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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.
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