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November 30th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“It’s a really important decision in terms of UK policy towards Rwanda
because, up until now, the UK government has tended to downplay the gravity
of human rights abuses inside Rwanda as well as its support for abusive
groups in Congo,” she said.
“With this decision, we hope the secretary of state is entering a new era
where the UK government is going to stand by its principles.”
Ms Greening has effectively abandoned the policy of her predecessor, Andrew
Mitchell. When the UN first accused Mr Kagame of arming rebels in Congo in
July, Mr Mitchell delayed a payment of £16 million to Rwanda. He then
announced the release of this sum on his last day as International
Development Secretary in September.
Mr Mitchell claimed that Rwanda had stopped backing M23. In a letter to David
Cameron on Aug 31, Mr Mitchell wrote: “Reporting shows that practical
support to the M23 has now ended.”
But
the international development select committee released a critical report on
Mr Mitchell’s decision. The MPs cleared him of acting as a “rogue
minister”, noting that Prime Minister David Cameron and William Hague,
the Foreign Secretary, both approved of restoring funding for Rwanda.
Yet the committee said: “We do not understand how he reached the
conclusion that support for the M23 had ceased.”
Mr Kagame was close to successive British Governments: in 2009, Gordon Brown
helped Rwanda to join the Commonwealth – although it has no history of
British rule.
Mr Kagame runs an efficient and largely non-corrupt administration which has
lifted 1 million Rwandans out of poverty in the last decade. The country has
achieved a remarkable recovery from the genocide of 1994, which claimed some
800,000 lives.
Britain became one of Rwanda’s biggest donors to reward that success. London
also saw the chance to expand its influence in a country that was part of
Francophone Africa before Mr Kagame seized power in the genocide’s aftermath.
But the evidence suggests that he has consistently supported armed groups
inside Congo: Mr Kagame’s first intervention in his neighbour came as early
as 1996. Future British aid to Rwanda will probably go via charities or
multilateral agencies instead of directly to the government.
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