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Subject: *DHR* BBC News: Rwandan President Kagame 'sparked 1994 genocide'   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15165641 Rwandan President Kagame 'sparked 1994 genocide' Paul Kagame has always insisted extremist Hutus shot down the plane carrying Juvenal Habyarimana Continue reading the main story Rwanda: Haunted Nation Slow pace of justice Kagame: Visionary or tyrant? Paul Kagame's hold on Rwandans Children of rape A former ally of Rwandan President Paul Kagame has accused him of complicity in the death of a former president which sparked the 1994 genocide. Theogene Rudasingwa said he heard Mr Kagame boast in 1994 that he ordered the shooting down of the plane carrying President Juvenal Habyarimana. "By committing that kind of crime Kagame has the responsibility in the crime of genocide," he told the BBC. President Kagame has repeatedly denied any involvement in the attack. Mr Rudasingwa, who lives in the US, has fallen out with Mr Kagam...

By Graham Holliday Reuters Mon Oct 3, 2011 KIGALI Oct 3 (Reuters) - It is just over a year since President Paul Kagame's landslide election win and observers cite the continuing lack of political space as a key issue to be addressed before the incumbent's final term ends in 2017. Former chief of staff Kayumba Nyamwasa and a former chief of military intelligence, Patrick Karegyeya, who were sentenced to 20 years in jail in absentia by a military court formed the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) opposition party in December. The trial of opposition politician Victoire Ingabire, leader of the unregistered FDU-Inkingi party, resumed on Sept. 7, 2011. She faces charges including denying the genocide, divisionism and working with a terrorist group. The FDU-Inkingi party and the RNC formed a coalition at the beginning of 2011 and held a congress meeting in Washington in last month. The 2011 Political Risk Map published by Oxford University and Aon in January...

Col. Patrick Karegyeya By Arinaitwe Rugyendo   Red Pepper 2 October, 2011  Col. Patrick Karegyeya is a former top spy for the Rwandan government who fell out with the leadership and fled into exile in South Africa. From South Africa, he called Red Pepper on Wednesday following the attempt on his exiled colleague, former Rwandan Gen. Kayumba Nyamwasa’s life in Johannesburg South Africa by unknown assassins to explain their differences with the Rwandan government. RED PEPPER’S Arinaitwe Rugyendo interviewed him. Rugyendo: What really is your problem with President Kagame? Karegyeya: I have no personal problem with President Kagame. Our differences are premised on matters of principle over national issues mostly with regard to governance and human rights. Rugyendo: What issues are those? Karegyeya: Despotism – The struggle to liberate Rwanda was premised on the establishment of democracy. This has not happened in the past 17 years of Kagame’s rule. We were all requi...

By Theogene Rudasingwa 256News.com October 1, 2011 Also available in Kinyarwanda . Paul Kagame Killed President Juvenal Habyarimana, President Cyprien Ntaryamira Of Burundi, Deogratias Nsabimana, Elie Sagatwa, Thaddee Bagaragaza, Juvenal Renzaho, Emmanuel Akingeneye, Bernard Ciza, Cyriaque Simbizi, Jacky Heraud, Jean Pierre Minaberry and Jean-Michel Perrine*. On August 4, 1993, in Arusha, Tanzania, the Government of Rwanda and the Rwandese Patriotic Front signed the Arusha Peace Agreement. The provisions of the agreement included a commitment to principles of the rule of law, democracy, national unity, pluralism, the respect of fundamental freedoms and the rights of the individual. The agreement further had provisions on power-sharing, formation of one and single National Army and a new National Gendarmerie from forces of the two warring parties; and a definitive solution to the problem of Rwandan refugees. On April 6, 1994, at 8:25 p.m., the Falcon 50 jet of the...