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na sasa kuna mwingine mpinzani haonekani,inasemekana wamemteka
Lt-General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa Shot in South Africa
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babukijana
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SOS Call : ANOTHER OPPOSITION LEADER WENT MISSING IN THE HEART OF KIGALI !
20/06/2010 kidnapped, this opponent of the Social Democratic Party still missing ..
The Centre for the Fight against Impunity and Injustice in Rwanda (CLIIR) denounces and condemns the kidnapping and disappearance of Mr. SIBOMANA Rusanganwa Aimable. ... Visa mer
Mr Aimable SIBOMANA Rusanganwa is the Private Secretary to Mr Bernard NTAGANDA, president of the Social Democratic Party IMBERAKURI (PSI) ;an opposition party whose members are routinely persecuted, jailed, driven from their job or reported missing.
It is suspected that Mr SIBOMANA was kidnapped in Kigali in Rwanda's capital since Sunday, June 20, 2010 around 20:00 . He returned home in the district of Nyamirambo in Kigali located between Electrogaz premises and buildings of the Saint Andrew College. He was from a a very important meeting in which his party was preparing for a peaceful demonstration in Kigali this Thursday, June 24, 2010. Ever since, he did get home. The PSI has applied for authorization for this demonstration. That applicatio is still unanswered to this day. The President of the Parti Social IMBERAKURI, Mr. NTAGANDA Bernard, contacted the police chief who promised to find the missing, but so far nobody seems to indicate in what part Mr. SIBOMANA would be taken to and his current condition.
Our Centre is launching a call for all organizations of human rights, to all Western governments that blindly support the regime of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, all other political parties in Rwanda and all people of goodwill to compel the Rwandan authorities to take action to return alive and healthy Mr SIBOMANA Rusanganwa Aimable, as soon as possible.
As part of making false accusations against members of the Parti Social IMBERAKURI, the home of Mrs Christine MUKABONANE, former vice-president of the party and current interim president of the dissident wing of the PSI, has been victim of a grenade attack in the night from Saturday 19/06/10 to Sunday 20/06/10 by unidentified criminals. We learn that the grenade did not cause any casualties, since it was launched in a room where there was nobody in the attack. Recall that Christine Mukabonane was forced by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) to destroy his party in order to oust the president and founder, Mr. Bernard NTAGANDA. This operation has not succeeded because the PSI members are committed to protecting their party offices and managed to prevent many expeditions launched by the RPF force to install the dissident wing in the PSI legal offices .
Background:
The CLIIR recalls that followed the abduction followed by disappearances are common currency in Rwanda. In most cases, those abducted and missing for several days were found in dungeons and other places of secret detention of Rwandan police or DMI (Directorate of Military Intelligence).
Others have disappeared without trace as the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Ruhengeri, Bishop Phocas Nikwigize, a Catholic priest kidnapped by Hutu Rwandan soldiers Nov. 30, 1996 at Rwandan-Congolese border from Goma and disappeared, up date. No investigation was conducted to find where knowing his fate. Three other Catholic bishops Hutus were murdered by soldiers of Paul Kagame, June 5, 1994 at Gakurazo not far from the diocese of Kabgayi in Gitarama (Muhanga District).
Several people were arrested and went missing in many police raids carried out in the capital Kigali since 1996, after the forced repatriation of Hutu refugees who escaped the massacres committed by the troops of General Paul Kagame in the former Zaire, now Republic Congo (DRC). Indeed thousands of professors, teachers, agronomists, doctors, former officials and former administrators have been imprisoned since July 1994 and not for crimes they allegedly committed, but because they were born Hutus.
This is the case of Dr. Lawrence RUBONEZA who was taken to Kigali on 16 November 2008 in the morning and went missing for several weeks before appearing in a military prison on 06/12/2008. He remains in jail after numerous false accusations.
Recommendations:
The Center strongly recommends:
- That the Rwandan authorities are actively seeking Mr. SIBOMANA Rusanganwa Amiable
- That the Rwandan authorities and particularly the Head of State, General Paul Kagame, immediately cease all harassment and persecution directed against members and the founding chair of the Social Democratic Party IMBERAKURI.
- That the ruling party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ceases all strategies to divide the PSI and other political parties claiming the democratic opposition.
- That the people of Rwanda resist any campaign of manipulation, intimidation and state terrorism.
-That all Rwandans stand together to resist the oppression of a ruthless dictatorship that oppresses the destabilizing, impoverish and starve by incessant extortion of money under various pretexts.
For the Centre, MATATA Joseph, Coordinator.
CLIIR *: The Centre for the Fight against Impunity and Injustice in Rwanda is an association of human rights based in Belgium, created August 18, 1995. Its members are human rights activists long. Some have been active in associations Rwandan human rights and participated in the survey CLADHO / Kanyarwanda the 1994 genocide. When they began to investigate the crimes of the current Rwandan regime, they were threatened and were forced into exile abroad, where they continue their commitment to human rights.
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20/06/2010 kidnapped, this opponent of the Social Democratic Party still missing ..
The Centre for the Fight against Impunity and Injustice in Rwanda (CLIIR) denounces and condemns the kidnapping and disappearance of Mr. SIBOMANA Rusanganwa Aimable. ... Visa mer
Mr Aimable SIBOMANA Rusanganwa is the Private Secretary to Mr Bernard NTAGANDA, president of the Social Democratic Party IMBERAKURI (PSI) ;an opposition party whose members are routinely persecuted, jailed, driven from their job or reported missing.
It is suspected that Mr SIBOMANA was kidnapped in Kigali in Rwanda's capital since Sunday, June 20, 2010 around 20:00 . He returned home in the district of Nyamirambo in Kigali located between Electrogaz premises and buildings of the Saint Andrew College. He was from a a very important meeting in which his party was preparing for a peaceful demonstration in Kigali this Thursday, June 24, 2010. Ever since, he did get home. The PSI has applied for authorization for this demonstration. That applicatio is still unanswered to this day. The President of the Parti Social IMBERAKURI, Mr. NTAGANDA Bernard, contacted the police chief who promised to find the missing, but so far nobody seems to indicate in what part Mr. SIBOMANA would be taken to and his current condition.
Our Centre is launching a call for all organizations of human rights, to all Western governments that blindly support the regime of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, all other political parties in Rwanda and all people of goodwill to compel the Rwandan authorities to take action to return alive and healthy Mr SIBOMANA Rusanganwa Aimable, as soon as possible.
As part of making false accusations against members of the Parti Social IMBERAKURI, the home of Mrs Christine MUKABONANE, former vice-president of the party and current interim president of the dissident wing of the PSI, has been victim of a grenade attack in the night from Saturday 19/06/10 to Sunday 20/06/10 by unidentified criminals. We learn that the grenade did not cause any casualties, since it was launched in a room where there was nobody in the attack. Recall that Christine Mukabonane was forced by the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) to destroy his party in order to oust the president and founder, Mr. Bernard NTAGANDA. This operation has not succeeded because the PSI members are committed to protecting their party offices and managed to prevent many expeditions launched by the RPF force to install the dissident wing in the PSI legal offices .
Background:
The CLIIR recalls that followed the abduction followed by disappearances are common currency in Rwanda. In most cases, those abducted and missing for several days were found in dungeons and other places of secret detention of Rwandan police or DMI (Directorate of Military Intelligence).
Others have disappeared without trace as the Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Ruhengeri, Bishop Phocas Nikwigize, a Catholic priest kidnapped by Hutu Rwandan soldiers Nov. 30, 1996 at Rwandan-Congolese border from Goma and disappeared, up date. No investigation was conducted to find where knowing his fate. Three other Catholic bishops Hutus were murdered by soldiers of Paul Kagame, June 5, 1994 at Gakurazo not far from the diocese of Kabgayi in Gitarama (Muhanga District).
Several people were arrested and went missing in many police raids carried out in the capital Kigali since 1996, after the forced repatriation of Hutu refugees who escaped the massacres committed by the troops of General Paul Kagame in the former Zaire, now Republic Congo (DRC). Indeed thousands of professors, teachers, agronomists, doctors, former officials and former administrators have been imprisoned since July 1994 and not for crimes they allegedly committed, but because they were born Hutus.
This is the case of Dr. Lawrence RUBONEZA who was taken to Kigali on 16 November 2008 in the morning and went missing for several weeks before appearing in a military prison on 06/12/2008. He remains in jail after numerous false accusations.
Recommendations:
The Center strongly recommends:
- That the Rwandan authorities are actively seeking Mr. SIBOMANA Rusanganwa Amiable
- That the Rwandan authorities and particularly the Head of State, General Paul Kagame, immediately cease all harassment and persecution directed against members and the founding chair of the Social Democratic Party IMBERAKURI.
- That the ruling party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, ceases all strategies to divide the PSI and other political parties claiming the democratic opposition.
- That the people of Rwanda resist any campaign of manipulation, intimidation and state terrorism.
-That all Rwandans stand together to resist the oppression of a ruthless dictatorship that oppresses the destabilizing, impoverish and starve by incessant extortion of money under various pretexts.
For the Centre, MATATA Joseph, Coordinator.
CLIIR *: The Centre for the Fight against Impunity and Injustice in Rwanda is an association of human rights based in Belgium, created August 18, 1995. Its members are human rights activists long. Some have been active in associations Rwandan human rights and participated in the survey CLADHO / Kanyarwanda the 1994 genocide. When they began to investigate the crimes of the current Rwandan regime, they were threatened and were forced into exile abroad, where they continue their commitment to human rights.
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Rais Kagame ni aina ya marais wengi Afrika wasiopenda kukosolewa na hii ni sababu kubwa nchi nyingi za Afrika haziwezi kuendelea.Naanza kupata mashaka makubwa na hili dude EAC kama itaweza kutuletea mafanikio ya maana au ikawa ni kichaka cha madikteta
..naona uko in full throated tirade against kagame sasa,seems uko kazini like malaria sugu,and never seen any African President discussed this much like Kagame (in JF)...he must be doing something exceptional,keep up the good job Kagame Africa inahitaji viongozi kama wewe sio blah blah na mawazo ya kimaskini.
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now you happy haah?because you have been profited from the guy maybe,but when witchhunt facing you usije kulalamika hapa,theres so much cases waiting for people like you in your home land myfriend wake up,dnt think if your living abroad then your safe,it will come your turn,then ndio utaelewa tunaongea nini,i like rwandese as my people,but for now im just happy im not rwandese.
babukijana
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and for your information im verry impressed in other side of kagame,i realy appreciate his work in rwanda,he could do better than what hes doing now,nadhani labda hana washauri wazuri,by the way,remember washauri wake ni westeners!!!!!!!,do you remember mshauri wa idd amin alikua bob astles??from uk.
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Kinachofanya Kagame azungumzwe sana nadhani ni kwa sababu ya Unafiki wake: anjifanya mtu wa aina hii kumbe ni mtu namna ile, hiyo ndiyo inayosababisha azungumzwe kusudi afahamike vizuri. kama angekuwa nafahamaika vizuri asingezungumzwa sana. Inawezekana kuna maraisi wengine wabaya zaidi ya Kagame, lakini wao wanajulikana wazi kabisa tabia zao ndiyo maana hata hawazungumzwi. Katika listi madikteta wakubwa 24 wa mwaka 2010 duniani, Kagame yumo. Ukitaka nitakuvutia list kamili, wengi wao wako Afrika.
General Nyamwasa shooting suspects: Prosecutors said the accused were from Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique, AP news agency reports.
Four men have appeared in court in South Africa accused of the attempted murder of former Rwandan army chief of staff Lt Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa.
Prosecutors said the accused were from Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique, AP news agency reports.
The case has been postponed until next month so their legal status in the country can be confirmed.
Lt Gen Nyamwasa, who was shot in the stomach earlier this month in Johannesburg, is said to be recovering.
Rwanda has denied accusations it tried to assassinate Lt Gen Nyamwasa, a former ally of Rwandan President Paul Kagame who fled to South Africa earlier this year.
According to the South Africa Press Association, it was established in court that the defendants had previous convictions related to possession of stolen goods.
Last week, South Africa police dropped attempted murder charges against two other people arrested after the shooting.
Source:New Vision Online : Rwanda Nyamwasa shooting suspects appear in SA court tuesday 29/06/2010
Prosecutors said Tuesday that the four men arrested are from Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique but refused to say how long the suspects have been in South Africa.
Court records identified the four suspects as Juma Huseni, a 35-year-old Tanzanian, Ahmed Ali, a 26-year-old Somali, George Francis, a 31-year-old Mozambican and Shafiri Bakari, a 30-year-old Tanzanian. Three of the suspects said they have asylum status.
Police spokesman, Govindsamy Mariemuthoo refused to disclose a possible motive until the suspects make their next appearance in court.4 suspects in Rwandan general shooting in court - Boston.com
Four men have appeared in court in South Africa accused of the attempted murder of former Rwandan army chief of staff Lt Gen Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa.
Prosecutors said the accused were from Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique, AP news agency reports.
The case has been postponed until next month so their legal status in the country can be confirmed.
Lt Gen Nyamwasa, who was shot in the stomach earlier this month in Johannesburg, is said to be recovering.
Rwanda has denied accusations it tried to assassinate Lt Gen Nyamwasa, a former ally of Rwandan President Paul Kagame who fled to South Africa earlier this year.
According to the South Africa Press Association, it was established in court that the defendants had previous convictions related to possession of stolen goods.
Last week, South Africa police dropped attempted murder charges against two other people arrested after the shooting.
Source:New Vision Online : Rwanda Nyamwasa shooting suspects appear in SA court tuesday 29/06/2010
Prosecutors said Tuesday that the four men arrested are from Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique but refused to say how long the suspects have been in South Africa.
Court records identified the four suspects as Juma Huseni, a 35-year-old Tanzanian, Ahmed Ali, a 26-year-old Somali, George Francis, a 31-year-old Mozambican and Shafiri Bakari, a 30-year-old Tanzanian. Three of the suspects said they have asylum status.
Police spokesman, Govindsamy Mariemuthoo refused to disclose a possible motive until the suspects make their next appearance in court.4 suspects in Rwandan general shooting in court - Boston.com
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This investigation is about to get murky especially with the citizesnhip of these individuals being called into question
Yuko wapi Balozi wa Bongo akanushe haya madai ama aseme ni kweli. Na iwapo jamaa ni wabongo, what was their motive?
Kazi ipo hapa sasa!
This is very interesting. Umdhaniae ndie sie. Very interesting!!! Where is my friend Babu Kijana!!! I know when there is any negative news on Kagame you happen to be online..coincidentally...interesting that when we get these breaking news....you are nowhere to be seen...nisaidieni jamani....remember in my comments earlier....I had said that jinsi navyoijua south africa, ujambazi mwingi na vitendo vya kikatili..it more likely that this was a botched up robbery than an attack from Kagame!! I said the guy might be stupid but he is not that stupid!....sasa ndugu zetu ndio wanatutia aibu....hivi kweli hii ndio kazi walioenda kufanya kule sauzi?...its a shame
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danganya toto kula kande bichi,hata yule mwandishi aliyeuliwa wamekamatwa suspect wawili na wame-confess wamemuua mwandishi kulipa kisasi,umefurahi eeh??haya na sasa mmelianzisha kasheshe na uganda
....tatizo lako wewe kila kitu kibaya unataka kumuanganisha Kagame,sasa kumbe jamaa kauliwa na watu wanaofikiri aliua ndugu zao,sasa hapo Kagame au serikali wanahusika vipi? maana ndio ulitaka tuamini hivyo,na hata kule south ambako ulikuja full force kumshutumu kagame kumbe inaonekana ni vibaka tuu wanaotaka kumaliza njaa zao,huna jipya wewe kazi yako ni propaganda tuu za ant kagame,the guy is doin a fine job in Rwanda na usifikiri ile ni serikali ya Iddi Amini,theres law and order there bro.
babukijana
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ok bado zamu yako,kesi yako inaandaliwa kule.
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Kuna mwandishI mmoja Daniel Kalinaki wa Uganda aliyeko huko Afrika Kusini aliwahi kuandika makala ndefu juu ya kuuawa kwa Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa. Hivi karibuni ameandika tena makala chambuzi juu ya mauaji hayo:
analysis by Daniel Kalinaki of Uganda 27 June 2010
At 3pm on Saturday June 19, the Director General of National Security Services in Rwanda, Dr Emmanuel Ndahiro, was in a meeting with international visitors when he received a text message. According to sources in Kigali, the message was that Belgian intelligence had reported that former Rwandan High Commissioner to India, Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa had been shot in South Africa. Ndahiro stepped out of his meeting.
He called the person who had sent him the text message to establish the reliability of the information. He also made more telephone calls all of which confirmed that Kayumba had been shot. He then called President Paul Kagame and gave him the information. Sources at State House Kigali say Kagame remained calm, exhibiting little emotion. He wanted to know what actually had happened, who was involved and was Kayumba dead or alive?
Kayumba's wife, Rosette Nyamwasa, told BBC that they were from shopping at about midday when a gunman approached their car at the gate of their home in Johannesburg.
"[The gunman] spoke to my driver, but he wanted space to be able to shoot my husband," Rosette Nyamwasa told BBC.
"Then when my husband bent, he shot. And fortunately, it went into the stomach and not in the head.
She added that Kagame wanted her husband dead.
"[Mr Kagame] said it in parliament that he will actually kill my husband, that wherever he is he will follow him and kill him," she said.
Kayumba's friend, Patrick Karegyeya, who is also in South Africa, was also in no doubt about who must have done it. A former director of Rwanda's external security, Karegyeya claimed it was Kagame who personally ordered the shooting. "Who else would do that," he texted a friend who was asking, "No doubt it is his (Kagame's) orders."
Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said in a statement that Kagame's government "does not condone violence" and said she trusted South Africa to investigate the shooting thoroughly.
Even without the Karegyeya and Rosette Nyamwasa accusations, the shooting of Kayumba, regardless of who did it, was going to suck in the government of Rwanda.
According to Charles Onyango-Obbo, the managing editor for convergence and new products at the Nation Media Group in Kenya, "If the hand of the Kigali government in the attempted assassination of Gen. Kayumba is proved, it could seriously damage President Kagame's standing and complete Kigali's relationship with one of its most important allies in Africa - South Africa. But if no smoking gun is found, Kigali will probably weather the storm. It is a fairly thick-skinned government."
According to Onyango Obbo, who is a leading analyst on regional politics, the shooting of Kayumba and the view of him as a leading critic of Kagame, points to how the men in uniform tend to dominate the politics of African countries where governments came to power through coups or armed rebellion. It is one reason why, when there is regime change in these countries, power tends to fall back in the hands of soldier men, who then do little to change the state of their countries. In fact, often, the economy deteriorates.
"It also fits into the pattern where circumstances of violence usually surround the politics of soldier-politicians. Take the case of Jonas Savimbi in Angola, Tongo Ngara in Zimbabwe, Charles Taylor in Liberia, etc. Kayumba, as a senior and experienced soldier, should have been aware of the risks he will continue to face," says Onyango-Obbo.
As soon as the news came out that Kayumba had been shot, it was clear Rwanda was faced with a public relations disaster. Sources inside the Rwanda government say officials were initially confused on how to respond.
In such moments, it is always wise to show sympathy. But, intelligence sources in Rwanda say, there are credible intelligence reports linking Kayumba to "elements hostile to the government" including the Democratic Republic of Congo-based Hutu extremist rebel group, the FDRL. It is for this information that Kigali filed a case in the South African High Court to have Kayumba and Karegyeya extradited to Rwanda for trial.
The government in Kigali has openly accused Karegyeya and Kayumba of being behind the recent spate of grenade attacks in the country. This is one of the grounds on which their extradition is based. Kayumba and Karegyeya deny any involvement in the grenade attacks and the FDRL.
The Kigali government accuses Kayumba of terrorism. In global comparison, Kayumba and Karegyeya are terrorists like Osama Bin Laden. It is the stated policy of the US government to find Bin Laden and, if he cannot be captured alive, kill him. Therefore, the government in Kigali would not need to deny or apologise for trying to kill a terrorist.
Secondly, this is not the first time an attack on a leading political dissident from Rwanda abroad has caused fingers to be pointed at the government in Kigali. The first senior military officer who escaped from Rwanda and was later assassinated was Col. Alex Rezinde in 1996. Rezinde had joined the RPF during the struggle, having been rescued from a government prison in Gitarama in 1993. Till now, his killers have never been found.
However, the most prominent assassination in post-genocide Rwanda was of former senior RPF member and minister of interior, Seth Sendashonga. He was killed on May 16, 1998 on the street in Nairobi. He was being driven home in his wife's car when two gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles opened fire at the car killing him and his driver. Sendashonga's wife blamed the assassination on the Kigali government.
Sendashonga's assassination involved international intrigue. Sources say he was killed exactly 30 minutes after he had been in a meeting with Gen. Salim Saleh, the young brother of President Yoweri Museveni. Saleh confirmed this information. Immediately Saleh walked out of the meeting, Sendashonga left for home. He was shot on the way.
At the time, tensions between Uganda and Rwanda were high. In the maze of political and security intrigues in this region, it is difficult to know who killed Sendashonga. Some suspects were arrested, but Kenyan police found no evidence and they were released.
In fact, there had earlier been an assassination attempt on Sendashonga's life in Nairobi in February 1996. He had received a telephone call from someone who promised to give him information about an army mutiny inside the RPA (now RDF). On his way to the appointment place, he was confronted by two gunmen who shot at him using pistols. He was not seriously injured although his nephew who was with him was. According to Sendashonga's family, the minister recognised one of his assailants as his former bodyguard. The Kenya police arrested four suspects who were later released for lack of evidence.
At the time, Karegyeya was the director of Rwanda's external security while Kayumba was army chief of staff.
During Karegyeya's reign at external security, the government in Kigali was accused of kidnapping many Rwandan dissidents from Kenya, Tanzania, former Zaire and Uganda and taking them to Kigali.
If it is the government in Kigali that killed Sendashonga and Rezinde, and if these accusations of kidnap are true, then Karegyeya and Kayumba would have been the architects of or privy to the plots.
If the RPF ordered the shooting of Kayumba, the government of Rwanda must have known the costs of such action. It should have realised that everyone would suspect it. Second, the government should have realised that if proven, involvement in the shooting would dent the image of Kagame and his government among its allies - national, regional and international. Thirdly, the governments in Kigali and South Africa and their intelligence organisations have close relations. Would Kagame seek to undermine this strategic relationship with South Africa, in the name of getting at Kayumba?
Did Kayumba pose such a strong security threat to the Rwandan government?
So, did Kayumba pose such a strong and immediate security threat to Rwanda generally and Kagame personally for Kigali to want to eliminate him during such a prime period of the World Cup?
Internally, Kayumba was accused of creating factions in the army to overthrow the government. Rwanda's High Commissioner to Uganda, Maj. Gen. Frank Mugambagye, almost said this in an interview with The Independent.
But if Kayumba had any such plans, he had been outmanoeuvred and outfoxed by his rivals who sent him running to South Africa. Based in distant lands, he had no capacity to mount a coup.
Therefore, the only security threat he could pose was building an insurgent army. Is Kayumba trying to build a rebel army to fight Kagame?
Rwandan government officially and its intelligence organs privately accuse Kayumba of links with the main rebel group fighting Kagame's government - the FDRL. However, the FDRL has been at war inside Congo for a decade without making any significant gains.
The FDRL is composed largely of Hutu extremists still committed to pursuing genocide against the Tutsi. If, in the opportunistic world of politics, such unlikely allies as Kayumba and Karegyeya can find common cause with FDRL would the possibility of this alliance create such a strong and immediate threat to Rwanda so as to cause Kagame to try to kill Kayumba?
Besides, Hutu extremists loathe Kayumba (more than Karegyeya) because of some of the extreme positions he took against them during the post-genocide counter-insurgency operations.
Indeed, in a BBC interview in 1999, Kayumba said blatantly that the RPA (now RDF) was going "to finish off" the Hutu insurgents.
The most likely scenario for a Kayumba-Karegyeya armed struggle hypothesis would be a rebel organisation with a strong Tutsi content with moderate Hutu but only as auxiliaries. According to Ugandan intelligence reports, which The Independent has been following, there are pointers to such a possibility. For example, an Aug. 23, 2009 report which is reproduced here with its spelling and grammatical mistakes, says:
"Ndebuye Yves the other journalist working under cover is recruiting and the one in charge of transporting soldiers who deserted the Rwandese Defence Forces and civilians who ran away due to political matters. Among the soldiers and civilians so far taken to European countries include, Rwakampala (Capt.), Mugisha, now calls himself Mugabe John (Lt. In the Rwandese Police) Theo a former Goal Keeper APR, Sankara a former musician.
Among civilians so far my contact gives me Nkombe Eric, who used to work at Prefecture of Kigali. He is coming back in Uganda to mobilize more and according to my contacts, they have, a link which connects them from Uganda, Kenya where they have a place to stay until their papers are worked on, then they proceed by water transport to an island bordering France. From there, they are received by some a group of Rwandese who are already set there for that mission.
So far many of them have been sent to Spain and Sweden. They have got direct links with Umwami Kijyeli, Patrick Kalegyeya, Bm Habyalimana, Furuma, Sebalenzi and Pierre Rwijyema. At first this group had split but according to reliable sources, but they have made a come back and it means that, there has to be some follow up.
Ndebuye is coming to Uganda in April according to my contact to mobilize more people mostly in the western part of Uganda clandestinely. This time they are including Tutsi from Congo and Burundi who are now many in Uganda and ask you self what are they all doing in Uganda? Then lastly according to the info I gather around all this is behind Kayumba Nyamwasa, his wife, a wife to Patrick Kalegyeya and Madam Fred Rwijyema."
Some of this information is false, some inaccurate while some is speculative. However, it gives a general idea that even the government of Uganda, even when Kayumba was still High Commissioner in India, was being suspected of links with an emergent rebel group. However, would this rebel group pose a strong and immediate threat to security in Rwanda? Again the answer is - very unlikely.
Therefore, the only reason that remains for Rwanda government's role in shooting Kayumba is stupidity and an exaggerated sense of personal vendetta. The regime in Kigali would have to be dangerously reckless and unthinking, and Kagame would have to possess such an irrational desire to eliminate Kayumba for him to order his shooting in South Africa and do so during this time of the World Cup competition.
Currently, South African authorities have apprehended six people suspected of links to the assassination. By the time we went to press, available information suggested that one of the suspects is a former Rwandan army soldier who had worked previously with Kayumba. In the murky world of rebellion, intelligence, political intrigue and money, there are other possible scenarios of who could have had a strong interest to shoot Kayumba.
In a normal police investigation, Karegyeya and Kayumba's wife would be suspects. When Karegyeya escaped from Rwanda, there were hardly any news tremors that followed the event. However, when Kayumba left, he immediately became the recognised leader of the anti-Kagame forces in exile.
A senior Ugandan CID officer who declined to be quoted said "it's clear the assailant's motive was to murder Kayumba." If the assailant wanted to rob, he would have attacked the driver who was on the steering wheel or demanded material wealth from Kayumba or his wife, but he did not.
The CID officer said since one of the suspects arrested by the South African police is a Rwandan, it's critical to the investigations to establish when and how he came to the country. "This is very important. What is he doing there?" the CID officer asked. He said this would provide clues about who could be behind the plot.
The CID chief added that the guards manning the gate to Kayumba's residence, who fled the scene after the attack, should have been arrested as first suspects. The RPF has been bedevilled by allegations of rivalries. When Maj. Gen. Fred Rwigyema was killed in 1990 just upon the launch of the RPF rebellion, Majors Baingana and Bunyenyezi were accused of masterminding the death. Till now, most people believe Rwigyema's death was a result of an internal RPF power struggle.
Kayumba's dramatic escape and the news coverage it attracted immediately allowed him to emerge as the leader of anti Kagame forces in exile. This could have attracted the hostility of those already in exile who may have wanted to enjoy that leadership role, especially the moderate Hutu factions. They could therefore have a motive to kill him while knowing that the first suspect would be Kagame and his government.
The complexity of political intrigue is that it is often your allies more than your enemies that may stand to benefit from your death and therefore have a motive to kill you. If there is a rift between a president and another prominent personality and that person is killed, the president would be blamed. So the biggest loser in such an assassination would actually be the president, the main beneficiary would be his opponents. In other words, Kayumba was as much at risk with his allies as he was with his enemies.
UKITAKA MAJIBU KWA MAKALA HII, FUNGUA:
Gen. Kayumba shooting-
analysis by Daniel Kalinaki of Uganda 27 June 2010
At 3pm on Saturday June 19, the Director General of National Security Services in Rwanda, Dr Emmanuel Ndahiro, was in a meeting with international visitors when he received a text message. According to sources in Kigali, the message was that Belgian intelligence had reported that former Rwandan High Commissioner to India, Lt. Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa had been shot in South Africa. Ndahiro stepped out of his meeting.
He called the person who had sent him the text message to establish the reliability of the information. He also made more telephone calls all of which confirmed that Kayumba had been shot. He then called President Paul Kagame and gave him the information. Sources at State House Kigali say Kagame remained calm, exhibiting little emotion. He wanted to know what actually had happened, who was involved and was Kayumba dead or alive?
Kayumba's wife, Rosette Nyamwasa, told BBC that they were from shopping at about midday when a gunman approached their car at the gate of their home in Johannesburg.
"[The gunman] spoke to my driver, but he wanted space to be able to shoot my husband," Rosette Nyamwasa told BBC.
"Then when my husband bent, he shot. And fortunately, it went into the stomach and not in the head.
She added that Kagame wanted her husband dead.
"[Mr Kagame] said it in parliament that he will actually kill my husband, that wherever he is he will follow him and kill him," she said.
Kayumba's friend, Patrick Karegyeya, who is also in South Africa, was also in no doubt about who must have done it. A former director of Rwanda's external security, Karegyeya claimed it was Kagame who personally ordered the shooting. "Who else would do that," he texted a friend who was asking, "No doubt it is his (Kagame's) orders."
Rwanda's Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said in a statement that Kagame's government "does not condone violence" and said she trusted South Africa to investigate the shooting thoroughly.
Even without the Karegyeya and Rosette Nyamwasa accusations, the shooting of Kayumba, regardless of who did it, was going to suck in the government of Rwanda.
According to Charles Onyango-Obbo, the managing editor for convergence and new products at the Nation Media Group in Kenya, "If the hand of the Kigali government in the attempted assassination of Gen. Kayumba is proved, it could seriously damage President Kagame's standing and complete Kigali's relationship with one of its most important allies in Africa - South Africa. But if no smoking gun is found, Kigali will probably weather the storm. It is a fairly thick-skinned government."
According to Onyango Obbo, who is a leading analyst on regional politics, the shooting of Kayumba and the view of him as a leading critic of Kagame, points to how the men in uniform tend to dominate the politics of African countries where governments came to power through coups or armed rebellion. It is one reason why, when there is regime change in these countries, power tends to fall back in the hands of soldier men, who then do little to change the state of their countries. In fact, often, the economy deteriorates.
"It also fits into the pattern where circumstances of violence usually surround the politics of soldier-politicians. Take the case of Jonas Savimbi in Angola, Tongo Ngara in Zimbabwe, Charles Taylor in Liberia, etc. Kayumba, as a senior and experienced soldier, should have been aware of the risks he will continue to face," says Onyango-Obbo.
As soon as the news came out that Kayumba had been shot, it was clear Rwanda was faced with a public relations disaster. Sources inside the Rwanda government say officials were initially confused on how to respond.
In such moments, it is always wise to show sympathy. But, intelligence sources in Rwanda say, there are credible intelligence reports linking Kayumba to "elements hostile to the government" including the Democratic Republic of Congo-based Hutu extremist rebel group, the FDRL. It is for this information that Kigali filed a case in the South African High Court to have Kayumba and Karegyeya extradited to Rwanda for trial.
The government in Kigali has openly accused Karegyeya and Kayumba of being behind the recent spate of grenade attacks in the country. This is one of the grounds on which their extradition is based. Kayumba and Karegyeya deny any involvement in the grenade attacks and the FDRL.
The Kigali government accuses Kayumba of terrorism. In global comparison, Kayumba and Karegyeya are terrorists like Osama Bin Laden. It is the stated policy of the US government to find Bin Laden and, if he cannot be captured alive, kill him. Therefore, the government in Kigali would not need to deny or apologise for trying to kill a terrorist.
Secondly, this is not the first time an attack on a leading political dissident from Rwanda abroad has caused fingers to be pointed at the government in Kigali. The first senior military officer who escaped from Rwanda and was later assassinated was Col. Alex Rezinde in 1996. Rezinde had joined the RPF during the struggle, having been rescued from a government prison in Gitarama in 1993. Till now, his killers have never been found.
However, the most prominent assassination in post-genocide Rwanda was of former senior RPF member and minister of interior, Seth Sendashonga. He was killed on May 16, 1998 on the street in Nairobi. He was being driven home in his wife's car when two gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles opened fire at the car killing him and his driver. Sendashonga's wife blamed the assassination on the Kigali government.
Sendashonga's assassination involved international intrigue. Sources say he was killed exactly 30 minutes after he had been in a meeting with Gen. Salim Saleh, the young brother of President Yoweri Museveni. Saleh confirmed this information. Immediately Saleh walked out of the meeting, Sendashonga left for home. He was shot on the way.
At the time, tensions between Uganda and Rwanda were high. In the maze of political and security intrigues in this region, it is difficult to know who killed Sendashonga. Some suspects were arrested, but Kenyan police found no evidence and they were released.
In fact, there had earlier been an assassination attempt on Sendashonga's life in Nairobi in February 1996. He had received a telephone call from someone who promised to give him information about an army mutiny inside the RPA (now RDF). On his way to the appointment place, he was confronted by two gunmen who shot at him using pistols. He was not seriously injured although his nephew who was with him was. According to Sendashonga's family, the minister recognised one of his assailants as his former bodyguard. The Kenya police arrested four suspects who were later released for lack of evidence.
At the time, Karegyeya was the director of Rwanda's external security while Kayumba was army chief of staff.
During Karegyeya's reign at external security, the government in Kigali was accused of kidnapping many Rwandan dissidents from Kenya, Tanzania, former Zaire and Uganda and taking them to Kigali.
If it is the government in Kigali that killed Sendashonga and Rezinde, and if these accusations of kidnap are true, then Karegyeya and Kayumba would have been the architects of or privy to the plots.
If the RPF ordered the shooting of Kayumba, the government of Rwanda must have known the costs of such action. It should have realised that everyone would suspect it. Second, the government should have realised that if proven, involvement in the shooting would dent the image of Kagame and his government among its allies - national, regional and international. Thirdly, the governments in Kigali and South Africa and their intelligence organisations have close relations. Would Kagame seek to undermine this strategic relationship with South Africa, in the name of getting at Kayumba?
Did Kayumba pose such a strong security threat to the Rwandan government?
So, did Kayumba pose such a strong and immediate security threat to Rwanda generally and Kagame personally for Kigali to want to eliminate him during such a prime period of the World Cup?
Internally, Kayumba was accused of creating factions in the army to overthrow the government. Rwanda's High Commissioner to Uganda, Maj. Gen. Frank Mugambagye, almost said this in an interview with The Independent.
But if Kayumba had any such plans, he had been outmanoeuvred and outfoxed by his rivals who sent him running to South Africa. Based in distant lands, he had no capacity to mount a coup.
Therefore, the only security threat he could pose was building an insurgent army. Is Kayumba trying to build a rebel army to fight Kagame?
Rwandan government officially and its intelligence organs privately accuse Kayumba of links with the main rebel group fighting Kagame's government - the FDRL. However, the FDRL has been at war inside Congo for a decade without making any significant gains.
The FDRL is composed largely of Hutu extremists still committed to pursuing genocide against the Tutsi. If, in the opportunistic world of politics, such unlikely allies as Kayumba and Karegyeya can find common cause with FDRL would the possibility of this alliance create such a strong and immediate threat to Rwanda so as to cause Kagame to try to kill Kayumba?
Besides, Hutu extremists loathe Kayumba (more than Karegyeya) because of some of the extreme positions he took against them during the post-genocide counter-insurgency operations.
Indeed, in a BBC interview in 1999, Kayumba said blatantly that the RPA (now RDF) was going "to finish off" the Hutu insurgents.
The most likely scenario for a Kayumba-Karegyeya armed struggle hypothesis would be a rebel organisation with a strong Tutsi content with moderate Hutu but only as auxiliaries. According to Ugandan intelligence reports, which The Independent has been following, there are pointers to such a possibility. For example, an Aug. 23, 2009 report which is reproduced here with its spelling and grammatical mistakes, says:
"Ndebuye Yves the other journalist working under cover is recruiting and the one in charge of transporting soldiers who deserted the Rwandese Defence Forces and civilians who ran away due to political matters. Among the soldiers and civilians so far taken to European countries include, Rwakampala (Capt.), Mugisha, now calls himself Mugabe John (Lt. In the Rwandese Police) Theo a former Goal Keeper APR, Sankara a former musician.
Among civilians so far my contact gives me Nkombe Eric, who used to work at Prefecture of Kigali. He is coming back in Uganda to mobilize more and according to my contacts, they have, a link which connects them from Uganda, Kenya where they have a place to stay until their papers are worked on, then they proceed by water transport to an island bordering France. From there, they are received by some a group of Rwandese who are already set there for that mission.
So far many of them have been sent to Spain and Sweden. They have got direct links with Umwami Kijyeli, Patrick Kalegyeya, Bm Habyalimana, Furuma, Sebalenzi and Pierre Rwijyema. At first this group had split but according to reliable sources, but they have made a come back and it means that, there has to be some follow up.
Ndebuye is coming to Uganda in April according to my contact to mobilize more people mostly in the western part of Uganda clandestinely. This time they are including Tutsi from Congo and Burundi who are now many in Uganda and ask you self what are they all doing in Uganda? Then lastly according to the info I gather around all this is behind Kayumba Nyamwasa, his wife, a wife to Patrick Kalegyeya and Madam Fred Rwijyema."
Some of this information is false, some inaccurate while some is speculative. However, it gives a general idea that even the government of Uganda, even when Kayumba was still High Commissioner in India, was being suspected of links with an emergent rebel group. However, would this rebel group pose a strong and immediate threat to security in Rwanda? Again the answer is - very unlikely.
Therefore, the only reason that remains for Rwanda government's role in shooting Kayumba is stupidity and an exaggerated sense of personal vendetta. The regime in Kigali would have to be dangerously reckless and unthinking, and Kagame would have to possess such an irrational desire to eliminate Kayumba for him to order his shooting in South Africa and do so during this time of the World Cup competition.
Currently, South African authorities have apprehended six people suspected of links to the assassination. By the time we went to press, available information suggested that one of the suspects is a former Rwandan army soldier who had worked previously with Kayumba. In the murky world of rebellion, intelligence, political intrigue and money, there are other possible scenarios of who could have had a strong interest to shoot Kayumba.
In a normal police investigation, Karegyeya and Kayumba's wife would be suspects. When Karegyeya escaped from Rwanda, there were hardly any news tremors that followed the event. However, when Kayumba left, he immediately became the recognised leader of the anti-Kagame forces in exile.
A senior Ugandan CID officer who declined to be quoted said "it's clear the assailant's motive was to murder Kayumba." If the assailant wanted to rob, he would have attacked the driver who was on the steering wheel or demanded material wealth from Kayumba or his wife, but he did not.
The CID officer said since one of the suspects arrested by the South African police is a Rwandan, it's critical to the investigations to establish when and how he came to the country. "This is very important. What is he doing there?" the CID officer asked. He said this would provide clues about who could be behind the plot.
The CID chief added that the guards manning the gate to Kayumba's residence, who fled the scene after the attack, should have been arrested as first suspects. The RPF has been bedevilled by allegations of rivalries. When Maj. Gen. Fred Rwigyema was killed in 1990 just upon the launch of the RPF rebellion, Majors Baingana and Bunyenyezi were accused of masterminding the death. Till now, most people believe Rwigyema's death was a result of an internal RPF power struggle.
Kayumba's dramatic escape and the news coverage it attracted immediately allowed him to emerge as the leader of anti Kagame forces in exile. This could have attracted the hostility of those already in exile who may have wanted to enjoy that leadership role, especially the moderate Hutu factions. They could therefore have a motive to kill him while knowing that the first suspect would be Kagame and his government.
The complexity of political intrigue is that it is often your allies more than your enemies that may stand to benefit from your death and therefore have a motive to kill you. If there is a rift between a president and another prominent personality and that person is killed, the president would be blamed. So the biggest loser in such an assassination would actually be the president, the main beneficiary would be his opponents. In other words, Kayumba was as much at risk with his allies as he was with his enemies.
UKITAKA MAJIBU KWA MAKALA HII, FUNGUA:
Gen. Kayumba shooting-
JOHANNESBURG South Africa's foreign ministry says foreign "security operatives" were involved in the shooting of an exiled Rwandan general.
Foreign Ministry official Ayanda Ntsaluba told South Africa's Press Association that the shooting of Lt. General Kayumba Nyamwasa last month near his Johannesburg home involved a "country with which we have good and strong diplomatic relations."
Nyamwasa, a critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, survived the shooting. Rwanda has denied involvement.
Authorities are holding four suspects from Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique.
Kagame reportedly sees his former military chief as a political rival. Rwanda has accused Nyamwasa of trying to destabilize their government. Nyamwasa has received asylum in South Africa.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
The Associated Press: SAfrica pegs foreigners for shooting Rwandan exile
Foreign Ministry official Ayanda Ntsaluba told South Africa's Press Association that the shooting of Lt. General Kayumba Nyamwasa last month near his Johannesburg home involved a "country with which we have good and strong diplomatic relations."
Nyamwasa, a critic of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, survived the shooting. Rwanda has denied involvement.
Authorities are holding four suspects from Tanzania, Somalia and Mozambique.
Kagame reportedly sees his former military chief as a political rival. Rwanda has accused Nyamwasa of trying to destabilize their government. Nyamwasa has received asylum in South Africa.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved
The Associated Press: SAfrica pegs foreigners for shooting Rwandan exile
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