Rwandan Exiles Blame Kagame After Ex-Spy Chief Strangled
janvier 06, 2014 9:00 AM EST

Rwandan exiles in South Africa blamed President Paul Kagame after the
east African country's ex-spy chief was last week found strangled to
death in a Johannesburg hotel room.
Patrick Karegeya, 53, was found dead on a bed in the Michelangelo
Towers hotel in the city's affluent Sandton area on New Year's Day,
according to police. He had been at the hotel to meet a Rwandan
businessman and his body was discovered after his nephew initially
sought him at his house west of Johannesburg and found it empty.
The former Rwandan intelligence offer fled the country in 2006 after
falling out with Kagame and later authored documents accusing the
Rwandan president of repression. Kayumba Nyamwasa, a founding member
of the Rwanda National Congress, an opposition party, was shot and
wounded in Johannesburg in 2010.
"Rwanda is at war inside South Africa," Andre Munonoka, a 59-year-old
pastor who fled to South Africa from Rwanda 11 years ago, said
yesterday at a wreath laying ceremony at Room 905 in the hotel to
commemorate Karegeya. "I have no doubt about the decider of these
hits. It is President Paul Kagame.
Rwanda's government has not commented officially on Karegeya's death.
Rwandan Genocide
''It's not about how you start. It's how you finish. This man was a
self-declared enemy of my government and my country. You expect pity?"
Louise Mushikawabo, Rwanda's foreign minister, said in a posting on
Twitter yesterday. "Self-declared enemies of Rwanda are not on the
government of Rwanda's sympathy list. Investigation end."
Kagame has been Rwandan President since April 2000. His ruling Rwandan
Patriotic Front party won 41 out of 53 seats in Sept. 16 parliamentary
elections. While he has been praised for rebuilding the economy, human
rights activists have criticized him for cracking down on civil rights
and silencing dissent.
Kagame led a rebel army that ended the genocide of about 800,000
Rwandans, most of whom were members of his Tutsi ethnic group, in
1993.
There are about 3,500 Rwandan political refugees in South Africa,
Michael Rwarinda, vice chairman of the Rwanda National Congress branch
in South Africa's Gauteng province, said in an interview last week.
Yesterday's ceremony was attended by about 60 Rwandans carrying white
and purple flowers and carrying purple cloths. A short religious
ceremony was carried out in front of the hotel and in the room a white
candle burned and a wreath in the shape of cross lay on the bed with a
photograph of Karegeya propped up between the pillows.
"Somebody cannot run from prosecution and be killed here," Michael
Gahera, who fled to South Africa 17 years ago, said. "The South
African government should step in. Today it is one man, tomorrow 10
and then it moves to another country as well."
To contact the reporters on this story: Rene Vollgraaff in
Johannesburg at rvollgraaff@bloomberg.net; Saul Butera in Kigali at
sbutera2@bloomberg.net
To contact the editors responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin at
asguazzin@bloomberg.net; Nasreen Seria at nseria@bloomberg.net
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