In case anyone needed further evidence that President Paul Kagame’s Rwanda is the Pentagon’s proxy, 140 Rwandan police are about to undertake special training before heading to Haiti, as reported in the Rwanda New Times, because, according to Rwandan Police Chief Edmund Kayiranga, “Rwanda wants to be involved in promoting peace in other countries” and, if need be, they would send more peacekeepers to other countries.
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Amnesty International,
Ann Garrison,
Belgian paratroopers,
Congolese Army (FARDC),
counter-terrorism,
criminal investigation,
cyber crimes investigation,
Dongo rebellion,
Equateur Province,
FBI training Rwandan police,
Haiti and Latin America,
Haiti earthquake,
Haitian lawyer and human rights activist Marguerite Laurent,
Human Rights Watch,
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journalists escape arrest,
Keith Harmon Snow,
mineral riches,
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oil reserves,
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Reporters Without Borders,
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Rwanda’s Kigali Gitarama Prison,
Sen. Russ Feingold,
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the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Group,
the Greens European Free Alliance,
three viable parties,
U.N. peacekeepers (MONUC),
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM),
U.S. State Department
We now know where a lot of coltan and cassiterite stolen from Congo go, in the end. They go to Ghana and other parts of Africa as toxic electronic waste, often disguised as charity: European and North American “contributions” of worn-out, broken, no longer fashionable tech garbage.
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Ann Garrison,
cassiterite,
coltan,
conflict minerals,
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Greenpeace,
North Kivu Province,
President Barack Obama,
Rwanda,
Rwandan President Paul Kagame,
toxic electronic waste,
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM),
U.S. Army Gen. William "Kip" Ward
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) was assassinated 44 years ago, on Feb. 21, 1965, because of his attempt to internationalize the African American struggle for self-determination.
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African American struggle for self-determination,
Bishop Henry McNeil Turner,
Black Panther Party,
Charles Cobb Jr.,
Claudia Jones,
Cyril Briggs,
David Walker,
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X),
Ella Baker,
Fannie Lou Hamer,
Freedom Singers of SNCC,
Henry Highland Garnet,
Kenya,
Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta,
League of Revolutionary Black Workers,
Leroi Jones (now Amiri Baraka),
Luo,
Malcolm X in Africa,
Marcus Garvey,
Martin Luther King,
Martin R. Delaney,
Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party,
Muhammad Babu of Tanzania,
No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century,
Norman (Otis) Richmond,
Paul Robeson,
President Barack Obama,
President Julius K. Nyerere,
Republic of New Africa,
Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM),
SNCC,
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),
Tanzania,
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM),
Uganda,
Ugandan President Dr. Milton Obote,
Uhuru,
W.E.B. Du Bois
The evening before Human Rights Watch expert on Rwanda Alison Des Forges’ critical quote on the secret deal worked out between Rwanda’s murderous U.S.-backed President Paul Kagame and Congolese President Joseph Kabila appeared in the Washington Post, Des Forges died in a the fiery crash of Continental Flight 3407.
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9/11 widow,
Alison Des Forges,
Arusha,
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Beverly Eckert,
columbite-tantalite (coltan),
Continental Flight 3407,
Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR),
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila,
diamonds,
Gen. Laurent Nkunda,
gold,
Human Rights Watch,
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda,
Laurent D. Kabila,
Lord's Resistance Army (LRA),
National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP),
natural gas,
platinum,
President Paul Kagame,
Rally for Congolese Democracy (RCD),
Rebels for Christ,
Rwandan Hutu militia,
Tanzania,
U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM),
Wayne Madsen
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