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Never-ending Reichstag fires in Fascist Rwanda

BY- The Communist Party of Rwanda

In the run up to the sham parliamentary elections in Rwanda, Paul Kagame has once again used his infamous abominable Reichstag Fire tactic against the Rwandan people. With the aim of creating an atmosphere of fear within the Rwandan populace, grenade attacks here have developed a predictable pattern and show the complete disregard and disdain Kagame and his lumpenbourgeosie cabal have for the common Rwandan.

Kigali’s security grid is one of the most rigid in the entire world. It is impossible for anyone to be able to carry firearms, grenades, explosives or weapons of any kind and use them without the prior knowledge of the security apparatus. Even smuggling or peddling a few pounds of marijuana in and around Kigali is a near impossible feat and yet somehow RPF wants the world to believe the FDLR, the opposition or dissenters continuously use grenades within open areas like Kigali market places where surveillance is round the clock. The latest grenade attacks were simultaneous adding more to the absurdity of RPF’s claim that the government itself is not responsible.

On the international front, these attacks play into the narrative of the FDLR bogeyman used by Kagame as a pretext for maintaining a police state inside Rwanda while locally they serve as a sadistic reminder to the population that Kagame has the life of every single Rwandan in the palm of his hand. But these recent attacks were also a knee jerk reaction by RPF to what they saw as a rare moment of resistance from a completely fearful and subjugated populace.

Our clandestine party cells had attempted and managed to get as many people as possible to try and avoid participating in the sham elections and the campaigns leading up to them as much as possible. A recent RPF rally in Musanze district did not happen as embarrassingly no one showed up. The people of the area bravely avoided attending and the rally was cancelled two days in a row. On the third day, the police rounded up 30 young men for no reason and held them for four days. Nonetheless, a small step in terms of standing up to State intimidation had been made. The recent grenade attacks were the culmination of the tactics RPF immediately employed to counter what it perceived as any form of resistance from the population as had been demonstrated in Musanze district.

ARRESTS MADE AFTER EVERY BLAST

As for the innocent people usually arrested after the blasts, they always end up at Kami military camp that hosts the most barbaric of torture chambers where they are forced to make false confessions. Many are usually youths already at odds with the law for minor offenses having previously come under scrutiny and surveillance from both local defense militias and Rwandan police. Their movements and connections known beforehand.

The Kami military camp and it’s torture complex are under the direct command of the Ministry of Defense. All surveillance is precided over by this same ministry. The late General Gapfizi who “accidentally” died in a road accident in June this year had been accused of blackmail by officers based in Kami camp. As an opportunist and careerist, it would not have been the first time Gapfizi had used blackmail within officer circles but it was the first time it was against influential Kami based officers. It also happened after grenade blasts earlier this year. His long connections with Kagame might have spared him direct repercussions but if what he was blackmailing them following the grenade attacks earlier this year had in fact something to do with those same attacks, his borrowed time seems to have been put to a halt in the “accident” where the only person who had witnessed it, Ambrose Agaba, has emerged as non-existent.

These non-stop grenade attacks which for Kagame and his cohorts are mere grass-trampling come at a heavy price to the Rwandan psyche. The notion that any day, at any moment, the State which is above you, governs you, watches you, can snuff out your life has slowly taken it’s toll on common Rwandans who are overwhelmed with fear and a sense of complete helplessness. It’s a psychological intimidation tactic that is forcefully forced into the Rwandan subconscious that Kagame and his cabal have complete god-like control and we Rwandans as a completely subjugated people better know what’s best for us.

The stance in Musanze has however not gone unnoticed. The grenade attacks might have Rwandans shaken for the moment but the small act of resistance is still spreading by word of mouth and Rwanda has only so many hills before many know. We might be rattled for now but we made two steps forward. May those who have lost their lives so far rest in peace. A luta continua.

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