Minneapolis, MN - After 21 days in a Rwanda jail, lawyer Peter Erlinder returned home today. He was met by 20 supporters and as many reporters. After hugging his wife, Masako Usui, he said, “Unlike Mark Twain, the reports of my demise were only slightly exaggerated.”
Erlinder was arrested and jailed for breaking the Rwandan genocide ideology law - which prohibits anyone from questioning the official Rwandan account of the killings in 1984. He had gone to Rwanda to defend Victoire Ingabire, an opposition candidate for president in the upcoming August election, who is also charged with genocide ideology denial. Erlinder is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild and is an outspoken critic of U.S. policy.
Peter Erlinder credited his release to the worldwide movement organized on his behalf which made governments do what they didn’t want to do. This was his first trip to Kigali, Rwanda since 1994 and although he saw great improvement in the way the city looks, Erlinder says there is another reality, though our government has led us to believe that Rwanda has become an open country. “I am privileged to have experienced and seen the other side of Rwanda,” Erlinder said. Despite the repression of the government, he thanked individual Rwandans, including guards who treated him well and brought him food while he was in jail.
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# 3, get your facts before
# 3, get your facts before you write. His research was done long before he was arrested. He has been to Rwanda before, and was arrested for conclusions he came to and stated years ago.
Do you some how believe he was arrested for something he said and concluded after he was arrested? Oh great #3, please share with us this "time travel" machine you know about, which the Rwandian Government some how possesses!
Logic is something you can not grasp.
It's clear kagame's regime
It's clear kagame's regime days are numbered lol, viva rwanda!!
RPF's Crimes cover up
Prof. Peter Erlinder,
Congratulations for your courage to challenge Kagame's bloody regime ond for your commitment to unveiling the truth.
All the sponsors and praisers of criminal and dictaror Kagame should be ashamed, no matter their past respectability.
what reality
What did he see other than ingabire, the cell and the court. he was in prison all his time in kigali. From here is he going to write another article claiming to have witnessed and spoken to rwandans about their tragedy. Mr kweli your opinion about who was persecuted is abusolutely their to please your inner feelings, i am sure even if the world had to accept your idea with your legal aider you would still be satistified when tutsis still exist on the face of this planet. but everyone knows the reality of who was the victim except that pervert who is making a leaving out it.
Clinton and Rwanda
CLINTON ordered Kagame to kill President Habyarimana. The order to kill from Clinton was given to Kagame by Mr. ATWOOD of USAID. One day Kagame said: I was told to kill. ICTR Arusha knows all that.
Don't blame Erlinder! Blame Kagame!
Most of propaganda which are diffused on Rwanda today do support the current bloody regime which was set by the Clinton administation. Mr Clinton is one of the adviser the bloody president Kagame. Mr Erlinder is neither a Hutu nor a Tutsi. He is just a lawyer and a free reseacher on Rwanda. In his free research, he came to the conclusion that the official rwandese genocide story is not true. Indeed even if it is called the "Tutsi genocide" most of the people who were killed in 1994 in Rwanda were Hutus. He is not the first independent lawyer, searcher and so..to come to this conclusion. There is some evidence that the current president Kagame is widely guilty of that drama. The only mistake Mr Erlinder did was to believe that such a dictatorship can tolerate someone(even being an American citizen)daring to tell the thruth and speaking for Rwandan ordinary people, who are powerless anda in full suffering.
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