Le Rwanda de Juvénal Habyarimana (1988)
Though a work in progress, Habyarimana’s Rwanda, in 1988 before Uganda invaded, can best be described as the People’s Rwanda. It is a thriving republic which despite being allied to the capitalist bloc of the then ending Cold War divide, was involving all citizenry in every aspect of running and developing the country. The largely peasant citizenry was going through a period of enlightenment in regards to the State, while the State itself was actively thawing the barriers that are inherent between State and Citizenry.
Massive social programs that the peasantry was directly in control of, were driving Rwanda in a unique direction as it was moving from a peasant agrarian society, and the State that was emerging was looking more and more socialistic despite the absence of socialist dogma. This is unfortunately largely why the West decided to change the regime in Rwanda at all costs, as the current Habyarimana regime was uncharacteristically evolving into a majority-run social republic.
This emerging social state by virtue of being in a such a blurry, fetal stage was also thus susceptible to dismantling or degeneration. Once the Berlin Wall came down, the United States took the opportunity to begin the dismantling and in 1990, Uganda under the leadership of Tutsi extremist adherents of Kalinga Ideology, invaded Rwanda. Somehow the social republic was able to resist fiercely for over four years until 1994 when the UN and CIA directly intervened militarily, first by blindsiding and crippling the naive Habyarimana regime through the Arusha Accords, and then through a Trojan Horse where the UN managed to get thousands of Ugandan soldiers inside Kigali’s strategic positions, one from which they shot down the plane carrying the presidents of Rwandan and Burundi. And so the Second Social Republic came to an end, and the Kalinga Occupation began.
Rwandans, and friends of Rwanda, we must keep fighting to pick up from where the Rwandan people, Rubanda Nyamwinshi, had left off. The FDLR is the only force where we can all unite to carry forth this fight to end the Kalinga Occupation and liberate ourselves; after all, Umucunguzi ni Rubanda.
