1. With regard to national reconciliation, Major General Paul Kagame, Vice-President and Kigali strongman, was more than clear on this issue, on the occasion of a dinner offered in honour of participants to the donor's conference, on the 7th july 1995. In short, he declared that there will never be any reconciliation without justice. On this very point, he was doing nothing more than expressing his deep conviction, made public on many other occasions. The latest occasion was during his visit to the commune of RWAMATAMU, Prefecture of KIBUYE on he 14 th May 1995.

For the most optimistic people, the speech means that there will never be any reconciliation as long as the International Tribunal will have not made its verdict in the way that the KIGALI wants it.

Going by this logic, rwandan refugees and other victims of RPF repression, who have no responsibility whatsoever in the delay of the work of International Tribunal of Rwanda (I.T.R) have to undergo their calvary, even if the work of the I.T.R was to last ten years. The International Community should be aware that rwandan refugees are not prepared to accept such a dictate and will never waver in fighting for their inalienable rights. This is the more unacceptable in as far as the delay is caused by the KIGALI regime which forwarded to I.T.R hundreds of empty judicial files, while still enjoying the sympathy of donors.

For the pessimistic people, the speech means that the brutal arrests and detention under unhuman conditions of more than 100,000 people, among whom 950 have died during the last 10 months in only one prison of GITARAMA (according MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES), continue unabated. Even extra-judicial execution attributed indistinctively to "isolated elements looking for revenge" should be placed within this criminal logic.

Since the Kigali regime pretends to be arresting only those with serious criminal charges,should one conclude that those suspects will have to wait for the start of I.T.R proceedings , at least those who will be still alive, to have justice rendered to them? It is now 3 months since the official ceremony to mark the start of Court proceedings took place in Kigali, but no single verdict has been given, not even in the case of the "famous" NDURU who allegedly pleaded guilty to killing 900 people.

While complaining about lack of judges and magistrates, the Kigali regime has clearly shown its hidden agenda, by deliberately delaying legal procedures to call in expatriate judges and magistrates. In fact the so called National Assembly, dominated by RPF, sent back to government, on the 10^th July 1995, without any valid reason a draft bill on allowing expatriate judges and magistrates to exercise their profession. One of the intentions is not only to avoid exposing the system to the outside world on its unjust judicial system, but also to leave as many people as possible to die in the prison death trap.

It is therefore clear that RPF while it is linking reconciliation justice, does everything possible to delay it, so as not to lose its last alibi.

The RDR is inviting the International Community to turn away from the delaying tactics of RPF which wants to link national reconciliation to the start of the proceeding of the ITR.

The International Community should recall that among the RPF delegates in ARUSHA Peace Negotiations were those against whom international warrants of arrest had been issued, for crimes committed in Rwanda, but that did not anyway stop negotiations from starting.

2. With regard to the return of refugees, RDR would like to take the UNHCR representative in Goma for a witness. In his declaration he acknowledged that the KIGALI regime should create conducive conditions for the return of refugees.

RDR would like to recall that the population started fleeing from the RPF since the latter invaded Rwanda in October 1990. It did not run away for fear of RPF reprisal following April 1994 massacres as the pro RPF loby would like to push everybody to believe.

The rwandan people has never considered RPF as its liberator. The one million displaced people who had ran away from the advance of RPF by April 1994 is a glaring example of the opposition of the majority of the rwandan people to the Kigali regime.

A screening or not between innocent refugees and suspects rwandan refugees will not stop refugees claiming their inalienable rights.

There will never be a peaceful return of refugees without security guarantees.

The International Community should avoid looking for a problem in the wrong place but rather bring the KIGALI Government to negotiate with the people concerned, conditions for peaceful return of refugees in security and human dignity.

3. With regard to violation of human rights besides the testimony of human rights organisation, such as AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL and HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH, the continued exodus of rwandans who run away from the terrorism and atrocities unleashed by RPF, speaks for itself. Recent cases include the Personal Assistant(who has a ministerial rank) to the Prime Minister who gave a gruesome picture of the rwandan situation and the Secretary to the Treasury of the Ministry of Finance who gave details of financial malpractices carried out by the KIGALI regime. The latter practices have shattered again, the alibi of former refugees to launch a war, i.e its fight against corruption besides installing democracy and the rule of law.