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Deep Delusions, Bitter Truth(The Trial of a Rwandan General)
[A Courtroom Drama in Two Acts][COMPILED BY CM/P FROM THE ACTUAL TRIAL TRANSCRIPTS OF 24 & 25 JUNE, 2009]THE SET: The stage is empty but for a small table with a lectern on it around CS. On the Cyclorama isa large ‘Big Brother’ screen on which are projected images, still and moving pictures,appropriate to what is being said on stage.IN BLACK:FIRST VO [Prosecutor Mr. Van]
Mr. President, if you hate somebody, it's not because you want to live with that person. And we are in awar context. So if you consider that the Tutsi are an enemy, the Hutu, who did not want the Tutsi, andactually hated the Tutsi, logically had to hurriedly exterminate the Tutsi, or else the Tutsi wouldexterminate them. And that is the situation. When you say that you hate somebody, it is not a joke.Besides, Mr. President, Your Honors, the results are there; the Tutsis were killed. They weremassacred, they were exterminated, and there was genocide.
SECOND VO [Thespus]
Yet the Tutsis minority wound up seizing state power and taking over Rwanda from the Hutu majority!
FIRST VO
In the Karemera case, the Appeals Chamber took judicial note of that.
SECOND VO
The order to take ‘Judicial Notice’ effectively removed from the Prosecution any burden of having toproduce evidence to prove the genocide actually took place.
LIGHTS UP:Alone on stage is Maitre Christopher Black, Defense attorney to Major General AugustinNdindiliyimana, former Chief of Staff of the Rwandan National Gendarmerie during the troublesof 1993 and 1994, on trial before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in Arusha,Tanzania, on charges of Crimes against Humanity unto Genocide.
 
Mr. Black is just over 60 and very weary from his long travail.
 
The Judges sit OS DR, the Prosecution is OS UR, and the Defendants are OS UL. After SEVERAL BEATS, Maitre Black speaks:MR. BLACK: 
Mr. Sefon, yesterday, referred to two interesting books. And I find the reference he made--and the factthat he made that reference--that the Prosecution made that reference, very interesting. He referred toNiccolò Machiavelli's book,
The Prince
. Everybody here, I assume, who went to law school has readthat at some time. And it's a book written by a man who was forced by a regime, the Medicis at thattime, to bow to a dictatorship, and decided to write a book to please his master about how to rule apeople who did not want to be ruled by a dictator. And one of Machiavelli's words of wisdom in thatbook of realpolitik was that deception is one of the ways in which to control a people, deception andfear.Mr Sefon also made reference to
The Art of War,
by the Chinese military scholar, Sun Tzu. That is alsoa very important book, studied in all military colleges and by philosophers, because it sets out how warsare really conducted. And Sun Tzu's first lesson in that book, in the opening pages, is about the art of deception, and how the art of deception is the key to winning any conflict. And I raise that because it's quite clear that the Prosecution in this Tribunal is part and parcel of thegrand deception which is being woven--has been woven by the RPF and its neocolonial masters, theUnited States and the United Kingdom, for the last 15 years.Why do I say that? I will go into why it's evident that the--the Prosecution here has manipulated thisCourt since day-one, and how they have tried to cover up the crimes of the RPF, how they, despite therank hypocrisy expressed by Mr. [Abubacarr] Tambadou and Mr. [Alphonse] Van, that they wish anddesire international justice and the erasing of immunity from prosecution for world leaders, when they, infact, have done nothing but grant those murderers in the RPF immunity from prosecution from thebeginning. And I'm not alone in saying this. I have here a letter which has been sent by 50 world scholars andhuman rights defenders from universities in Canada, the United States, Britain, fromHuman Rights Watch, Amnesty International. They include professors from Columbia University,Princeton, the University of California, the University of Antwerp, and on and on. Including the husband
 
of the late Dr. Alison Des Forges, Professor Roger Des Forges, and including the former expert for theProsecution, Filip Reyntjens, who refuses to work for the Prosecution any longer.This letter is addressed to Ban Ki-Moon, President Barack Obama, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, andcopied to Hillary Clinton and various other American and British Foreign Ministry officials, because,obviously, they're the ones who control this Tribunal. It is also copied to Judge Dennis Byron, and toProsecutor Hassan B. Jallow.It says that Mr. Jallow--that the RPF has committed crimes, and that Mr. Jallow expresses an evidentreluctance to prosecute these RPF crimes. And this is clearly the result of intimidation andobstructionism by the RPF, which now rules Rwanda. The Prosecutor, Jallow, has severelycompromised his prosecutorial independence and the Tribunal's integrity.But they conclude with this: "In conclusion, we call on you to ensure that the ICTR prosecutes RPFcrimes. This issue should be raised when Prosecutor Jallow addresses the United NationsSecurity Council about his completion strategy on June 4th, 2009. Unless the Prosecutor acts swiftly,the ICTR will squander not only its last chance to provide accountability for those serious crimes, butalso its legitimacy."It's dated May 31st of this year. Another professor, Dr. Hans Köchler, at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and who was selected as the Secretary General's personal representative at the Lockerbie trialand still acts in that capacity, wrote a book called
Global Justice and Global Revenge,
about thesead hoc tribunals and, with respect to the ICTR, stated that the Prosecution has engaged in selectiveprosecution on ‘a massive scale,’ quote-unquote, ‘a massive scale.’ Now, why?I don't think Mr. Jallow is afraid of a little man like Mr. Kagame in in Kigali. No. Mr. Jallow is not afraidof that little man. He is controlled by bigger powers than that. And that's why this letter is addressed tothose powers. And if my friends over there [the Prosecution] want to sit in service of neocolonialism,shame on them. But I don't think this Court should acquiesce to the planning out of neocolonialism andimperialism in Africa by listening and accepting the manipulations presented to this Court and theargument they pretend to make as evidence.Let me get to the argument. When Prosecutor Lloyd Strickland stood up and said, correctly, that he hadto deal with the challenges raised by the Defense brief in our case, it's quite true. I submit that theargument we presented has built, brick by brick, a wall of reasonable doubt which they cannot ever 
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