Canada’s new Governor General Louise Arbour is among a group of powerful people who have rationalized Paul Kagame’s violence, who have buried, denied, or dismissed the evidence against him and ultimately distorted history. As Judi Rever writer, for the millions of Kagame’s victims in Rwanda and Congo, her record is a deeply painful one, and will be remembered forever.
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    Lyons told me that Arbour was rough with Hourigan in her exchange at The Hague and that she must have come under political pressure. “Someone gave her the order to shut down [the investigation],” Lyons said. Hourigan subsequently submitted an affidavit of his findings to the court, in addition to an internal memo for his colleagues. A few months later he resigned.

    Before his death in 2013, Hourigan told Phil Taylor, the host of CIUT Radio in Toronto, that the miscarriage of justice at the ICTR left him bewildered and discouraged. “We didn’t discover the truth; we were actively thwarted and worked against. And now, years later, they’ve only prosecuted people they’ve been told to prosecute. You know, some of the main offenders for some of the biggest crimes have been left untouched. And all the while now, the European and North American powers are plundering that region’s resources, with millions still dying in Congo.”

    The PM was Chrétien at the time, but we have almost no national interests in the area. It is a virtual certainty that pressure came from the US and Canada complied like a little bitch.