Charles Butera

[Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. @CoulibalyBojana]

A new @HRW "report" backs regime propaganda following meeting with Kinshasa authorities

Human Rights Watch just released a new "report" following a visit paid to Kinshasa authorities last month.

The HRW delegation included its Executive Director, Philippe Bolopion @Bolopion, and its main reporter on the Great Lakes, Clémentine de Montjoye @demontcl.

Bolopion and Montjoye had in-person meetings with the #DRC Prime Minister Judith Siminwa, and the #DRC Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Guy Kabombo Muadiamvita.

During the same visit to Kinshasa, Clementine de Montjoye was seen in a workshop organized by @ebuteli led by hate group @luchaRDC's founder @fredbauma90 (Fred Bauma), American academics @jasonkstearns (Jason K. Stearns) and @jdlzw (Joshua Z. Walker), and former Africa Director of the think-tank @CSIS, Mvemba Dizolele (@MvembaDizolele). All four have been documented to be Rwandophobic, for promoting anti-Tutsi xenophobia, as well as, for engaging in unethical research methods.

@Ebuteli, based in Kinshasa—where systematic and daily violations of freedom of speech, of press, and of human rights have been widely documented, where thousands of journalists and human rights activists have been killed, imprisoned or abducted, by the Tshisekedi regime—is a close collaborator of #DRC Communications Minister @PatrickMuyaya, known for having invested millions of U.S. dollars in an anti-AFC/M23, anti-Rwanda and anti-Tutsi war propaganda campaign.

Owing to the ongoing collaboration with the DRC regime, party to the ongoing conflict in eastern #DRC, and Ebuteli, @hrw and its "reports" are selective, unethical and thus lack any scientific credibility.

Photo Evidence and Descriptions:
- Image #1: Philippe Bolopion and Clémentine de Montjoye of HRW, in a meeting with DRC Deputy PM and Minister of Defense, Kinshasa, May 21, 2026
- Image #2: Bolopion greets DRC Prime Minister during his visit to Kinshasa in mid-May.
- Image #3: Clementine de Montjoye speaks at @ebuteli, Kinshasa, May 20/21
- Image #4: Screenshot of Montjoye in new "report" video
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[Mugenzi Félix @FelixMugenzi]

@Global_Witness, backed by the #Tshisekedi regime to produce yet another one-sided report against Rwanda, has once again been caught red handed using misleading information.

#Kinshasa’s propaganda machine relied on a screenshot extracted from a video showing mineral transporters on motorcycles leaving the mining town of Rubaya as supposed evidence of mineral smuggling benefiting Rwanda.

What they failed to mention is the actual context.

The video dates back to December 2023, when Rubaya was not under M23 control but was instead controlled by a coalition of Nyatura militias, the #FDLR, the FARDC, and Burundian armed forces.

This deliberate manipulation of facts exposes the weakness of the narrative being pushed against Rwanda. Recycling old footage and presenting it out of context does nothing to address the real causes of instability in eastern DRC.

Such tired and cheap propaganda must stop if the international community is serious about supporting peace in the region. Rwanda possesses its own mineral resources and has no need for fabricated accusations designed to distract from the failures of those who have long overseen the plunder of the DRC’s vast wealth.

The world knows who has benefited from decades of exploitation and instability in eastern DRC.

Peace will come through truth, accountability, and addressing the root causes of conflict not through misinformation campaigns.

@CoulibalyBojana @jessicamwiza @FGoloobaMutebi @ali_naka

[Charles Butera @CharlesBut5631]

@FelixMugenzi @EmmanuelMacron @TomNdahiro @paul_rukesha @albcontact @RGisanintwari @freyntje @PatrickRugaba @ClaudineUmubye1 @PatrickKARURAN2 @gmbonyumutwa @TEAMINKINGI Une fois un sage a dit "laisser le temps au temps. Peut-être qu'un jour les rescapés Tutsi (ceux qui seront encore vivants) verront les génocidaires expulsés de la France pour être jugés sur les lieux de leurs crimes. C'est à ce moment là que les nôtres pourront reposer en paix.

[Chantal M. 🇷🇼🇨🇦 @Mwiza123]

@HamiltonCityCtr remembers #Kwibuka32 year after year Hamiltonians join Rwandan community to commemorate our loved ones who were killed in 1994 genocide against tutsi in Rwanda.

[Africa CEO Forum @africaceoforum]

🎙️ @PaulKagame took the Africa CEO Forum stage and spoke plainly about what much of the world still finds difficult to name.

🗣️ His charge was clear. The same global powers that lecture Africa on democracy and human rights are, with the other hand, stripping the continent of what it owns. Sanctions, he reminded the room, are not always the instruments of principle they claim to be; more often they reward the highest bidder, falling on whoever offers less and sparing whoever extracts more. The cynicism, he noted, is not new. In an older century, kings handed territories to their in-laws and children to administer as they pleased, and today the same logic operates under different vocabulary, with a foreign power simply telling a chosen proxy to go and take whatever it wants from a given region.

💎 The deeper point landed hardest. For too long, Africa has played the role of a continent waiting to be ripped off by anyone shrewd enough and powerful enough to arrive at its door, and that posture has to end. "We must be able to say no," the Rwandan President insisted, before urging African leaders, public and private, to begin assigning their own value to their own assets rather than accepting whatever value others choose to recognise.

🌍 It is the question this year's ACF places at the very centre of its programme. Pan-African ownership, resource sovereignty, and the refusal to mistake openness for vulnerability are no longer aspirational language. They are the operating conditions for whatever African economic future emerges from the next decade. Kagame's intervention was not a lament about the world as it is, but a call to the continent's leadership to stop negotiating from a position of permanent disadvantage.

Kigali, 14–15 May 2026.

➡️ Follow our live: https://t.co/oOz8if7sPy

#ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum

[Facts On Rwanda @FactsOnRwanda]

RWANDA

Washington may have unintentionally reinforced Rwanda’s position, what just happened ⬇️⬇️

• US advisory is contradictory: warns of Congo spillover while questioning Rwanda’s defensive posture
• It effectively validates Rwanda’s long-standing eastern DRC security concerns
• Seen by observers as linked to broader US–Kinshasa mineral geopolitics
• Could impact Rwanda’s fast-growing high-end tourism and US visitor demand
• Reinforces why Rwanda maintains strong border defense and buffer strategy
• #VisitRwanda in US markets helps counter politicized narratives with real on-ground experience

This Article explores shifting Rwanda–US–DRC geopolitical and tourism dynamics details ⬇️ #FactsOnRwanda

[Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. @CoulibalyBojana]

#SouthKivu #MSF
When white saviorism reaches the limit of reason, @MSF playing heroes in the mouth of the Kinshasa-backed genocidaires #FDLR/Wazalendo/Mai-Mai, while continuing to spread conspiracy theories about an imagined violence & insecurity in #AFC/#M23 administered zones.

[Chantal M. 🇷🇼🇨🇦 @Mwiza123]

@RevColeman The hate of your country, your people and the nostalgia of the genocidaire regime will kill you. The position of the ambassador is not a favor it’s by merit wa gacucu we. Americans will never trust you with your treasonous betrayal to your motherland

[Mugenzi Félix @FelixMugenzi]

As long as you live in Europe or the USA, the #VisitRwanda logo will keep appearing before your eyes.

Your Neighbors will VisitRwanda,
Your kids will wear #VisitRwanda,
Your wife will see it, the streets will carry it,
Your TV screens will display it, and even in your own home, the message will be there.

Why? Because #VisitRwanda is not just a campaign, it is a symbol of #Rwanda’s rise, resilience, and global presence.

For those obsessed with smearing Rwanda, this logo has become their daily nightmare. Every partnership, every match, every global stage reminds them that Rwanda is moving forward while their propaganda keeps failing.

You can spread hate, but you cannot erase progress.
You can make noise, but you cannot silence success.
#VisitRwanda will continue to shine across the world, and the more you fight it, the brighter it becomes.

@SamuelBaker_B @ruhumuza @GitifuW @ThorHalvorssen

[Patriot Nkotanyi Francis @PatriotNkotanyi]

Here is the reality & a clear warning to all actors involved in this unfolding chaos: whoever is planning escalation must already have a defined and executable exit strategy.

Fail to do so, the world will witness a level of collapse never before demonstrated by Military elites. Let it be understood there will be no room for negotiated ceasefires on favorable terms.
Those who ignite this conflict will not bargain their way out, they will lose everything, including their authority.
Twende tu.

[Charles Butera @CharlesBut5631]

@HarelimanaAK @RwandaGov Hon wongere utwibutse na hamwe hitwaga kuri plateau uko hasaga.

[Chantal M. 🇷🇼🇨🇦 @Mwiza123]

“Sadness is for the weak”
#GoToKigali”

[Dr. Jean Damascene BIZIMANA @DrDamascene]

Leta ya Habyarimana yakoze itoteza rishingiye ku irondabwoko n'irondakarere mu burezi no mu kazi ku buryo buremereye.

Tariki 1 Kanama 1973, Habyarimana yatangaje programu y’imitegekere, ashimangira ko uburezi buzashingira ku bwoko no ku Turere, bishingirwaho mu gukumira Abatutsi kwiga no kubona akazi: ”Kwemererwa kwinjira mu mashiri yisumbuye bizashingira ku bwoko no ku turere.” Kuki atashingiye ku buhanga ko abana bose bari abanyarwanda?

Tariki 1 Nyakanga 1982, u Rwanda rwizihiza isabukuru y’imyaka 20 y’ubwigenge, Habyarimana yongeye gushimangira ko politiki y’irondabwoko izakomeza, agira ati: “Tumaze kubona ubwigenge, abategetsi b’u Rwanda basubiye muri politiki y’uburezi, politiki nshya igamije kwigisha no kujijura rubanda nyamwinshi”.

Tariki 29 Kamena 1983, Kongere 4 ya MRND yarabishimangiye. Iyi politiki yemezaga ko Abahutu bazajya biga ku gipimo cya 89% kandi bigakurikiza za perefegitura akibanda cyane aho avuka muri Gisenyi, kimwe na Ruhengeri na Byumba; Abatutsi bakiga ku gipimo cya 10% naho Abatwa 1%. Kuki Habyarimana atumvaga ko aba bantu bose ari Abanyarwanda bagomba kwiga bakurikije abatsinze ikizami? Ni irondabwoko n’irondakarere byamuyoboraga, nibyo byabimukoreshaga.

Dore ingero z’ako karengane dusanga muri Raporo ya Minisiteri y’uburezi
A. Abemerewe kwinjira muri Kaminuza nkuru y’u Rwanda (UNR):
• 1981/1982: Hutu (H) = 974, Tutsi (T) = 168; Twa = 2
• 1982/83 : H = 1112, T= 164, Twa = 1
• 1983/84 : H = 1189, T= 164, Twa = 1
• 1984/85 : H= 1360, T=142, Twa = 0
• 1985/86: H= 1340, T= 189, Twa = 0
• 1986/87 : H= 1250, T= 198, Twa = 1
Umubare wose : H= 6325,T= 1037, Twa = 5

UMWAKA 1986/1987: ku banyeshuri 945 boherejwe kwiga mu mahanga, Gisenyi na Ruhengeri zari zifite 350. Iri tonesha ry'aho yavukaga niryo Habyarimana yitaga Iringaniza ry'Uturere!
• Gisenyi = 194
• Ruhengeri = 156
• Byumba = 137
• Kigali = 111
• Gitarama = 108
• Butare = 83
• Cyangugu = 62
• Gikongoro = 52
• Kibungo = 51
• Kibuye = 47

ISHURI RIKURU RYA GISILIKARE: umwaka wa 1983/1984 : Hutu = 124, Tutsi = 2, Twa = 0.
Abemerewe kwinjiramo muri buri Perefegitura bari bafite imyanya kuri ubu buryo : Ruhengeri = 36; Gisenyi = 20; Kigali = 18; Byumba = 16; Cyangugu = 9; Gitarama = 8; Gikongoro = 6; Butare = 5; Kibungo = 4; Kibuye = 3

IVANGURA RISHINGIYE KU BWOKO MU KAZI: Urugero rw’umwaka 1991-1992 (raporo ya Minisiteri y’umurimo):
• MINITRAPE : Hutu = 315, Tutsi = 44
• MINAGRI : H= 1074, T= 190
• MININTER : H= 633, T= 78
• MINIFOPE : H=187, T= 29
• MINIJUST : H= 143, T= 29
• MINECOFIN : H=374, T= 88
• MINITRANSCO : H=430, T = 90
• COLAS : H= 815, T= 6
• OCIR Cafe : H= 631, T= 31
• UTEXRWA : H= 631, T= 67
• ONATRACOM : H= 566, T= 79
• BNR : H=496, T=54
• MAGERWA : H= 433, T= 38
• BCR : H=518, T=63
• SULFO Rwanda : H= 412, T=35
• OPROVIA : H= 313, T= 41
• SONARWA : H=272, T=31
• Projet DRB : H = 264, T= 14
• ONAPO : H=244, T= 7
• Projet CZN : H= 216, T= 42
• RWANTEXCO : H= 159, T= 12
• BGM : H= 156, T= 53
• Banques Populaires : H=146, T=22
• BRIQUETERIE Ruliba : H= 130, T= 18
• NAHV : H= 116, T= 18
• ASTALDI : H= 114, T= 28
• RWANDEX : H= 100, T= 15
• BRD : H=93, T=14

Iyi mibare y'abatutsi ntabwo bari bafite imirimo ifite agaciro uretse mbarwa, abenshi bari abakozi bafite imyanya iciriritse n'iyo babaga barize bafite impamyabushobozi n'ubumenyi, abandi ari abashoferi, abapalanto, abandikisha imashini, abakora mu busitani, igaraji, etc. Ibitabo bimaze kwandikwa ku bwinshi bivuga kuri aka karengane. Ikinini ni icya Hon. Antoine Mugesera, IMIBEREHO Y'ABATUTSI KURI REPUBURIKA YA MBERE N'IYA KABIRI (Kiboneka mu Ikirezi Library).

Abamaganye iyi politiki y'irondabwoko n'irondakarere ya Habyarimana barishwe, abandi baratotezwa bikomeye. Urugero ni Padiri Silvio SINDAMBIWE wayoboye Kinyamateka kuva 1983, afatanya n’abanyamakuru barimo Philbert Ransoni, Anastase Seruvumba, Tewowdori Simburudali, Felisiyani Semusambi n’abandi bagaragaza akarengane kari muri iyi politiki y’irondabwoko n’irondakerere ya Habyarimana. Padiri Silvio Sinambiwe yarishwe tariki 28 Ukuboza 1987.

Abatishwe bahawe ibihano bikakaye kandi nibutse ko u Rwanda rwari rufite mu mategeko yarwo igihano cy’urupfu ndetse rwari kimwe mu bihugu by’Afurika byatangaga ibihano by’urupfu kuri benshi.
Mu 1987, u Rwanda rwizihiza isabukuru y’imyaka 25 y’ubwigenge, Perezida Habyarimana yavuze ko ababariye imfungwa zari zarakatiwe urwo gupfa, aziha gufungwa burundu. Yatangaje ko ari abantu 500 bikaba byerekana uburemere bw’ibihano byatangwaga na Leta ye. Mu 1988, muri Gereza ya Kigali yonyine hari hafungiwe abantu bakabakaba 200 bari barakatiwe igufungo cyo kwicwa.
U RWANDA RWAVUYE KURE.
HARABAYE NTIHAKABE. UBUMWE BWACU NIZO MBARAGA ZACU.
TWIBUKE TWIYUBAKA.

[Chantal M. 🇷🇼🇨🇦 @Mwiza123]

#Igihango dufitanye n’inkotanyi ntituzagitatira n’abadukomokaho bazakomeza uwo murage

[Anita Anand @AnitaAnandMP]

April 7 marks the International Day of Reflection on the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. We remember the more than one million lives lost and stand with survivors, honouring their resilience and supporting their ongoing healing. We also recognize the United Nations peacekeeping mission, including Canadian personnel, under the leadership of Major-General Roméo Dallaire, who worked under immense pressure to protect civilians. Their dedication helped save lives. In standing with the people of Rwanda, we reaffirm our commitment to peace, tolerance, and a future free from hatred.

[INZERI @Inzeri24]

Thank you @Dr Bojana Coulibaly, the massage is clear

[Mugenzi Félix @FelixMugenzi]

And to those who are struggling to properly name GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI, please, it is better not to send us any message.

We will be okay as we always have been. #Kwibuka32

[Mugenzi Félix @FelixMugenzi]

A short reminder:

It is Genocide against Tutsi, not Rwandan Genocide; terminology matters, please!

#Kwibuka32

[Abdul K. Harelimana @HarelimanaAK]

Uraho #Rwanda ? Genda Rwanda urayobowe kandi neza. Genda Rwanda urarinzwe ubutamenerwamo. Yarabivuze muri 2017 ati: NZABABERA INGABO IBARINDA IMIJUGUJUGU MUTERWA. Arabikora kandi abikorana urukundo n'ibakwe. Nguwo @PaulKagame mwitoreye. #RWOX
#RwOT
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[Charles Butera @CharlesBut5631]

@FelixMugenzi @NtahirajaThren1 @IntareZamweziGi @NtahontuyeN @rugbob78 @semavumba @nellynadia3 @GregLeGrecq @yigenga @umuhanuziwacu @FabRugumire @TazamaRDC_Infos @albcontact Un sage africain, visionnaire et hautement respecté, a une fois déclaré que dans l'histoire de l'humanité le plus grand désastre est de voir les fous accéder au sommet d'un État! À présent les exemples sont légion et chaque jour qui passe lui donne raison. Afrika warababaye!