Rwanda's former spy chief has been found dead in a hotel in South
Africa, and police said yesterday they have opened a murder
investigation. Opposition leaders immediately accused President Paul
Kagame of ordering his assassination.
The opposition coalition, Rwandan National Congress, said Patrick
Karegeya, a former colonel and longtime Kagame ally in war who turned
against him in peace, was found strangled in a room at Johannesburg's
plush Michelangelo Towers hotel.
A police statement said: "He was
found in the hotel room dead on the bed. Preliminary investigations
revealed that his neck (was) swollen. A towel with blood and a rope were
found in the hotel room safe. There is a possibility that he might have
been strangled."
It said his body was found on Wednesday, New
Year's Day. Congress coordinator, Theogene Rudasingwa, told The
Associated Press in a telephone call from Washington that it is unclear
if Karegeya was killed on Tuesday or Wednesday. He said Karegeya's death
follows a pattern of assassinations ordered by Kagame.
Kagame's
government has vehemently denied such charges, though Rwandan exiles say
British, American, and Belgian law enforcers have frequently warned
them that their government is plotting to kill them.
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