Showing posts with label Ann Garrison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ann Garrison. Show all posts
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Monday, April 25, 2011
Rwanda and the Pentagon's Predator Drones
KPFA Weekend News, 04.23.2011:
KPFA Weekend News Host: The prevailing narrative of the 1994 Rwanda Genocide is that extremist Hutus massacred 800,000 or more Rwandan Tutsi and moderate Hutu, who tried to protect them. But, many scholars, journalists, and human rights investigators now argue that both Tutsi and Hutu massacred one another because of their ethnicity.
The truth is now more and more significant for all Africa, as NATO wages war in Libya, and U.S. policy lobbyists promote a proposal to use Predator Drones to "stop genocide," specifically to stop the next Rwanda or Darfur from happening elsewhere in Africa, such as Libya or Sudan. KPFA's Ann Garrison spoke to a Rwandan American legal scholar and a Rwandan Genocide survivor about the Rwandan massacres of 1994.Read more at anngarrison.com, http://www.anngarrison.com/audio/rwanda-genocide-excuse-for-predator-drones-over-africa .
Saturday, January 8, 2011
AfrobeatRadio Special on the Southern Sudanese Referendum on Independence
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| Rev. Dr. Nikita Imani, Associate Professor of Sociology at James Madison University and ordained minister in both the Baptist and African Orthodox Churches spoke to Afrobeat Radio about the Southern Sudanese Referendum. |
Are peace and self-determination possible for the Sudanese people, despite troops amassing in both north and the south, and vast oil wealth, concentrated in the South and coveted by competitive foreign powers? Ann Garrison reports on Sudan Referendum January Sat 8, on WBAI 99.5 FM NY, streaming live @ WBAI.Org at 4:00 PM EST. Guests: Mugume D. Rwakaringi, Rev. Dr. Nikita Imani, Peter Erlinder, Milton Allimadi.
Audio link: http://www.anngarrison.com/images/mp3s/afrobeatequalized.mp3.
Voting began in Southern Sudan on their referendum on independence began on January 9, 2011.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
KPFA News: Ingabire, Gasana, Kambanda, and Rwanda, "a smoldering volcano"
Transcript, KPFA Weekend News, 11.14.2010
Host:
Rwanda's High Court in Kigali denied opposition leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza's bail appeal hearing and sent her back to solitary confinement in Kigali's infamous 1930 prison, where another opposition leader Bernard Ntaganda also remains incarcerated. Ingabire and Ntaganda both attempted to contest this year's presidential election against Rwandan President Paul Kagame, as did Democratic Green Party of Rwanda President Frank Habineza. Ingabire and Ntaganda both landed in prison instead, charged with terrorism and genocide related crimes. Habineza has been in Sweden with his family, since his party's vice president was found beheaded, his body dumped in the wetlands of a river in Southern Rwanda, though he still intends to return to Rwanda. KPFA's Ann Garrison has the story.
KPFA/Ann Garrison:
Didas Gasana, Editor of the Newsline East Africa, speaking to KPFA from Kampala, Uganda, said that Kagame's repression and exclusion of the majority of the Rwandan population is turning the tiny African nation into a smoldering volcano that could erupt at any time. Charles Kambanda, a Rwandan American legal scholar, former member of Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front, and Gasana's former professor at Makerera University in Kampala, agrees. He spoke to KPFA from New York City:
Charles Kambanda:
Yes, indeed, what's happening in Rwanda under Kagame is a smoldering volcano that might erupt any time. He has pushed people too far against the wall, and the only possible action that people are likely to take is to fight back. What we have now in Rwanda, under Kagame, is that he is actually exterminating the people within and he's not stopping there. He's going for voices from outside Rwanda, to assassinate them. This is going too far, and eventually we are going to see people coming together and saying no, enough is enough, we have to fight back, because they have no other alternative but fight back. And my fear is that we risk having the worst situation, worse than what we saw in 1994, because, on the one hand, Kagame has armed his people; he has so many young men who are now armed. They are more or less like the former interahamwe. And these people who are excluded will also arm their youth, and we are going to have people killing others in millions, if we are not careful. A kind of history repeating itself.
KPFA/Ann Garrison:
Kambanda also says that Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza cannot possibly get a fair trial in Rwanda, no matter how skillful her lawyers are.
For Pacifica, KPFA Radio, I'm Ann Garrison.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
KPFA Radio News: Keith Harmon Snow on Rwandan Police in Haiti
Keith Harmon Snow, independent journalist and human rights investigator, photographed here in D.R. Congo.
On 03.13.2010, I reported for KPFA Radio about Rwandan police undertaking special training to serve as "peacekeepers" in Haiti, which I had reported on Colored Opinions and the San Francisco Bay View, National Black Newspaper, in "Just what Haiti doesn't need: Rwandan police," http://bit.ly/9kJjp7 For KPFA, I recorded Keith Harmon Snow's response:
Rwandan Police in Haiti, http://bit.ly/a4pYqa
This seems to have struck a nerve, making Rwandan reality more real to people in this hemisphere, even way out here on the Pacific Coast. Progressives are very conscious of Haiti in the San Francisco Bay Area, and of Palestine, largely because these are the two hot spots that the popular KPFA Flashpoints Investigative Radio show focuses on most faithfully.
Consciously or not, we consume the resources of the Great Lakes region every day, including Starbuck's coffee and tea from Rwanda, and coltan and cassiterite from eastern Congo, smuggled across the border for export from Rwanda, for all the electronic gadgetry designed and manufactured in the San Francisco Bay Area. Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, and Google headquarters are all roughly an hour away from the City of San Francisco, in Silicon Valley, as are many military industrial contractors, who rely on cobalt ore mined in the Katanga Copper Belt running through southeastern D.R. Congo into Zambia.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
KPFA News Rwanda: 256.com correspondent Godwin Agaba says government responsible for Kigali bombings
KPFA Radio News Update on Rwanda, 03.07.2010
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