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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.
