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Rwanda: the dissident General disturbs
Until July of this year, Faustin Kayumba was in the head of the military intelligence of the FPR. He played an important role in the offensive led in 1996 in the east of the current Democratic Republic of Congo, during which tens of thousands Rwandan Hutus refugees had been massacred.
Then after, he was appointed Chief of staff of the Rwandan army, then leader of intelligence services from 2002 till 2004, and enters in disgrace when named ambassador in India. From there, he joined South Africa where he is living in exile. Irritated and accused by the Rwandan president of being behind attacks in Rwanda, the general began a series of psychological attacks and release of information against his “campaigner-in-arms”, the actual ruling man of the country since 1994.
At the same time, the atmosphere begins to tighten in Rwanda, as the presidential election planned on August 8th approaches. Political tensions, marked by the accusation of the opponent Victoire Ingabire, accused of negation of the genocide and of complicity of terrorism.
Diplomatic tensions, then, fed by the eviction of the representative of the American Human Rights Watch and the arrest of the American lawyer Peter Erlinder, who came to assure the defense of Victoire Ingabire. Finally tensions within the regime, illustrated by the purges made at the top of the army, marked by the arrest of two leading officers, the generals Emmanuel Karenzi Karake and Charles Muhire.