Paul Kagame refuses to rule out ordering political assassinations but says
that Patrick Karegeya's strangling in Johannesburg hotel was not done on his
instruction
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| Rwanda did not kill this person – and it's a big no," Mr Kagame said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal |
Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president, has said he "wishes" he had ordered
the assassination of Patrick Karegeya, the country's former spy chief who
was found dead in Johannesburg last month.
"Rwanda
did not kill this person – and it's a big no," Mr Kagame said in
an interview with the Wall
Street Journal. "But I add that, I actually wish Rwanda did it.
I really wish it." Mr Kagame refused to rule out that he would in
principle order an assassination: "Well, that's a different issue I
have said what I said."
His blunt comments will fuel concerns about his style of government among the
international community, which recently pulled direct aid amid reports that
his regime was funding insurgency in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of
Congo. The security forces of several countries have now linked his regime
to a string of threats to the lives of his exiled opponents.
Mr Karegeya, who served as the Rwandan intelligence chief for 10 years under
Mr Kagame before the two men fell out, had accused his government of
ordering the shooting down of the former president Juvenal Habyarimana's
plane in 1994 – an incident that sparked the genocide in which as many as
one million people died.
The 53-year-old married father of three was found strangled in a hotel room in
Sandton, Johannesburg, on January 1. A bloodied towel and a curtain tieback
were discovered in the safe.
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