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“A
Hidden Hand At Work, Orchestrating It All,”
“The Shrouded Entity That Seemed to be
Running the Show”
Lt. General Dallaire
writes, I couldn’t get over the feeling
that there was a hidden hand at work,
orchestrating it all…
“…the Rwandan
ambassador to the UN, Jean-Damascene Bizimana,
had a seat on the Security Council and was not
only privy to the inner workings of the mission
but to the Security council’s attitude
toward the mission and its many woes. All this
information was obviously being fed back to the shrouded
entity that seemed to be running the
show in Rwanda…my small team of
intelligence officers…were risking their
lives for crumbs of information while the
extremists had a direct pipeline to the kind of
strategic intelligence that allowed them to
shadow my every move.” – Dallaire,
194, 195. (Emphasis mine)
Murder of Belgium
Peacekeepers
The genocide was so well
orchestrated and masterminded on an international
level that the plan, according to ‘Jean
Pierre’ was also “to murder a number of
Belgian peacekeepers in order to ‘guarantee
Belgium withdrawal from Rwanda.’” -Dallaire,
Ibid, p. ix.
The murder of Belgium
peacekeepers took place the very day, April 6,
1994; the Rwandan president’s plane was shot
down, starting the genocide.
Apparition
of the Virgin Mary Taken to Support the Genocide
On May 14, 1994, the
apparition of the Virgin Mary appeared at the
hilltop shrine of Kibeho. The message attributed
to her by the visionary Valentine Nyiramukiza was
“broadcast on Radio Rwandan at the time, and
a number of Rwandan priests and journalists
– including Thomas Kamilindi, who heard it
at the Hotel des Mille Collines – told me
[Gourevitch] that the Virgin was reported to
have said that President Habyarimana was with her
in heaven, and that her words were
widely interpreted as an expression of divine
support for the genocide.” Gourevitch,
137.
Priest
Wenceslas Provides killers With List of Tutsis
Father Wenceslas, a
priest in Rwanda, was charged in France in 1998
with “providing killers with lists of Tutsis
refugees at his church, flushing refugees out of
hiding to be killed, attending massacres without
interfering, sabotaging UNAMIR’s efforts to
evacuate refugees from the church,” and much
more. (Gourevitch, 136).
Local
Priest Described As A Leader of Interahamwe
Attacks
A ‘local priest,
Father Thadee Rusingizandekwe, was described by
survivors as one of leaders of several interahamwe
[militia] attacks.” -
Gourevitch, 137.
Bishop
Accused of Barring Tutsis From Refuge
Bishop of Gikongoro,
Monsignor Augustin Misago, was often described as
a Hutu Power sympathizer, publicly accused of
barring Tutsis from places of refuge, and telling
‘a group of ninety Tutsi schoolchildren, who
were being held in preparation for slaughter, not
to worry, because the police would protect the.
Three days later, the police helped to massacre
eighty-two of the children.” Gourevitch,
137.
“Prosecutors say at
least 2,000 people were killed in the Nyange
Church in western Rwanda when the parish ordered
the church to be bulldozed on top of Tutsi
refugees.” NPR: Catholic Complicity and
Rwanda Genocide.
In
100 Days 800,000 Slaughtered
A box at the end of
the British Church Newspaper
article states that in 100 days an estimated
800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered. “The
killers…did their work five times faster
than the gas chambers used by the Nazis during
the Second World War, according to some
academics.” Tutsis and Hutu moderates were
killed 10,000 a day, 333 1/3 an hour, 5 ½ every
minute.
“The
Vatican is Too Strong…to Go Taking On
Bishops”
An official at the
Ministry of Justice in Kigali told Gourevitch why
Misago could not be arrested. “The Vatican
is too strong, and too unapologetic for us to go
taking on bishops. Haven’t you heard of
infallibility?’” – Gourevitch,
140.
However, some local
courts have charged some priest.
White
Fathers Priest Charged With Inciting Genocide
The Radio
Netherlands website carried an article by Robert
Chesal, September 14, 2005, “A set-up?
Belgium priest stands trial for Rwandan
genocide.”
Chesal reports, “A
Belgium priest, Father Guy Theunis, has been
charged with inciting people to take part in the
1994 genocide in Rwanda. The priest, a missionary
with the ‘White Fathers’ in the African
country between 1970 and 1994, was arrested at
Kigali airport last week as he waited for a
flight to Brussels.
“Father Theunis went
on trial this week before a Rwandan
‘gacaca’ or community court. The
charges against him: inciting genocide and
spreading extremist propaganda by publishing
articles in the magazine he edited at the time
which encouraged Hutus to take part in the
killing of Tutsis…
“They decided [the
gacaca court]…he was a Category One
offender, which means that he was one of the
principle ideologies of the genocide.’
– Richard Haavisto.” Some in Belgium
think this is an attempt to shift the blame from
the Roman Catholic Church to an individual,
making the priest a scapegoat to take the blame
that should be placed upon the Roman Catholic
Church.
Two
Nuns Handed Over Thousands to Death
BBC News reports
that “Sister Gertrude Mukangango received a
14-year sentence for her role in the massacre of
some 7,000 people seeking refuge at her convent
in southern Rwanda. Sister Maria Kisito
Mukabutera received a 12-year sentence….
“The court heard how
the two nuns handed over thousands of people who
had sought refuge in their convent.
“They even supplied
cans of petrol to the Hutu militias, who set fire
to a garage sheltering some 400 refugees.”
Benedictine
Nuns Accused of Collaborating With Militia
The American Society of
International Law states that the two nuns are
“Benedictine nuns accused of collaborating
with Hutu militia to kill Tutsis seeking refuge
at the Sovu convent in Butare, Rwanda…
“Both nuns are
accused of forcing Tutsis to leave the Sovu
convent compound when they knew that armed Hutu
militia were gathered outside; thousands of those
who had sought sanctuary were allegedly driven
out and killed. Sister Gertrude, Mother Superior
of the convent, is also accused of contacting
officials days later to ask them to remove the
last remaining 30 Tutsi…the leader of the
local militia has admitted his part in the
genocide and stated that the nuns provided
vehicles, information and support in the killing
the Tutsis. He states that [t] hose two nuns
collaborated with us in everything we did. They
shared our hatred of the Tutsis. I did not do
anything without first discussing it with Kisito
and Gertrude. They handed over innocent people,
without being threatened in any way, and without
us having to use force.’” –ASIL
Insights, “Belgium Jury to Decide Case
Concerning Rwandan Genocide, by Linda Keller, May
2001.
Hundreds
Now Being Executed Before Firing Squads
The two nuns and the
White Fathers can be thankful to be tried in
Belgium, for hundreds are now being executed
before firing squads in Rwanda. “More than
one hundred thousand Hutus accused of aiding the
mass murder now await their trails in dirty
jails, and hundreds have been sentenced to death;
every few days the public can watch the convicted
Hutus don black hoods before facing a firing
squad.” –M.L. Rossi, What Every
American Should Know About the Rest of the World.
New York: Penguin 9Plume Book), p. 239.
Radio
Stations Stirred Up and Directed the Genocide
Radio Stations drove the
genocide. Three men have been convicted in this
regard: Hassan Ngeze, who owned the newspaper
Kangura, Ferdinand Nahhimana, who controlled the
popular radio station RTLM, and Jean-Bosco
Baryagwiza, the station’s co-founder.
‘The judges found that the station and
newspaper branded all Tutsi, armed or unarmed, as
the enemy.” Sharon LaFraniere, New York
Times, “Court Convicts 3 in 1994
Genocide Across Rwanda.” December 3, 2003.
‘During the
genocide, radio was used by the Hutu extremist
conspirators to mobilize the Hutu majority, to
coordinate the killings and to ensure that the
plans for extermination were faithfully
executed.” –Fahamu Networks for social
justice, “Role of the Media in the Genocide
in Rwanda.”
The
Propagandists
There appeared to be
deliberate coordination among propagandists and
between them and government officials. In the
Butare prefecture a mimeographed document was
discovered, “Note Relative a la Propagande
d’Expansion et de Recrutement.” In the
document, “one propagandist tells others how
to sway the public most effectively. Obviously
someone who had studied at university level, the
author of the note presents a detailed analysis
of a book called Psychologie de la publcite et
de la propagande, by Roger Mucchielli, published
in Paris in 1970.
Creating
Events
“The author of the
note claims to convey lessons learned from the
book and drawn from Lenin and Goebbels. He
advocates using lies, exaggeration, ridicule, and
innuendo to attack the opponent, in both his
public and in his private life…the
propagandist proposes two techniques that were to
become often used in Rwanda. The first is to
‘create’ events to lend credence to
propaganda. He
remarks that this tactic is not honest, but it
works well, provided the deception is not
discovered. The ‘attack’ on Kigali on
October 4-5, 1990 was such a ‘created’
event, as were others-the reported discovery of
hidden arms, the passage of a stranger with a
mysterious bag, the discovery of radio
communications equipment-that were exploited
later, especially during the genocide.
“Accusation
in a Mirror”
“The
propagandist calls his second proposal
‘Accusation in a mirror,’ meaning his
colleagues should impute to enemies exactly what
they and their own party are planning to do.
He explains, ‘in this way, the party which
is using terror will accuse the enemy of using
terror. With such a tactic, propagandists can
persuade listeners and ‘honest people’
that they are being attacked and are
justified in taking whatever measures are
necessary ‘for legitimate [self-]
defense.’ The tactic worked
extremely well, both in specific cases such as
the Bugesera massacre of March 1992 described
below and in the broader campaign to convince
Hutu that Tutsi planned to exterminate them.
There is no proof that officials and
propagandists who ‘created’ events and
made ‘accusations in a mirror’ were
familiar with this particular document, but they
regularly used the techniques that it
described.” –Human Rights Watch,
“HRW Report- Leave None to Tell the Story:
Genocide in Rwanda, March 1,”
“Propaganda and Practice.”
Radio:
Extirpate the Enemy
Human Rights Watch
states that the newspaper Kanura was one of the
most virulent voices of hate, but the radio,
particularly RTLM, was to become even more
effective, giving the message of hate directly
and simultaneously to a wide audience. For
the Newspaper, the radio, during the genocide
started, RTLM radio pulled into its orbit another
station, Radio Rwanda. The radio, during the
genocide, became the sole source of news for the
people, as well as the sole authority for
interpreting its meaning. The two stations had a
single message about the need to extirpate the
‘enemy.’
Professors
Become Propagandists
The propagandists would
assert that their information came from
‘intellectuals’ or ‘professors at
the national university.’ Two professors
turned propagandist, one, Nahimana, would up
director of RTLM radio.
Propagandists
Used Religion and the Church
“Propagandists used
religion and the church to validate their
teachings. Umurava Magazine declared ‘It is
God who has given [President] Habyarimana the
power to direct the country, it is He who will
show him the path to follow.’ …Cartoons
sometimes portrayed Habyarimana as a saint or a
priest…Following killings of Hutu in Burundi
in 1991, Kangura featured the Christ child
with Mary and Joseph on the cover of the January
issue. Mary asks the Christ child to save the
Hutu of Burundi. He replies that he will tell
them to love each other. Joseph comments,
“No, instead tell the Hutu of the world to
unite.’ In a country where 90 percent of the
people called themselves Christian and 62 percent
Catholic, these references to religion helped
make the teachings of fear and hate more
acceptable.” –HRW, op.cit.
Propagandists
used the Teaching of the Social Justice Priests
“The propagandists
asserted that the Tutsi, as Ethiopods or
Nilotics, had no right to inhabit Central Africa.
–HRW, Ibid. This of course, is the very
teaching of the Flemish Social Justice priests.
“Local officials at
the level of cell, sector, and commune directed
the early massacres.” HRW. The government
distributed machetes and radios.
ID Cards Spell Death
Roadblocks were
everywhere. “Tutsi attempting to pass the
barriers were usually identified by their
identity cards and then slain. Those who decided
not to flee were killed in their homes.”
–HRW.
Does America really want
to turn its government over to Rome, as Rwanda
did decades ago, as Germany did in the 1930s?
Can
It Happen Here?
Five
Times the Intensity of the Holocaust
The horror of the Rwandan
genocide is breathtaking. For intensity, compared
with the Nazi genocide, it was five times as
intense. And this over three months – 100
days—in 1994.
Truly, the Rwandan
genocide is a study in how Rome conducts genocide
on the eye of the twenty-first century. It is a
mighty reminder of what Rome does when she has
the power.
Handing
Power Over, Wholesale, to Rome
America is now handing
over power, wholesale, to Rome. The executive,
the legislative, the judicial-in every branch of
government, and in all the denominations with
Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Directors, and
the media.
“God’s word has
given warning of the impending danger; let this
be unheeded, and the Protestant world
will learn what the purposes of Rome really are,
only when it too late to escape the snare. She is silently
growing in power. Her
doctrines are exerting their influence in legislative
halls, in the churches, and in the hearts of men. She is
piling up her lofty and massive structures in
the secret recesses of which her former
persecutions will be repeated. Stealthily
and unsuspectly, she is strengthening her forces
to further her own ends when the time
shall come for her to strike. All that
she desires is vantage ground, and this is
already being given her. We shall soon see
and shall feel what the purpose of the roman
element is. Whoever shall believe and obey the
word of God will thereby incur reproach and
persecution.” GC 581.
Vantage
Ground
Truly, placing five Roman
Catholic judges on the Supreme Court to interpret
the Constitution in harmony with the papal
interpretation is giving Rome vantage ground.
Having Jesuits and the Jesuit Volunteer Corps run
the Department of Homeland Security is giving
Rome vantage ground. Taking away the freedoms of
the Constitution with anti-terrorist legislation
is giving Rome vantage ground. Expansion of
executive authority, to the field of torture,
secret CIA prisons around the world, wiretapping
of American citizens illegally, and the president
seeking authority to solely determine who the
enemy is, is all giving Rome vantage ground.
Insane Thinking:
Transforming the State Into Totalitarianism
The same kind of
thinking that gripped Nazi Germany is abroad in
America today. The president, caught red-handed
spying on US citizens without a warrant, even a
warrant from the secret FISA court, is boldly
justifying his right to spy on US citizens, based
on the Constitution, though no
citation is given from the Constitution, and
though the Constitution expressly forbids it in
the Fourth Amendment.
The
Big Lie
It is the principle of
the Big Lie, used by Hitler, that if you repeat a
big enough lie. Often enough, boldly enough, the
people will believe it. Here the Big Lie is that
through the Constitution expressly forbids it in
the Fourth Amendment, the Constitution really
completely endorses what it expressly forbids. The
Vice-president has just justified the
President’s illegal spying based on the
Constitution, with no quotation given.
Talk Show Hosts Sway
the Masses, By Radio, Just
as in Rwanda, Calling for the Roundup of Any One
in a Mosque, and the ALCU
And the talk show hosts
take up the issue hour by hour, day after day,
justifying illegal wiretapping, justifying
torture, some even calling for the wholesale
roundup and detention of massive numbers of
people, and one talk show host calling for the
extermination off the face of the earth of
those Islamic fundamentalists, wherever they
might be, who might be a threat to national
security. This talk show host, January 19, 2006,
ranting and yelling, called for the roundup of
everyone found in a mosque. Next, the talk show
host, who is on hundreds and hundreds of
stations, and who has written at least one
best-seller, called for leadership of the
American Civil Liberties Union to be rounded up
and hauled away. Then he could go after all the
Islamic Fundamentalists without let or hindrance.
The
Same Kind of Thing
After hearing this on the
radio, I turned to my friend and said, After
reading about the propaganda tactics used on the
radio in Rwanda to drive the genocide, this kind
of ranting sounds like the same kind of thing all
over again.
A Sustained Effort to
Identify those Opposing the Removal of Liberty
With the Terrorists
Now on television, on
talk radio, and now even books, there is a sustained
effort to identify the Left, that is the
Enlightenment forces in America who are opposing
the removal of liberty in America, those opposing
torture and illegal wiretaps along with other
issues-there is a sustained effort to identify
Civil Libertarians still seeking to maintain the
Bill of Rights-with the terrorists.
The King of the North,
the Papacy, is beginning with whirlwind force to
roll over its opposition, the King of the South,
the forces of the French Revolution, which have
kept the papacy in check since 1798. (Daniel
11:40)
America is teetering on
the brink of what happened to Germany in the
1930s, and what happened in Rwanda in the 1990s.
In Rwanda it was “save the republic,”
in Germany it was for the protection of the
people and the state.
Totalitarianism
Justified On The Basis of a Real Threat
And, while the Nazis
justified their tyranny on the grounds of
protection of the Fatherland from the Bolshevik
threat, and it was a real threat, with communists
in the Streets battling the Brown Shirts, today
those vociferously advocating the reinstitution
of torture, illegal spying, wholesale roundups of
certain groups of people, are justifying it on
the grounds of the Islamic fundamentalist threat.
To
Protect the State and the People
In Germany, after the SS
burned down the Reichstag, blaming it on the
patsy – a half wit communist – the
Enabling Acts were passed, sweeping away the
Constitution right of the people, and giving
Hitler dictatorial powers, all in the name of the
protection of the state and the people.
Paranoia
of Identifying Enemies of the State
It is the Hegelian
dialectic at work in the political field for
building the totalitarian threat. It was the same
in the Soviet Union. Ten of millions were starved
to death or sent to the Gulags out of a paranoid
fear of counter-revolutionary activity –
that they might be an enemy of the state because
of their class affiliation – such as the
middle class farmers – the Kulaks – who
were starved to death by Stalin.
“All that she
desires is vantage ground, and this is already
being given her. We shall soon see and shall
feel what the purpose of the Roman element is.
Whoever shall believe and obey the word of God
will thereby incur reproach and
persecution.” GC 581.
“As
Many As Would Not Worship the Image of the Beast
Should Be Killed”
The Bible, the sure Word
of prophecy, declares:
“And he [the
two-horned lamblike, dragon speaking beast] had
power to give life unto the image of the beast,
that image of the beast should both speak, and
cause that as many as would not worship the
image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation
13:15.
It will be global. It
will be considered to be a matter of national
security, just as Caiaphas argued, it is better
for this or that group to perish, that the nation
perish not.
During the Great
Tribulation, each person alive will be tested and
tried to see if their faith is sure in the Lord.
After successfully passing the four part test
which contains:
- Everyone
must hear the gospel.
- Everyone
must decide for or against the gospel.
- Everyone
must be tested in their decision (faith
tested).
- Depending
on the outcome choice, everyone will
receive either the seal of God or the
mark of the beast.
The first step in
the testing process is the proclamation of the
terms and conditions of the gospel. The second
step is the decision phase. The honest in
heart will make the right choices as the Holy
Spirit and the Bible directs them, even though
they will be threatened with persecution and
death. The point is that everyone will make an
informed decision about the will of God because
the 144,000 will complete their preaching
assignments. Everyone will either submit to the
gospel or rebel against it. The third step
will be the testing phase. This phase will
confirm whether our faith in God is firm and
loyal. Last, God will remove the carnal
nature and seal those who pass the test of
faith with a spiritual nature that has no
propensity toward sin! God will give the sinless
nature He originally gave to Adam to the people
who pass the test of faith.
The
Way of Truth
The way of Truth is the
way of Christ, Who is the Way, the Truth, and the
Life. It is the way of losing one’s life to
find it in Christ. It is the way of following
Christ, forsaking all others and even one’s
own life, following Him into the richness of the
unreachable treasures He offers of the infinite
love of God, the faith of Jesus, justification,
obedience, courage, daring, and taking up
one’s cross to follow Him.
The way of Truth is the
way of following and holding the convictions
given by the Hoy Spirit, the way of hearing His
slightest whisper, and obeying. The way of Truth
is the way of the Three Angel’s Messages the
way of Truth is the way of holding to the
orientation of the Great Controversy.
The way of Truth is the
way of faith, the way of being born again, the
way of the strait gate and the narrow way. It
will take battle-hardened conviction to survive
the last days, to be a wrestler with God, and be
an overcomer in Christ.
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