KIGALI, RWANDA: President Paul kagame has rejected claims from a recently released report indicating the status of various states in which Rwanda is ranked as a failed state at position 34 of the 60 countries evaluated.<\/p>\n
Speaking to journalists at a monthly press briefing, President Kagame lambasted the report saying, \u201cIf you think Rwanda is a failed state then you must be on another planet\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Failed States Index (FSI) ranks 177 countries using 12 social, economic and political indicators of pressure on the state, along with over 100 sub-indicators.<\/p>\n
In the FSI 2011 report, Rwanda performed poorly under Demographic Pressures, Group Grievances, Human Rights and Factionalized Elites. Other indicators of state vulnerability include Refugees\/Internally Displaced People, Uneven Development, Economic Decline, and Delegitimization of the State, Public Services, Security Apparatus and External Intervention.<\/p>\n
Each indicator is rated on a scale of 1-10, based on the analysis of millions of publicly available documents, other quantitative data and assessments by analysts. A high score indicates high pressure on the state, and therefore a higher risk of instability.<\/p>\n
Some sections of foreign press have described Rwanda government as increasing authoritarianism of including further restrictions on the media and opposition groups, thus this affecting Rwanda\u2019s FSI score card.<\/p>\n
Somali was ranked the number one failed state for the fourth consecutive year, citing widespread lawlessness, ineffective government, insurgency, crime and well publicized pirate attacks against foreign vessels.<\/p>\n
President Kagame also attacked rights groups including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International which have called the Rwandan government repressive and criticized the soon to conclude Gacaca courts.<\/p>\n
\u201cGacaca handled over a million cases and allowed people to settle back in their homes and live together and it cost us only 25 million dollars. But some people think we should spend 2billion dollars as they did ICTR yet they only tried 58 people.\u201d He continued, \u201cI don\u2019t care who HRW is. I have never gone to Amnesty International for help so I don\u2019t give a damn about them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Regarding warnings given by the United Kingdom to dissidents living in Britain, Kagame said, \u201cThere is something fundamentally wrong. I can\u2019t explain these rumors because I don\u2019t know where they came from. But you don\u2019t apprehend just one person and then hold the government of Rwanda responsible,\u201d Kagame said questioning the rationale of UK officials stopping a suspected assassin but then releasing him the same day.<\/p>\n
Kagame also responded to assertions that Rwanda could experience a new form of colonialism through its relationship with China and other developed nations, \u201cRwandan will not accept neo-colonialism from China or the West. The days of colonialism are over. If we can\u2019t agree how to invest for the both of us then we won\u2019t have it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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