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Rwanda accepts seven people from US as part of deportation deal (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 22 hours ago by Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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Is Rwanda speaking honestly, as per the article? Can anyone familiar with Rwandan politics elucidate?

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[–] Stalins_Spoon@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The US is positioning Rwanda as their ‘African Israel’, as they did with Zaire previously. Kagame has been ruling since 2000, apparently FPR (His party) used to be socialist, before they pivoted to neoliberalism

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Oh wow. That means there's a non-zero chance they're lying about treating the extraordinarily renditioned well.

Edit: thank you for answering.