Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide

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Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide - Guest - 11-13-2006

Catholic nun jailed for 30 years for her part in Rwandan genocide

Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide - Guest - 11-13-2006

No surprise here. As expected she is doing her godly role.

Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide - Guest - 12-11-2006

France's complicity in Rwanda Genocide

Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide - Guest - 12-14-2006

Former priest gets 15 years for Rwanda genocide
QUOTEA U.N. court trying leaders of Rwanda's 1994 genocide jailed a former Catholic priest for 15 years on Wednesday for ordering bulldozers to level a church, sparking the death of 2,000 people hiding inside. 

QUOTE"It was further established beyond reasonable doubt that Seromba spoke to the driver of the bulldozer, encouraging and identifying when to start demolition of the parish and which parts of the parish were the weakest," ICTR said in a statement.

After the roof of the building collapsed, witnesses said militiamen swarmed over the rubble to finish off the survivors.


Was Church was an active participant in this genocide?

QUOTELast week, Elizaphan Ntakirutimana, a former Seventh Day Adventist pastor, was released after completing a 10-year sentence for his role in the killings.

Although priests were among those murdered, survivors have reported numerous incidents in which Catholic priests and nuns took part in killings, encouraged their congregations to kill or colluded with gangs of killers in rounding up victims.

Some of the ugliest massacres were committed in churches, missions and parishes where Tutsis who took shelter were hunted down by Hutu militias. At least two other Catholic priests are facing charges in Arusha.

Most of Rwanda's eight million population are Christians and among those, the largest single denomination is Roman Catholic.

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Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide - agnivayu - 12-14-2006

What a disgusting religion that preaches hatred, and they supposed to be special in some god's eyes ?

Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide - Guest - 12-14-2006

The Christian involvement goes deeper then this.. The Hamitic Myth just like our Aryan Myth is biblical through and through. From wiki -> Hamitic Invasion Theory

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamitic

Relevant portion

QUOTEAs a result of this reevaluation, Hamitic took on a new, more positive connotation for Europeans. During the 19th century Europeans explored more and more of Africa. In their travels, they found many different physical types, and they valued those that appeared most like themselves or had a redeeming cultural characteristic. These types were declared "Hamitic", e.g. the Tutsis of Rwanda (see below).

Soon the Hamitic theory became an important ideological instrument of colonialism, especially in German politics.

The term "Hamitic" is used for the first time in connection with languages by the German missionary Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810-1881), but with regard to all languages of Africa spoken by black people. It was the Berlin Egyptologist Karl Friedrich Lepsius (1810-1877), who restricted it to the non-Semitic languages in Africa which are characterized by a grammatical gender system.

As racial theories became increasingly complex and convoluted, the term Hamitic was used in different ways by different writers, and was applied to many different groups Ethiopians, Eritreans, Berbers, Nubians, Somalis and many others.

Racial theory was very hierarchical; Europeans saw these peoples as leaders within Africa, "teaching" lesser peoples the ways of civilization, just as they saw themselves teaching the Hamitic peoples (See: The White Man's Burden).

However, the allegedly Hamitic peoples themselves were often deemed to have 'failed' as rulers, a failing that was sometimes explained by interbreeding with non-Hamites. So, in the mid-20th century the German scholar Carl Meinhof (1857-1944) claimed that the Bantu race was formed by a merger of Hamitic and Negro races. The 'Hottentots' (Nama or Khoi) were formed by the merger of Hamitic and Bushmen (San) races (both being termed nowadays as Khoisan peoples). Such theories are now completely outmoded.

Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide - Guest - 12-14-2006

Sounds familiar ?

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2001/536/in3.htm

QUOTEThe roots of Rwanda's grief are found in its encounters with the outside world. In 1863 an Englishman, John Hanning Speke, "discovered" Rwanda while looking for the source of the Nile. Speke noted a political distinction among elite Rwandans between groups calling themselves the Tutsi and the Hutu. Historians have seen this distinction as an imagined difference, used by the entourage of the ruler to excuse its monopoly on resources. Speke seized on this difference. He knew the Bible well, and wove the book of Genesis and its story of Noah's son Ham into his observations on Rwanda. In the Bible story, Noah curses Ham who has seen him naked. "A slave of slaves shall the sons of Ham be to his brothers," said Noah. Speke, in thrall to this curious tale, decided that most of those living around Lake Victoria were the "sons of Ham, who, as they were then, so they appeared to be now." Speke identified them according to an arbitrary inventory of physical characteristics: face shape, nose width, brow length. He labelled them the Hutu. Speke also found "the issue of Shem," Ham's elder brother, dwelling among the Hutu. These were the Tutsi, who had "fine oval faces, large eyes, and high noses." These "lost Christians," who originated outside Rwanda, Speke thought, were the natural rulers of Rwanda.

Thus Speke reified the biblical story, making the people of Rwanda the laboratory for his curious fantasising. Speke codified an arbitrary division with racial science, and the myth of the separateness of Rwanda's two peoples solidified. Available evidence suggests that before Speke's imaginings, the barrier between the Tutsi and the Hutu was porous, and followed political, not ideological need.

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Other Europeans followed Speke. In 1894, Germany colonised Rwanda; after the first world war, Belgium took it as spoils. During that period, Speke's theories continued to mould political reality. A broad dialectic between Rwandans and the myth of their origin emerged. Given a new way of seeing themselves, Rwandans reacted to the myth according to need. Some used it to advance themselves, others subverted it for their purposes. The Belgians exacerbated things. In 1933 they issued ethnic identity cards, which made the invented ethnic chasm unbridgeable.

In the 1950s, ideas of national self-rule reached Rwanda. In 1957, Hutu opportunists inverted Speke's Hamitic myth to argue that they were Rwanda's original inhabitants; the Tutsi were foreign parasites. Within two years political violence broke out between the groups (for the first time ever), in a Rwandan village. The Belgians helped the Hutus pillage Tutsi houses then installed a Hutu government which spoke of Rwanda as two peoples in one nation.

Catholic Nun Gets 30 Yrs In Jail -rwandan Genocide - Guest - 12-14-2006

Priest convicted in Rwandan genocide

QUOTEPOSTED: 1327 GMT (2127 HKT), December 13, 2006
Story Highlights
â¢ Priest directed bulldozer, fire attack on church with 2,000 inside
â¢ Athanase Seromba sentenced to 15 years in prison
â¢ Complicity of some Catholics has turned Rwandans away from religion

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A Catholic priest was convicted Wednesday of participating in Rwanda's 1994 genocide by ordering militiamen to set fire to a church and then bulldoze it while 2,000 people were huddled inside.

Athanase Seromba, sitting before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, although he will get credit for the four years he has served. The tribunal is based in Arusha, Tanzania.

According to the charge sheet, Seromba directed a militia that "attacked with traditional arms and poured fuel through the roof of the church, while gendarmes and communal police launched grenades and killed the refugees."

After failing to kill all the people inside, Seromba ordered the demolition of the church, the document said.

Thousands of Rwandans have turned away from Catholicism, angered and saddened by the complicity of church officials in the 100-day genocide, in which more than 500,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed by Hutu extremists.

Priests, nuns and followers were implicated in the killings, and some churches became sites of notorious massacres.

Rwanda's genocide began hours after a plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana was shot down as it approached the capital, Kigali, on the evening of April 6, 1994. The slaughter ended after rebels, led by current President Paul Kagame, ousted the extremist Hutu government that had orchestrated the slaughter.

About 63,000 genocide suspects are detained in Rwanda, and justice authorities say that at least 761,000 people should stand trial for their role in the slaughter and chaos that came with it. The suspects represent 9.2 percent of Rwanda's estimated 8.2 million people. The U.N. tribunal in Tanzania is trying those only accused of masterminding the genocide.

Last month, the tribunal sentenced a Catholic nun to 30 years in jail for helping militias kill hundreds of people hiding in a hospital. In 2001, two Catholic nuns were convicted by a Belgian court of aiding and abetting the murders.