Autopsy Finalized, Bihozagara Burial For Friday

[mchambawima1]

The Rwanda National Police has finalised carrying out an autopsy for the deceased ex-Rwandan minister and diplomat Jacques Bihozagara, his family told KT Press.

The family has not divulged into the details of the outcomes of the autopsy.

Joseph Kilimandjalo, a family member said “the autopsy was carried out at the police hospital, but I am yet to know results.”

KT Press had access to the body at Kgali International Airport when he was repatriated. His face was brutally bruised, with some facial parts crashed.

He also said, Bihozagara’s body is still in the police hospital mortuary. Police cannot comment on the case yet.

But the family said said they will only talk about the autopsy after burial.

Bihozagara will be accorded decent burial, two weeks after his assassination in a Burundian prison of Mpimba on March 30 where he had been held incommunicado for since December 2015.

Upon arrival at the Airport on April 5, his family requested the government of Rwanda to conduct an autopsy to assert the cause of his death.

On behalf of the family, Eugene Murigande, said that, “What our government did so far is just the beginning.”

Murigande has not shared much details too, but he told our reporter that the “government is giving us the required support.”

Funeral services will take place on Friday starting at 9am from Bihozagara’s home in Kibagabaga, then at Saint Etienne church in Biryogo, Nyamirambo.



Burial is scheduled at 3pm at Rusororo cemetery, Gasabo district.

Source: KT Press

 

[mchambawima1]

vyuma vipi nasikia kuna report zimeanza kuingia eti wale FDLR mlioingiza Burundi kumlinda Nkurumbi na kuwasaidia kupambana na raia wenu wameanza kuwareplace X-FAB(jeshi la Burundi lililowakalibisha madarakani) kushika doria, kusudi wazuie raia kukimbia...
"FDLR Brigade Mwumba patrolling roads Ngozi-Mwumba-Busiga-Kanyaru bas 600 FDLR in Hayiro light artillery mortar tubes"

 

[jMali]

Kwa unafiki tu Rwanda imeshindikana, mtu mwenyewe alikuwa anaishi Burundi kama mkimbizi haramu akimkimbia Kagame, leo kafa jamaa wanalia utadhani walikuwa wanampenda! Yani kama Nyamwasa afe halafu Rwanda wajifanye kubweka! cc: vyuma

What’s the legal or moral ground for Rwanda to seek explanation from Burundi over Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s death from Burundi?

April 1, 2016 03:33 Great lakes
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Mr. Jacques Bihozagara died from Burundi. Bihozaga was one of the key people during the war that brought Kagame junta into power. Mr. Jacques Bihozagara served Kagame junta, in different capacities, until he fled Rwanda for Burundi where he lived until he died, yesterday.

When violence started in Burundi, Mr. Bihozagara was arrested allegedly on suspicion that he was spying for Kigali. Burundi appears to have discovered later that the former Rwandan diplomat was in Burundi for his life, running away from Kigali junta. However, Mr. Bihozagara and the gov of Burundi are said to have agreed that no place in Burundi or in any neighboring country would be safe for Bihozagara if he was released. Since then, it’s believed that the gov of Burundi started looking for a third country where Bihozagara would be safe from Kagame’s assassins.

Unfortunately, Bihozagara died, under suspicious circumstances, before any third country could receive him. There is rumor that he was poisoned. Although there is no official postmortem report about the cause of his death, there are two major ” theories” on the source of who poisoned .

(a) That Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s friends who used to bring him food from outside prison poisoned his food and/or beverages. Proponents of this view say that Kagame junta was behind the poisoning, and

(b) that Mr. Jacques Bihozagara was poisoned by the gov of Burundi.

If it be true that Bihozagara was poisoned, there are very many an answered questions.

(1) Between Kagame junta and Burundi had interest in eliminating this Rwandan refugee who has been living in Burundi for the past five or so years?

(2) Why was Kagame junta the first one to break the news of Bihozagara death and cause of his death, before any gov of Burundi official knew that Bihozagara had died?

(3) Why would Rwanda be up in arms, so fast in a hype mood , with Burundi gov over Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s death yet the deceased fled Kagame junta persecution?

(4) Why did Bihozagara’s mysterious death occur at the time the gov of Burundi was allegedly looking for a third country to receive Mr. Jacques Bihozagara?



Rwanda’s foreign Minister has announced that the gov of Rwanda needs an explanation from Burundi gov over Mr. Bihozagara’s death. Under the International Convention for the Protection of Refugees, the country of origin looses its rights over its citizen to the country of refuge. Where a person is in a country illegally, neither the person’s country of origin nor the country where that person lives illegally has full control over that person. Whether Mr. Jacques was a refugee – or an illegal immigrant – in Burundi, at the time of Mr. Jacques Bihozagara death Randa had not right over him. Consequently, Burundi gov owes no duty – legal or otherwise – to Rwanda to explain Bihozagara’s death and Rwanda has no right to request such explanation from Burundi gov. It would have been different if, at his death, Bihozagara was a citizen of Rwanda on a visit or official duty in Burundi

Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s immigration status withstanding, the fact that he died from Burundi under mysterious circumstances, Burundi gov has a legal and moral duty to investigate the cause Mr. Jacques Bihozagara death. If Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s death was cause by anybody or a group thereof, the culprit should be brought to book.

By Dr Charles Kambanda

 

[jMali]

Rwanda ni kama mwizi anayepora halafu yeye ndio anawahi kupiga kelele za mwizi dhidi ya aliyeibiwa, watu wenye mihemuko wakija fasta wanadhani Rwanda ndio kaibiwa..ila bahati nzuri ukweli hujulikana tu.

Rwanda: Another Son of the revolution – Muzehe Jacques Bihozagara, Being Assassinated by the same vampire.
April 2, 2016 Rwanda

On the 30th March 2016, in my social media post, I noted that I wouldn’t comment about Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara’s death without facts. Since Facebook is not under the protectorate of Kagame’s regime, I therefore have the right to air my analysis on the death of a public figure. As I post my analysis, Jacques Bihozagara’s son in law, who is a white Canadian, has written to president Nkurunziza demanding for the repatriation of his body back to Rwanda. I would like to inform readers that none of his relatives’ i.e brother or sister who lives in Belgium and France respectively has written to the Burundian authority demanding for such repatriation, before an exclusive investigation is done by the Burundian government. What I ought to point out is that, Ambassador Bihozagara’s family are under enormous pressure by the criminal regime in Kigali to ask/demand Burundi to repatriate Bihozagara’s remains.

On this day, as Ugandans were waiting for judgement of the election petition. In Tanzania, the president was announcing on how he is going to reduce senior civil servants, in South Africa a corruption judgement being passed against President Jacob Zuma, in Angola new social housing being unveiled for the poor city dwellers of Luanda, in Senegal President Macky Sall holding emergency meetings with stakeholders on youth unemployment, different part of Africa it was a day of hype political, social and economic activities. In the land of thousand hills – Rwanda, it was as usual, a day when the ruler at Village Urugwiro was waiting the outcome of Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara’s assassination.

All quarters agree that, Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara was assassinated. In any assassination, there is a motive – beneficiaries. Between the two protagonists, Burundi and Rwanda, who was to benefit from Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara’s death? Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara was in a Burundian prison, therefore, the onus and responsibility was under Burundi’s authority to protect him.

Reminder:
Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara relocated to Burundi after years of being frustrated and harassed by the regime in Kigali. For example, in 2003, he had got a work contract with GTZ, a contract that was annulled/cancelled only after three days due to regime’s interference. I will not indulge on the pain and hard life of humiliation which he was subjected through, by the Kigali regime. An intelligent old man was reduced into a life of a pauper; the only crime committed was served diligently President Pasteur Bizimungu, and being a good friend to Pasteur Bizimungu. In 2000, through a putsch, after becoming a president, Dictator Paul Kagame went on a witch-hunt against Pasteur Bizimungu and his close allies/friends, thus, sending them into the fringes of the Rwandan society. I will not touch on the role of Jeannette Kagame in the marital well affairs of the just assassinated ex diplomat – minister; as I consider this subject to be private matters.

TIME LINE: I will start from the time he was arrested in Bujumbura on the 4th December 2015.

4TH December 2015: Arrested at around 10:00 by members of Service National de Renseignment (National Intelligence services), who took Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara in a white double cabin pickup to their tactical head Office in Rohero 2, Bujumbura. While other individuals arrested by SNR are always given some beatings after the actual arrest, on case of Ambassador Bihozagara, the information I have obtained is that, he was not touched/beaten or put in hand caff during his arrest or transferring. At SNR offices, he was questioned, and the nature of questioning was based on particular individuals who used to visit him.

These are people from Rwanda, who used to visit him and they would stay at his house while they are in Burundi. Two were related to Bihozagara and another, a relative to his ex-wife. All these individuals were ex-soldiers but demobilised from RPA/RDF in 2000 – names of these individuals are withheld at the request of those who gave me the info, due to ongoing investigation.

The names of these individuals had been mentioned by insurgents who had been arrested in earlier security operations. After the failed 13th of May Coup d’état in Burundi, armed insurgents raised in Burundi particularly in Bujumbura. In the proceeding crackdown against insurgents, some of those arrested named those individuals who used to visit Ambassador Bihozagara’s house as their handlers. Ambassador Jacques Bihozaga was arrested after starches of weapons were found on a house located in Kinindo.

On 7th December 2016: After vigorous interrogation, ambassador Bihozagara was transferred to Mpimba prison. This was done after being given an option of deportation back to Rwanda; an option which he refused, opting to fight and clear his name in the courts of law.

Before Christmas: After further investigation by SNR and finding out that he was innocent, the Burundian authority released him; an option which he also refused citing that he won’t be safe anywhere in Burundi, thus, proposing to the Burundian authority for a relocation outside the region; a proposal which the Burundian authority agreed. I have verified this point with four different sources.

His Immigration status: Around six years ago when Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara relocated to Burundi, he had entered the Country with a Laissez-Passer (travel pass). In Burundi he was an over stayer, exceeding the legal limits which allowed him to live in Burundi. In other words, he was an illegal immigrant in Burundi. When he was in Burundi, he tried on several occasion to apply for Rwandan passport through Burundian embassy, in all cases, his applications where turned down through different technicalities.

His relocation application: Bihozagara’s relocation to a 3rd Country was slow mainly because he was not living in Burundi as a refugee. Also not having a proper travel document, in this case a passport; was a hindrance in finding for him quickly a country of relocation.

Why assassinated now: The issue of relocation was the likely cause of his assassination. The Burundian Authority was on the final negation touches with South Africa in regard to Ambassador Bihozagara’s relocation to South Africa. This information may have been leaked to Rwanda’s intelligence services and its supreme leader, Paul Kagame. And this may have triggered the eventual assassination of Ambassador Bihozagara, at the orders of Paul Kagame. To Kagame, South Africa means Rujugiro Tribert, Kayumba Nyamwasa and RNC. Ambassador Bihozagara was a good friend to Rujugiro since their days in Burundi, while still in government he had a good working relationship with Kayumba Nyamwasa. With all this in mind, Kagame would never allow these amigos to re-unite in South Africa, as this would have been a psychological boost to his opponents.

On the fateful day: On the fateful day, he woke up complaining of stomach pain and serious heartburn. By mid-day, he was complaining of serious stomach burning and diarrhoea. This is when he decided to visit a prison doctor for a medical check; it was at this point that he started vomiting blood and saliva foamy coming from his mouth. All the information indicate to have been declared dead after 15:00 hours Burundi time.

Methods of assassination: Within an hour of his death, Rwanda’s propagandist Albert Rudatsimburwa went on tweeter to announce about Bihozagara’s death and the cause of death, naming assassination. I also agree that he was assassinated; the methodology used in this wicked and heinous act, points all the fingers to Kigali. RPA now RDF has been using poison as an assassination tool from the struggle times of the 90s up to now. Since being appointed in 1991 to coordinate the RPA and later becoming the president; Paul Kagame has overwhelmingly used poison to eliminate those he perceives to be his political enemies or threats to his rule. He prefers this covert assassination method as it leaves no trace, the YouTube audio message between Kagame’s number one assassin Dan Munyuza and DMI operatives in South Africa planning to eliminate the late Patrick Karegeya by use of poison, attest at how Kigali’s intelligence service regard highly this method.

This assassination has the whole mark of Rwanda’s DMI, especially at this time when J2 is under the interim leadership of Dan Munyuza.

On the other hand, when you analyse at deaths implicated to CNDD-FDD government, especially those committed at the time when Adolphe Nshimirimana was still the head of SNR, they were all open assassination operations i.e shootings, disappearances, stabbings etc. Poison is not a methodology used by Burundi’s intelligence services; otherwise, those noise opposition leaders in Bujumbura would have all been dead, since all of them love evening beers at Novotel, Ikindi, le jardin, Botanika, Chez Andre…etc.

Why would Burundi assassinate through poison, a Rwandan man who was living a struggling life with next to no communication to Rwanda, yet it has abundant of putschists in its prisons. Why not start with those ones, people like Lt Gen Cyrille Ndayirukiye or Gen Zenon Ndabaneze. All this shows at how Burundi was not behind Ambassador Bihozagara’s death, they had no single motives especially at the time when the CNDD-FDD government is fighting with imaging Burundi, as a peaceful country and their government adhering to human rights. It’s a government under enormous external pressure; they totally wouldn’t want extra scrutiny especially from donor countries.

R.I.P Ambassador Bihozagara, you were a great and totally a kind man.
source: glpost.com

 

[mchambawima1]

Interahamwe hamna haibu! huyu marehemu si alikamatwa kwa tuhuma za ujasusi? Burundi walimkamata kwa kumtuhumu kwamba katumwa na Kagame sasa imegeuka na kuwa Kagame ndiye aliyekuwa akimsaka kusudi amuuwe? waliyoielewa hii habari naomba nifafanuliwe zaidi

 

[jMali]

Interahamwe hamna haibu! huyu marehemu si alikamatwa kwa tuhuma za ujasusi? Burundi walimkamata kwa kumtuhumu kwamba katumwa na Kagame sasa imegeuka na kuwa Kagame ndiye aliyekuwa akimsaka kusudi amuuwe? waliyoielewa hii habari naomba nifafanuliwe zaidi

Kila kitu kimeelezwa hapo. Katoroka kwenu miaka zaidi ya sita na habari inasema:
"When he was in Burundi, he tried on several occasion to apply for Rwandan passport through Burundian embassy, in all cases, his applications where turned down through different technicalities." Hapo huelewi nini sasa?

 

[mchambawima1]

Kila kitu kimeelezwa hapo. Katoroka kwenu miaka zaidi ya sita na habari inasema:
"When he was in Burundi, he tried on several occasion to apply for Rwandan passport through Burundian embassy, in all cases, his applications where turned down through different technicalities." Hapo huelewi nini sasa?

lol... kwani kesi yake ilikuwa ni ya uhamiaji haramu au ujasusi?

 

[jMali]

lol... kwani kesi yake ilikuwa ni ya uhamiaji haramu au ujasusi?

Elezea kwanza kwa nini a former ambassador ahamie nchi za watu kiharamu, alikimbia nini huko Rwanda? Na kwa nini Rwanda haikutaka kumpa passport kwa miaka 6 yote aliyokuwa anahifadhiwa Burundi?

 

[mchambawima1]

Elezea kwanza kwa nini a former ambassador ahamie nchi za watu kiharamu, alikimbia nini huko Rwanda? Na kwa nini Rwanda haikutaka kumpa passport kwa miaka 6 yote aliyokuwa anahifadhiwa Burundi?

labda wewe ungeanza kwa kuniambia kesi iligeuka lini? kutoka kwenye ujasusi kugeuka uhamiaji haramu hadi kupelekea kunyongwa!

 

[jMali]

labda wewe ungeanza kwa kuniambia kesi iligeuka lini? kutoka kwenye ujasusi kugeuka uhamiaji haramu hadi kupelekea kunyongwa!

Alianza kukimbia Rwanda kwanza, na kunyimwa passport ya nchi yake kwanza kabla hajafa. Hivyo ni wewe ndio unatakiwa uanze kwanza.
Pili, alihojiwa akaachiwa, walipotaka kumrudisha Rwanda alikataa na kuomba mwenyewe kwa ridhaa yake kubaki selo Burundi rather than returning to Rwanda! Hivi kwa nini mtu aogope kiasi hiki ndugu mchambawima?

 

[mchambawima1]

Alianza kukimbia Rwanda kwanza, na kunyimwa passport ya nchi yake kwanza kabla hajafa. Hivyo ni wewe ndio unatakiwa uanze kwanza.
Pili, alihojiwa akaachiwa, walipotaka kumrudisha Rwanda alikataa na kuomba mwenyewe kwa ridhaa yake kubaki selo Burundi rather than returning to Rwanda! Hivi kwa nini mtu aogope kiasi hiki ndugu mchambawima?

wewe ndio unatakiwa uniambie, iweje mtu aogope Rwanda kiasi hicho alafu akimbilie Burundi... hebu acha utani!

 

[vyuma]

vyuma vipi nasikia kuna report zimeanza kuingia eti wale FDLR mlioingiza Burundi kumlinda Nkurumbi na kuwasaidia kupambana na raia wenu wameanza kuwareplace X-FAB(jeshi la Burundi lililowakalibisha madarakani) kushika doria, kusudi wazuie raia kukimbia...
"FDLR Brigade Mwumba patrolling roads Ngozi-Mwumba-Busiga-Kanyaru bas 600 FDLR in Hayiro light artillery mortar tubes"

Si umesema magaidi wa fdlr wamevamia kituo cha polisi Rwanda?Tayari leo wapo wanapiga doria Burundi baada ya kutoka Rwanda kuvamia vituo ? Aisee, wewe ni kiboko kwa uongo.

 

[vyuma]

Kwa unafiki tu Rwanda imeshindikana, mtu mwenyewe alikuwa anaishi Burundi kama mkimbizi haramu akimkimbia Kagame, leo kafa jamaa wanalia utadhani walikuwa wanampenda! Yani kama Nyamwasa afe halafu Rwanda wajifanye kubweka! cc: vyuma

What’s the legal or moral ground for Rwanda to seek explanation from Burundi over Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s death from Burundi?

April 1, 2016 03:33 Great lakes
Tweet
Mr. Jacques Bihozagara died from Burundi. Bihozaga was one of the key people during the war that brought Kagame junta into power. Mr. Jacques Bihozagara served Kagame junta, in different capacities, until he fled Rwanda for Burundi where he lived until he died, yesterday.

When violence started in Burundi, Mr. Bihozagara was arrested allegedly on suspicion that he was spying for Kigali. Burundi appears to have discovered later that the former Rwandan diplomat was in Burundi for his life, running away from Kigali junta. However, Mr. Bihozagara and the gov of Burundi are said to have agreed that no place in Burundi or in any neighboring country would be safe for Bihozagara if he was released. Since then, it’s believed that the gov of Burundi started looking for a third country where Bihozagara would be safe from Kagame’s assassins.

Unfortunately, Bihozagara died, under suspicious circumstances, before any third country could receive him. There is rumor that he was poisoned. Although there is no official postmortem report about the cause of his death, there are two major ” theories” on the source of who poisoned .

(a) That Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s friends who used to bring him food from outside prison poisoned his food and/or beverages. Proponents of this view say that Kagame junta was behind the poisoning, and

(b) that Mr. Jacques Bihozagara was poisoned by the gov of Burundi.

If it be true that Bihozagara was poisoned, there are very many an answered questions.

(1) Between Kagame junta and Burundi had interest in eliminating this Rwandan refugee who has been living in Burundi for the past five or so years?

(2) Why was Kagame junta the first one to break the news of Bihozagara death and cause of his death, before any gov of Burundi official knew that Bihozagara had died?

(3) Why would Rwanda be up in arms, so fast in a hype mood , with Burundi gov over Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s death yet the deceased fled Kagame junta persecution?

(4) Why did Bihozagara’s mysterious death occur at the time the gov of Burundi was allegedly looking for a third country to receive Mr. Jacques Bihozagara?



Rwanda’s foreign Minister has announced that the gov of Rwanda needs an explanation from Burundi gov over Mr. Bihozagara’s death. Under the International Convention for the Protection of Refugees, the country of origin looses its rights over its citizen to the country of refuge. Where a person is in a country illegally, neither the person’s country of origin nor the country where that person lives illegally has full control over that person. Whether Mr. Jacques was a refugee – or an illegal immigrant – in Burundi, at the time of Mr. Jacques Bihozagara death Randa had not right over him. Consequently, Burundi gov owes no duty – legal or otherwise – to Rwanda to explain Bihozagara’s death and Rwanda has no right to request such explanation from Burundi gov. It would have been different if, at his death, Bihozagara was a citizen of Rwanda on a visit or official duty in Burundi

Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s immigration status withstanding, the fact that he died from Burundi under mysterious circumstances, Burundi gov has a legal and moral duty to investigate the cause Mr. Jacques Bihozagara death. If Mr. Jacques Bihozagara’s death was cause by anybody or a group thereof, the culprit should be brought to book.

By Dr Charles Kambanda

jMali,thank you very much for the full detailed explanations.

 

[vyuma]

Rwanda ni kama mwizi anayepora halafu yeye ndio anawahi kupiga kelele za mwizi dhidi ya aliyeibiwa, watu wenye mihemuko wakija fasta wanadhani Rwanda ndio kaibiwa..ila bahati nzuri ukweli hujulikana tu.

Rwanda: Another Son of the revolution – Muzehe Jacques Bihozagara, Being Assassinated by the same vampire.
April 2, 2016 Rwanda

On the 30th March 2016, in my social media post, I noted that I wouldn’t comment about Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara’s death without facts. Since Facebook is not under the protectorate of Kagame’s regime, I therefore have the right to air my analysis on the death of a public figure. As I post my analysis, Jacques Bihozagara’s son in law, who is a white Canadian, has written to president Nkurunziza demanding for the repatriation of his body back to Rwanda. I would like to inform readers that none of his relatives’ i.e brother or sister who lives in Belgium and France respectively has written to the Burundian authority demanding for such repatriation, before an exclusive investigation is done by the Burundian government. What I ought to point out is that, Ambassador Bihozagara’s family are under enormous pressure by the criminal regime in Kigali to ask/demand Burundi to repatriate Bihozagara’s remains.

On this day, as Ugandans were waiting for judgement of the election petition. In Tanzania, the president was announcing on how he is going to reduce senior civil servants, in South Africa a corruption judgement being passed against President Jacob Zuma, in Angola new social housing being unveiled for the poor city dwellers of Luanda, in Senegal President Macky Sall holding emergency meetings with stakeholders on youth unemployment, different part of Africa it was a day of hype political, social and economic activities. In the land of thousand hills – Rwanda, it was as usual, a day when the ruler at Village Urugwiro was waiting the outcome of Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara’s assassination.

All quarters agree that, Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara was assassinated. In any assassination, there is a motive – beneficiaries. Between the two protagonists, Burundi and Rwanda, who was to benefit from Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara’s death? Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara was in a Burundian prison, therefore, the onus and responsibility was under Burundi’s authority to protect him.

Reminder:
Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara relocated to Burundi after years of being frustrated and harassed by the regime in Kigali. For example, in 2003, he had got a work contract with GTZ, a contract that was annulled/cancelled only after three days due to regime’s interference. I will not indulge on the pain and hard life of humiliation which he was subjected through, by the Kigali regime. An intelligent old man was reduced into a life of a pauper; the only crime committed was served diligently President Pasteur Bizimungu, and being a good friend to Pasteur Bizimungu. In 2000, through a putsch, after becoming a president, Dictator Paul Kagame went on a witch-hunt against Pasteur Bizimungu and his close allies/friends, thus, sending them into the fringes of the Rwandan society. I will not touch on the role of Jeannette Kagame in the marital well affairs of the just assassinated ex diplomat – minister; as I consider this subject to be private matters.

TIME LINE: I will start from the time he was arrested in Bujumbura on the 4th December 2015.

4TH December 2015: Arrested at around 10:00 by members of Service National de Renseignment (National Intelligence services), who took Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara in a white double cabin pickup to their tactical head Office in Rohero 2, Bujumbura. While other individuals arrested by SNR are always given some beatings after the actual arrest, on case of Ambassador Bihozagara, the information I have obtained is that, he was not touched/beaten or put in hand caff during his arrest or transferring. At SNR offices, he was questioned, and the nature of questioning was based on particular individuals who used to visit him.

These are people from Rwanda, who used to visit him and they would stay at his house while they are in Burundi. Two were related to Bihozagara and another, a relative to his ex-wife. All these individuals were ex-soldiers but demobilised from RPA/RDF in 2000 – names of these individuals are withheld at the request of those who gave me the info, due to ongoing investigation.

The names of these individuals had been mentioned by insurgents who had been arrested in earlier security operations. After the failed 13th of May Coup d’état in Burundi, armed insurgents raised in Burundi particularly in Bujumbura. In the proceeding crackdown against insurgents, some of those arrested named those individuals who used to visit Ambassador Bihozagara’s house as their handlers. Ambassador Jacques Bihozaga was arrested after starches of weapons were found on a house located in Kinindo.

On 7th December 2016: After vigorous interrogation, ambassador Bihozagara was transferred to Mpimba prison. This was done after being given an option of deportation back to Rwanda; an option which he refused, opting to fight and clear his name in the courts of law.

Before Christmas: After further investigation by SNR and finding out that he was innocent, the Burundian authority released him; an option which he also refused citing that he won’t be safe anywhere in Burundi, thus, proposing to the Burundian authority for a relocation outside the region; a proposal which the Burundian authority agreed. I have verified this point with four different sources.

His Immigration status: Around six years ago when Ambassador Jacques Bihozagara relocated to Burundi, he had entered the Country with a Laissez-Passer (travel pass). In Burundi he was an over stayer, exceeding the legal limits which allowed him to live in Burundi. In other words, he was an illegal immigrant in Burundi. When he was in Burundi, he tried on several occasion to apply for Rwandan passport through Burundian embassy, in all cases, his applications where turned down through different technicalities.

His relocation application: Bihozagara’s relocation to a 3rd Country was slow mainly because he was not living in Burundi as a refugee. Also not having a proper travel document, in this case a passport; was a hindrance in finding for him quickly a country of relocation.

Why assassinated now: The issue of relocation was the likely cause of his assassination. The Burundian Authority was on the final negation touches with South Africa in regard to Ambassador Bihozagara’s relocation to South Africa. This information may have been leaked to Rwanda’s intelligence services and its supreme leader, Paul Kagame. And this may have triggered the eventual assassination of Ambassador Bihozagara, at the orders of Paul Kagame. To Kagame, South Africa means Rujugiro Tribert, Kayumba Nyamwasa and RNC. Ambassador Bihozagara was a good friend to Rujugiro since their days in Burundi, while still in government he had a good working relationship with Kayumba Nyamwasa. With all this in mind, Kagame would never allow these amigos to re-unite in South Africa, as this would have been a psychological boost to his opponents.

On the fateful day: On the fateful day, he woke up complaining of stomach pain and serious heartburn. By mid-day, he was complaining of serious stomach burning and diarrhoea. This is when he decided to visit a prison doctor for a medical check; it was at this point that he started vomiting blood and saliva foamy coming from his mouth. All the information indicate to have been declared dead after 15:00 hours Burundi time.

Methods of assassination: Within an hour of his death, Rwanda’s propagandist Albert Rudatsimburwa went on tweeter to announce about Bihozagara’s death and the cause of death, naming assassination. I also agree that he was assassinated; the methodology used in this wicked and heinous act, points all the fingers to Kigali. RPA now RDF has been using poison as an assassination tool from the struggle times of the 90s up to now. Since being appointed in 1991 to coordinate the RPA and later becoming the president; Paul Kagame has overwhelmingly used poison to eliminate those he perceives to be his political enemies or threats to his rule. He prefers this covert assassination method as it leaves no trace, the YouTube audio message between Kagame’s number one assassin Dan Munyuza and DMI operatives in South Africa planning to eliminate the late Patrick Karegeya by use of poison, attest at how Kigali’s intelligence service regard highly this method.

This assassination has the whole mark of Rwanda’s DMI, especially at this time when J2 is under the interim leadership of Dan Munyuza.

On the other hand, when you analyse at deaths implicated to CNDD-FDD government, especially those committed at the time when Adolphe Nshimirimana was still the head of SNR, they were all open assassination operations i.e shootings, disappearances, stabbings etc. Poison is not a methodology used by Burundi’s intelligence services; otherwise, those noise opposition leaders in Bujumbura would have all been dead, since all of them love evening beers at Novotel, Ikindi, le jardin, Botanika, Chez Andre…etc.

Why would Burundi assassinate through poison, a Rwandan man who was living a struggling life with next to no communication to Rwanda, yet it has abundant of putschists in its prisons. Why not start with those ones, people like Lt Gen Cyrille Ndayirukiye or Gen Zenon Ndabaneze. All this shows at how Burundi was not behind Ambassador Bihozagara’s death, they had no single motives especially at the time when the CNDD-FDD government is fighting with imaging Burundi, as a peaceful country and their government adhering to human rights. It’s a government under enormous external pressure; they totally wouldn’t want extra scrutiny especially from donor countries.

R.I.P Ambassador Bihozagara, you were a great and totally a kind man.
source: glpost.com

Nimeshawahi kumuuliza mchambawima1 kwamba, kwa nini mtu akiuawa iwe Burundi au Rwanda anakuwa wa kwanza kufahamu na kurusha mitandaoni ? Kuna nini kumuhusu huyu mtu ? Mimi nahisi yeye ndio anaetekeleza haya mauaji au mabaya yoyote yanayotokea.

 

[Consigliere]

Alianza kukimbia Rwanda kwanza, na kunyimwa passport ya nchi yake kwanza kabla hajafa. Hivyo ni wewe ndio unatakiwa uanze kwanza.
Pili, alihojiwa akaachiwa, walipotaka kumrudisha Rwanda alikataa na kuomba mwenyewe kwa ridhaa yake kubaki selo Burundi rather than returning to Rwanda! Hivi kwa nini mtu aogope kiasi hiki ndugu mchambawima?

Maelezo yako yapo contrary na maelezo ya serikalibya Burundi kuhusu kumkamata kwake. Haya ya kwako yametolewa lini mkuu!?

 

[mchambawima1]

Nimeshawahi kumuuliza mchambawima1 kwamba, kwa nini mtu akiuawa iwe Burundi au Rwanda anakuwa wa kwanza kufahamu na kurusha mitandaoni ? Kuna nini kumuhusu huyu mtu ? Mimi nahisi yeye ndio anaetekeleza haya mauaji au mabaya yoyote yanayotokea.

ushaanza kudata! social media my friend! no more hidings mkuu... arobaini ikifika tutakupa kioo ujitazame... lol!!!

 

[mchambawima1]

Maelezo yako yapo contrary na maelezo ya serikalibya Burundi kuhusu kumkamata kwake. Haya ya kwako yametolewa lini mkuu!?

hapo sasa mkuu! ndio ujue jMali katumwa au anataka kuleta visasi visivyo na sababu! deceased Jacques Bihozagara was kept incommunicado util his death, vyuma ndugu yako, mambo ya Burundi yameanza kum'hadhirisha! ASANTE kwa kuliona hilo Consigliere !

 

[Sethshalom]

hapo sasa mkuu! ndio ujue jMali katumwa au anataka kuleta visasi visivyo na sababu! deceased Jacques Bihozagara was kept incommunicado util his death, vyuma ndugu yako, mambo ya Burundi yameanza kum'hadhirisha! ASANTE kwa kuliona hilo Consigliere !

This is one of the diplomatic mistakes that the gangs on power in Burundi have ever made.This will cost the diplomatically not only with the Rwandan government,but also with the entire international community.You can not just kill someone as as you want ,whether he was poisoned by someone else's food ,it was the responsibility for Burundi to protect that person in their prison.So the full responsibility of the death falls fully on Burundi govt.Let those who are amusing themselves to keep on defending the reckless government ran by a tyrannic group of gangs

 

[vyuma]

wewe ndio unatakiwa uniambie, iweje mtu aogope Rwanda kiasi hicho alafu akimbilie Burundi... hebu acha utani!

Rwanda si salama ! Rwanda chini ya dikteta Paulo Kagame (paka) haina raha wala amani. Ukifika Rwanda 80% of tutsi ni mashushushu. Wao wenyewe hawaaminiani. Washirika wote wa paka ama amewaua, kawafungia gerezani au wamekimbia nchi. Asilimia kubwa ya washirika wake ameshakosana nao, hata walinzi wake wanamkimbia. Aliweza kumuua Rwigema, founder wa RPF/RPA sembuse bihozagara? Mimi mwenyewe niliamini kuwa alikuwa spy, juzi nimetoka Kigali ndio nikapewa full information kuhusu kifo chake. Anayoyasema jMali ni sahihi kabisa,.

 

[jMali]

Maelezo yako yapo contrary na maelezo ya serikalibya Burundi kuhusu kumkamata kwake. Haya ya kwako yametolewa lini mkuu!?

Maelezo ya kukamatwa kwake yako vile vile, yangu ambayo yako kinyume yanasemaje?