The recent assassination of the former Spy Chief and Army Commander of the Burundian Army Gen. Adolf Nshimirima is a reminder that Burundi enemy is within.

Indeed, it doesn’t t need Terrorist or political scientist to tell who is behind the current evil acts in the tiny central African nation that is slowly sliding back to chaos and anarchy of the 1990s after the assassination of the First democratically Hutu Leader Melchior Ndadaye.

Let’s find out who was behind the assassination of President Ndadaye and his senior party officials?  His immediate successor Cyprian Ntaryamira who perished with his Rwandan counterpart Juvenal Habyarimana? Furthermore, who was responsible for the death of President Desire Kabila? There are a number political of assassinations or mysterious death of many Rwandans and the list is endless, who is behind all those assassinations of all these Rwandans and neighbors alike?

It is not surprising to see one of the regions’ dictator use any and all means, including the most savage violence, to hold onto power.  One of the region’s leaders who personally boast of killings should be held accountable because all these acts constitute the crime of terrorism and should be regarded as a terrorist.

There is no doubt that the leader who is sponsoring these assassinations should be regarded as the world’s foremost sponsors of terrorism. Throughout the 2000s, the Rwanda ruler has been behind the invasion of its neighbors like Congo had his hands in supporting all the armed groups that terrorized Congo. The Rwandan dictator is now giving sanctuary to armed groups that are terrorizing its neighbor Burundi.

We have learnt from our reliable sources that Kagame is not only financing these armed groups in Burundi, but he is also supplying arms  to any armed organization that asks for his assistance or Kagame asks for assistance to dehumanize or assassinate his political  opponents.

When Kagame had some disagreements with his mentor or uncle as many regard President Yoweri ,Museveni, he planned to assassinate him. He harbored some of the forces that were fighting Museveni. Kagame directly financed them; among them was Col. Dr. Kizza Besigye who escaped Uganda through Rwanda to South Africa. Col. Anthony Kyakabale who has now mended fences with President Museveni.  It took Claire Short the former British International Development Secretary a lot of effort and skills to bring the former allies to a negotiating table.  Indeed, President Museveni labeled Kagame a man of bankrupt Ideology who he regarded as a mad dog that can bite without barking.

President Kagame publicly accepted responsibility of killings of many Rwandans in Congo and Rwanda, he once said that they did not have enough time during  genocide that he would have killed many of the refuges who went in former Zaire now Congo in 1994. However, barely two years after genocide in Rwanda, Kagame invaded his vast neighboring nation fulfilling his promise of killing many Rwandans in Congo. To this date both the UN mapping report and other Human rights organizations have concluded that these killings constitute genocide.

Kagame has   shown the world that he would brook no dissent to his idiosyncratic rule, he has assassinated, or incarcerated many Rwandans, or students who have complained of inadequate or lack of democracy and rule of law in Rwanda.

Many Rwandans have been   locked up or forced to flee the country. According to the human rights watch, dissidents, are either executed or tried in Kangaroo courts and sentenced from 15 years to life imprisonment for just challenging the  Kagame and RPF regime.

The increasingly erratic nature of Kagame regime was underlined on the New Years Eve of 2014 when his former Spy Chief Col. Karegeya was murdered in a South African Hotel. Shortly after the murder, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame did little to distance himself from the killing, while officially denying any involvement.

“You can’t betray Rwanda and not get punished for it,” he told a prayer meeting on 12 January. “Anyone, even those still alive, will reap the consequences. Anyone. It is a matter of time.”

Does the World need any more evidence or definition of the terminology of Terrorism? The Killing of the former Burundi army Chief and the interference in Burundi by  Kagame should be regarded as terrorism and this Man should be stopped before it’s too late.

Jacqueline Umurungi,

Brussels.