Peter Erlinder
Rwanda
[2011] Prof. Peter Erlinder Speaks on Rwanda Genocide Erlinder explained that the ICTR has become a victor’s tribunal serving U.S. geo-political interests and that it therefore impedes reconciliation between African peoples of the region, and how this may affect the long-term interests of the American people..... In May 2010, he was imprisoned in Rwanda while defending Rwandan presidential candidate, Victoire Ingabire, and charged with “genocide denial” for having won the acquittal of his ICTR client on “genocide conspiracy” charges.
[2010] Peter Erlinder granted medical bail from Rwandan prison
[2008] The Great Rwanda "Genocide Coverup" by Prof. Peter Erlinder But, recently issued French and Spanish international "war-crimes" warrants and new evidence at the UN Rwanda Tribunal have exposed Kagame as the war-criminal who actually touched-off the 1994 "Rwanda Genocide" by assassinating the previous President and who is benefiting from a decades-long U.S.-sponsored "cover-up" of Pentagon complicity in massacres committed by Kagame's regime, which even Britain's Economist has called "the most repressive in Africa."
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during my work at the U.N. Tribunal, I had an opportunity to
have access to the previously secret United Nations files that were kept by U.N.
personnel in Rwanda during the time that’s known as the genocide. And those
documents tell a completely different story than the story the world has heard
about what happened in Rwanda during that time.
Also I was able to link that to
U.S. documents from the State Department, the CIA and the Pentagon and the
documents from other countries. And I used those documents to defend my client
and he and other military officers were acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to
commit genocide, which means there was no plan on the part of the previous
government and military.
...the documents show is that the RPF were the
dominant military power in Rwanda. They were responsible for assassinating the
Rwandan and Burundian presidents, which touched off the mass violence. They were
in a position to stop the mass violence and didn’t do so because of their desire
to win the war. And then once they did seize power, continued carrying out
violence against civilians.....the documents make
clear that the RPF went on to carry out an invasion of the eastern Congo along
with Uganda and then essentially to control the eastern Congo, which they do to
this day. And that was accomplished because of ongoing support from the
Pentagon, and then, unfortunately, it becomes clear that this support was
covered up as the ICTR began to develop.
http://sfbayview.com/2011/rwanda-genocide-erlinder-v-kagame-in-the-court-of-public-opinion/
With water and toilet paper at hand, Erlinder consults with the lawyer on
his way back to the Kigali Central Prison, known here as “1930”, awaiting his
bail verdict.
http://hungryoftruth.blogspot.com/2010/06/rwanda-mosquitoes-noise-and-hillary.html
American law professor Peter Erlinder and Rwandan presidential candidate
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza together at Erlinder’s June 14 bail hearing. She is
under house arrest and he is in prison, after traveling to Rwanda to defend her.
– Photo: Rwanda News Agency
http://sfbayview.com/2010/ictr-calls-for-immediate-release-of-peter-erlinder-from-rwandan-prison-as-erlinders-wife-appeals-to-u-n-security-council-members/