Rwanda Rising
a propaganda documentary
Foley Hoag LLP is also tied to the U.S.-Uganda
Friendship Council. On May 6, 2002 in Washington D.C. Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni and wife Janet were special guests at U.S.-Uganda Friendship Council
event sponsored by members Coke, Pfizer and Chevron-Texaco. Museveni also met
with President Bush at the White House. Coke director Kathleen Black is a
principle in the Hearst media empire, while Coke directors Warren Buffet and
Barry Diller are directors of the Washington Post Company, and these are the
media institutions that whitewash client regimes, corporate plunder and Pentagon
actions. Of course, Coca Cola covets the gum Arabic potential of Darfur, and
Coke is a client of Andrew Young’s PR firm
Goodworks International. Uganda’s image is sanitized by one of the world’s
largest PR firms, London’s Hill & Knowlton. In 2005 Uganda spent some $700,000
on a Hill & Knowlton contract to facilitate and “encourage dialogue between the
Ugandan government and people like Human Rights Watch, Amnesty, Oxfam."
......While Rwanda is billed as a major “success story” of recovery and
development after a devastating genocide—see for example the PR “documentary”
film Rwanda Rising produced by Andrew Young’s Goodworks International—the
country is ruled with an iron-fist and a finely tuned intelligence and torture
apparatus involved in political assassinations, suppression of information and
disappearances. Huge areas of Rwanda were entirely depopulated by the Rwandan
Patriotic Front and UPDF as they hammered away at Rwanda beginning in October
1990. The invasion culminated in a coup d’etat that succeeded, with broad U.S.
military support, in capturing Kigali in July of 1994.
.....Another member of the U.S.-Uganda Friendship
council is the Honorable Andrew Young, former Mayor of Atlanta and U.S.
Ambassador. Andrew Young and his firm Goodworks International have helped
whitewash the image of the Rwanda government and its state apparatus of terror.
Andrew Young, Quincy Jones and other wealthy Americans are building (have built)
mansions on the shores of Rwanda’s Lake Mwazi in areas where peasants were
driven off the land or killed by the Kagame terror machine before, during and
after 1994. State terror and depopulation is ongoing along Lake Kivu and in the
Volcanoes National Parks regions for methane and high-end tourism development.27
[2007] Darfurism, Uganda and the U.S. War in Africa -
The Spectre of Continental Genocide by Keith Harmon Snow