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Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish.
Paul Kagame
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Paul Kagame
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 23
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I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory violence. This struggle has shaped who I am to this day.
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I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.
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Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.
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My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to live with it and tolerate it. But I can't hide my feelings about its inefficiency and its not being productive.
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I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.
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When people accuse us of taking coltan from Congo, I don't understand what they mean. The quality of our own coltan here from Rwanda is much better. But still people from the UN come here, we show them our coltan mines, we show them the documents, then they go and say: Rwanda smuggles coltan.
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Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.
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Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.
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The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.
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The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.
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Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.
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The West is anything but altruistic.
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Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
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Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it.
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Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.
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It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.
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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.
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A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.
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My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. And they will be chosen based on the consensus that they have the capacity to lead the country.
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