Reminiscent of the re-education labor camps in Communist China where those who disagree with government rapacity are sent to languish under hard labor, Paul Kagame's Rwanda is now dispatching people into concentration camps in the hills of Rwanda under the guise of re-educating them. It must be immediately pointed out that Kagame's re-education, like that of Communist China, has nothing do with education but everything to do with ideology. Re-education is the act of creating a docile people so that dictatoship may flourish, as is the case in Communist China or Russia. Re-education, if it had anything to do with education, would lead one to wonder what happened to the first education. To re-educate someone implies that they had previously received an education that went awry. Given that the people who are now being re-educated in Kagame's concentration camps have spent all of their lives in Rwanda, it would appear that their previous maleducation occured in Rwanda itself. If that is the case, it would be necessary to ask about the conditions that generated the maleducation in the first place and if the conditions have been fixed. If the conditions have been fixed, why would these people be sent into labor camps to be re-educated? Now, these questions only make sense if we assume that re-education has some connection to the idea of education. But it does not. Kagame is simply trying to cultivate a docile citizenry so that no one would question his dictatorship in Rwanda. Viva Kagame, viva!
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