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Rwanda: The system settles accounts

By on June 30, 2010
Six weeks from the presidential elections, the Rwandan authorities are stiffened. President Paul Kagame will run for another term; and the arrests, the leaks and assassinations abroad, successful or not, accumulate. The journalist Rugambage was gunned down outside the door of his house in Kigali.

The government has denied any involvement, but the director, who lives in exile in Uganda since the banning of his newspaper, accused “the government of Kagame for murdering Rugambage. Shortly before his death, Rugambage had said that the Rwandan authorities were involved in another crime: the assassination attempt against General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa near his house in Johannesburg, and South African authorities have arrested six suspects, that might be linked to this attempt of murder.
General Kayumba is potentially the main rival of Paul Kagame.  
The two men first met in Uganda and they worked together in the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). Between them, they know all about big and little secrets of the Rwandan authorities.      In May, Kayumba showed his destructive capacity, released in a daily newspaper in Uganda, about the corruption charges against Kagame and his entourage.
The purges have concerned three high-ranking army Generals. The Hutu opponent Victoire Ingabire was charged and then pronounced illegible for the presidential election. Her lawyer, Peter Erlinder, American, was arrested and imprisoned for three weeks. Washington did not appreciate the event and made it known. Paul Kagame begins to irritate even his biggest supporters…

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