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Today in Washington, Minister @onduhungirehe and the Foreign Minister of the DRC were received at the White House by President Donald Trump following the signing of the Peace Agreement between Rwanda and the DRC.
Rwanda thanks President Trump and the United States for brokering this milestone agreement and looks forward to working with all parties involved to advance peace, security, and prosperity in our region.
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The Ugandan elites who believe that the EU ambassadors are genuinely fighting for their human rights are dangerously naive. When they see the German ambassador shading crocodile tears over a tortured Ugandan activist, they believe him. But how can the German ambassador be so keen on human rights in Uganda when his government is funding a genocide in Gaza. If he has a conscience, why doesn’t he resign from his government service over Gaza?
Every day, Israel’s army is bombing and murdering innocent Palestinian women and children in Gaza. Everyday, it jails and tortures kids as young as ten years and tries them in military courts. Every day, Israel soldiers record themselves in videos raping and killing Palestinian children. Everyday, Israeli officials celebrate blocking food, water and medicines from reaching Palestinian children.
Everyday, the Israeli army bombs hospitals, bakeries, power plants, water systems - the life basis of the survival of Palestinians. Everyday, it bombs homes, schools and mosques, destroying the very essence of Palestinian existence. And every day, as Israel conducts these mean, cruel and sadistic murderous and genocidal campaigns, the EU and its individual member states give it more money, more diplomatic backing and more guns and ammunitions to finish off this genocide.
Then with their countries hands dripping with the blood of Palestinians, Europeans come to Africa to express revulsion at the arrest and torture of an opposition activist. You have to be more than naive to believe that such people are fighting for your rights. It’s obvious that there are bigger interests driving these crocodile tears. Soon Africa will be in worse shape than Gaza if this ideological campaign to make us believe in white saviors succeeds.
Uganda’s torture of a few opposition activists is bad and I condemn govt for it. But it is too small a matter compared to the genocide in Gaza. It doesn’t even make 0.00001% of what the Germans are financing, arming and aiding in Gaza. Why this exaggerated concern in Uganda? Even a child can see!
European ambassadors in Uganda, whose governments are funding a genocide in Gaza, somehow find the moral authority to condemn torture here. This is not about human rights. It is about power. They don’t believe we can fight for our rights ourselves! They do not see us as active participants in the struggle for our rights. They see us as passive spectators in it, mere beneficiaries of international charity handed to us by benevolent Europeans.
This is colonialism 101. Colonialism justified itself with claims of seeking our emancipation; so its mission was to liberate us from the tyranny of our customs and the despotism of our chiefs and kings. It’s flag were the three Cs: Christianity (to emancipate our sounds from “devil worship”, yes our religions were called satanic), Commerce to liberate us from our poverty, and Civilization (to liberate us from our institutional
backwardness).
Today the three Cs have been renamed and repurposed for continued control of our affairs. Christianity has become democracy; commerce is now trade and investment (foreign direct investment that either displaces or stifles the growth of our local bourgeoisie) and civilization, the imposition of European bureaucratic systems on our societies.
There are gross human rights abuses in Europe and North America but our ambassadors in their capitals are not lecturing and hectoring their leaders over this. Japan and South Korea are democracies who give us money but don’t indulge in these arrogant lectures. China funds our government but does not insist we become Chinese in our governance. India does similar. What is this in the European mind that gives them the feeling and entitlement to interfere in our internal affairs against international law - written by them?
We are facing a problem of a racial superiority complex. This is deeply embedded in the conscious, sometimes subconscious and even unconscious European mind. It just comes naturally to them often without them noticing it. Africans do not need help from Europe. We need collaboration. We should seek to liberate Europeans from their racial superiority complex. We can do this by being bluntly honest with them.
Ugandans deserve the right not to be tortured. But that is our domestic issue. It’s a war for us Ugandans to fight and win. When Europeans insert themselves in our struggles, they make local agency look like fifth columnists of foreign powers seeking regime change. This undermines the legitimacy of local activism.
Dear Europeans, while i acknowledge the importance of international solidarity in our struggle, I reject the means you use. Issuing lectures, summons and threats to our governments is neither prudent nor desirable; it is neither effective nor necessary. On the contrary, it discredits local agency.
For Ugandans (and all Africans) be wary of these interventions. On the face of it, they may look well intentioned and it is possible sometimes they are. But they are rarely helpful. Experience shows that they have done more harm than good. We can see their results in Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, - the list is endless.