{"id":382460,"date":"2018-10-26T08:38:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-dictator-kagame-unmasked-it-is-time-to-reveal-canadian-connection\/"},"modified":"2018-10-26T08:38:02","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:38:02","slug":"as-dictator-kagame-unmasked-it-is-time-to-reveal-canadian-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/as-dictator-kagame-unmasked-it-is-time-to-reveal-canadian-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"As Dictator Kagame Unmasked, it is Time to Reveal Canadian Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Canada\u2019s paper of record pulled another layer off the rotting onion of propaganda obscuring the Rwandan tragedy. But, the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> has so far remained unwilling to challenge prominent Canadians who\u2019ve crafted the fairy tale serving Africa\u2019s most ruthless dictator.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago a front-page Globe article added to an abundance of evidence suggesting Paul Kagame\u2019s RPF shot down the plane carrying President Juve\u0301nal Habyarimana, which sparked the mass killings of spring 1994. \u201cNew information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/world\/article-new-information-supports-claims-kagame-forces-were-involved-in\/\">supports<\/a> claims Kagame forces were involved in assassination that sparked Rwandan genocide\u201d, noted the headline. The Globe all but confirmed that the surface-to-air missiles used to assassinate the Rwandan and Burundian Hutu presidents came from Uganda, which backed the RPF\u2019s bid to conquer its smaller neighbour. (A few thousand exiled Tutsi Ugandan troops, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fred_Rwigyema\">deputy minister<\/a> of defence, \u201cdeserted\u201d to invade Rwanda in 1990.) The new revelations strengthen those who argue that responsibility for the mass killings in spring 1994 largely rests with the Ugandan\/RPF aggressors and their US\/British\/Canadian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2017\/sep\/12\/americas-secret-role-in-the-rwandan-genocide\">backers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite publishing multiple stories over the past two years questioning the dominant narrative, the Globe has largely ignored the Canadians that shaped this Kagame-friendly storyline. I\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/yvesengler.com\/2015\/12\/28\/the-fairy-tale-about-a-brave-canadian-general-in-rwanda\/\">written<\/a> a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/yvesengler.com\/2018\/05\/03\/is-militaristic-shill-for-bloodstained-african-dictator-really-a-hero\/\">articles<\/a> detailing Rom\u00e9o Dallaire\u2019s important role in this sordid affair, but another widely regarded Canadian has offered&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/10\/as-dictator-kagame-unmasked-it-is-time-to-reveal-canadian-connection\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s paper of record pulled another layer off the rotting onion of propaganda obscuring the Rwandan tragedy. But, the Globe and Mail has so far remained unwilling to challenge prominent Canadians who\u2019ve crafted the fairy tale serving Africa\u2019s most ruthless dictator. Two weeks ago a front-page Globe article added to an abundance of evidence suggesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}