What lies behind Kagame's genocidal utterances

[Geza Ulole]

 

[bornagain]

Mwache damu za watu hazitamwacha salama

 

[Koba]

Kkagame or Rwandese are not in Congo,wanaopigana ni Congolese wenyewe na genociders waliokimbia Rwanda ambao wako supported na Kinshasa ndio wanaopigana na kuiba minerals,Africans ni watu very stupid wanashindwa kutatua shida zao wanatafuta wa kumsingizia,kila siku kulaumu Rwanda lakini hata siku moja hawajawahi kukamata soldier wa Rwanda,Congo saga ni very sad hope watapata akili siku moja wajue mchawi wao nani

 

[Koba]

Mwache damu za watu hazitamwacha salama

I don't know what drive you?hate or ignorance? you know for a fact waliofanya genocide ni hao FDLR and other extremist ila umeamua kuamini conspiracy..good for you brother may be one day will work!!

 

[Mugaga]

Koba nini msimamo wako kuhusu kauli ya mh.Paul Kagame kuwa ..I Will Hit You....

 

[Koba]

Koba nini msimamo wako kuhusu kauli ya mh.Paul Kagame kuwa ..I Will Hit You....

Kagame never said that,ndio maana hakuna any major news network wame report hiyo I will hit you,walioandika hiyo news ni afroamerica ambao ni news outlet ya extremist wapinzani wa kagame,wame take advantage ya watu wasiojua Rwandese

 

[Mugaga]

Kagame never said that,ndio maana hakuna any major news network wame report hiyo I will hit you,walioandika hiyo news ni afroamerica ambao ni news outlet ya extremist wapinzani wa kagame,wame take advantage ya watu wasiojua Rwandese

Nami nimeona kuwa huo mtandao ni anti Kagame,lakini vipi kuhusu alichozungumza hapa http://m.youtube.com/user/presidentkagame?hl=en&client=mv-google&gl=GB

 

[bornagain]

I don't know what drive you?hate or ignorance? you know for a fact waliofanya genocide ni hao FDLR and other extremist ila umeamua kuamini conspiracy..good for you brother may be one day will work!!

Sina muda wa kujadiliana na wewe kitu chochote kinachohusu Rwanda na Kagame maana unanichefua na kuniharibia siku yangu

 

[Victoire]

Kkagame or Rwandese are not in Congo,wanaopigana ni Congolese wenyewe na genociders waliokimbia Rwanda ambao wako supported na Kinshasa ndio wanaopigana na kuiba minerals,Africans ni watu very stupid wanashindwa kutatua shida zao wanatafuta wa kumsingizia,kila siku kulaumu Rwanda lakini hata siku moja hawajawahi kukamata soldier wa Rwanda,Congo saga ni very sad hope watapata akili siku moja wajue mchawi wao nani

Sound like Tutsi

 

[Geza Ulole]

NEWS
Rwanda ex-spy chief 'murdered' in South Africa

Police in Johannesburg, where a former head of Rwanda's external intelligence service was found dead in a hotel. Photo/AFP/FILE

IN SUMMARY

• Col Karegeya, in his early fifties, was for a long time very close to President Kagame.
• He served as head of external intelligence for around a decade before being demoted to army spokesman and was later arrested and jailed.
• He was stripped of his rank of colonel in 2006 and fled into exile the following year.

A former head of Rwanda's external intelligence service has been found dead at a hotel in South Africa, where he has lived in exile for several years, his opposition party said Thursday.

"The Rwandan opposition is deeply saddened to announce the assassination of Colonel Patrick Karegeya in Johannesburg," the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) said in a statement. "His body was found in a hotel where he went for a meeting."

"It is true," Frank Ntwali, the party's chairman for Africa told AFP early Thursday. "He was strangled by agents of (Rwandan President Paul) Kagame."

According to Mr Ntwali, Col Karegeya was killed at the Michelangelo Towers, an upmarket hotel in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton.

Col Karegeya, in his early fifties, was for a long time very close to President Kagame.

Demoted to army spokesman
He served as head of external intelligence for around a decade before being demoted to army spokesman and was later arrested and jailed.

He was stripped of his rank of colonel in 2006 and fled into exile the following year.

Another prominent Rwandan dissident in South Africa, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, survived two assassination attempts in June 2010.

ALSO READ: Rwanda's exiled generals tried in absentia

The RNC statement said investigations had found "overwhelming evidence of the involvement of Rwandan intelligence operatives in those attempts".

Rwanda has vehemently denied involvement in the attacks.

Col Karegeya and Nyamwasa are both prominent figures in the opposition party, despite not holding specific posts.

He leaves behind his wife Leah and three children.



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[Geza Ulole]

[h=1]Family stranded with Karegeya's body in South Africa[/h]

Family members of Col Patrick Karegeya at his home in Rwenjeru Biharwe Sub-County in Mbarara District on Saturday. Photo by Alfred Tumushabe
IN SUMMARY
Close family sources said Rwanda was opposed to the burial of Col Karegeya in Uganda but this claim could not be officially verified as Rwandan High Commissioner in Kampala Maj Gen Frank Mugambage didn't answer our repeated calls.


KAMPALA- The South African government released the body of former Rwanda spymaster Col Patrick Karegeya but the family is still stuck with it in Johannesburg because they have not received clearance from the Uganda government to bring it in the country for burial.
Col Karegeya's brother Ernest Mugabo told the Sunday Monitor yesterday that the body was being kept in a private mortuary waiting for clearance from Kampala.
"The body has been handed over to us. It is in a private mortuary but we are stuck because the government of Uganda has not cleared us to bring it for burial. We do not know what to do," he said.
Col Karegeya, 53, was discovered dead on a bed in Johannesburg's luxurious Michelangelo Towers Hotel room on New Year's Day, prompting accusations that Rwandan president Paul Kagame was behind the assassination. The Rwandan government has dismissed the claim.
On Thursday, Col Karegeya's family in Uganda appealed to the government to allow the body to be buried in Uganda. Col Karegeya has a home in Biharwe, Kashari County in Mbarara District.
Mr David Batenga, the deceased's nephew to whom the South African government released the body, said consultations were still ongoing and a final funeral programme would be released later in the day.
This newspaper understands that preliminary findings of the postmortem done at Johannesburg General Hospital were inconclusive and experts there had extracted additional samples from the body for further toxicological analysis to determine the exact cause of death.
The Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Mr Fred Opolot, said yesterday that the Uganda government would first consult the Rwandan Embassy in Kampala since Col Karegeya was a Rwandan citizen.
"The government will consult with the Rwandan Embassy about this issue. But our position is that we cannot take unilateral decision since Col. Karegeya is not an ordinary Rwandan," Mr Opolot said.
Earlier on Friday, the State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Okello Oryem, said Col Karegeya's family would be allowed to bury him in Uganda but "without involvement of the Uganda government in the arrangements" but added it would be after consultations with the Rwandan government.
"We are doing it specifically on humanitarian grounds….," Mr Oryem said.
Although the Uganda government said Col Karegeya, who was born in Uganda, could be buried here as requested by his mother, other relatives are understood to be weighing all options available.
Close family sources said Rwanda was opposed to the burial of Col Karegeya in Uganda but this claim could not be officially verified as Rwandan High Commissioner in Kampala Maj Gen Frank Mugambage didn't answer our repeated calls.
However, Mr Opolot said they had not received any formal protest from Kigali either, regarding the burial of Col Karegeya's body in Uganda.
He also said Karegeya's family had not made a formal request to the government to have him buried at his home in Mbarara.
High Court judge Kenneth Kakuru, who is chairing the committee of friends and relatives making burial arrangements, confirmed the family had not made a formal request but said there was no need to.
"I have never heard such. Many people have died in different countries and their remains are flown and buried back home. There is no need to make a request," Justice Kakuru said.
He said the widow, who lives in the USA, would give a statement later in the day on when and where the deceased would be buried.
KAREGEYA HAD SCRAPPED GUARDS
Rwanda's former intelligence chief Patrick Karegeya agreed to scrap his South African security detail before he was found dead in a Johannesburg hotel room, a political ally has said.
Col Karegeya, 53, was discovered slumped on a bed by staff on New Year's Day.
Col Karegeya was the former head of Rwanda's external intelligence service and once a close ally of president Paul Kagame. But he later fell out of favour.
In 2007, he fled into exile in South Africa, where he became a fierce critic, describing Kagame as a dictator and alleging he had first-hand knowledge of the state killing of Rwandan dissidents abroad.
"When Karegeya first entered this country... the South African government put him under state protection," political ally Frank Ntwali told AFP.
The decision was influenced by assassination attempts against former army chief of staff Lt Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, another Rwandan exile in South Africa, according to Ntwali.
But in 2012, Karegeya and the South African government had agreed to end the close protection, said Ntwali, who heads the Rwanda National Congress in Africa.
"They agreed that they would allow him to walk without bodyguards or without protection, which has turned out to be a miscalculation," said Mr Ntwali.
"He was on his own," he said.
Mr Ntwali said his friend had expressed fears for his safety, but after years in South Africa, he became comfortable.
"He knew that his life definitely was in danger... that's why he fled Rwanda, but I think he got to a level where he thought that here he would be able to evade them," he said.
In a last ill-fated meeting, Col Karegeya had visited Johannesburg's luxurious Michelangelo Towers Hotel to talk with a man Ntwali named as a Rwandan national.
"This individual... was claiming to be running away as well from the regime of Rwanda. He was claiming harassment, detention, expropriation of his properties."
The man was the last person to be seen with Karegeya. Mr Theogene Rudasingwa, a Washington-based coordinator of the Rwandan National Congress, told The Associated Press on Thursday: "We have been told the guy who was last seen with Patrick was from Rwanda, a Rwandan whom Patrick knew who used to go to Rwanda and come back. I think he pretended to be Patrick's friend."
Members of the Rwandan opposition claim Col Karegeya was assassinated at the behest of Mr Kagame.
Rudasingwa described Karegeya's death as an assassination that fit a pattern of attacks against prominent opponents of Mr Kagame.
However, the Rwandan government has vehemently denied it targets opponents for assassination.
Additional reporting by Tabu Butagira




Family stranded with Karegeya

 

[Geza Ulole]

[h=1]How the former Rwandan spymaster was assassinated[/h]

Slain former Rwandan spymaster Patrick Karegeya. Rwandan opposition groups have been rattled by his murder in a Johannesburg hotel. PHOTO | FILE
IN SUMMARY

• 2004: Year when Mr Karegeya fell out with the government, and was arrested and sentenced to three years' imprisonment
  
• 2007: Year when Karegeya fled Rwanda for South Africa, where he was joined by Lt Gen Nyamwasa in 2010.
  
• Patrick Karegeya is believed to have been killed by a man who befriended him in prison

In Kigali, where he owns a $1 million sophisticated theater located at Nyamirambo suburb known as Cine Star Cinema. The man is known as humorous, down to earth and intelligent person, one of Rwanda's emerging entrepreneur.
But, behind the scenes, Mr Apollo Gafaranga, a man accused of killing former Rwanda's spymaster Patrick Karegeya in Johannesburg's Sandton Michelangelo Hotel on the New Year eve, is more than a businessman - he is a trained spy and assassin, if the latest details emerging from Johannesburg are authentic.
According to South Africa's weekly investigative newspaper, Mail& Guardian, Apollo befriended Karegeya about four years ago whereby the alleged hit-man cultivated his relationships with the former Rwanda's head of external security to the level where the latter hosted him in his house in Johannesburg.
But, little did Karegeya know that his friend was in actual sense the biggest enemy who is in a mission to assassinate him.
To conceal his identity, Apollo is believed to have bought ‘a South African passport, which he used whenever he entered South Africa, according to Mail & Guardianreport.
But, according to the newspaper, the passport may have been a fake one. It's not clear why South African authority failed to detect the allegedly fake passport that Mr Apolo used to enter into the country several time via OR Tambo International Airport.
The Mail & Guardian quoting some close relatives to the assassinated former spy-master, reported that in most cases when Apollo used the South African passport, he didn't travel direct from Rwanda.
If Karegeya's friends and colleagues are correct, reported Mail & Guardian yesterday, it would indicate an intelligence failure on the part of South African authorities.
"Political asylum seekers such as Karegeya claim the South African authorities had offered them protection. Meanwhile, an alleged agent of the Paul Kagame regime was frequently in their midst, evading airport security checks with false documents, and courting their inner circle with a view to commit murder." The Mail & Guardianreported.
Rwanda's ambassador to South Africa Vincent Karega, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, distanced Kigali from Karageya's death.
"Even though he (Karageya) declared himself an enemy of Rwanda, we didn't see any threat. Rwanda wasn't involved," he said.
So far no anyone has been arrested by the South African authorities.
But, within the Rwandan political-refugee community living in South Africa, there is one clear suspect involved in Karegeya's crime: a man called Apollo Gafaranga.
The Rwandan press called him a "business mogul"; he opened a cinema worth $1 million in 2009. His brother, Mr Amini Gafaranga, appears close to the Kagame regime, speaking at Rwanda Day celebrations in London in May 2013, an event endorsed by Paul Kagame.
Two close friends of Karegeya, who spoke to the Mail & Guardian claimed Gafaranga had spent years earning the former spy chief's trust, travelling to South Africa on at least four occasions, where he would be Kareyega's house guest.
And he always travelled with fake documents, they claim.
But on his final and fatal visit, Apollo asked to be booked in a hotel, instead of staying at Karegeya's house.
According to Mail & Guardian this was because he was increasingly fearful of the Kagame regime, Apollo claimed, and he told Karegeya he did not want to jeopardize his friend's security by staying in his house.
Up to this point, the former Rwanda's spymaster turned enemy of the Kigali regime didn't notice any hidden motive.
Kareyega then booked the hotel room at the Michelangelo Towers in Sandton. Karegeya picked his guest upon his arrival and drive him to the hotel where he has booked him. That's was December 29, according to South Africa's media reports.
The two arrived at the Sandton Hotel, checked in and later on Karegeya left his friend, promising to visit him on the new year for further political and business discussions.
On New Year eve, Karegeya went to visit his friend, without knowing that would be his end, because the man he thought was a friend and a possible financier in his bid to defeat Rwandese regime was indeed a trained assassin.
Karegeye had no reason to be suspicious of Apollo because the latter had been part of Karegeya's informal network of informants during his tenure as foreign minister of intelligence in Kagame's government.
And now, it's likely Karegeya believed he was helping a fellow-oppositionist escape Kigali.
"It's not unreasonable to help those escaping Rwanda," Ntwali said.
Karegeya had earlier informed his nephew that he was going to visit his friend, Apollo, at Michelangelo Towers Hotel. On the New Year eve when Kareyega did not respond to text messages or phone calls, his nephew became suspicious and went to the hotel.
His nephew then went to the Michelangelo, where he discovered that the hotel room where Karegeya had gone for a meeting was locked.
The manager wouldn't open the door as there was a "Do Not Disturb" sign on it. The police were called and opened the door.
It is believed that three or four men were involved in the crime.
Karegeya was found dead. Curtain tie-backs and a pillow case were found in the safe. Garafanga was gone, taking only his cellphone and wallet, but leaving his suitcase behind.
Informal network of informants
Mr Frank Ntwali, Africa regional chairperson of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) – the opposition party that Karegeya helped to form – believes Apollo entered South Africa from a different African country on every visit, to avoid detection.
According to Mail & Guardian, Mr Ntwali last saw the former Spymaster on December 28, when the two had dinner and discussed their political plans for the new year. According to Mr Ntwali, Mr Karegeya was upbeat.
At this point, the former intelligence chief was well aware that Apollo was en route.
"About four months ago, he [Apollo] made contact with Patrick and claimed Kagame's government was harassing him and had closed his business. He asked Mr Karegeya to help him set up a new life in South Africa, and help him start a business here." Mr Ntwali was quoted by Mail &Guardian
Attempted hits
According to another friend of Karegeya and fellow-exile, who asked not to be named for security reasons, Kareyega had protection from the South African government but asked the authorities to back off, about a year ago, because he felt his movements were too restricted.
Mr Ntwali confirmed this. Mr Karegeya, according to sources, had grown complacent, despite a keen sense of persecution by Rwandan opposition leaders living in South Africa.
Who was Patrick Karegeya?
Mr Karegeya, Rwanda's former intelligence chief found dead and believed strangled in a Johannesburg hotel, was described last week by Agency France Press as a brilliant spy who appears to have fallen foul of the assassination tactics he once reportedly practised on others.
"He was a person who paid attention to detail. He was articulate and intelligent," an Ugandan intelligence officer told AFP, asking not to be named for fear of harming Rwanda-Uganda relations.
"He was on the watch list after fleeing to South Africa" into exile in 2007, the officer added.
Karegeya, who died aged 53, grew up in southwestern Uganda and studied law at the famous Makerere University.
He was "a brilliant intelligence officer and very knowledgeable," said Major James Kazoora, a retired Ugandan army officer who served with Karegeya, noting that his "roots were in Uganda".
He initially served in Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army (NRA), before joining the ranks of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, then a rebel group led by Mr Paul Kagame and now.
Slightly plump and fond of casual clothes, Mr Karegeya wore rimless spectacles and came across as an affable, rather than fearsome, spy.
Mr Karegeya was for a long time very close to Mr Kagame and served as head of Rwanda's external intelligence for about a decade.
"He works 24 hours a day," said a friend when Mr Karegeya was still spy chief. "He might look like he's relaxing but he's actually doing his job."
However, he fell out of favour and was demoted to army spokesman. He was later arrested and jailed for "indiscipline" and stripped of his rank of colonel in 2006.
He fled to exile the following year and became a fierce Kagame critic and prominent member of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), the opposition party in exile.
"He was a very warm person and he was very comfortable with all sorts of people - he got on with absolutely everyone," said Theogene Rudasingwa, a senior RNC official.
He got on with Rwandan civilians and foreign diplomats alike.
Friends and colleagues remember Karegeya for his supply of jokes, many of them full of sexual innuendo.
"He was extremely funny," said Mr Rudasingwa.
But he was also accused of having had a hand in the assassinations of Rwandan opposition figures.
Detractors question his sincerity in criticising the Rwandan authorities, pointing out that he only spoke out against alleged abuses by Kigali after he fell out of favour.
The fancy cars his family drove were regularly the talk of Kigali.
A Western diplomat, struck by the size of the giant television in Karegeya's living room once remarked: "I'd rather be a public servant in Rwanda than in my country...."
But in the months prior to his death he had become increasingly nervous about his security.
Those close to him said he must have had no reason to mistrust the person he met at the hotel where he died.
Mr Karegeya had three children, a daughter who lives in Canada and two sons who live with his widow in the US.
Additional report by AFP



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[Geza Ulole]

[h=1]Former Rwandan spy chief to be buried in South Africa[/h]IN SUMMARY
In the first formal statement on the death of Karegeya in a Johannesburg hotel early last week, the relatives said the decision to bury his remains on foreign soil was a "difficult" one.


Kampala. Slain former Rwandan spymaster Patrick Karegeya will be buried in South Africa on a date yet to be announced, the family has said.
In the first formal statement on the death of Karegeya in a Johannesburg hotel early last week, the relatives said the decision to bury his remains on foreign soil was a "difficult" one.
"It is with deep sorrow and regret that we announce the death of our father, husband and friend … As a family, we have taken a difficult decision to have him laid to rest in Johannesburg, South Africa on a day and date to be made known to you all later," the family said.
Karegeya fled Kigali in 2007 teaming up with a group of military generals to form the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), a group that faults President Kagame, of turning into a dictator.
In the unfolding political drama, some of the RNC figureheads indicted for treason and terrorism were convicted by a military court and sentenced to lengthy jail term in absentia. Since his death in one of Michelangelo Towers hotel rooms in Johannesburg's upscale Sandton suburb on New Year's Eve, there has been speculation on his burial place.
As a man formerly wanted by the Kigali regime and whose family members have had run-ins with President Kagame's leadership, the remains could not be taken for burial in Rwanda.
Yet burying him like his father in Mbarara as requested by his Ugandan-based mother, Ms Jane Kanimba Kenshuro, became politically sensitive due to its potential to strain the present warm relations between Kigali and Kampala.
The Ugandan government yesterday insisted Karegeya cannot be buried in Uganda, saying he was a citizen of Rwanda and resident in South Africa respectively at the time of his death.
In a statement, Mr Fred Opolot, the Foreign Affairs ministry spokesman, explained that the government had communicated to Karegaya's family, rejecting a plea to have his body buried here.
The contradictions
The statement was in contradiction with an earlier position relayed by the Foreign Affairs state minister, Mr Okello Oryem. On Friday, Mr Oryem had told the Daily Monitor that Karegeya would be allowed to be buried in Uganda but "without involvement of government in the arrangements", citing the deceased's unique status.
In yesterday's statement, the widow, Leah Karegeya, and their three children, currently living in the US and Canada, spoke of their pain to have the family patriarch buried on foreign soil.
"We thank our family and friends who have shown us tremendous love and support at this trying time. Your courage has strengthened us greatly," they said, "We commit our dear beloved Karegeya to the Almighty God. May his soul rest in eternal peace."
South African police who found Karegeya's body in a pool of blood on January 1 following a distress call by hotel staff; said they are treating his death as "murder". The motive and assailants remain at large.
Investigators were looking at the possibility that he was strangled and experts are carrying toxicological tests to ascertain actual cause of death following an inconclusive postmortem at the Johannesburg General Hospital.
Karegeya's roles in uganda and rwanda
Karegeya was born and raised in Uganda as a refugee, but returned to Rwanda after the Rwanda Patriotic Front in which he played a key role, captured power in 1994.
His parents, who originally stayed in Ntungamo District, continued to live in Mbarara in Uganda, giving the family two homes in the neighbouring countries. Karegeya rose to head Rwanda's external intelligence and was a confidante of President Kagame until their fall-out in 2006, with the spy chief being detained and later stripped of his rank.
He fled to South Africa where he, together with other renegade military generals, founded the opposition Rwanda National Congress, which Kigali accuses of plotting a violent regime change.
CAPTION: Members of Karegeya's family during a vigil at his home in Rwenjeru Biharwe Sub-county, Mbarara. Photo by Alfred Tumushabe.



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Kagame's stern warning to dissidents

Rwandan President Paul Kagame.PHOTO|FILE
IN SUMMARY
"Treason brings consequences," he warned Karegeya's fellow dissidents and other former allies who have gone into exile.


Kigali. Rwandan President Paul Kagame has warned that "treason brings consequences" in an apparent reference to the country's former spy chief, who was recently killed in South Africa.
President Kagame's remarks are seen as confirmation of Kigali's hidden hand in the death of the former head of external security, Patrick Karegeya, and could heighten tensions, particularly in relations between his country and South Africa.
It is unusual for a head of state and or his top lieutenants to issue such explicit comments amid accusations that his government may have been involved in the killing of his opponents.
For instance, when the United Kingdom accused Russia of the murder of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with polonium in a London hotel, Moscow vehemently denied the allegations.
Likewise, when Mossad spies infiltrated the United Arab Emirates using forged passports and assassinated Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel on January 20, 2010, Israel strongly denied any involvement despite damning evidence from CCTV footage.
But strong comments made in Rwanda, first by the Prime Minister, then Foreign Affairs minister, Defence minister and finally by the country's strongman appear to confirm claims that Kigali planned and carried out the assassination of the former spymaster.
The body of Karegeya – a fierce Kagame critic – was found on New Year's Day in a luxury hotel room in Johannesburg, where he had spent several years of exile. Police, who found a bloodied towel and a rope in the room's safe, said a preliminary investigation indicated he might have been strangled.
Karegeya's supporters immediately accused the Rwandan government of being behind his killing.
Now President Kagame's remarks only served to lend credence to this allegation.
"If someone feels no shame in destroying what we have built over a period of time, I for my part will not feel shy of protecting what we have built," he said at a prayer breakfast in Kigali.
"Treason brings consequences," he warned Karegeya's fellow dissidents and other former allies who have gone into exile.
"All those fellows would have been nothing if it wasn't for Rwanda.
"Anyone who betrays our cause or wishes our people ill will fall victim. What remains to be seen is how you fall victim," Mr Kagame said.
Karegeya was the former head of Rwanda's external intelligence service and once a close ally of President Kagame.
In 2004 he was demoted after the two men fell out. He was then arrested and jailed for 18 months for desertion and insubordination.
Karegeya was stripped of his rank of colonel in July 2006 and fled the country the following year.
Mr Kagame's comments follow remarks on Saturday by Defence minister James Kabarebe.
"Ignore those making noise saying that someone was strangled with a rope on the seventh floor in a certain country," Mr Kabarebe told a public meeting promoting reconciliation among Rwandans.
"If you choose to be a dog, you die like a dog and cleaners will remove the trash and dump it where it is supposed to be so that it doesn't stink for others. Those that have fallen victim, it's because they have chosen that path," he was quoted saying in the local media.
The minister confirmed to AFP that he had made those comments, adding: "When someone like him dies ... we are not really bothered."
President Kagame and Mr Kabarebe argued that Karegeya and his allies were behind a series of bloody grenade attacks in Rwanda over several years. A Rwandan court in 2011 sentenced Karegeya in absentia to 20 years in jail.
Three other dissidents were handed similar sentences. All four were charged with "forming a terrorist group, threatening state security, undermining public order, promoting ethnic divisions and insulting the person of the President".
Karegeya had denied being linked in any way to the grenade attacks. Rwandan Foreign minister Louise Mushikiwabo earlier said in Twitter messages that Karegeya was a "self-declared" enemy of Rwanda.
"You expect pity?" she asked her followers some days after the man's death



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[Geza Ulole]

Ex-PM Twagiramungu Is Special Guest Of Tanzanian President Kikwete

The ex-PM Faustin Twagiramungu is the current face of the extremist political views on the Rwandan political scene

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Days after announcing a coalition with Rwandan FDLR rebels based in DR Congo, former prime minister Faustin Twagiramungu is a special guest of Tanzania's president Jakaya Kikwete, according to sources in Dodoma, Tanzania.

Twagiramungu arrived in Tanzania on Sunday 19[SUP]th[/SUP] January and has been hosted at secret locations under the direct protection of President Kikwete's official detail, say the sources.

The former prime minister has been living in Belgium since 1995, and returned to contest in the 2003 Rwanda presidential polls in which he got 3.62 percent. After the humiliating defeat at the hands of incumbent President Paul Kagame, Twagiramungu immediately left the country and has never set foot in Rwanda.

Over the years, he has formed different political groups, from which he has become a fierce critic of the government of Rwanda. Twagiramungu's current political organization is RDI-RWANDA RWIZA. Most of its members have abandoned the group, choosing to return to Rwanda.

On January 14[SUP]th[/SUP], Twagiramungu announced that he was going into coalition with Rwandan FDLR rebels who are accused of executing the genocide in Rwanda and fled to DR Congo back in 1994. Twagiramungu's move followed that of another group PS Imberakuri days earlier, based inside Rwanda.

Twagiramungu's presence in Tanzania is not surprising, said our sources in Tanzania. President Kikwete is the only world leader who has come out with a public endorsement of the FDLR. The group has been vilified world over for being unapologetic about the genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda.

On 26[SUP]th[/SUP] June 2013, President Kikwete made the unthinkable. During a closed-door African Union heads of state special summit on DRC in Ethiopia, President Kikwete called for talks between the government of Rwanda and the FDLR.

The months that followed saw a near-complete breakdown of relations between Kigali and Dodoma, as Rwandan officials and ordinary population believed they had a serious large enemy on its eastern border. Rwanda foreign affairs minister Louise Mushikiwabo was so angry that she described President Kikwete in subsequent media interviews, as "spokesman" of FDLR.

However, Tanzania's connections with the FDLR are not new. Around mid-last year, FDLR deputy commander General Stanislas Nzeyimana (aka Izabayo Bigaruka) was announced to be in Tanzania. But weeks later, news surfaced that he had disappeared – prompting questions as to why he was in Tanzania in the first place.

In Twagiramungu forming alliance with the FDLR, the rowdy politician said in a statement last week that he wants to force the government in Rwanda out by use of arms. Before January 2014, no Rwandan political organization or international group has ever given public backing to the FDLR.

Twagiramungu now falls within the FDLR agenda which does not agree with existing global agreement that Tutsis were targeted in Rwanda, in a clearly planned mass slaughter set in motion by the government at the time. The FDLR agenda is to return the extremist politicking in which Rwanda lived through for years before 1994.
Ex-PM Twagiramungu is special guest of Tanzanian President Kikwete News Of Rwanda – Rwanda News