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POV?

This article seems biased in favour of Umuhoza. This sentence from the first paragraph:

Umuhoza is working towards the development of Rwanda and democracy which is currently inexistent under President Kagame's regime.

...seems especially problematic - i.e. it's suggesting that Rwanda is not actually a democracy, which I don't think is supported by references (and sounds like something that could start a heated argument). Perhaps it could be rephrased somehow, to show that Umuhoza and her party *are of the opinion that* Rwanda and its current government are not operating democratically?

Also, she was recently arrested due to her alleged "genocide denial"/terrorism links. I don't currently have the time to work this into the article, but wanted to mention it somewhere. Dracunculus (talk) 19:07, 21 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. The factual info on her is scanty (date and place of birth, bachground, who is she connected with, what circles of exile Rwandans, what positions did she take on different issues of the past) and a lot of mahubiri = political preaching. It is a biased entry. --Kipala (talk) 16:58, 27 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do not agree with the statements above. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is viewed as an extremist in Rwanda. This is biased and Rwandans do not endorse these views of Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza.Rwandan (talk) 17:04, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Extreme POV

This article is biased in the extreme. For the record, I am NO fan of this politician. However, when I see rumours (about her and her mother) reported as fact, without evidence, that not only violates Wikipedia's verifiability policy but is also potentially actionable. I hope someone who knows enough will fix this article quickly. David Cannon (talk) 14:11, 1 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've asked for a POV check to be done. Chase me ladies, I'm the Cavalry (talk) 10:31, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Completely agreed.

TheQw 20:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

I THINK IT DEPENDS WITH HOW DIFFERENT PEOPLE VIEW VICTOIRE INGABIRE UMUHOZA.

To many of Rwandan will take this as right and to many people inside Rwanda because they hate her they wont like to say something good being said about her. for the live above i think it does not have any problem, She is a politician and i am sure she has promised the members of the party that she will work on Rwandan development, and to be i guess thats why she went there, tho she has been refused to carry his political career in Rwanda, as the President of Rwanda said in this link THEY IS NO POLITICAL SPACE IN RWANDA and in live people view a person in different ways some take her positively others negatively. and lets not forget that winners write the History, which is the reason i think because she is not a winner at the moment, so thats why they is a confusion on her articles.here is her Victoire Ingabire Website maybe its time we get to know more about her. thank you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.58.238.135 (talk) 23:18, 26 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

You have to understand that anything written by her is extremely biased. Even the United Nations have found connections between here and the FDLR rebels in Eastern Congo, who were the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. This legitimizes her arrest, which automatically bared her from standing in the 2010 presidential elections since she was under investigation. Furthermore, Victoire Ingabire arrived back in the country only a few months before the elections, having spent the past 16 years in Holland as a presumed "refugee". Most people in Rwanda see her as a scarecrow, whose only objective is to destabilize the country with her statements and actions. It is also well-known that she is connected to subversive groups in Holland who are against the current leadership in Rwanda, and so all her statements (and her website, duh!) are obviously bent upon criticism of the current government. To someone who knows Rwanda and has lived there for many years, it is obvious that everything written in this article is completely biased in favor of Victoire Ingabire.

TheQw 20:45, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

BIASED IN THE EXTREME

This article is biased in the extreme, as are most of the previous comments. Like Ingabire, I have been accused of genocide denial and genocide revisionism by the Kagame regime and its pundits (Dr. Gerald Caplan) merely for telling the truth about the brutal dictatorship installed by the US government and Israel in Kigali after a genocidal four year war and illegal invasion that began on October 1, 1990. President Paul Kagame waged this war committing massive war crimes and genocide against Hutu AND Tutsi people (and the minority Twa), and when Victoire arrived in Rwanda she went to the Football Stadium in Gitarama, Rwanda, where Rwanda's first President, a Hutu sub-chief named Dominic Mbonyumutwa, was buried, and she made a statement denouncing the ongoing violence against HUTU people in Rwanda and DRC. For this Ingabire was immediately targeted, and as of today has been under arrest and imprisoned for 288 days in harsh conditions.

The Hutu sub-Chief and first President buried at Gitarama was attacked by Tutsis in Rwanda (circa 1961) and this sparked an uprising against elite Tutsi injustices against Hutus, an action that is never mentioned in the essentialized history of Rwanda controlled by the Kagame regime and its sponsors. However, the story of Dominic Mbonyumutwa is so important to the HUTU people and their ongoing collective resistance against the genocide they are suffering, all over the world, and repression that people suffer (all people), inside Rwanda, that soon after Ingabire's speech at the site, dictator Kagame had his special security operatives dig up the grave, disinter the remains and remove them from Gitarama stadium in the middle of the night. Such facts are anaethema to the popular understanding of "genocide" in Rwanda. Such history 'should not be remembered' by the people of Rwanda today, according to the brutal elite Tutsi dictatorship in power.

There is also no chance of establishing an UNBIASED Wikipedia page about issues regarding Rwanda (or other US backed dictatorships) as long as so many people who benefit from these nasty dictatorships are allowed to comment freely and arrogantly with all kinds of unsubstantiated propaganda.

keith harmon snow

2009 Regents Lecturer in Law & Society

University of California Santa Barbara

Former United Nations genocide investigator

www.ConsciousBeingAlliance.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.119.102.203 (talk) 02:06, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]