Mbega amacakubiri ya Himbara?! Himbara: What a man of Intrigues?!

Himbaralies
Nov 7 · 3 min read

At times I don’t even know how to respond to Himbara’s intrigues.

His latest, ‘Rwanda’s President has removed ‘Ugandans’ from top positions’. I was used to this type of analysis from genocide ideologues, who seek to divide people of the same nation. Himbara has a plethora of classifications that he frequently allocates to Rwandans to try and divide them. This really speaks to the kind on man he really is, than to any reality.

The history of Rwandan refugees is one of suffering and statelessness for thirty years, that Rwandan never found peace wherever they went. At times they never even settled.

Families would have siblings scattered in all the countries of the region and even overseas, with none of those countries willing to give them citizenship, while the then government in Rwanda had rejected them too.

For thirty years they roamed the world looking for solace, but never found it, which, in fact is the reason they took arms to fight their way back in their motherland, where the government has been trying to reunify the Rwandan nation.

It is impossible to classify a Rwandan family as ‘from Uganda’, ‘from Burundi’, etc. Many families went to DRC, then Burundi, then Uganda, Tanzania and possibly settled in Kenya, others settled in Congo or in Uganda after going through a similar exodus. On their way they left one child here and another there.

Every sane adult knows this history. So I feel disgusted that an old man, a Rwandan man, would stoop so low as to classify his own people — the Rwandan people in terms of countries where they had fled to — or to be more precise — their last destination before returning to Rwanda.

For the last twenty five years we have been rebuilding our country, with Rwandans of all walks of life, of different histories and backgrounds — all tragic coming together. But we are home now, resilient and proud.

Although upon returning to Rwanda people had picked-up languages and mores from some of the countries they had been to, our national language Kinyarwanda quickly united us.

It is in fact in our national anthem that we are one people united by one language. Discrimination of any kind is prohibited by the Rwandan Constitution and many other laws. In any event, after twenty five years, it is impossible to tell who went through which country; in fact 70% of Rwandans are youth who were born in Rwanda, after the genocide.

We are all Rwandans. Since the end of the Genocide perpetrated against the Tutsi in 1994, the Rwandan government led by President Kagame has always been made of all members of society. It has never been a question of which countries one passed through on his way to return to Rwanda, nor have Rwandan people ever defined themselves as from Uganda, or ‘Ugandans’, ‘From Congo or Congolese’, ‘From Tanzania or Tanzanians’. This is pure Himbara’s invention.

However, the officials he refers to as ‘dumped’ are still serving their country in different capacities. A government position isn’t private property, nor is it a life appointment. Government reshuffles do happen every day and everywhere; not only in Rwanda.

It is really disgusting the type of man that David Himbara is. If there was any ounce of doubt that Himbara was a toxic man, it is now completely waved. The man is intrinsically a divider of people. He is evil.

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