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Rome’s Genocide
of the 1990s
Four years after the
Vatican representative marched down
the aisle of the General Conference
session to a standing ovation by the
delegates, Rome began her genocide of
the last decade of the Twentieth
Century in Rwanda.
Rwanda, called the
“Little Switzerland” of
Africa is the most Catholicized
nation on the continent of Africa.
(Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to
inform you that tomorrow we will be
killed with our families. New
York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
1998, p. 55). This book is a New York
Time’s Bestseller and
Editor’s choice, and the winner
of five prestigious prizes and
awards, including the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize.
British Church
Newspaper Declares Rome Largely
Responsible for Rwandan Genocide
The British Church
Newspaper, April 16, 2004, carried an
article by a correspondent,
“Genocide of the Tutsis –
the Role of the Roman Catholic
Church.” This article declares,
“Events and media
coverage of the 10th
anniversary of the Huto massacres of
800,000 Tutsis in the spring of 1994
have strangely omitted the role of the
institution largely responsible for
the genocide – the Roman
Catholic Church. Its role may be
compared to its role in supporting
the Nazis in the 1930s.”
“Genocide of
the Tutsis – the Role of the
Roman Catholic Church,” British
Church Newspaper, April 16, 2004. European
Institute of Protestant Studies.
Rome Actually Claims
Four Out of Five Rwandans Are Its
Adherents
In Rwanda, 65% of the
population is Roman Catholic. 9% are
Protestant, according to Ecumenical
News International. In the article,
which quoted a 1999 Guardian article
by Christ McGreal, it is noted that
the Roman Catholic Church actually
claims four of five, or 80% of
Rwandans as its adherents.
Brief History of
Rwanda
The British Church
Newspaper article reveals the history
of Rwanda from the time that German
colonialists arrived in
Rwanda-Burundi in the 1870s to find a
well-ordered society. The Tutsis were
dominant cattle owners, and held
power in the “central
court.” The Hutus were pheasant
farmers who could move into the Tutsi
elite on merit, with the Hutu chiefs
playing a significant role in the
society.
Roman Catholic
“White Fathers” Order
Arrives Beginning in 1880s
‘From the 1880s
onward, Belgian Roman Catholic
missionaries from the Vatican’s
‘White Fathers Order’
increased their influence in the
areas, and in 1919 Versailles
settlement after World War I, Rwanda
became a League of Nations
‘Trust Territory’ under
Belgian control.
White Fathers Develop
Racist Theory
“The ‘White
Fathers’ consolidated their
influence. Darwinian evolutionary and
racial theories were then in full
flow. The ‘Fathers’
developed a bizarre racist theory to
explain the relatively well-ordered
African society they were dealing
with, the so-called ‘Hamitic
hypothesis.’ This proclaimed
that ‘civilized’ African
societies emanated from an invasion
of ‘Ham-ites’ who
originally settled in Ethiopia.
Rwandan History
Rewritten By RC Academics and Belgian
Administrators
“Rwandan history
was effectively rewritten by RC
academics and Belgian colonial
administrators. The Tutsi were
Hamites, descended from Ham, whilst
the Hutus were of inferior stock and
destined to be treated like Bantu
serfs, whilst a small group of the
hunter-gathers and potters, the Twa,
were regarded as ‘aboriginal
pygmoids’ – supposedly
remnants of an earlier stage of human
evolution.” Ibid.
Belgium Ruled
Rwanda More or Less as a Joint
Venture With the Roman Catholic
Church.
Because of this only
Tutsi were given responsibility in
Rwanda. Their power increased
greatly, while Hutu resentment grew.
This set the stage for the post-World
War II Roman Catholic missionaries.
Belgium ruled “Rwanda more or
less as a joint venture with the
Roman Catholic
Church.” (Gourevitch, 56)
Rwanda the Most
Catholicized Country in Africa
In 1931, the Belgians
and the Catholic Church installed a
national leader selected for his
compliance. He promptly converted to
Catholicism that sparked a national
rush to the baptismal font that made
Rwanda the most Catholicized country
in Africa.
The Same Year
Hitler Conducted a Census to Identify
Jews in Europe, the Belgians Issued
Ethnic Identity Card in Rwanda
“In 1933-34 the
Belgians conducted a census in
order to issue ‘ethnic’
identity cards, which labeled
every Rwandan as either Hutu
(eighty-five percent) or Tutsi
(fourteen percent) or Twa (one
percent).” – Gourevitch,
56, 57. The Belgians perfected the
administration of an apartheid
system.
Meanwhile, in Germany,
“On June 16, 1933, one-half
million census takers… went
door-to-door…cadres of Storm
Troopers and SS officers [were] added
to create a virtual census
army.” – Edwin Black, IBM
and the Holocaust, New York:
Crown Publishers, 2001, p. 56. The
census provided the intelligence for
identifying the Jews for the
Holocaust. While the “White
Fathers” conducted the census in
Rwanda, the Jesuit-run SS were
conducting the census in Germany.
What power might have coordinated the
two censuses the same year, both
which resulted in genocide?
Catholic Schools
Dominate; Every Schoolchild Taught
Racism
The Catholic schools
dominated the educational system.
Ethnicity became the defining feature
of Rwandan existence. Every
schoolchild was reared in the
‘doctrine of racial superiority
and inferiority.” (Gourevitch,
57.)
The Tutsis were told,
“You whip the Hutu or we will
whip you.” The favoritism of the
White Fathers for the Tutsis would
now whiplash back the other way, for
young Flemish priests arriving after
World War II took up the cause of the
Hutus.
After WWII Young Papal
Missionaries Bring “Social
Justice” Theories
“After World War
II the influence of the White Fathers
Order diminished as a new wave of
young Papal missionaries came over
from Belgian seminaries. They brought
with them ‘social justice’
[note: read Marxist] theories that
were now being developed by the
Vatican to promote RC influence in
third world countries. These most
Flemish priests identified with the
by-now oppressed Hutu majority, took
up their cause, and gradually forced
the Tutsis to relinquish their grip
on the country. One result was a Hutu
uprising in 1959 which led to 10,000
Tutsis being killed and over 100,000
being driven abroad.” – British
Church Newspaper.
RC Church Orchestrates
Calls for Tutsis to Be “Sent
Back Home”
‘Three years
later, Gregoire Kayibanda, Secretary
to Monsignor Vincent Nsengiyuma,
Rwanda’s Archbishop, became
first President of an independent
Rwanda, having earlier founded the
racial supremacist ‘Parma
Hutu’ party. Now the Tutsi
were seen by RC thinkers as
“invaders’ from Ethiopia
and the RC Church orchestrated
calls for the Tutsi to be ‘sent
back home.’
Hutu RC Priests and
Religious Leaders: Tutsi
‘Cockroaches’
“A notable event
was the disgraceful letter sent in
1972 to the Archbishop by a group of eleven
Hutu RC priests and religious
leaders, referring to the Tutsi
as ‘inyensi’ (cock-roaches)
– a word used frequently by
Hutu killers in 1994.” Ibid.
Experts Say Genocide
Planned and Coordinated By RC Church
Leaders
“The events
leading up to the genocide in April
1994 were, according to many experts,
planned and coordinated by RC church
leaders and politicians in
conjunction with Hutu racial
supremacists and United States
Ambassador David Rawson…
“A key role in
the Rwandan massacres was to deny
that genocide was taking place, since
under international law that would
have ‘obliged’ the UN and
the international community to
intervene. Instead, they claimed
there were merely ‘individual
acts of genocide.’ They also
actively frustrated UN attempts to
send troops to Rwanda….
Identification Papers
“Just as the
identification of the Jews on local
authority registers in Holland in the
1930s enabled Hitler’s men to
rapidly identify and round up Jews
there in 1940, is salutary to note
that the Catholic inspired racial
ideology of the 1920s and 1930s required
all Rwandans to carry papers
identifying them as either Hutu,
Tutsis or Twa. This made the job of
the Hutu mass-murderers, whose
efforts at one time led to 40,000
Tutsi bodies floating down to Lake
Victoria, all the easier.” –
“Genocide of the Tutsis –
the Role of the Roman Catholic
Church,” British church
Newspaper, April 16, 2004.
Genocide Carefully
Orchestrated: Register the Tutsi for
Extermination
The Canadian UN
General “Dallaire three months
before the start of what would become
the fastest killing campaign of the
twentieth century” sent a fax
from Rwanda ‘to Kofi Annan,
that, according to ‘Jean
Pierre’ an anonymous informant
high up in the inner circles of the
Interahamwe Rwandan militia, Hutu
extremists ‘had been ordered to
register all the Tutsi in
Kigali.’ ‘He suspects it is
for their extermination,’ Dallaire
wrote, ‘Example he
gave was that in 20 minutes his
personnel could kill up to 1,000
Tutsis.’” –Samantha
Power in the Foreword to Lt. General
Romeo Dallaire, Force Commander of
the UN Assistance Mission to Rwanda,
1993-1994 Shake Hands With the
Devil. New York: Carroll &
Graf, 2003, p. ix. Winner of the 2004
Governor General’s Literary
Award for Nonfiction, Canada Council
for the Arts.
Cells Make Lists of
Tutsis for Extermination
Later “Jean
Pierre” revealed that
Interahamwe cells were ordered to ‘make
lists of the Tutsis in their various
communes.” He suspected that
the lists were made ‘so that, when
the time came the Tutsis…could
be rounded up and exterminated.”
It was “a plan to create a
series of highly efficient death
squads.” Dallaire learned that the
schools were registering the ethnic
identities of the students. (Dallaire,
198)
“Jean
Pierre” even warned that the
genocidists even infiltrated the UN
peacekeeping force at the highest
levels. Even Dallaire’s driver
was a spy. They had a study stream of
information about the UN mission at
the highest levels that immediately
was passed down to the killers.
UN Betrayal
Kofi Annan ordered
Dallaire to give the information
collected from “Jean
Pierre” directly and immediately
to President Habyarimana, thus
totally compromising the tiny UN
force by giving all its intelligence
to the enemy – the genocidists.
This whole genocide was rigged from
the beginning from the top down. When
Dallaire sought to warn Belgium, the
US and France about the plotting of
the genocidaires, Dallaire was
convinced that the governments of
Belgium. The US and France already
knew the crucial information he had
acquired from the informant. At
virtually every turn, the effort to
stop the genocide was blocked by the
UN and the international community.
