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There Are African Leaders Who Have The Dangerous Habit Of Leading Their People Into An Abyss. In Rwanda We've Had Presidents Who Killed. The One Million People Who Died Here Were, To A Certain Extent, Victims Of Their Leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, Who Died In A Plane Crash Before The Genocide Began. He Contributed To All That. The Man Who Took Over From Him Was Running Around Ordering People To Kill. If This President Came Back And Landed In My Hands, I Would Have Him Arrested And Tried. Unfortunately, He Died A Natural Death.

Reconciliation Has Taken Place Here In Rwanda And Was Successful Because Rwandans Reconciled Themselves Internally. If The Tribunal Had Taken Place In Rwanda, It Might Have Helped. People Could Have Watched Justice Being Done.

I Am Not Responsible For Creating An Opposition, Neither Am I Responsible For Appointing My Own Successor. My Job Is To Allow For The Opposition To Exist Within What The Realms Of The Law. There Is Space In Rwanda For Political Parties - If Fact We Have About A Dozen Of Them - As Long As Their Objective Is Not To Take Us Back Twenty Two Years. On That Point, We Are And Will Always Be Very Vigilant.

In Africa Today, We Recognise That Trade And Investment, And Not Aid, Are Pillars Of Development.

Moving Container From Kigali To Mombasa Used To Take 22 Days, Now It Takes 6 Days.