“Urupfu rwa Col Karegeya nta mpuhwe ruteye!” byatangajwe n’Umuvugizi wa Leta y’Inkotanyi, Louise Mushikiwabo.

[1. General Kayumba Nyamwasa survived two assassination plots

Among all the opponents of Kigali regime, RNC members have been the main target, not because they are the only opposition but because of the information in their possession.

 

2. Gerald Gahima seems safer in the US

Having grown up and served with the current president of Rwanda, the founders of Rwanda National Congress (RNC)  also referred to as the gang of four, were privileged to have “golden secrets” of RPF, the then Tutsi-dominated rebel group and now the ruling party in Rwanda. 

 3. Colonel Patrick Karegeya was killed.  Gone too early.

The gang of four, all university graduates, fell out with the school drop-out president in 2010. Reason: the four refused to be run like stupid illiterates.

                                                                                                                                                              

 4. Dr Theogene Rudasingwa, the coordinator of the gang sounds more determined than ever.

Because RPF committed so many war crimes to climb to power, the party would not like the truth to come out since this would expose its lies. On January 2nd, 2014, we learnt a sad news that one of them, Colonel Patrick Karegeya was assassinated in the South African luxurious Michelangelo Towers hotel where he was meeting a Rwandan “friend” who was coming from Abu Dhabi”. Now that he is gone, we are wondering who is next.] Blogger’s note.

 

Anatomy of a spy boss murder BY Jacques Pauw

It seems the Kagame regime will stop at nothing to stamp out dissidents and detractors, even if it means hunting them abroad, Jacques Pauw reports.

How ironic that a maestro of assassination could fall prey to the same plots and ploys he had once used.

The same regime that former Rwandan external military intelligence chief Colonel Patrick Karegeya defended with blood ostensibly turned on him this week and left him lifeless in a swanky hotel room.

Dissident compatriots of the 54-year-old Karegeya were dumbfounded that the former Rwandan spymaster could so easily be lured into a death trap set for him at Sandton’s Michelangelo Hotel.

A top police unit is now searching for a Rwandan palm oil trader by the name of Apollo Kiririsi, who had a meeting with Karegeya at lunchtime on the last day of 2013.

By the time Karegeya’s body was discovered almost 20 hours later, Kiririsi had vanished. There is no record of him at the hotel as the room was booked under Karegeya’s name.

The Hawks’ Crimes Against the State unit is probing the probability that Kiririsi is a Rwandan agent who had befriended Karegeya over the past year to set him up for murder.

Karegeya had picked Kiririsi up on December 29 at the Sandton Gautrain station and took him to the Michelangelo Hotel.

Kiririsi said he had just flown in from Abu Dhabi. At around 2pm on Tuesday, Karegeya went to the hotel for his fatal meeting.

The slightly chubby Karegeya, a law graduate from Uganda’s Makerere University, fought back. He is said to have been trained by the Mossad and is a veteran of two of Africa’s bloodiest civil wars.

Karegeya was strangled and had no wounds, but there was blood in the room. At least one of his assailants left the hotel wounded.

Another political assassination?

Critics of Rwanda President Paul Kagame say the murder carries the hallmark of yet another assassination carried out by the bespectacled strongman’s intelligence forces.

Supporters of the regime, however, point to Kagame’s accomplishments in bringing stability and limited prosperity to his troubled nation.

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have for years documented the complicity of Kagame’s security forces in the killing of his opponents across the continent.

The UN has accused Kagame of fomenting rebellion in the eastern Congo and recently found that his forces might have committed acts of genocide in the region.

In the country itself, opposition politicians are either in prison or dead, journalists have been jailed and political parties have been banned.

Kigali has, predictably, denied that it targets political dissidents and claims that Rwanda is a budding democracy in which there is increasing space for political opposition.

Why Karegeya came

Karegeya sneaked into South Africa in February 2008, claimed refugee status and settled in Joburg.

His arrival followed a fallout with Kagame, just three years his senior. He was arrested and jailed for “indiscipline” and stripped of his rank in 2006.

Kagame and Karegeya fought side by side in the Ugandan rebel movement that brought Yoweri Museveni to power in 1986 in Uganda.

Museveni then allowed them to form their own Tutsi rebel movement, the Rwandan Patriotic Front.

It came to power in 1994 when it ended the genocide in Rwanda in which some 800 000 Rwandans died.

Karegeya wielded enormous power as Rwanda’s external military chief and was once in Kagame’s inner circle.

He was also credited with hunting down the enemies of the post-genocide regime across the region.

Fingers have pointed at him for, among other things, the assassination of former Rwandan interior minister Seth Sendashonga in 1998.

Sendashonga was appointed as a minister after the genocide, but then found evidence of the new regime’s complicity in post-genocide massacres and abuses.

He sent his findings to Kagame – and in doing so effectively signed his own death warrant.

Sendashonga fled to Kenya and then Tanzania, where he continued compiling his incriminating dossier against Kagame. He was gunned down in 1998, days before he was due to testify before the UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

The Rwandan ambassador in Kenya and Karegeya were accused of being the masterminds behind the killing.

The ambassador was recalled to Rwanda, where he was inexplicably murdered.

Karegeya said in an interview after his arrival in South Africa that he would “tell all” when the time was right.

It would have been a confession that Kagame could ill afford.

The gang of four

In March 2010, Karegeya became one of the so-called Gang of Four when three more former Kagame confidants fled Rwanda.

Kagame’s former chief of staff, Dr Theogene Rudasingwa, and Rwanda’s former attorney-general, Gerard Gahima, settled in the US while former army chief General Kayumba Nyamwasa chose South Africa.

The Gang of Four became instrumental in establishing the Rwandan National Congress (RNC), a multi-ethnic political movement that wants Kagame voted out of power.

The Rwandan government has outlawed the movement and a farcical military tribunal sentenced the Gang of Four to long-term imprisonment.

Nyamwasa survived two assassination attempts in Joburg in June 2010. In one of the attempts, he was shot and wounded in the stomach.

A Rwandan intelligence agent and his accomplices are now on trial in Joburg and evidence has been presented that the very top of Rwandan intelligence ordered the shooting.

The court was told about tape recordings in which the head of Rwandan military intelligence discussed the assassination of Nyamwasa and Karegeya with intelligence recruits in South Africa.

Following the failed attempt on Nyamwasa, South Africa recalled its ambassador to Rwanda for more than a year.

Both Nyamwasa and Karegeya were placed in a defence intelligence protection programme, but in September 2011, City Press unearthed another plot to kill Nyamwasa when Rwandan intelligence hired a private security firm to find out where the general was being housed.

They also recruited Rwandan refugees as assassins to shoot him.

Defence intelligence hastily moved Nyamwasa to another location. Although he is still under protection, in 2011 Karegeya left the programme, saying he had to earn a living and needed to move around.

Karegeya lived alone in the upmarket and highly secure Featherbrooke estate near Krugersdorp, on Gauteng’s West Rand.

His wife and two sons lived in the US and his daughter in Canada.

When the Americans killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011, the Rwandan government mouthpiece, the New Times, warned Nyamwasa and Karegeya: “You can run. You can hide. But you won’t escape.”

A nephew’s concern

Rwandan refugee David Batenga repeatedly warned his uncle not to trust the businessman that claimed to be a sympathiser of the RNC.

“Kiririsi said Kagame is a dictator and should go,” said Batenga. “My uncle fell for him and started trusting him.”

Karegeya knew that he was living in the shadow of Kagame’s henchmen. In 2012, the chairperson of the RNC in Africa, Frank Ntwali, was attacked and stabbed 12 times. He survived.

In the same year, the sister-in-law of the African secretary-general of the RNC, Pretoria attorney Kennedy Gihana, confessed that she was recruited by Rwandan intelligence to set him up for murder.

The State Security Agency (SSA) warned the leadership of the RNC in the same year that they face imminent danger.

The Rwandan government cancelled their and their families’ passports.

In the past two years, Rwandan exiles in the UK were warned by local security agents of a Kigali plot to kill them.

Sweden and Belgium deported Rwandan diplomats for spying on Rwandan refugees.

Batenga warned Karegeya on Tuesday: “I don’t think it is safe for you to go alone to this meeting.”

Batenga sent Karegeya a phone message at 7.47pm to make sure he was okay.

He received a message back not to be worried.

We don’t know if Karegeya wrote the message or when the killers pounced, but last time the card key for the room in the posh hotel was used was just after 8pm.

Batenga called Karegeya at midnight to wish him a happy new year.

He did not answer any of his three cell phones.

Batenga identified Karegeya’s swollen and badly-bruised body the next afternoon.

“How could Karegeya have walked into this trap?” Batenga asked. “It shows you the regime will stop at nothing to get us.”

A race to arms

Some of the RNC’s office bearers don’t sleep in their own beds and those who qualify for gun licences have armed themselves.

“We are scared and we don’t know what’s coming next,” Gihana admits.

He was recently in hospital after a car accident and his family had to keep its name a secret.

Gihana wants to meet authorities and demand protection for RNC members. He also wants to know how it is possible for foreign agents to operate so freely in South Africa.

The assassination of Karegeya poses a massive foreign policy dilemma for government.

When Nyamwasa was shot in 2010, it almost led to a breakdown of diplomatic relations.

Should the Hawks find evidence that Rwanda had a hand in the killing, South Africa will be compelled to act against the man once described as the West’s “darling dictator”.

For now, a group of Rwandan refugees who under the UN’s convention are entitled to protection from South Africa will continue to look over their shoulders and ask the question on everyone’s lips: who is next?

What government will do about it

International relations department spokesperson Clayson Monyela says government will not comment on the murder of Colonel Patrick Karegeya because a police investigation is under way.

He said the situation was not expected to cause diplomatic tensions between Rwanda and South Africa as there was no evidence linking the Rwandan government to Karegeya’s killing.

But another senior government official with high-level diplomatic ties suggested the case would cause diplomatic tensions, and that there should be consequences if a link to the Rwandan government can be established.

The killing of Karegeya on our soil was a diplomatic issue that government should have responded to, the official said.

“Sincerely, from a diplomatic point of view, something like this is not acceptable. It undermines diplomatic relations which are based on mutual respect.

“It also undermines the agenda of the African continent which is moving away from getting rid of people like this.

“Africans are just tired of this,” said the official.

The official said Pretoria’s decision to shelter people who are at odds with their governments had caused tension with Zimbabwe, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria, but said their governments had come to accept that South Africa was bound by its human rights laws and international conventions.

“It has not been easy for South Africa to keep people who are in a bad space with their own governments.

“It is not easy because we have relationships with those countries. But you can’t just bundle them and take them back to their countries.”

The Rwandans have not contacted South Africa following Karegeya’s killing, but the official said the South Africans will have to go through diplomatic channels if they wanted to raise concerns.

“We are fully engaging all our institutions that are supposed to deal with this matter. We don’t want our country to be one of those where people just come and kill

other people.

“We also don’t want this thing of people settling scores by killing people. We don’t want it to take root. We’ve got a reputation to protect.” – Sabelo Ndlangisa

Source: http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/anatomy-spy-boss-murder/

Mu by’ukuri, uretse Paul Kagame n’Agatsiko ke , ntawe utabona ko «  Stratégie » yo kwihisha inyuma ya « jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi bonyine » hagamijwe kumena no gutesha agaciro amaraso y’abandi benegihugu itakijyanye n’igihe ! Niyo mpamvu benshi bibaza bati : Iki cyunamo gishyizwe igitaraganya muri kwezi kwa Mutarama gisobanura iki ? Gihishe iki ? Gihuriye he n’urupfu rwa koloneli Patrick Karegeya wanigishijwe ikiziriko taliki ya mbere Mutarama 2014 ?

I. Twibukiranye

Twari tumaze kumenyera ko buri mwaka icyunamo cyo kwibuka« jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi bonyine » gitangira mu kwezi kwa Mata ! Kandi kubera ko hashize imyaka hafi makumyabiri ibyo bikorwa, twagize igihe gihagije cyo kwitegereza no kumva neza icyo « iki cyunamo kidashira » gisobanura !

N’ubwo Loni yemeje ko mu Rwanda hakozwe « ibikorwa bya jenoside », ikanashyiraho Urukiko Mpuzamahanga Mpanabyaha (TPIR) rukorera Arusha rushinzwe gukirikirana no guhana ibyo byaha, ntabwo Loni yigeze ivuga ko ari Abatutsi bonyine bakorewe “jenoside” , nta n’ubwo Loni yigeze ivuga ko ari Abahutu bonyine bayikoze. Nyuma y’ukwivuguruza kwinshi, Leta ya FPR niyo yafashe icyemezo cyo :

*kuvangura abishwe : ivuga ko Abatutsi aribo bonyine bakwiye kuririrwa, kunamirwa no kwibukwa kuko aribo bakorewe jenoside ; naho abahutu bo bishwe bakaba ari ibikoko bityo, uretse no kwibukwa no kuririrwa, bakaba nta n’uburenganzira bafite bwo gushyingurwa mu cyubahiro gikwiye abantu .

*kuvangura abicanyi : ivuga ko umwicanyi ukomoka mu bwoko bw’Abahutu ari we mubi, bityo akaba akwiye kuryozwa ibyaha bye n’ibya se n’ibya sekuru , hakiyongeraho ko n’abana babo b’ibitambambuga badafite aho bahuriye n’ubwo bwicanyi bagomba kuzasoza ubuzima bwabo bapfukamye basaba imbabazi Abatutsi ; mu gihe umwicanyi ukomoka mu bwoko bw’Abatutsi we agomba gufatwa nk’ INTWARI y’igihugu, akagororerwa. Nyamara anketi na raporo zakozwe na LONI ku bwicanyi bwakozwe n’ingabo za Kagame muri Kongo zerekana ko bashobora kuzakurikiranwa n’inkiko ku cyaha cya « Jenoside yakorewe abahutu ».

Iyo ikora ibyo ,Leta ya FPR iba igamije iki ?

(1) Intego ni uguhishira uruhare FPR yagize mu kurimbura Abanyarwanda guhera taliki ya 1/10/1990 kugeza ubu, baba Abahutu , baba Abatutsi .

(2)Twibuke ubuhamya bw’Inkotanyi Abdoul Joshuwa Ruzibiza, wagiraga ati «  Ushaka kumva uko jenoside yateguwe ikanashyirwa mu bikorwa ntakarebe gusa ibyo Leta ya Habyarimana yakoze  ajye abanza arebe n’ibyaha by’indengakamere FPR yakoze » kuko mu by’ukuri ariyo « yigishije Interahamwe kwica urubozo », iyo zabonaga ibyo FPR yakoreraga Abanyabyumba n’Abanyaruhengeri !

Icyitonderwa :

Ikibazo gikomeye cyane kiriho ubungubu gituma nta butabera nyakuri bushobora kubaho mu Rwanda, ni uko abaryozwa ibyakoze ari uruhande rumwe gusa rw’Abahutu, Abatutsi bayoboraga FPR bo ntibagire icyo bakurikiranwaho kandi barabigizemo uruhare rukomeye cyane ! Ndetse ahubwo FPR ikagaruka ikigira umucamanza mu rubanza yakagombye kuregwamo , ibyo bikaba binyuranyije cyane n’IHAME ubucamanza bwubakiyeho rigira riti « Kirazira kuba umucamanza mu rubanza uregwamo »(«  Nul n’est juge dans sa propre cause »°.

Kuki FPR imaze imyaka 20 yose yarigize umucamanza mu rubanza iregwamo ?

Ni ukugira ngo abayobozi bakuru ba FPR bakingirwe ikibaba, batabazwa ibyo bakoze. Ahubwo n’ibyo bakoze bakagaruka bakabyegeka ku Bahutu akaba aribo babibazwa bonyine: kugira ngo byinjizwe mu mitwe n’imitima(conscience collective) y’abanyarwanda cyane cyane urubyiruko ko UMUHUTU wese ari mubi, ari umwicanyi, UMUTUTSI akaba umwere nka Malayika w’Imana . Iyo akaba ari nayo mpamvu mu gihe cy’icyunamo abambari ba FPR-Inkotanyi bakaza umurego, hirya no hino mu Mirenge, Abahutu bagafatwa, bagashyirwa ku ngoyi, bagakubitwa, bagacunaguzwa, bagafungwa, bagatorongezwa , abandi bakicwa…Mu Rwanda haracyari uturere abaturage bahunga mu cyunamo,bakigira i Burundi cyangwa i Bugande,  bakazagaruka kirangiye . Nigeze kujya ku Gikongoro mu cyunamo, ndebye iterabwoba abaturage bashyirwaho ndumirwa ! Ibyo bikaba buri mwaka, imyaka igashira indi igataha. Burya koko akabi kamenyerwa nk’akeza ! None nyuma y’imyaka 20, nk’aho ibyo byose bidahagije bati noneho reka icyunamo tugitangire ku ya 7 Mutarama ! Aho ubutaha ntituzabwirwa ko kizajya gitangira ku italiki ya 1 Mutarama kigasozwa ku ya 31 Ukuboza ?!

II. Icyunamo cyo muri Mutarama 2014 gihuriye he n’urupfu rwa Koloneli Patrick Karegeya ?

Iki cyunamo kidasanzwe cyo kwibuka « jenoside yakorewe abatutsi bonyine » gishyizwe muri Mutarama 2014 gifite ibyo gihishe. Paul Kagame muzamugaye ibindi, nta mahano akora atabanje gutanga integuza ! Twibuke ko mu gusoza umwaka w’2013 , Perezida Paul Kagame yakoze disikuru ibwira ingabo ze ko hateganyijwe ibikomeye mu muri uyu mwaka w’2014 , kandi ko bagomba kwitegura ko uyu mwaka uzabagora cyane. Hatarashira iminsi ibiri , Koloneri Patrick Karegeya wabarirwaga mu barwanya ubutegetsi bubi bwa FPR aba yishwe anigishijwe ikiziriko, ibimenyetso byinshi bikaba bigaragaza ko Agatsiko ka Paul Kagame ariko kagiye kubazwa iby’urwo rupfu. Gusa nk’uko dusanzwe tuzi FPR, bakora ibyaha barangiza bakaba abambere mu guhinda imishyitsi ko biri bubakoreho . Bizabakoraho nyine ! None se inkunguzi y’ibikoba ntiyirahira amakara mu kibuno ?

Nk’ubu bazi neza ukuntu kugerageza kwicira Kayumba Nyamwasa muri Afurika y’Epfo byateranyije u Rwanda n’igihugu cya Afurika y’Epfo cyari gisanzwe gifasha u Rwanda muri byinshi. Twibuke nanone ko icyo gihugu cya Afurika y’Epfo gifatanyije na Tanzaniya muri Brigade d’Intervention aribyo biherutse kugamburuza Paul Kagame muri politiki ye ya mpatsibihugu, ubwo byashwanyaguzaga M 23 , Umutwe wabicanyi yiremeye akaba yawukoreshaga mu bwicanyi ndengakamere no mu busahuzi bw’amabuye y’agaciro mu burasirazuba bwa Congo .

Birumvikana ko Afurika y’Epfo itazituramira gusa nimara gukora anketi za ngombwa igasanga abicanyi baturutse i Kigali aribo bongeye kuvogera ubutaka bwayo, bakajya kuhicira Patrick Karegeya wari warahahawe ubuhungiro. Ibi Kagame n’abambari be bazi neza ko bishobora kubakoraho , n’ubwo kenshi batekereza ariko barangije gukora ibara, bagahora bibuka ibitereko basheshe.Birababaje.

Icyunamo cyo muri Mutarama nk’Indaki .

Kugira ngo bikingire ingaruka z’igikorwa cy’iterabwoba bamaze gukora muri Afurika y’Epfo n’ibindi binyuranye bateganya gukora muri uyu mwaka w’2014 , Kagame n’Agatsiko ke bibutse ko bashobora guhungira no kwikinga inyuma « y’Icyunamo kidasanzwe cyo kwibuka jenoside yakorewe abatutsi bonyine » ! Aka wa mugani ngo akaboko wicishije inkware uhora ukabangaritse !

Ikigamijwe ni ukugira ngo :

(1)Kagame n’Agatsiko ke bihishe inyuma y’amarira, bongere batere imbabazi, barerembure amaso, bereka amahanga ko bo batazi kwica , ko hica Abahutu bonyine, ko Abatutsi bahora ari ba“Victimes gusa” kubera ko aribo bishwe bonyine muri jenoside mu 1994 ; bityo bakaba bizeye ko amahanga yagira impuhwe , agatinya kubashinja urupfu rwa Patrick Karegeya  kandi bari mu cyunamo ! Barateganya ko Afurika y’Epfo nibirengaho ikabashinja urupfu rwa Patrick Karegeya nabo bazayihindisha imishyitsi bakayishinja gupfobya no guhakana jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994!

(2) Kagame agamije kurangaza abakuru mu ngabo ze kugira ngo batabona igihe cyo gutekereza ku iyicwa ry’uwahoze ari mugenzi wabo, kandi ko bamwe muri bo aribo baraye bari bwicwe. Koko rero Kagame atabarangaje byatuma bafata umwanya wo kwisuganya bakiga icyakorwa kugira ngo ejo nabo batazapfa urwa Karegeya !

(3)Hagamijwe kurangaza Abanyarwanda ngo batabona umwanya wo gukurikira amakuru ngo bamenye uko ubutegetsi bwa FPR bukomeje gukora nk’umutwe w’iterabwoba wica Abanyarwanda mu gihugu ukanabasanga iyo bahungiye ukabatsindayo .

Umwanzuro

Kagame yemeje ko uyu mwaka w’2014 uzaba ugoye cyane, kandi iyo abibwiye ingabo aba azumvisha ko zigomba kwitegura izindi ntambara. Birahwihwiswa ko aya mezi adasanzwe y’icyunamo Kagame ateganya kuyicamo abandi bantu benshi akeka ko barwanya ubutegetsi bwe, muri bo hakaba harimo na Perezida Mrisho KIKWETE wa Tanzaniya , Joseph Kabila wa Congo na Petero Nkurunziza w’U Burundi .

Nta kindi gisobanuro twaha iki cyunamo cyo muri Mutarama uretse kugifata nk’INDAKI KAGAME yihishemo kugira ngo yungikanye ibikorwa by’ubugizibwanabi n’iterabwoba .

Abatavuga rumwe n’ubutegetsi bw’igitugu bwa Kagame bararye ari menge, uyu mwaka w’2014 ntuzaborohera, ariko ibyo sibyo byatuma bacika intege , ahubwo bakwiye kwihutira gushyira imbaraga hamwe kugira ngo FPR igaragazwe uko iri : Umutwe w’iterabwoba ukwiye gushyirishwa ku rutonde rw’indi mitwe nk’iyo, ugahagurukirwa n’amahanga, ugaseswa, Abanyarwanda n’abaturanyi b’u Rwanda bakiruhutsa .

Umwaka mwiza ku bifuza impinduka nziza bose.

Padiri Thomas Nahimana.

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera is the Secretary General of the United Democratic Forces

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera is a Rwandan opposition leader based in Belgium. He has been the Secretary General of the United Democratic Forces since it was founded in 2006. Uhuruspirit editor Comrade Hilary Ojukwu contacted him earlier today to seek his views over many issues, including the recent assassination of the former Rwandan Intelligence Chief. Below are extracts from the interview.

Uhuruspirit: Please, tell us more about your movement.

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera: Our movement the United Democratic Forces, better known by its French acronym FDU-Inkingi was launched in 2006. We fight for a non-ethnic, non-sexist, democratic, peaceful and prosperous Rwanda. Rwandans cannot continue to live under successive ethnic dictatorships, marked by ethnic exclusion, suppression of basic freedoms and exploitation of the people by a clique linked to Western capitalists. It’s a recurrent problem that started before colonialism. Since July 1994, the Hutu ethnic majority is treated like outcasts by the ruling clique around Paul Kagame. But the Tutsi minority is also denied basic freedoms. FDU-Inkingi was created to mobilize all Rwandans to achieve change.

Our movement was born in exile, in Brussels, in April 2006. After four years of preparations, FDU-Inkingi chairperson Cde Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza went to Rwanda in January 2010 to set the necessary preparations for registration of our movement as a legal political party and later participate in the presidential elections slated for August 2010. The regime arrested her and threw her behind bars on fabricated charges in October 2010. She was convicted to 8 year jail term. In December 2013, that sentence was increased to 15 years on appeal by the Supreme Court. Many other local cadres have been arrested several times and some of them are still in jail while others were forced to flee the country.

Apart from the Chairperson, the rest of the leaders remained in exile, in Europe and North America. The movement is currently led by the First Vice Chair Eugene Ndahayo who is based in Lyon, in France. There is a splinter faction led by the Second Vice Chairman Nkiko Nsengimana who rebelled against the leadership of the movement in February 2011. Attempts to bring them back on track have not yet yielded fruits.

FDU-Inkingi has entered into coalition with other opposition groups. In March 2013, we formed together with two other organizations a front called ‘National Council for Democratic Change’ chaired by Gen. Emmanuel HABYARIMANA, former defence minister in Paul Kagame’s government. He fled to Uganda to save his life in 2003. Later he relocated to Switzerland where he still lives.

Uhuruspirit: What was your reaction when you heard about the killing of Col. Patrick Karegeya?

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera: We were shocked but not surprised. The ruling clique led by Gen. Paul Kagame kills real or perceived opponents regularly and murder is a usual tool of control for them. In fact, when Paul Kagame took over the leadership of the ruling Rwandese Patriotic Front, he killed his predecessors Maj. Peter Bayingana and Major Chris Bunyenyezi. Since then, the list of his victims is endless. It’s widely known that he killed his predecessor President Habyarimana and his Burundian counterpart Cyprian Ntaryamira, all their collaborators and its French crew when his jet was hit by missiles while attempting to land on Kigali International Airport on April 6, 1994. In December 1995, he assassinated former RPF MP Col. Theoneste LIZINDE and a businessman named BUGIRIMFURA in Nairobi, Kenya. In May 1998, Seth SENDASHONGA the first post-genocide minister of interior was shot dead by a squad in broad daylight at a round-about near UN Headquarters in Nairobi. Two year before, he had escaped murder by one Francis Mugabo, a Rwandan diplomat posted in Rwanda’s embassy in Nairobi. He was caught red handed with a brazen pistol at the scene of murder.

André Kagwa RWISEREKA, Vice President of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda was found beheaded in a swamp near Butare town in Rwanda, two months before presidential elections in 2010. The same year, former Chief of Staff Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa was gunned by survived his injuries after killers linked to Kigali tried to kill him in Johannesburg, South Africa. Independent journalists are not spared. One Jean-Leonard Rugambage who was investigating the murder was shot dead at his gate by unknown assaillants. Charles Ingabire, a journalist of online publication ‘Inyenyeri News’ was killed by gunmen in a Kampala suburb. And this list can go on and on …

Uhuruspirit: The Rwandan National Congress (RNC), of which the former intelligence chief was a member, has accused the government of President Paul Kagame of being responsible for the murder. Do you think there is any merit in their case?

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera: I think there’s no doubt Paul Kagame has a hand in his murder. He once said in parliament that he wouldn’t hesitate “to kill a fly with a hammer”.

Uhuruspirit: The South African Police Services are busy investigating the matter. What kind of reaction do you expect from President Jacob Zuma’s government should it be confirmed that Paul Kagame’s government had something to do with this cowardly and irresponsible murder?

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera: South Africa is a democratic country. It is led by revolutionaries who fought against an entrenched racist government. Rwanda’s current regime is an apartheid-like autocracy. This regime exports violence in the Great Lakes region where it’s repeatedly fabricated proxy militias to destabilize the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo where South African troops are deployed. We think that it’s high time that the South African government realized the nature of Paul Kagame’s government and its unrelenting aggression on the continent.

Uhuruspirit: What is your party’s position on how to resolve the Rwandan crisis in order to have genuine stability?

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera: Paul Kagame must go! And the sooner the better. His tools of repression, the army, police and intelligence services must be shaken and reformed. An all-inclusive national transitional government must be put in place to repatriate exiled Rwandans, conduct constitutional reforms and hold democratic elections. Paul Kagame will not accept negotiations with opposition groups, unless he’s forced to do so by all legitimate means. That’s the message he sent to the Rwandan people, to the region, the continent and the world by killing Col. Patrick Karegeya. He must be arrested and tried.

Uhuruspirit: Do you think that the conflict between the DRC government and M23 rebels is now over after the recent signing of an agreement in Kenya?

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera: The M23 was a cover for covert RDF operations in DRC. Since the reasons of its creation where not addressed, war can resume any time. Let me remind you that the M23 wasn’t the first proxy militia created by Paul Kagame’s government. It was preceded by the CNDP led by renegade officer Laurent Nkunda. Before that back in 1998, Paul Kagame used another proxy movement called RCD-Goma. As long as the Rwandan conflict is not resolved, Paul Kagame will continue to destabilize the region because his thinks that he must pre-emptively destabilize all potential or perceived neighbors who might provide support to the opposition. They will never have peace as long as Paul Kagame and his sectarian clique are in power.

Uhuruspirit: Thank you so much sir for your time.

Dr. Jean-Baptiste Mbera: Thank you for the opportunity

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