• @[email protected]
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    102 months ago

    Partial results issued by the election commission seven hours after polls closed showed Kagame had surpassed the 98.79% of the vote he got in the previous election seven years ago.

    The Democratic Green party candidate, Frank Habineza, mustered only 0.53% and the independent Philippe Mpayimana 0.32%, according to the results issued with 79% of ballots counted.

    Clearly it was free and fair and he’s just that popular.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 months ago

      Funny how there’s no outrage in western media about this guy and his elections… wonder who he’s buddies with, and does the bidding for in the region… 🤔

      • @[email protected]
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        72 months ago

        The Conservative government in the UK were working with him to deport people attempting to enter the UK to Rwanda. So they were partners in cruelty, for a start. The new Labour government has said it is abandoning this.

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          32 months ago

          And the Tories were coming in for criticism for it. They basically did a run around the courts, which previously told them in no uncertain terms that Rwanda did not qualify as a safe country for asylum seekers.

      • @[email protected]
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        42 months ago

        Based on the past, any dictator not butchering people in the high 6 figures is seen as a vast improvement

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          12 months ago

          Buddy just read the Wikipedia page on this guy… not even needed to do a deep dive into more uncensored websites.

      • @JacksonLamb
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        22 months ago

        Paul Kagame spends literally billions of dollars on Western PR firms.

        He is also runninga US client state, as well as a UK Tory party partner in intended human rights abuses.