The report claims
that there is “a well-documented pattern of repression of Rwandan
government critics, both inside and outside Rwanda”, and says there is
ample evidence of involvement by Rwandan spies in threats, attacks and
even killings of opposition activists living abroad. The document cites
the case of Patrick Karegeya,
a leading member of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), an armed Tutsi
rebel group that fought to end the genocide inflicted upon the Tutsis by
their rival Hutus in the 1990s. Karegeya, who used to be director
general of External Intelligence in the RPA, fell out with Rwanda’s
President, Paul Kagame, in 2004. In January 2014, Karegeya was found
dead in a hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he had been living
in exile.
Also cited in the report is a case in the
United Kingdom, where two Rwandan exiles were warned by the police in
2011 that there were “threats to their [personal] safety emanating from
the Rwandan government”. There was also evidence of Rwandan intelligence
activity targeting opposition figures in Canada, said the report. In
one recent case, the Rwandan government had attempted to “organize
indoctrination training” aimed at Canadian youths of Rwandan heritage,
but had to drop its plan following an investigation by CSIS. IntelNews regulars might also remember the case of Evode Mudaheranwa, a Rwandan diplomat who was expelled
by the government of Sweden in 2012 for allegedly operating under
orders by the Kagame government to silence its critics abroad.
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