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#9704161 at 2020-06-22 05:44:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #12421: Return to Ginger Mount Edition
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Definition of ark (Entry 1 of 2)
1a: a boat or ship held to resemble that in which Noah and his family were preserved from the Flood
b: something that affords protection and safety
2a: the sacred chest representing to the Hebrews the presence of God among them
b: a repository traditionally in or against the wall of a synagogue for the scrolls of the Torah
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plural arcs
Definition of arc (Entry 1 of 4)
1: the apparent path described above and below the horizon by a celestial body (such as the sun)
2a: something arched or curved
b: a curved path
the arc of a fly ball
cbasketball : THREE-POINT LINE
At week's end he was shooting 40.0% from behind the arc and averaging 19.6 points.
- Phil Taylor
3: a sustained luminous discharge of electricity across a gap in a circuit or between electrodes
also : ARC LAMP
4: a continuous portion (as of a circle or ellipse) of a curved line
5: degree measurement on the circumference of a circle -used especially in the phrase of arc
#6170032 at 2019-04-14 02:22:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7890: Fast Moving but Comfy Edition
Rwandan Genocide Revisited: Impunity for War Criminals that Serve Western Interests
"Kagame is an example of an American supported leader whose crimes go unpunished because he is useful to them and because they are party to his crimes.
The Prosecutors of the ICTR have wasted 17 years protecting Kagame from his responsibility for the crimes he and his forces committed in Rwanda in 1994." - Christopher Black, international criminal lawyer, counsel to complainants to the ICC Prosecutor regarding alleged crimes by Paul Kagame. [1]
On April 6 1994, the Presidents of Burundi and Rwanda were slain in a rocket attack on their plane. This incident triggered the 100 day killing spree now referred to as the Rwandan genocide. [2]
Twenty five years later, on Sunday April 7th , President Paul Kagame, in the presence of dignitaries from around the world, laid a wreath at the Gisozi genocide memorial site in Kigali at which over a quarter of a million victims of the massacre were buried. [3]
In his speech to the crowd, Kagame vowed his country would never repeat the mistakes of the past that led to the genocide:
"This history will not repeat. That is our firm commitment." [4]
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, present at the same ceremony, expressed similar sentiments:
"It is our generational duty to never forget what humankind is capable of. It is only by remembering that we can build a brighter future together."[5]
In light of the violence that has ensued in Africa and around the world since those horrible months a quarter of a century ago, these pledges come across as no more binding and sincere than those taken by Al Pacino's character Michael Corleone during the infamous Baptism scene from the 1972 movie The Godfather.
Significantly, a body of analysis and eyewitness testimony suggests that the standard account of the Rwandan genocide, painting the Hutu majority as the principal villains and the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) as the saviours who ended the genocide, is a distortion of the truth. While not absolving the Hutu extremists of their crimes, an alternative interpretation holds that the RPF forces are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands themselves, including the two African presidents killed on April 6th. This is apart from the millions the RPF has had a role in killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the time since the genocide.
As this year's Rwandan Week of Mourning comes to an official close, we take a look at some of the facts contradicting the official Rwanda narrative, and why it matters 25 years later.
Our first guest, Phil Taylor, worked as an investigator for the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda. In a 20 minute conversation, Taylor talks about why he believes the UN instituted body failed to prosecute Kagame and the RPF forces he led as credibly accused war criminals.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/rwandan-genocide-revisited-impunity-for-war-criminals-that-serve-western-interests/5674305
#4038811 at 2018-11-26 20:22:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5139: Anniversary of Alice in Wonderland Edition
In an email released by WikiLeaks, a Stratfor intelligence analyst said that"Rwandans are cold ass mofos"and detailed Rwandan operatives' transnational assassinations and assassination attempts. Their targets are almost always high-profile figures who, like Rever, challenge the story of Tutsi victims and Hutu perpetrators that is so essential to Kagame's survival and international stature.
I myself haven't feared for my life at the hands of Rwandan operatives, but I did file an assault complaint after a dustup with Kagame's contingent at Sacramento State University's 2011 Third International Genocide Conference.
Et Tu, RT?
Despite all this, the propaganda has been so effective that the standard story of Tutsi victims, Hutu perpetrators, and Bill Clinton's failure remains all but unassailable in mainstream media. It's in the Wikipedia, where a host of "edit alerts" assure that any attempt to change it starts a tireless "editing war" that Wikipedia moderators will finally shut down with no changes made. It's at the heart of former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power's interventionist bible, "A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide." It's in Obama's 2011Presidential Study Directive on Mass Atrocities and "Mass Atrocities Response Operations: A Military Handbook," which was produced by the Pentagon and Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights with help from Pierre Omidyar's Humanity United Foundation. And it's in the template of every Reuters and AP newswire that ever touches on the subject.
I was nevertheless surprised when RT repeated the standard propaganda as well. Mightn't one expect RT to dig a little deeper into a narrative used to justify the U.S. war in Syria among others? RT asked me to comment on a news story about the recent appeal of a French court's ruling that French soldiers were not criminally complicit for failing to protect Tutsis massacred at Bisisero, Rwanda, in 1994. I agreed, so they called me on Skype, but the host and I proceeded to frustrate one another, and most of what I said was left on the cutting room floor. CIUT 89.5 FM-Toronto host and former ICTR investigator Phil Taylor sent me a consolation note saying, "I felt for you, Ann. I saw the item in real time and slapped my forehead. The cutting was done with shears."
Basic journalistic ethnics and not wanting to be misrepresented compelled me to write about why this interview turned into such a hot mess after beginning with the usual false recitation:
"The genocide in Rwanda lasted just over three months and left nearly a million people dead. . . . The genocide was committed mainly by the Hutu government and its backers against the ethnic minority Tutsi tribe. Allegations of the French government's support for the Hutus, who carried out most of the slaughter in the genocide, have been rough on the French government's relations with the Rwandan government for years. But the French, although they admit that they've made mistakes, they say they have no complicity in the genocide that took place there."
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