Those 100 days

They got him! The butcher of Butare. A man responsible for the incitement of brutal hate and orchestrating the killing of too many to count during Rwanda’s genocide in 1994 will finally face justice. It’s late, but better late than never.

Idelphonse Nizeyimana, a Hutu extremist, was arrested a few days ago in Uganda. Arrested and right away put on a UN plane to Arusha in Tanzania where the International Criminal Court on the Rwandan genocide sits. It’s damn good news for the relatives of the victims of Nizeyimana’s carnage from hell. I hope the victims’ ghosts rage through his head forever. I hope he can’t sleep and lives in mental agony.

800.000 Dead in just 100 days. And all murdered savagely. No gas chambers here – not that that is any pleasant death. But here in Rwanda the Tutsis and moderate Hutus were hacked to death, clubbed till the last breath, locked in churches and schools and set alight. Madness on an unseen scale. All angels had left the tiny African country of Rwanda in April 1994 as only the devil was roaming the land of the 1000 hills with a savagery unleashed never seen before in so called modern times. 800.000 In 100 days. That is 8000 people per day slaughtered. Can anybody grasp that?

Nizeyimana was an intelligence officer in the then Rwandan army. He operated in and around the southern town of Butare. A university town. After the seas of blood of April 1994 he was known as the butcher of Butare. I sincerely hope all demons from hell will agonise him till eternity. May his soul never rest in peace.

Rwanda has shown the world how easy it us for the human race to decent into savagery and become lesser than man/woman and lesser than any form of animals. Humans descended into hell.

Justice is always better late than never. The hammer of justice should always hang above the head of fugitives.

And so should it apply to film director Roman Polanski too. Why any different standard for him? He is a fugitive from US justice for having had sex with a 13 year old girl. It doesn’t matter the facts happened in 1977. He fled the US to avoid final sentencing. He should be sent back and face the music. As simple as that.

It’s the right thing for the Swiss authorities to deny him bail. Ship him back across the Atlantic and let justice run its course. The fact he is an internationally acclaimed film director should have nothing to do with it. Absolutely nothing. Isn’t the basis of all judicial systems in civilised, democratic societies that everybody is equal before the law. Equal treatment to all. Famous or not!

It’s sickening to see people criticising his arrest in Switzerland and crying out to let him free. Have they heard about the concept of justice? I am sure they would jump up and down, scream and shout, sign petitions and all that, if a ‘common’ criminal would be fleeing from justice. But if it’s a famous Hollywood person then they think different standards need to be applied. Crap. Big time crap. Wanna know what these pro-Polanski voices would say if it was their 13 year old daughter he had sex with? They would probably scream death penalty before any trial would even start. Double standards suck!

Human behaviour is sick. Sex with a 13 year old? Polanski needs therapy after justice has done what its needs to finish.

After the world of evil fugitives, some lighter notes.

Carla Bruni, the 3rd wife of French President Sarkozy, launched her own website. And it crashed on day 1. Overheated. Too many visitors trying to find any gossip and discover any sleaze from within the corridors of the French presidential palace.

Italian lover boy and, in between his parties with young girls, also Prime Minister Berlusconi is probably jealous of all the attention Carla is getting. Competition for the spotlights. When Sarkozy got married to Carla a few years ago Italian stallion Berlusconi was probably jealous that his French counterpart was stealing the front pages of the gossip magazines. But good old Berlusconi has caught up recently with all his sex scandals. Although that wasn’t really planned by him. And now Berlusconi’s sex drift is probably a bit on low battery as the Constitutional Court has just rejected his immunity-from-prosecution claims. Berlusconi is facing several corruption charges and was hiding behind his function of Prime Minister to avoid facing justice. But that tactic has just come crashing down. Without doubt the sneaky Berlusconi will fight it till the end. So for now less time for sex parties and more meetings with the boring lawyers. We haven’t heard the last of the Berlusconi circus. Guaranteed.

From Europe to down under.

Big parties are no more in Bathurst. Australians (and anybody else) attending the annual V8 car race will have to limit themselves to only 24 cans of beer per day per person. Indeed, alcohol intake restrictions. But 24 cans is certainly better than nothing. In fact it’s pretty enough for most citizens.

The race organisers and local authorities have had enough of the alcohol infused fights and drunken criminal acts and thus have come up with this booze quota. Can anybody still keeps track of the count after 20 cans of beer? Bathurst parties will never be the same again. The future ain’t what it used to be.

Human behaviour under influence is often a scary affair.

And finally. A story about stupidity. Stupidity on the high seas. Some Somali pirates went out at night to hijack their next target. They spotted a decent size, cargo-style ship. With smiles on their faces and AK-47s in their hands, they went for it. They saw the ransom $’s flashing before their eyes. But here comes the stupidity aspect. The ship was a command vessel of the French navy. How stupid can you be? Pretty soon the tables were turned and the French hunting the Somalis. They captured them. Justice!

Throw out. Read somewhere that Ignite’s vocalist Zoli Teglas would temporarily sing for Californian punkrockers Pennywise during some gigs. I fail to remember why. But Zoli has an amazing voice. Keen to hear how his vocal chords mix with Pennywise’s tunes, but my gut says it could be a great cocktail. Oh, and Zoli is magical on Ignite’s “Our Darkest Days” album from 2006. A top class punkrock album from start to finish, including the cover of U2’s classic “Sunday bloody Sunday”.

C- Ya

collateral – October 2009