The BBC probe commission is amateurish and illegal Today the doors of the BBC probe commission and the first team to appear before this commission is the Rwanda Media Commission (RMC). According to its charismatic leader Mr. Fred Muvunyi he told the commission composed by one of the former critics of the Rwandan legal system and a legal BBC analyst Mr. Evode Wizeyimana, Mr. Muvunyi said that he believes that the BBC documentary, ‘Rwanda’s Untold Story’ violated both media ethics and media principles and has called for the prosecution of those involved with the documentary instead of wasting the taxpayers money on legal issues in the political theater. This opinion is shared by another Legal and Political analyst Mr. Frank Mwine who told the Voice of America that the BBC probe Commission lacks credibility and legitimacy to question the BBC Documentary. Mr. Frank Mwine said that the previous commissions where not productive because were just created to please president Kagame but died after the political waves between France and Rwanda subsided. Why should the government spend all the tax payers’ money on the unproductive commissions just because the story talked of the crimes the Rwandan President committed during and after genocide? Mr. Fred Muvunyi added that the BBC Untold Story should be called Kagame story because it only portrayed Kagme as a murderer and a war criminal. If Mr. Fred Muvunyi confirms that the film was telling what Kagame did, then there is no legal action against the BBC and Jane Corbin who produced it, unless Kagame comes out and clears his name by courts of law not his own commissions. For those who remember the Mutsinzi commission which was created to probe the shooting of the Habyarimana plane, they did so because France was furious and busy investigating Kagame, but when the then French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Rwanda and Kagame visited France, the findings were shelved and up to this day no Rwandan could tell what was the objective of the above commission. In fact, we would have seen many Rwandans protesting to Sarckozy on the streets of Rwanda, but who was there? Unfortunately, the commission, invited people who are paid by Kagame, like Goloba Fredrick who calls himself an expert and Andrew Mwenda who has been attacking Rwandans on issues outside his competence. These are Ugandans who have nothing to do with Rwanda, they are only paid for the attendance, yet they dont deliver any fact on this story. The commission should instead use Rwandans and all the statistics contained in the Rwandan Data base to counter the facts produced in the story, in fact I have heard this Ugandan expert Mr. Goloba telling stories, how the international media is biased, criticizing the Foreign experts without giving the facts where he thinks they are wrong. Is he not a foreigner himself on Rwandan issues? Does he know more than the Rwandan people who were there or participated in what they told the BBC Documentary? The BBC Documentary talks of the shooting of the Habyariman plane, supported by the former RPF Intelligence Officer during the shooting of that plane who later became the Rwandan Army Chief, will Mr. Evode or Ngoga produce a counter fact to discard this fact? Will Mr. Goloba have evidence on the person who shot the plane? All these people have no moral or competence to counter the facts produced by the BCC Documentary. Again the Documentary doubts the number of the Tutsis, which according to the Rwandan law could constitute genocide denial, this is fine, but why can’t they produce the Data base for the number of all the Tutsis, before and after the genocide, because without this data, they will never convince any court that what the BBC said was illegal. Is illegality or genocide denial synonymous with the fact that the number of Tutsis before the war was not one million? If they cannot produce that, then they should forget challenging the accuracy of this fact finding. Some people just argue and go on the streets because they have been told to go there without knowing what they are going to do, For example, the crime of genocide is legally the same as crimes against humanity or war crimes, or ethnic cleansing, these are the crimes Kagame is being accused of, will he say that revealing this constitutes genocide denial? In fact the powers to suspend the BBC or any Media institutions, is vested in the Rwanda Media Commission not RURA, yet this Kagame institution, hijacked the powers of the RMC on the simple reason that the RMC did not see any legal or moral basis to shut down the BBC Gahuzamiryango a Kinyarwanda program, yet the Documentary was in English. Little did Mr. Muvunyi know that RURA was being remote controlled by the Kagame himself from Village Urugwiro. In fact Fred should be vigilant because he has questioned what many have been asking in private president Kagame that he should not in any way think that he loves Rwanda more than other Rwandans. Where will this end Mr. Fred Muvunyi? We all know where his predecessor like Patrice Murama ended, he was just lucky not be murdered like Leonard Rugambage or Charles Ingabire, will Fred Muvunyi be lucky like Patrice Murama? Let’s wait and see. But make no Mistake , Mr.Fred Muvunyi’s resistance and brave positioning against the Kagame’s traditional intimidation could be the beginning and an aye opener to other Rwandans that it’s time to stand up against Kagame like the people of Burkina Faso and get rid of this deadly monster out of our country. Jacqueline Umurungi Brussels
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 08:15:53 +0000
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