( It’s fine to be slaughtering people in Afghanistan, and Iraq, … but don’t you dare use such vulgar language! )

.We — westerners, whites, western corporations — have to make sure that the holes are dug so the dead — poor, black, African — people can be pushed in them and covered up.

Out of sight, out of mind.

Anyways, please don’t use such language as FUCKING. It’s “unethical” –
and ” immoral”.

keith

Its interesting how my last post to your blog got “lost” — and that its being conveniently “lost” — when no other previous post was “lost” — is described by you as “never submitted”.

Alison Des Forges “seeks to save lives”??

In fact, Des Forges DID work with people who provided false information from both the US intelligence establishment and RPF. The question remains whether she did so ignorantly, knowingy, or actively seeking to support the establishment propaganda (cover-up). Who were these people? just becuase I didnt write their names in the story doesnt mean that they dont exist. The average reader can’t generally sort out the most basic falsehoods from facts, so throwing out names of Rwandans you or they have never heard of doesnt serve much purpose. I name names all the time. Anyone wants to see the dirty details (names) can look , for example, at my story about Bogus Rwandan Assylum seekers and how your buddy Fergal Keane framed innocent assylum seekers.

THE US SPONSORED ‘RWANDA GENOCIDE’ AND ITS AFTERMATH: Psychological Warfare, Embedded Reporters and the Hunting of Refugees .

Its like saying I cant give people the names of the former US officials now on the boards of mining companies in Congo, or saying I can’t name Maurice Tempelsman’s network of diamond dealers (organized crime) in Africa just because I said : “Tempelman’s network spanned Africa and involved people of very interesting connections.” I can name them, your polemic doesnt prove anything.

You dont work for CBC? How about “with”? Are you saying that the CBC doesnt pay you for your stories? If not then you are a bigger fool than I could possibly imagined.

From your blog: “Last spring, after a five-week visit to Rwanda, I produced two television news pieces for the CBC.”

And your CV says “Cheif European Correspondent CBC 1988-1991″

Seems you worked for CBC all over the place. Seems you have a long history of being published by the establishment.

And yes, establishment narrative means “genocide instigated by Hutu power.”

The fact remains that you seem to waste more time complaining about me than you do exposing anything serious about western interests and plunder in Rwanda, Uganda, or Congo (for example). I don’t see anything from you of substance about that. You worked in Zaire, but where do you ever talk about kingpins like Maurice Tempelsman or John Bredenkamp or Philipe de Moerloose or BANRO, BARRICK and other Canadian mining profiteers?

As I wrote, I don’t know what the specifics of your situation are, and I don’t care. I don’t have time for your nonsense. You are unwilling to accept any responsibility for your blindness, and expect that I (for example) should have to prove things beyond a shadow of a doubt, in great detail, in ways that you would never require of your buddy Fergal Keane or Romeo Dallaire.

Read the ICTR trial transcripts where your fancy Canadian General Romeo Dallaire was forced (he wouldnt do it willingly) to testify at the ICTR (and he did it from a secluded office in Canada by video right? and with Canadian military in the room coaching him right? and with the utmost arrogance…)

So, the bottom line, Claude, is that I concede. I simply dont have the energy to keep up my end of this charade of yours. If you wanted the facts they are there, in story after story, where I cite name after name.

You just dont like the set of facts I offer, and the litany of abuses by the Tempelsman’s and Dallaire’s and Keane’s of the world. So what difference would it make if I mentioned a guy named Frank Ferrari, or not?

blessings
keith

no, the ruling class-which i often also call a gang that behaves like a biker or street gang- is not delusional; 90+% of subjugated people in perhaps each country are delusional.
due to, of course, massive clero-politico-educational peoples’ lying.
tnx bozhidar balkas vancouver

He writes that Samantha Power “confirmed” the fact that HRW is an “intelligence conduit” to the United States government. Thus, HRW, through the use of conspiracy-speak, becomes an intelligence gatherer, a spying agency, a stooge of the White House. But then we read Power’s actual quote: HRW “supplied exemplary intelligence” and “lobbied” the administration in April and May, 1994. Obviously, the “intelligence” concerned the ongoing genocide, and the lobbying presumably involves appeals that the US do something about it. But with KHS’s insidious use of language and innuendo, a human rights activist who seeks to save lives becomes an intelligence agent, a spear carrier, for US interests. Nice!

Another example: He quotes Jean Marie Vianney Higiro, a former Rwanda official, as saying “Alison des Forges contributed to the RPF/A takeover of Rwanda. I have no doubt about that.” Okay, the inquiring journalist here would raise an eyebrow and interject, and ask: “How do you know that? Are you saying that a high profile human rights activist was working for Kagame? Or for the US government? In what way did she contribute? Do you have any evidence?” But, alas, there is no inquiring journalist present, or if he is, he doesn’t pick up the obvious cue. So Vianney segues to a conversation he had with des Forges about testifying at the ICTR. What’s the link? How is this germane? We are not told, but we are left with Higiro’s inference: Des Forges had a nefarious agenda . . .

Or how about this: “I hold a strong belief in the plane being crashed,” says Remigius Kintu. “These international cabal members have no mercy . . . “ Kintu is a “Ugandan human rights” activist. What informs his strong belief that the plane crash was a terrorist act? Who are these dreadful cabal members? We don’t know, because Keith Harmon Snow doesn’t ask. It’s enough to say they exist, and are busy. Say it often enough and that will make it so. This is the same Kintu who, earlier in the article, maintains that Kagame “assigned some people” to help Des Forges “in fabricating and distoring stories to suit Tutsi propaganda plans.” This is a serious charge. Which people, and what stories, an inquisitive journalist would ask? But these questions are never asked. It’s enough to say it, and have KHS quote it, and it will be so. It’s with brittle building materials like this that great cathedrals of conspiracy are built.

Might sources like Higiro and Kintu, and Charles Onana, not have agendas. We don’t know? This is never explored. The only hidden agendas KHS cares about are those of Des Forges and her ilk, who represent the enemy. Might sources like Chris Black and Paul Erlinder, who are defending accused genocidaires in Arusha, not have agendas of their own? This is never discussed.

KHS quotes Baldwin. I’ll quote Webster: “The world is governed more by appearances than by realities, so that it is a full necessary to seem to know something, as to know it.”

One final “fact”: I don’t censor. Keith’s final email was never submitted to my blog. Had it been, I would have approved it. I’ve never censor anything, not even junk. And despite what he says, I am able to admit that I was wrong. When I first came across his work, I thought he was an honorable man, and a serious investigator. I was wrong.

Claude Adams is a Canadian journalist who has worked and seems to continue to work for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ? (CBC). I think if you check out his early work on Rwanda it was rather commonplace propaganda supporting the establishment narrative. It seems Adams was later met with abuse in Rwanda and after tasting dictatorship and censorship etc etc personally he started to take an anti-Kagame line. Or maybe it was the other way around — he figured out a few (very few) things for himself and was met with malicious reactions from Kagame when he tried to take a more independent line.

I dont at this point know which it was. I don’t really care. He appears to be a relentless apologist for certain interests, including Gen Romeo Dallaire — the Canadian Un General who helped the RPF commit genocide and coup d’etat.

However, the above post also appears on his blog where we continued a back and forth — and I think it would be intersting for anyone searching for the truth to read that exchange and note Adam’s reactionary replies and refusal to address the real issues. I am quite certain that I hit the nail on teh head when I criticize his refusal to look into his own interests. Profits profits profits and “reputation”.

http://claudeadams.blogspot.com/2007/12/disturbing-story.html

I replied to his last post of 12:14 Am May 31, but he did not post my reply, so I will post it below here. I was wondering how long it would take him to start censoring me.

wink, wink.

keith harmon snow

REPLY TO Calude Adams post of 12:14 AM May 31:

Claude

I’m sorry that you are so confused. Look closely at your recent and initial statement of compliant on DV:

“And as one of your sources, you use Chris Black, a legal mind of the first order who implies without a scintilla of evidence that Kagame’s hit team found a way to ice the wings of the aircraft that went down with 50 passengers.”

And then look at my quote from Chris Black in my story:

“I don’t know how assassins could control icing on the wings or why it was necessary to bring down 50 other people just to silence her,” says ICTR lawyer Chris Black, commenting on the speculation that Alison Des Forges was assassinated by ‘plane crash’. “It would have been much simpler to kill her in all sorts of other ways….”

Note that Chris Black rejects the conspiracy speculation presented by so many other people — including Wayne Madsen — that Des Forges was assassinated.

Also, look at Alison Des Forges’ resume for yourself and see just how deeply she was connected to the establishment that brought Kagame to power and is trying to hide its hand in war crimes and genocide, her early resume — 1995 — introduced to establish her credibility in a court of law.

There is no “sly suggestion” in my reportage, its based in facts.

Do you reject the evidence that the Gourevitch “genocide fax” was fabricated?

Indeed, Aliscon Des Forges was very “careful” with the “facts”… but she nonetheless modified them to reflect the growing body of evidence establishing her bias and revealing the deceptions her work was based on.

Put in the effort, Claude. It seems like you would want to go down in history as at least attempting to find out the whole truth.

Anyways, the millions and millions of Congolese and Hutu people who survive today — and even Tutsis no longer in favor with Kagame and his mass murderers — are waiting to hear something serious from you about all those powerful white people and multinational corporations that have ripped them off, and depopulated the land. Stop arguing with me, if you find me so repugnant, and apply your supposed high moral (double) standard of journalism to exposing the white supremacy, rather than being part of it. For example, why don’t you do some hard hitting reporting on BANRO — a Canadian gold company operating only in South Kivu and connected to Kigali?

The worst part about white people, and westerners more generally, is that they can never admit that they were wrong, or turn against their own erroneous reporting (in the case of journalists, if we presume them to be honest and to have been deceived or made a mistake) or erroneous research (in the case of academics). Faced with an insurmountable body of disconcerting and disjoint facts — challenging their own historical “expertise” — they cling to their positions out of ego and foolishness. Its all about interests Claude, and I think you know that. And that’s what you have to look at with Des Forges, Romeo Dallaire, Philip Gourevitch, …. what about Roger Winter? Do you also reject his involvement in Rwanda? Or maybe you just choose to be oblivious.

James Baldwin again: “It is the [supposed] innocence that constitutes the crime.” [Insertion added].

blessings
keith

‘Les Canards’ mentions the trials that were undertaken in France but leaves out the fact that the French state is deeply implicated/compromised with regard to its strategic interests in Rwanda and the DRC!

At the time of the outbreak of violence, following a ten-ton style media campaign replete with ghastly images, France took it upon itself to send “peace keeping” forces to the region, which are alleged to have played anything but a neutral role in the conflict. In fact, the now defunct French bank, Crédit Lyonnais, was busy underwriting loans via an Egyptian intermediary for arms shipments destined to troops backing the Kagame regime! Given the seamlessness of the news coverage, the French people bought the propaganda hook line and sinker. And the disinformation continues to this day.

What I find particularly disturbing is the ‘recipe’ that has been perfected since the mid 1990s for the justification of all-out military intervention across the globe, which amounts to distortion of genocide claims. It has been used repeatedly in Africa, of course, but served as a pretext for the Nato bombing of Serbia, military intervention in Somalia and Darfour. And, equally, as a pretext in the run-up to the attack of Iraq.

None of these Imperial campaigns of aggression would have gone forward had it not been for full complicity and coordination amongst corporate-owned media in the dissemination of State propaganda.

This is where you, Keith Harmon Snow, play an invaluable role.
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Les Canard:#If Kagame is so ruthless as to send his western agents to silence critics abroad, ….. Kivu over the border to silence a courageous dissident journalist like yourself?#

Exactly what has this comment to do with the article? Is this the first article you’ve ever seen on the troubles in Congo/Rwanda etc? Perhaps you should do some further reading and then be able to make a constructive comment.

obvious and long winded?? You must have had this comment up before you read the article. You’re in such a hurry to smear it’s obvious YOU never read the article. Why don’t you go watch Fox and CNN like a good cabbage?

Les Canard:#Outrage without an alternative or a viable option is useless- it’s just a reflection of pain. That you have “pegged” your attack on Allison Des Forges post-humously is beyond contemptible.#

Oh I see! You’re from the HRW saving face. The truth is Alison MURDERER Des Forges Genocidaire and you Les are beyond contempt and sickeningly evil. Les, your comment is nothing but BS and smear and you are clearly in the pay HRW and it’s Pentagon affiliates.

I think Orwell sums up the author fairly succinctly.
“People who are perfectly willing to accept the products of the Empire and to save his soul by sneering at the people who hold the Empire together. “