Left to Right : Anselme Mutuyimana, dead by strangulation on March 9, 2019, Jean Damascène Habarugira, tortured and killed on May 8, 2017, Eugene Ndereyimana, missing since July 15, 2019, Boniface Twagirimana, missing since October 8, 2018, Syridion Dusabumuremyi, killed on September 23 2019, Illuminated Iragena, disappeared since March 26, 2016.
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Rwanda's disappearing opposition
Disappeared or dead - Rwanda's opposition party Forces
Democratiques Unifiées is mysteriously "losing" members. The fate of the
government critics is unknown. But who is responsible?
For the last few years, a series of mysterious disappearances has shaken the FDU-Inkingi, a coalition of opposition parties against Rwanda's President Paul Kagame. 29-year-old Eugene Ndereyimana, last seen on July 15 in his home region in the southeastern Ngoma district of Rwanda, is the latest case. On that day, he set off for a FDU meeting in the northeastern city of Nyagatare, but all contact with him was lost five kilometers before he reached his destination. There has been no trace of the father of two children since then.
Attempts by the FDU to get information from Rwanda's Investigation Office produced no results. "The security service in Rwanda is so perfect, they can't tell us they don't know anything. They have the information, but they don't tell us," says Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, chairman of the FDU Inkingi. The second vice president of the FDU, Justin Bahunga, also complains that the government remains silent on the disappearance. "But if it is a deliberate action of the state to stop any opposition operating in Rwanda, then it will be hard to think that we will get him [Ndereyimana] back. That is the worst-case scenario," Bahunga told DW.
Silence out of fear
For a long time now, opposition members in Rwanda have been exposed to intimidation, violence, prison or the prospect of disappearing as soon as they criticize President Kagame and his ruling party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). President Paul Kagame has ruled the country since the genocide in 1994. While the regime has strengthened peace and economic growth, it also suppressed political criticism through extensive monitoring. Rwanda ranked 128th out of 167 countries on the 2018 Democracy Index of the Economist, which placed it between Ethiopia and China.
President Paul Kagame leads Rwanda with an iron fistSarah Jackson, Deputy Director of Amnesty International for East Africa, agrees: "Being in the political opposition in Rwanda is quite dangerous. Members have disappeared in recent years, the cases are unsolved, and that has a chilling effect." Amnesty International demands that the Rwandan government make the investigation public and credible. "It is incredibly worrying to see these rising cases of disappearances and the impact that this has on the broader political context in Rwanda," Jackson says.
Uncertain fates
No one knows who is behind the disappearances and deaths. Anselme Mutuyimana was strangled. His colleague Boniface Twagirimana disappeared from a high-security prison. He and eight other FDU party members were serving a prison sentence since their arrest in 2017 for forming an armed group and attempting to overthrow the government, something Twagirimana denied.
In May 2017, Jean Damascene Habarugira disappeared after being called to a meeting with a local security officer. Three days later, his family was called to collect his body from a local hospital. FDU Vice-President Bahunga explained that the eyes had been torn out and the head almost cut off. Habarugira had spoken out against the agricultural policy and the brutality of the police. Since March 2016, opposition activist Illuminée Iragena has also been missing.
Victoire Ingabire served a prison sentence of 8 years for cooperation with a terrorist organization and "genocide ideology"Rwanda's government, which is seen as a flagship for economic progress in Africa, remains silent on the accusations and did not respond to DW's requests for comments. The Investigation Office spokesman was "not ready" to make a statement and the Minister of Justice could not be reached.
Crossing the red line
Even beyond the borders of Rwanda, life is not easy for the regime's critics. In 2014, Patrick Karegeya, Rwanda's former intelligence chief and later one of the founders of the opposition Rwanda National Congress, was strangled in his hotel room in South Africa. He had described Kagame as a "dictator" to the Ugandan newspaper "The Observer" and the BBC 2010, saying the president would not give up power. He also accused Kagame of having ordered a series of political murders. When Kagame was asked about a possible government involvement in Karegeya's death, he said: "Rwanda did not kill this person. But I wish Rwanda had done it." Kagame also sent a warning to the population: "Any person still alive who may be plotting against Rwanda, whoever they are, will pay the price."
FDU Vice President Bahunga says: "The system has put in place certain laws and policies that make it impossible, make it criminal, to question the government." The opposition in Rwanda must fear for their lives. "There is a red line, we don't know which one, but if you do pass or cross it, then you are actually liable for murder." But he sees a chance for change: "Ndereyimana is 29 years old, Mutuyimana was 30. The government considers young people as the greatest danger." That is why Bahunga hopes that this generation will free itself from oppression.
Rwanda: another opponent from the FDU killed
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At around 9 p.m., the political opponent was attacked by two men travelling by motorcycle who brutally stabbed him several times. The victim, a father of two, died immediately.
“It’s with profound grief and sorrow, that FDU-Inkingi has to announce that our national coordinator, Mr. Sylidio Dusabumurenyi was savagely stabbed to death this Monday evening, shortly after 9PM. Our thoughts & prayers go to the family of our comrade. May his soul
R.I.P. “commented Victoire Ingabire, the chairperson of FDU, on her facebook account.
FDU is yet to be accepted to operate as a political party in Rwanda. However, many emerging members of the political party are either killed, imprisoned or disappear mysteriously.
In one year time, Sylidio Dusabumuremyi is the fourth member of FDU who has been murdered or disappeared mysteriously. Currently, there is an ongoing trial of 10 other executives of FDU, who have been imprisoned since September 6, 2017.
Rwandan investigation Bureau has announced to have opened an investigation into the murder of Silydio Dusabumuremyi. Two suspects are said to have been arrested.
Rwandan opposition leader's 'throat cut' as Kagame critics are silenced
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/24/rwandan-opposition-leader-third-killed-single-year/
A senior opposition official has been murdered in Rwanda, the latest
in a series of killings and disappearances involving critics of Paul
Kagame, the country’s president.
Syridio Dusabumuremyi, who served as national co-ordinator for Rwanda’s most vocal opposition alliance, the United Democratic Forces, was found dead in his shop on Monday evening. Colleagues said he had been stabbed several times and his throat cut.
Senior figures in the alliance, known by its French acronym FDU, were quick to call the killing a political assassination. Mr Dusabumuremyi was at least the sixth prominent UDF figure to die violently or disappear in the past three years.
Last October, the UDF’s deputy leader, Boniface Twagirimana, vanished from a high security prison where he had been held on suspicion of trying to overthrow the government and has not been seen since.
An FDU representative in eastern Rwanda disappeared without trace two months ago while the spokesman for the alliance’s leader, Victoire Ingabire, was found dead in a wood in February days after his kidnapping.
Syridio Dusabumuremyi, who served as national co-ordinator for Rwanda’s most vocal opposition alliance, the United Democratic Forces, was found dead in his shop on Monday evening. Colleagues said he had been stabbed several times and his throat cut.
Senior figures in the alliance, known by its French acronym FDU, were quick to call the killing a political assassination. Mr Dusabumuremyi was at least the sixth prominent UDF figure to die violently or disappear in the past three years.
Last October, the UDF’s deputy leader, Boniface Twagirimana, vanished from a high security prison where he had been held on suspicion of trying to overthrow the government and has not been seen since.
An FDU representative in eastern Rwanda disappeared without trace two months ago while the spokesman for the alliance’s leader, Victoire Ingabire, was found dead in a wood in February days after his kidnapping.
None of the cases has been resolved. Although Rwandan police said
they had arrested two suspects in connection with Mr Dusabumuremyi’s
death, Mrs Ingabire said she held out little help that the real
perpetrators would be held to account.
“After several unresolved assassinations of our party members, we
have no hope that his murder will be fully investigated and solved,” she
told the French news agency AFP.
President Kagame has been feted in the West for bringing stability to Rwanda after the killing of 800,000 people in the genocide of 1994. He is also held up as a rare example of an African leader who has distributed Western aid in a transparent and effective manner.
But critics accuse him of presiding over an authoritarian regime whose opponents are frequently jailed or murdered.
President Kagame has been feted in the West for bringing stability to Rwanda after the killing of 800,000 people in the genocide of 1994. He is also held up as a rare example of an African leader who has distributed Western aid in a transparent and effective manner.
But critics accuse him of presiding over an authoritarian regime whose opponents are frequently jailed or murdered.
The regime has refused to register the FDU and when Mrs Ingabire
attempted to stand in the 2010 presidential election she was arrested,
accused of divisionism and “genocide revisionism” and jailed for 15
years.
Mr Kagame, who pardoned her last year, won the 2010 election with 93 percent of the vote. He was re-elected in 2017 with 99 percent after changing the constitution to allow him to remain in office potentially until 2034.
Mr Kagame, who pardoned her last year, won the 2010 election with 93 percent of the vote. He was re-elected in 2017 with 99 percent after changing the constitution to allow him to remain in office potentially until 2034.
He knew too much: the life and death of Dr Emmanuel Gasakure and the corruption of the Kagame regime
Dr Emmanuel Gasakure, was born in Butare and was a refugee in Burundi
between 1973 and 1987. He studied medicine in Bujumbura and specialized
in cardiology in France where he arrived in 1987 and stayed until 1994.
He became the personal physician of Paul
Kagame in 2001 and remained in this position until February 20, 2015. He
worked day and night for 14 years without taking a day off. The hours
were long, the travel schedule grueling, the pay low, the recognition
non-existent. Dr Gasakure was not even allowed to attend the wedding of
his second daughter.
Before coming to Rwanda, he was the chief cardiologist in the University of Nancy in France, a prestigious position rarely awarded to non-French nationals. He was an academic and was part of a European research team. He also owned a private health clinic in France, which made him quite wealthy. He joined the RPF in 1990, then returned to Rwanda in 1994, having lost all his brothers during the genocide.
He decided to leave his position in France and come back to Rwanda in the Summer of 1994. He first rebuilt the Butare Hospital, then rapidly re-opened the school of medicine. He then spent the next seven years rebuilding Rwanda’s health system from scratch, became the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and created the new schools of nursing and the school of public health. He revamped the CHK, created the first Mutuelles, the service of emergency medicine, the telemedicine program, the “Rwanda Heart foundation”. A professor at NUR, he trained all health professionals in cardiology in Rwanda for 20 years. He was also involved in many other activities for the social good. He was the President of the Scouts of Rwanda, the chairman of the Board of the Genocide Survivors’ Fund and the president of the Sports Club of Kigali. His intelligence and energy were exceptional. He was a good man, kind to all and devoted to Rwanda and to his family.
For 11 years he was the trusted senior health advisor and personal doctor of Paul Kagame. He was a dutiful man and was totally loyal to the boss, insisting on medical ethics and not getting involved in politics. He refused to become the Minister of Health. Progressively however, he became the last person of the presidential entourage to have a direct relationship of trust with Paul Kagame without any allegiance to Kagame’s wife Jeannette. He had known Jeannette K. in Bujumbura, before her marriage. Overtime, he saw her progressively seizing full power, placing her own devoted people in all key positions around her husband, .
As of 2012, the relationship between Jeannette K. and Dr. Gasakure deteriorated, mainly because he could not accept the rising corruption of JK. He was particularly aware of the corruption in the health sector under the new leadership of Mrs Kagame’s best friend and accomplice, Dr Agnes Binagwaho. Binagwaho was Kagame’s children doctor and J.K placed her as Minister of Health in 2011. Gasakure had little respect for Binagwaho, whom he knew as brawly ambitious, cruel and dangerous, and with poor medical skills. He had to correct her basic medical mistakes with Kagame’s children many times.
He was increasingly concerned about Binagwaho’s rapidly destroying what he and his friends had been building in the health sector between 1994 and 2011. She was destroying his efforts at building medical and nursing schools. In order to advance her international career, she was catering to the Clinton Foundation and replacing Rwandan health workers by young inexperienced Americans. These came to Rwanda as “humanitarian tourists” to get experience on Rwandan patients.
Gasakure became also disenchanted with the corruption of the regime, starting with the increasingly voracious appetite for money of JK, and the expansion of Kagame’s shady personal business deals at home and abroad. He had seen the corruption settle and accelerate since 2010 . He was particularly aware of corruption using money from AIDS, the Global Fund and Clinton Foundation. Imbuto, the foundation of the first lady is siphoning money with the help of Binagwaho. Binagwaho herself is known by all for imposing all researchers working on Rwanda’s health to include her name in their publications, building a fake academic reputation. She is selling her influence and position for personal gains for example giving exclusive access to Rwandan data to Harvard in exchange for an academic position there and a protective cover of international recognition. In exchange, the Clinton Foundation is taking international credit for the work and success of Rwanda and Gasakure’s and other Rwandans’ achievements.
Binagwaho and Gasakure hated each other. Gasakure saw her as taking international credit for the work of her predecessors. Yet she was destroying everything they had worked so hard at building at home, including mutuelles. He confronted her directly on her incompetence and corruption and was increasingly vocal on the corruption of the health sector, particularly around Global Fund and Clinton Foundation money but also medicines, payment of salaries and grabbing the funds of the mutuelles.
His integrity and sincerity became a threat to sweet money deals and power. Starting in 2011, JK and Binagwaho progressively built a conspiracy against the doctor, together with JK’s corruption accomplice Musoni James. They accused the doctor of breaching medical confidentiality and revealing state secrets. A plot was set in 2012 in Uganda to accuse the doctor. Accusations of alcoholism and sloppiness (losing documents and an Ipad) started to be whispered into PK’s ears. JK also questioned his loyalty. When PK asked the views of his advisors on the issue of a third mandate, Gasakure suggested that PK keeps his word and respects the constitution. This was not appreciated. At two occasions the doctor and the first lady had a fall-out and the doctor thought he was fired. But twice, PK did not allow him to leave his service and called back after a few days.
Increasingly exhausted, the doctor fell seriously ill in June 2014. His daughters’ restlessness and demand for money triggered the disease. He lost a lot of weight, was coughing constantly and was spitting blood. He had insomnias and was no longer exercising. He wondered whether he had been poisoned. Medical examinations and tests in Kigali were not showing anything wrong. He became sicker and sicker and could barely stand. During duty travel, he was constantly lying in his room or in the car. But the President would not give him a day off to rest or seek medical treatment. On October 26, in London, PK had an anger burst because Gasakure was too slow in giving an answer to a question and ordered him to return to Kigali and “wait for him there”. In Kigali, he was placed under house arrest on October 28 and interrogated daily by the police. During the interrogations, he was asked to produce some specific medical documents related to PK’s health. He could no longer find these documents. He realized that they had been stolen in the locked closet of his bedroom of his home in Kigali and in a pouch that was accessible only to four people of the closest entourage. The police requested specific documents at specific dates. He realized his interrogators had the documents and he had been trapped. The Two Ladies had seized the opportunity of his disease to tighten the plot and resurrect the accusations of breach of medical confidentiality.
He then wrote a letter to PK apologizing for “past mistakes” and requesting a medical leave. PK still supported him despite the accusations fomented by JK : the medical leave was finally granted after 5 months of agony.
Gasakure arrived in Belgium on November 20 and stayed there until December 27, except for one week where he went to his old hospital in Nancy, France. There, the doctors diagnosed extreme exhaustion and nervous break-down, a “burn- out”. Doctors ordered sleep therapy and sensorial isolation, with no access to phone or internet for a few days. The treatment worked well. After five days, the symptoms disappeared and he rapidly got better. Doctors then warned him about the very high risk of relapse and prescribed a medical treatment and a total rest for six months, preferably not in Rwanda.
Yet, the Presidency refused to grant him the rest and accused him of not having reported for duty, during the time he was in sleep therapy. Ines Mpambara, the chief of staff at the Presidency was calling him non-stop. The Presidency was putting high pressure through the Embassy in Brussels, ordering him to go back to Kigali, despite medical advice to the contrary.
Concerned by his daughters and in financial distress, he returns to Kigali on 27 December, 2014, against the advice of his doctors. He has been two weeks under medical treatment, does not drink any alcohol and is back to sleeping regularly. He is officially the president’s doctor, still, and not given permission to take another job. He sends a second letter to PK to request an assistant. He also ask to no longer travel because of medical reasons. He receives no answer. He asks for an appointment with PK, which keeps being postponed. He has some violent exchange with Mpambara and Binagwaho, who is taking revenge by mistreating Gasakure’s son, also a doctor. Towards the end of January 2015, he has to face again severe problems at home, his daughter being beaten by her husband. He then falls into a relapse of the burn-out. The insomnia comes back. On February 2, he cannot sleep because the bar next door is very noisy. He goes there to ask them to stop the noise and a fight erupts. He is severely beaten by a crowd. Police comes. The bar owner accuses him of having destroyed his sound material in the bar. He contacts a lawyer and prepares his defense.
He is then secretly arrested on February 4th, sent to jail. “Witnesses”, mostly “errand boys” of JK come “spontaneously” to the police to accuse the doctor. They bring back the accusations of leaking medical secrets. They say Gasakure spoke in public of the health of the President and criticized the President. One reliable source mentions that Gasakure probably said “the President has changed and his wife is unbearable, they are ungrateful ”. He is tortured and interrogated in jail for 3 weeks. DMI accuses him of everything they can think of: being an alcoholic, disclosing the location of PK, breaching medical confidentiality, not having reported for duty while in sleep therapy, criticizing PK and JK, having talked about political parties, being a CIA, MI15, and Mossad agent and passing sensitive medical and security information, plotting to kill the President, having Mzungu friends in Belgium, France and the US, being a friend of General Patrick Karegeya, Colonel Tom Byabagamba, Innocent Nyaruhirira and Charles Murigande, having contacted the RNC etc . The Ladies, JK, Binagwaho and Mpambara had probably realized that the accusation of breach of medical confidentiality would not be sufficient to get PK to order the doctor to be killed. So they threw a wide net to catch him, anything to get the increasingly paranoid and gullible PK to give the killing order.
Dr Gasakure keeps denying the accusations. “who are you to question my loyalty? What do you know about medical information?” He requests a lawyer, he asks his family to be informed of his where-about. Towards the end he refuses to answer questions anymore: “that’s it. I am fed up. I will not answer your questions anymore”. On February 20, 2015 an official note is sent to governments’ officials: the doctor is suspended for three months without pay for “misconduct”. On February 25, he dies in prison, executed by Jack Nziza and Guido Rutagengwa, shot at gunpoint. The DMI had concluded he did nothing wrong, but “he could be a risk”.
All the boyscouts of Rwanda, health professionals, genocide survivors and the international community attended his funeral. More than 2000 people came. Nobody from the Government was present. PK did not send any representative. Everybody understood then that Gasakure was the next innocent victim. PK had killed him.
For 14 years Gasakure took care of PK and his family, day and night. When he fell ill, exhausted and in a burn-out, his enemies realized they had a chance to get the conspiracy to finally work. They killed him because he was weak and because they could. They killed him because he was too vocal in opposing the vast corruption of JK and her friends. They killed him because in a meeting he told PK he should keep his word to respect the constitution and not seek a third mandate. They could because Gasakure’s was weakened by the terrible family problems.
PK used Dr Gasakure for 14 years, calling him in the middle of the night almost daily. He treated this professor of cardiology like a bus boy. He denied him the right to move to another job, where he could have used his skills for the good of all Rwandans and train several new generations of Rwandan doctors. When Gasakure was sick and no longer useful to him, PK did not even allow him to take a few days to sleep. PK threw him away like a dirty towel.
He was among the best and the brightest sons of Rwanda. PK killed him like a sick dog . He knew too much.
Anonymous
RWANDA SOUTH AFRICA MURDER
A minister in Rwanda has said the murdered former bodyguard of President Paul Kagame was killed during a robbery in South Africa.
Rwanda’s Minister of State in for Foreign Affairs in charge of the East African Community Olivier Nduhungirehe confirmed the killing of Camir Nkurunziza, but noted that he was killed while on a robbery mission, in a tweet.
“So, Nkurunziza, a member of terrorist organizations RNC of Kayumba Nyamwasa then FLN of Nsabimana, was also a hijacker in South Africa. He was killed yesterday evening by the Goodwood Police while resisting arrest with a knife. Once a criminal, always a criminal,” Nduhungirehe said.
Nkurunziza was on Thursday evening shot dead in Cape Town in South Africa. Sources in South Africa who spoke to Saturday Vision revealed that Nkurunziza was shot dead together with a colleague he was travelling with in their private car. His death is similar to that of Seth Sendashonga, Rwanda's former interior minister, who was gunned down in his car in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on May 16, 1998.
Nkurunziza is a brother of Sergeant Innocent Karisa who was kidnapped from Uganda by Ugandan police and handed over to Rwanda after being accused of recruiting for the Rwanda National Congress.
Nkurunziza fled to exile in South Africa after accusing Kagame of planning to rule Rwandans by force, torture of opponents and Kagame also accused him of planning a coup.
He later joined the RNC but by the time of his death, he was linked to the recently arrested Rwandan dissident Callixte Nsabimana alias Sankara of the National Liberation Movement (NLM).
Nkurinzinza’s death comes hardly a week after Kagame visited South Africa for the swearing in Ceremony of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Kagame in an interview with the media accused the dissidents in South Africa of being responsible for his sour relationship with Uganda.
No suspects had been arrested yet by Friday. However Kagame critics who spoke to Saturday Vision noted that the killings had hallmarks of Rwandese intelligence.
Rwandese Ambassador to Uganda Maj. Gen Frank Mugambage denied the killings. “Where did you get it from? I have no idea about it,” he said
This would not be the first time, Rwanda has been linked to the killings of dissidents opposed to Kagame. In 2013, former Rwandan intelligence chief Patrick Karegeya was found strangled at a hotel in South Africa.
A South African media quoted Police sources saying that Nkurunziza had been shot in the Goodwood suburb of Cape Town and that he was part of a gang of hijackers who had pounced on an unsuspecting victim.
In April this year, a south African Court ruled in the inquest into the 2013 murder of Karegeya that the four suspects linked to the murder were known and “directly linked” to Rwanda’s government. The four men include Appollo Ismael Kiririsi, Samuel Niyoyita, Nshizirungu Vianney and Alex Sugira are all Rwandan nationals who fled South Africa shortly after the murder.
Before coming to Rwanda, he was the chief cardiologist in the University of Nancy in France, a prestigious position rarely awarded to non-French nationals. He was an academic and was part of a European research team. He also owned a private health clinic in France, which made him quite wealthy. He joined the RPF in 1990, then returned to Rwanda in 1994, having lost all his brothers during the genocide.
He decided to leave his position in France and come back to Rwanda in the Summer of 1994. He first rebuilt the Butare Hospital, then rapidly re-opened the school of medicine. He then spent the next seven years rebuilding Rwanda’s health system from scratch, became the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and created the new schools of nursing and the school of public health. He revamped the CHK, created the first Mutuelles, the service of emergency medicine, the telemedicine program, the “Rwanda Heart foundation”. A professor at NUR, he trained all health professionals in cardiology in Rwanda for 20 years. He was also involved in many other activities for the social good. He was the President of the Scouts of Rwanda, the chairman of the Board of the Genocide Survivors’ Fund and the president of the Sports Club of Kigali. His intelligence and energy were exceptional. He was a good man, kind to all and devoted to Rwanda and to his family.
For 11 years he was the trusted senior health advisor and personal doctor of Paul Kagame. He was a dutiful man and was totally loyal to the boss, insisting on medical ethics and not getting involved in politics. He refused to become the Minister of Health. Progressively however, he became the last person of the presidential entourage to have a direct relationship of trust with Paul Kagame without any allegiance to Kagame’s wife Jeannette. He had known Jeannette K. in Bujumbura, before her marriage. Overtime, he saw her progressively seizing full power, placing her own devoted people in all key positions around her husband, .
As of 2012, the relationship between Jeannette K. and Dr. Gasakure deteriorated, mainly because he could not accept the rising corruption of JK. He was particularly aware of the corruption in the health sector under the new leadership of Mrs Kagame’s best friend and accomplice, Dr Agnes Binagwaho. Binagwaho was Kagame’s children doctor and J.K placed her as Minister of Health in 2011. Gasakure had little respect for Binagwaho, whom he knew as brawly ambitious, cruel and dangerous, and with poor medical skills. He had to correct her basic medical mistakes with Kagame’s children many times.
He was increasingly concerned about Binagwaho’s rapidly destroying what he and his friends had been building in the health sector between 1994 and 2011. She was destroying his efforts at building medical and nursing schools. In order to advance her international career, she was catering to the Clinton Foundation and replacing Rwandan health workers by young inexperienced Americans. These came to Rwanda as “humanitarian tourists” to get experience on Rwandan patients.
Gasakure became also disenchanted with the corruption of the regime, starting with the increasingly voracious appetite for money of JK, and the expansion of Kagame’s shady personal business deals at home and abroad. He had seen the corruption settle and accelerate since 2010 . He was particularly aware of corruption using money from AIDS, the Global Fund and Clinton Foundation. Imbuto, the foundation of the first lady is siphoning money with the help of Binagwaho. Binagwaho herself is known by all for imposing all researchers working on Rwanda’s health to include her name in their publications, building a fake academic reputation. She is selling her influence and position for personal gains for example giving exclusive access to Rwandan data to Harvard in exchange for an academic position there and a protective cover of international recognition. In exchange, the Clinton Foundation is taking international credit for the work and success of Rwanda and Gasakure’s and other Rwandans’ achievements.
Binagwaho and Gasakure hated each other. Gasakure saw her as taking international credit for the work of her predecessors. Yet she was destroying everything they had worked so hard at building at home, including mutuelles. He confronted her directly on her incompetence and corruption and was increasingly vocal on the corruption of the health sector, particularly around Global Fund and Clinton Foundation money but also medicines, payment of salaries and grabbing the funds of the mutuelles.
His integrity and sincerity became a threat to sweet money deals and power. Starting in 2011, JK and Binagwaho progressively built a conspiracy against the doctor, together with JK’s corruption accomplice Musoni James. They accused the doctor of breaching medical confidentiality and revealing state secrets. A plot was set in 2012 in Uganda to accuse the doctor. Accusations of alcoholism and sloppiness (losing documents and an Ipad) started to be whispered into PK’s ears. JK also questioned his loyalty. When PK asked the views of his advisors on the issue of a third mandate, Gasakure suggested that PK keeps his word and respects the constitution. This was not appreciated. At two occasions the doctor and the first lady had a fall-out and the doctor thought he was fired. But twice, PK did not allow him to leave his service and called back after a few days.
Increasingly exhausted, the doctor fell seriously ill in June 2014. His daughters’ restlessness and demand for money triggered the disease. He lost a lot of weight, was coughing constantly and was spitting blood. He had insomnias and was no longer exercising. He wondered whether he had been poisoned. Medical examinations and tests in Kigali were not showing anything wrong. He became sicker and sicker and could barely stand. During duty travel, he was constantly lying in his room or in the car. But the President would not give him a day off to rest or seek medical treatment. On October 26, in London, PK had an anger burst because Gasakure was too slow in giving an answer to a question and ordered him to return to Kigali and “wait for him there”. In Kigali, he was placed under house arrest on October 28 and interrogated daily by the police. During the interrogations, he was asked to produce some specific medical documents related to PK’s health. He could no longer find these documents. He realized that they had been stolen in the locked closet of his bedroom of his home in Kigali and in a pouch that was accessible only to four people of the closest entourage. The police requested specific documents at specific dates. He realized his interrogators had the documents and he had been trapped. The Two Ladies had seized the opportunity of his disease to tighten the plot and resurrect the accusations of breach of medical confidentiality.
He then wrote a letter to PK apologizing for “past mistakes” and requesting a medical leave. PK still supported him despite the accusations fomented by JK : the medical leave was finally granted after 5 months of agony.
Gasakure arrived in Belgium on November 20 and stayed there until December 27, except for one week where he went to his old hospital in Nancy, France. There, the doctors diagnosed extreme exhaustion and nervous break-down, a “burn- out”. Doctors ordered sleep therapy and sensorial isolation, with no access to phone or internet for a few days. The treatment worked well. After five days, the symptoms disappeared and he rapidly got better. Doctors then warned him about the very high risk of relapse and prescribed a medical treatment and a total rest for six months, preferably not in Rwanda.
Yet, the Presidency refused to grant him the rest and accused him of not having reported for duty, during the time he was in sleep therapy. Ines Mpambara, the chief of staff at the Presidency was calling him non-stop. The Presidency was putting high pressure through the Embassy in Brussels, ordering him to go back to Kigali, despite medical advice to the contrary.
Concerned by his daughters and in financial distress, he returns to Kigali on 27 December, 2014, against the advice of his doctors. He has been two weeks under medical treatment, does not drink any alcohol and is back to sleeping regularly. He is officially the president’s doctor, still, and not given permission to take another job. He sends a second letter to PK to request an assistant. He also ask to no longer travel because of medical reasons. He receives no answer. He asks for an appointment with PK, which keeps being postponed. He has some violent exchange with Mpambara and Binagwaho, who is taking revenge by mistreating Gasakure’s son, also a doctor. Towards the end of January 2015, he has to face again severe problems at home, his daughter being beaten by her husband. He then falls into a relapse of the burn-out. The insomnia comes back. On February 2, he cannot sleep because the bar next door is very noisy. He goes there to ask them to stop the noise and a fight erupts. He is severely beaten by a crowd. Police comes. The bar owner accuses him of having destroyed his sound material in the bar. He contacts a lawyer and prepares his defense.
He is then secretly arrested on February 4th, sent to jail. “Witnesses”, mostly “errand boys” of JK come “spontaneously” to the police to accuse the doctor. They bring back the accusations of leaking medical secrets. They say Gasakure spoke in public of the health of the President and criticized the President. One reliable source mentions that Gasakure probably said “the President has changed and his wife is unbearable, they are ungrateful ”. He is tortured and interrogated in jail for 3 weeks. DMI accuses him of everything they can think of: being an alcoholic, disclosing the location of PK, breaching medical confidentiality, not having reported for duty while in sleep therapy, criticizing PK and JK, having talked about political parties, being a CIA, MI15, and Mossad agent and passing sensitive medical and security information, plotting to kill the President, having Mzungu friends in Belgium, France and the US, being a friend of General Patrick Karegeya, Colonel Tom Byabagamba, Innocent Nyaruhirira and Charles Murigande, having contacted the RNC etc . The Ladies, JK, Binagwaho and Mpambara had probably realized that the accusation of breach of medical confidentiality would not be sufficient to get PK to order the doctor to be killed. So they threw a wide net to catch him, anything to get the increasingly paranoid and gullible PK to give the killing order.
Dr Gasakure keeps denying the accusations. “who are you to question my loyalty? What do you know about medical information?” He requests a lawyer, he asks his family to be informed of his where-about. Towards the end he refuses to answer questions anymore: “that’s it. I am fed up. I will not answer your questions anymore”. On February 20, 2015 an official note is sent to governments’ officials: the doctor is suspended for three months without pay for “misconduct”. On February 25, he dies in prison, executed by Jack Nziza and Guido Rutagengwa, shot at gunpoint. The DMI had concluded he did nothing wrong, but “he could be a risk”.
All the boyscouts of Rwanda, health professionals, genocide survivors and the international community attended his funeral. More than 2000 people came. Nobody from the Government was present. PK did not send any representative. Everybody understood then that Gasakure was the next innocent victim. PK had killed him.
For 14 years Gasakure took care of PK and his family, day and night. When he fell ill, exhausted and in a burn-out, his enemies realized they had a chance to get the conspiracy to finally work. They killed him because he was weak and because they could. They killed him because he was too vocal in opposing the vast corruption of JK and her friends. They killed him because in a meeting he told PK he should keep his word to respect the constitution and not seek a third mandate. They could because Gasakure’s was weakened by the terrible family problems.
PK used Dr Gasakure for 14 years, calling him in the middle of the night almost daily. He treated this professor of cardiology like a bus boy. He denied him the right to move to another job, where he could have used his skills for the good of all Rwandans and train several new generations of Rwandan doctors. When Gasakure was sick and no longer useful to him, PK did not even allow him to take a few days to sleep. PK threw him away like a dirty towel.
He was among the best and the brightest sons of Rwanda. PK killed him like a sick dog . He knew too much.
Anonymous
Rwanda reacts to Kagame bodyguard's murder
https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1501284/rwanda-reacts-kagame-bodyguards-murder
Added 31st May 2019 02:41 PM
Nkurunziza fled to exile in South Africa after accusing Kagame of
planning to rule Rwandans by force, torture of opponents and Kagame also
accused him of planning a coup.
A minister in Rwanda has said the murdered former bodyguard of President Paul Kagame was killed during a robbery in South Africa.
Rwanda’s Minister of State in for Foreign Affairs in charge of the East African Community Olivier Nduhungirehe confirmed the killing of Camir Nkurunziza, but noted that he was killed while on a robbery mission, in a tweet.
“So, Nkurunziza, a member of terrorist organizations RNC of Kayumba Nyamwasa then FLN of Nsabimana, was also a hijacker in South Africa. He was killed yesterday evening by the Goodwood Police while resisting arrest with a knife. Once a criminal, always a criminal,” Nduhungirehe said.
Nkurunziza was on Thursday evening shot dead in Cape Town in South Africa. Sources in South Africa who spoke to Saturday Vision revealed that Nkurunziza was shot dead together with a colleague he was travelling with in their private car. His death is similar to that of Seth Sendashonga, Rwanda's former interior minister, who was gunned down in his car in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on May 16, 1998.
Nkurunziza is a brother of Sergeant Innocent Karisa who was kidnapped from Uganda by Ugandan police and handed over to Rwanda after being accused of recruiting for the Rwanda National Congress.
Nkurunziza fled to exile in South Africa after accusing Kagame of planning to rule Rwandans by force, torture of opponents and Kagame also accused him of planning a coup.
He later joined the RNC but by the time of his death, he was linked to the recently arrested Rwandan dissident Callixte Nsabimana alias Sankara of the National Liberation Movement (NLM).
Nkurinzinza’s death comes hardly a week after Kagame visited South Africa for the swearing in Ceremony of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Kagame in an interview with the media accused the dissidents in South Africa of being responsible for his sour relationship with Uganda.
No suspects had been arrested yet by Friday. However Kagame critics who spoke to Saturday Vision noted that the killings had hallmarks of Rwandese intelligence.
Rwandese Ambassador to Uganda Maj. Gen Frank Mugambage denied the killings. “Where did you get it from? I have no idea about it,” he said
This would not be the first time, Rwanda has been linked to the killings of dissidents opposed to Kagame. In 2013, former Rwandan intelligence chief Patrick Karegeya was found strangled at a hotel in South Africa.
A South African media quoted Police sources saying that Nkurunziza had been shot in the Goodwood suburb of Cape Town and that he was part of a gang of hijackers who had pounced on an unsuspecting victim.
In April this year, a south African Court ruled in the inquest into the 2013 murder of Karegeya that the four suspects linked to the murder were known and “directly linked” to Rwanda’s government. The four men include Appollo Ismael Kiririsi, Samuel Niyoyita, Nshizirungu Vianney and Alex Sugira are all Rwandan nationals who fled South Africa shortly after the murder.
