De National Basketball Association (NBA), een club uit de VS heeft de Basketball Africa League opgezet in Kigali, Rwanda. Het land waar van 7 april tot 15 juli 1994 een vreselijke genocide plaatsvond, sindsdien regeert dictator Paul Kagame het land met ijzeren vuist, waar de oppositie of gevangen wordt gezet en gemarteld, of zelf wordt vermoord.......
De NBA heeft voor Rwanda gekozen daar de 'infrastructuur' het best voldoet aan haar eisen en ach dat het volk wordt onderdrukt, een kniesoor die daar over valt.........
Zo is de held van Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina (o.a.bekend van de film Hotel Rwanda, waarin Don Cheadle zijn rol speelt) ontvoerd en gevangengezet, dit daar hij een oppositie partij steunde die streeft naar democratie en vrijheid......... Het is van het grootste belang dat Rusesabagina wordt vrijgelaten aangezien zijn leven niets waard is in de Rwandese gevangenis...... Rusesabagina is gemarteld en wordt in isolatiefolter gehouden
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No Business With Genocide is een petitie begonnen (die ook wij kunnen tekenen) om de NBA er toe aan te zetten het respecteren van mensenrechten te bepleiten in Rwanda en de vrijlating te eisen van Rusesabagina.
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Learn how the NBA can help free Paul Rusesabagina
Alyson and Simon, No Business With Genocide via ActionNetwork.org info@nobusinesswithgenocide.org via email.actionnetwork.org
Two weeks ago, the National Basketball Association (NBA) launched the Basketball Africa League in Kigali, Rwanda. The reason they picked Rwanda was because they claim it has the infrastructure they need for such an organization. While it is true, the streets are clean and the nation is no longer in the throes of a genocide, these truths underscore a darker reality. The people of Rwanda are not free. It is illegal to criticize the government and the punishment is up to five years in prison. President Paul Kagame's critics are forcibly disappeared or killed. This is not the place for the NBA to plant its flag.
Please sign our petition urging the NBA to take a stand for human rights in Rwanda.
In August 2020, Kagame kidnapped humanitarian and hero, Paul Rusesabagina. The charges are a mishmash of allegations that have been brought up before and deemed uncredible by the American and Belgian governments. Rusesabagina's real crime is speaking out against Kagame and his brutal regime. Since August, Rusesabagina has been tortured, held in solitary confinement, and denied access to his medication, legal team, and family.
In the United States, NBA players and teams have placed themselves at the forefront of the civil rights movement that is #BlackLivesMatter (BLM). If the NBA wants to promote irself as a supporter of human rights they need to demand Kagame release Rusesabagina immediately in accordance with Rwandan and international law.
Please sign our petition to press the NBA to help free Paul Rusesabagina.
Thank you for your help and support,
Alyson Chadwick, Digital Campaigns Strategist, & Simon Billenness, Director
No Business with Genocide
To help Paul's legal defense, please check out this event.
For More Information About Paul Rusesabagina and the Situation:
- To learn more about Paul Rusesabagina, visit the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation
- To read the American Bar Association pre-trial report, click here
- Foreign Policy published an article (January 23, 2021) click here
For More Information about President Paul Kagame:
- CNN's "America's disastrous love affair with Rwanda's Paul Kagame"
- The New York Time's "The Dark Underside of Rwanda’s Model Public Image"
- DW's "20 years under Rwanda's 'benevolent dictator' Paul Kagame"
To build No Business With Genocide, the movement to end genocide and other mass atrocities, we need your support. Please click here to make a generous gift to end genocide in 2021.
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Zie ook: 'Paul Rusesabagina de grote held uit de Rwandese genocide moet vrijgelaten worden'
'Hero of 'Hotel Rwanda' admits forming militant group behind armed attacks' (France 24)
