Opposition blames Paul Kagame

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.

 
Ex-Rwandan spy chief killed in S Africa hotel
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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