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Rwanda: Ban Ki-moon is seeking to ease tensions with Kigali

By on September 13, 2010
After a short visit to Kigali, the UN Sectary General, Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, had to discuss with Mr. Kagamé and persuade the Rwandan authorities not withdraw their peacekeeping troops from Sudan.

After the meeting, Mr. Ban told reporters: “Both the president and I are disappointed that the draft report has been leaked”. The entourage of the secretary General said they were confident that this visit to Kigali has dispelled the controversy. “We’re very encouraged”, the Secretary General’s spokesman, Yves Sorokobi, said. However, the Rwandan Foreign Minister, Louise Mushikiwabo, declined to say whether Mr. Kagamé had withdrawn his threat about the peacekeepers, but said the government was happy that Mr. Ban had come to listen to their views.

While Mr. Ban Ki Moon was in Kigali, a group close to President Kagamé and living in exile issued a document of 60 pages accusing him of various crimes committed before, during and after the genocide. They appealed the international community to act and end the regime of the Rwandan head of state. The signatories of the appeal are the former secretary general of the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR), Theogene Rudasingwa, living in the United States and four former Rwandan president’s companions, among whom the former Chief of Staff of the Rwandan army, General Kayumba Nyamwasa, who just escaped recently from an assassination attempt in South Africa .

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