Sinister events behind Rwandan's death
January 5 2014 at 11:55am
Johannesburg - At the time of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda a horrified
missionary was famously reported as exclaiming there were devils left
in hell and they had all gone to Rwanda.

Salem-News.com
Patrick Karegeya. Credit: Salem-News.com.
The political legacy of that horror now appears to have moved to
greater Johannesburg, as came into focus this week with the apparent
assassination of shadowy former Rwandan spymaster ex-Colonel Patrick
Karegeya in lurid circumstances in a room in Sandton's top-end
Michelangelo Towers Hotel.
Though the one-time head of Rwandan strongman Paul Kagame's sinister
external intelligence operation was apparently strangled – a bloodied
towel and curtain cord were discovered in the hotel room's safe
together with the lifeless body on New Year's Day – detectives were
also investigating the possibility he had been drugged before the
actual commission of the murder.
While the South African government has yet to point a finger of blame
at Kagame's government and officially continues to investigate the
killing as an ordinary and not political murder, details that have
come to light around Karegeya's last hours strongly suggest a
connection with the Rwandan regime.
According to Karegeya's political associates, at the time of his death
Karegeya had been in the company of a Rwandan national, a businessman
called Appolo Kiririsi Gafaranga. A figure with a chequered history –
a poly-linguist and dealer in grey weapons, and also drug trafficker
convicted under UK law – Kiririsi had apparently convinced Karegeya of
his bona fides as a fellow conspirator against Kagame's authoritarian
rule.
Though as yet no evidence has come to light of the presence of
accomplices in the murder, Karegeya's close associate and
controversial fellow Rwandan dissident and former army chief General
Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa has said there was evidence that "no less
than three or four men" had been present at the killing.
Rwanda has emphatically denied any involvement in the murder.

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, left, and his army chief of staff Maj.
General Kayumba Nyamwisa consult their watches soon after addressing
the first contingent of a Rwandan battalion who were pulled out of
Congo at Kigali, the Rwandan capital in this file picture. (AP
Photo/Rodrique NgowiI)
AP
The country's high commissioner to South Africa, Vincent Karega, this
week told sister paper, The Star, it did not make sense to blame his
government for Karegeya's death.
"Why would we have waited six years?" Karega asked, referring to the
years Karegeya had stayed in South Africa.
Meanwhile allegations have surfaced in intelligence circles of a
series of high-level meetings in the area of Gikondo in Rwanda late
last year – including a briefing by Kagame himself on December 20 – at
which the assignation was apparently planned and directed. Involving a
hand-picked group of close Kagame associates, including members of his
immediate family, the claimed killing network is allegedly
co-ordinated by the head of Kagame's military intelligence, Jack
Nziza, and has been linked in the past to several kidnappings and
attempted assassinations both inside Rwanda and in other African
states, notably Kenya and Tanzania.
The dissident exile publication Ikaze Iwacu goes so far as to name the
alleged six-man hit squad dispatched from Kigali to back up Kiririsi
on his mission.
The same general network has been linked to two attempted
assassinations on Nyamwasa in South Africa in 2010. In the same year,
Karegeya – who had been living in exile in South Africa since fleeing
Rwanda in 2007 – together with Nyamwasa and two other prominent former
Kagame insiders established the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) in
Johannesburg as an opposition in exile to their former political
master.
Two men arrested in connection with the attempted assassinations will
appear in court later this month. In the wake of the attempted
assassinations and the ongoing refusal of the government to accede to
Rwandan demands that the dissidents be extradited to face Rwandan
justice after being convicted in absentia, diplomatic relations
descended to an all-time low with the recall of South Africa's
ambassador to the Great Lakes country. More recently, South Africa
emerged as a major driving force on the African stage in the
deployment under the UN banner of a peace-keeping mission in eastern
Democratic Republic of Congo with an unprecedented mandate to use
force against militants threatening stability in the region.
Especially targeted by the highly effective UN intervention force –
whose major military asset emerged as the South African Rooivalk
helicopter gunship – was the M23 rebel grouping. Though Rwanda
continues to deny any involvement in M23, observers as well as UN
analysts have consistently linked the insurgency to Kagame's
expansionist ambitions.

17\03\06 Michelangelo tower in Sandton.Pic:Mike Dibetsoe 493
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For its part, the Kagame administration – which, despite mounting
evidence of human rights abuses and Machiavellian intrigue, presides
over a strongly performing economy – accuses South Africa of meddling
in its internal affairs and sponsoring its enemies. The claim is
backed up by the fact that until 2011, Karegeya was under official
South African protection and quietly furnished with political asylum.
In the fallout from the 2010 assassination attempts, Nyamwasa
continues to fall under the protection of the South African security
apparatus, and no action has been taken against the RNC since its
formation.
The International Crisis Group said Karegeya's killing raised more
questions on the safety of exiled Rwandese. The group's Piers Pigou
said South Africa and Rwanda "should engage" on the attacks.
"All we hear from the Rwanda government is denials and more denials.
But there seems to be a pattern of attempts on lives of Rwandese in
exile," Pigou said.
In the meantime, the official protest against the dissident grouping
has been strengthened by reports of links between the RNC and Hutu
billionaires and other fugitive power-players linked to the Hutu
genocide of Tutsis in the 1994 horrors.
In offering shelter to the Rwandan dissidents, South Africa also
appears to be playing host to what seems a deeply sinister spook
culture. The role attributed by Kagame's critics to Jack Nziza was
pioneered by Karegeya in his position as head of Rwanda's external
intelligence – co-ordinating cross-border kidnappings and alleged
assassinations, before falling out with the Tutsi strongman in 2006
and serving an 18-month sentence in prison before his South African
exile.
In 2011, a curious report appeared in the Burundian press around the
death in Johannesburg of Rwandan singer Jean Christophe Matata on a
concert tour in Johannesburg. Though no foul play was reported at the
time, an unnamed woman said the death had followed a sequence of
events springing from a sexual triangle with Karegeya as the third
point of reference.
As she narrated it, she had revived, on a clandestine basis, a
long-standing relationship with the singer, while at the same time
offering sexual favours to Karegeya, whom she described as her "Boss"
since he paid her for sex.
Thinking her dalliance with Matata was unknown, she went to see
Karegeya, who confronted her with details of the illicit affair. He
then proceeded, she says, to say he suspected Matata had been sent as
a spy by Kagame to infiltrate his networks, and he was looking to
access evidence to this effect.
At this point, she claims, he tasked her with slipping a drug (which
he provided) into the singer's drink at their next meeting, which
would knock him out and allow for his baggage to be searched while he
slept.
This, the woman claims, she did and Karegeya's agents duly searched
Matata's effects. The plan, as she understood it, however, went awry
when the singer never recovered from the sleeping draught, finally
booking himself into hospital in Johannesburg where he breathed his
last.
Hawks spokesman, Paul Ramaloko, could not be reached for comment
yesterday. But on Friday he told the media the hunt for the killer of
Karegeya was continuing.
- The Sunday Independent
http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/sinister-events-behind-rwandan-s-death-1.1628637
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