Ci sono anche tre oppositori rwandesi tra i candidati all'edizione 2012 del Premio Sakharov per la libertà di pensiero che dal 1988, una volta all'anno, il Parlamento europeo assegna a singole persone o
organizzazioni che hanno contribuito in maniera significativa alla lotta per i
diritti umani e la democrazia. L'anno scorso il premio è andato a rappresentanti della primavera araba, mentre nel passato sono stati premiati, tra gli altri, il Nobel per la pace
Nelson Mandela (1988), Aung Sang Suu Kyi (1990) e l'Organizzazione delle Nazioni
Unite (2003). Tra le cinque candidature presentate per questa edizione del premio, vi è quella, sottoscritta da quarantadue parlamentari europei,di tre oppositori rwandesi, attualmente detenuti a vario titolo nelle carceri rwandesi: Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, Déogratias Mushayidi e Bernard Ntaganda. Le loro storie, unitamente a quelle degli altri candidati, le potete trovare cliccando qui. Il prossimo 9 ottobre saranno scelte le tre candidature finaliste fra cui il successivo 26 ottobre verrà scelto il vincitore che sarà premiato il 12 dicembre p.v..Senza sottovalutare l'importanza che le storie dei tre oppositori rwandesi siano arrivate fino al parlamento europeo, bisogna realisticamente dire che difficilmente la loro candidatura arriverà tra le finaliste. Ci pare, infatti, del tutto improbabile che Kigali assista in silenzio senza dispiegare tutta la potenza della sua lobby internazionale per evitare quello che sarebbe, in questo particolare momento, un altro duro colpo alla sua immagine.
Se dovesse capitare che il link alle biografie dei candidati nel sito del Parlamento europeo non fosse operativo come stranamente successo nei giorni scorsi, come segnalatoci da un nostro lettore, pubblichiamo qui di seguito il documento originale in inglese presente nel sito del U.E. relativo alla biografie dei tre oppositori rwandesi.
Se dovesse capitare che il link alle biografie dei candidati nel sito del Parlamento europeo non fosse operativo come stranamente successo nei giorni scorsi, come segnalatoci da un nostro lettore, pubblichiamo qui di seguito il documento originale in inglese presente nel sito del U.E. relativo alla biografie dei tre oppositori rwandesi.
Victoire Ingabire
Umuhoza, Déogratias Mushayidi and Bernard Ntaganda
Nominated by MEPs Willy Meyer, Rosa Estaràs, Santiago Fisas, María Muñiz, Ana Miranda and 37 other MEPs
Rwanda
has witnessed, during recent decades, a cycle of systematic violence aimed at excluding
a great part of the population from the governance of the country. Cleavages in Rwandan
society, both of ethnic origin or based on regionalism, have brought about disastrous
effects on the country and its population.
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza (Rwanda) was forced into exile in the
Netherlands, following the
Rwandan genocide. She very quickly became engaged in community life. Ms
Ingabire became a
founding member of the Contact non-profit organization, then of Dialogue and Charity
Actions where she was co-Director until 2000. She was also co-Director of
URAHO, an organization of Rwandan women exiled in the Netherlands and was also
a founding member of the PRO JUSTITIA – Rwanda, then CEO of the ZWALU
association, a platform gathering all expatriate women in the Netherlands. Later
on she helped in the creation of HARAMBE, also a platform for African women in
the same country. Simultaneously
Ms Ingabire was an active sponsor of the Inter-Rwandan Dialogue, an effort to
bring together Rwandans of all ethnic origins in order to discuss the future of
their country. Ms
Ingabire went back to Rwanda on 16 January 2010, in order to run for the
presidential elections
to be held in August. She was not only banned from participating in those
elections but was also detained in October 2010 and charged with attempts
against State security and espousing a genocide ideology, a crime defined by
the UN human rights Committee – as well as by the majority of organizations for
the protection of the same - as an infringement of liberty. She is currently
being kept at the infamous central prison of Kigali. Before being arrested Ms
Ingabire was subject to even worse humiliations by the regime’s security
forces. After she
announced her intention to run for the presidential elections, her aged mother,
living in the Netherlands, was charged with genocide and condemned in
absentia to a heavy imprisonment term. Ms
Ingabire is a symbolic example of peaceful combat for the defence of citizens`fundamental
rights. Her innermost conviction affirms that only a nation living in reconciliation will be able to put an end
to the political culture of exclusion and violence that has defined the history
of Rwanda for far too many years.By striving for the stability of Rwanda, she
is simultaneously working for the same result in the Great Lakes region.
Déogratias Mushayidi (Rwanda) was born in 1961 at Sake in
South-East Rwanda. Mr
Mushayidi
is a Tutsi who escaped the genocide, during which he lost many members of his family.
Albeit being himself a victim, he refused to caution the deadly crimes
committed by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), the Tutsi movement in power in
Rwanda since 1994. A former representative of that military-political movement
in Switzerland from 1990 to 1994, and even having brilliant prospects within
the RPF, it was shocking news when Mr Mushayidi resigned from his post of RPF
assistant Secretary General. He condemned the army of that movement, which
boasted that it had stopped the Tutsi killings, for itself becoming a
warmachine aimed at slaughtering Hutu communities having nothing to do with
Tutsi extermination. In
Belgium, where he is a refugee, Mr Mushayidi has worked actively in favour of a
dialogue among Rwandans of all ethnic origins. Having
been kidnapped in Burundi in March 2010, Mr Mushayidi was deported to Rwanda against
all international conventions. At the conclusion of a trial without any
witnesses for the prosecution he was sentenced to life imprisonment for
attempts against the security of the State as a result of his articles and his
political views. While
returning to Africa to obtain official recognition of his political party in
Rwanda, the Covenant
for People’s Defence Pact (PDP Imanzi), Mr Mushayidi was aware of the risks he was
running.
Bernard Ntaganda (Rwnada) was born in 1969 in the township of
Ntongwe (Gitarama).
Beginning
in his youth Mr Ntaganda was spurred on by love for his brethren, and the
defence of human rights and fundamental freedoms On this basis he made the
choice to study law. After secondary school he began his political career. Mr
Ntaganda was appointed assistant Mayor in charge of judicial and political
affairs in his native township. At that time he was 21 years old. With the arrival
of a multi-party system in 1991, he became a member of the Social Democratic
Party. Mr Ntaganda was chosen as head of his party in the National University
of Rwanda (1993), then at the Gitarama prefecture and afterwards as a member of
the PSD political bureau (2001-2008).
On 14
December 2008 Mr Ntaganda took the initiative of convening in Kigali numerous colleagues
of the democratic opposition. Together, they carried out a critical assessment
of the political situation in Rwanda. They remarked on the absence of an
opening in the political arena, non-respect of human rights and the absence of
an independent justice system, absence of freedom of expression, drastic
inequality at the economic level, and absence of a project of society to
overcome it and provide an answer to the people’s basic needs. Following
multiple attempts to neutralise his party, on 24 June 2010, the RPF sent Mr Ntaganda
to prison. This was the same date that candidatures to the presidency of the Republic
(elections being called for 9 August 2010) had to be registered. During his
imprisonment,
he was regularly beaten and held in total isolation. On 14 October 2010, Mr Ntaganda
had to be taken to intensive care due to torture inflicted on him. Despite the
illtreatment inflicted on him, as well as on other responsible officers of his
party and of the democratic
opposition, the democratic youth IMBERAKURI want to show that the seeds of democracy
sown by their president are alive and growing. On April
22 2012, Mr Ntaganda was sentenced, with no possibility of appeal, to 4 years
in prison
for the mere fact of having founded an opposition political party.
La storia della signora Victoire andrebbe approfondità un pò e poi se ne potrebbe discutere. Invito a pubblicare qualche informazione in più. Intanto vi segnalo questo link.
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Complimenti comunque per il lavoro che state facendo. Ivano
Lasciamo che la pratica faccia il suo corso e in sede europea facciano tutti gli approfondimenti del caso. Per quanto riguarda la storia rwandese cerco di documentarmi presso diverse fonti, possibilmente non inquinate da pregiudizi di parte.Per quel che mi capita di leggere sul suo sito non mi pare che l'ineffabile Dragor ne sia totalmente esente.
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