General Kagame’s War-Making Police State In Diplomatic Meltdown

By Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa Photos: YouTube Screenshots If we lived in the Roman Empire two millennia ago, this last week in General Kagame’s life would have been described as horribilis hebdomadal– a horrible week.  In a decisive move that underscores the growing international backlash against Rwanda’s war of aggression in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on February 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on James Kabarebe, Kagame’s three-decade-long hatchet man in Rwanda, and warlord for the (DRC). General Kabarebe has a long history of executing Kagame’s dictatorial order in Rwanda, orchestrating Rwanda’s wars of plunder in the mineral-rich DRC, assassinating Kagame’s political opponents and Heads of State (Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda, Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi, Laurent Kabila of DRC), and the architect of the acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity described in the UN Mapping Report of 2010. The following day, in the strongest resolution on the Rwanda-DRC war thus far, the 15-member UN Security Council unanimously condemned Rwanda and its militia, M23. The UN Security Council, among other things, called on Rwanda to entirely withdraw its troops from DRC and cease support to M23. The...