers of the Great
Lakes conflicts have considered Kikwete to be virulently pro-Hutu,”
reads the cable, in part.
“Kikwete’s marriage to a cousin of
former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana may have fueled these
rumors, which are now fading as the Burundi conflict winds down,” adds
the cable, signed by Stillman.
According to the US embassy, Mr
Kikwete’s love affair with “Hutus” could be seen in his spirited support
for Burundian rebels at the time fighting former President Pierre
Buyoya.
Since 1995, up until 2005 when Mr.
Kikwete was foreign affairs minister of Tanzania, rumours have swelled
around him suggesting he sided massively with the ethnic extremist
establishment. It is this system that planned and executed the genocide
against Tutsis in 1994, and fled across to Zaire and other parts of the
world.
It is alleged, around 1996, Mr Kikwete
suggested publicly that “Hutus” need to be armed to fight off the
government in Kigali at the time. A book published by virulent critic of
President Paul Kagame and historian Gérard PRUNIER writes that Tanzania
did offer to train troops for Seth Sendashonga.
A former leader of the Rwanda Patriotic
Front (RPF), for whom he was a minister in the government set up after
the rebel movement’s victory over the army and the militias responsible
for the genocide in 1994, Mr. Sendashonga was murdered in Nairobi,
Kenya, on 16 May 1998 by, according to PRUNIER, “unknown assailants.”
Fast forward to May 26, 2013, President
Jakaya Kikwete goes public with a suggestion that the government of
President Kagame in Rwanda negotiates with rebels of the Democratic
Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR). The group was formed in May
2000, but its members had been roaming DRC forests ever since they lost
power in Kigali.
The suggestion by a head of state of
Tanzania, a country that had long been considered a friendly nation to
Rwanda, caught many by surprise. Since then, the two countries are
embroiled in a bitter war of words.
The ex-Rwandan Juvenal Habyarimana died on the evening of April 6th,
1994, after his plane was shot down by extremist members of inner
circle who did not want the peace talks with the RPF rebels. In the same
plane was Burundian counterpart Cyprien Ntaryamira and French pilots.
The death of the French crew has been
the centre of legal battles in France and the United States. A French
judicial inquiry did confirm that the plane was brought down by a
missile fired from a military camp next to Habyarimana’s home near the
airport.
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