Colonel Patrick Karegeya has been assassinated today in Johannesburg (South Africa).
RWANDA /BREAKING NEWS
Amahoro People’s Congress – FDU-INKINGI – RNC
Washington DC, January 1, 2014
The Rwandan opposition is deeply saddened to announce the assassination of Colonel Patrick Karegeya today in Johannesburg, South Africa. His body was found in a Hotel where he went for a meeting. The South African authorities are investigating the murder.
Colonel Patrick Karegeya was a key figure in the Rwandan opposition and a founding member of the Rwanda National Congress. Rwandan opposition key figures have been a target in South Africa and other parts of the world. We all remember our colleague General Kayumba Nyamwasa who survived two assassination attempts in Johannesburg on June 18, 2010 and June 20, 2010. Investigations have found overwhelming evidence of the involvement of Rwandan Intelligence operatives in those attempts.
By killing its opponents, the criminal regime in Kigali seeks to intimidate and silence the Rwandan people into submission. The regime is hugely mistaken. Such criminal activities make Rwandan people more emboldened to struggle to remove the dictatorship.
Colonel Patrick Karegeya was a courageous soldier who died on the battlefield. We are determined more than ever before to carry the torch of struggling for freedom, for which he died. We shall win.
We extend our condolences to Mrs. Leah Karegeya and the children, and pray that they find strength in these difficult times.
May the Almighty God grant his soul to rest in peace.
Further details will be communicated later.
On behalf of the opposition Platform RNC, FDU-INKINGI and Amahoro People’s Congress.
Dr. Theogene Rudasingwa
Coordinator
Rwanda National Congress.
ngombwa@gmail.com
Killer Kagame, you will never finish us! When u killed late Rwigyema, you think that you became an heros, but you didnt!
So, Let us show you that you are waking us up! The Karegeyans are borning in all the world!
Shame on you! You will never die before paying that! Only God knows!
Yes you are right.
I will not finish us.
let us get together
and show him who we are
This is so sad and very pathetic, the culture that has been bred by the regime in Rwanda on getting rid of those with divergent views isn’t sustainable.If anything this inspires all people to continue to soldier until the despot is out of power!!! Saul PK should walk unto the road to Jericho on the way to Damascus and see. RIP Comrade and to his family may you be consoled by God and strengthened in these most difficult times. Please ensure that the perpetrators of this heinous crime are one day brought to book
Yes,when Rwandan people cry for Kagame’s plan to assassinate Refugees ,so many foreigners and those close to Kigali government do not accept.Yes he was killed and there is no doubt that the assassination was perpetrated by Kagame because even Kayumba was survived Kagame’s spy’s shooting
What are you waiting for?
Act before you are poisoned or strangulated
Shame, and shame on you Killer!!
Kagame u have a stupid heart and u kill people in Rwanda every day. U r not God one day u will u heartless human being.
U love popping your nose in each and every bodies affair u r not in good terms with your neighboring countries b’coz of your bad heart. Shame on u. Stop killing people. Your turn will come the people u kill will haunt u Patrick is haunting u wherever u r u killer.
we are waiting for you kagame in america
Rwandan’s know who are the RPF’s killers, when the time comes the law will hunt for these criminals. These killers should remember that they have children and families. These heartless criminals have their days, they may think they have won, but the list and the families of those who hate this criminal regime has increased. I hope Jack Nziza and Kagame will have at least some body weight. But……NO.
Kagame nibwa cyane kandi rero karagira ngo kazatumara wapi.Twebwe tuzakicha nabana bako.Impamvu kamara abanyarwanda nuko kashaka wa muhungu wako ngo azatuyobore ariko thats not possible.Kakoze cyane kwicha Karegeya kuko nonehpo natwe abakagiriraga imbabazi tuhise tuhaguruka kukarwanya.Killing one of our own will not help him instead more are getting recruited aganist him and his regime.
I have read some abuses of our beloved and wise leader His Excellency Paul Kagame. What I know is that he does not kill people;because the punishment of killing people was abolished. You guys, you mean that when you fight in bars in those overseas countries and you kill one another our President will be blamed. The President is a gift sent by GOD to Rwandans. If you fight him we shall fight you also. After all you fellows don’t seem to be politically gifted. If you were you would not be abusing patriotic Kagame like that. The solution is simple repent your offences ;so that he forgives you and you come back to RWANDA. Is that OK? BWENGE JACKSON
LONG LIVE RPF. KAGAME OYE. I WILL LOVE HIM UNTIL I DIE
ariko Kagame yabagize ate kuburyo ibibi byose ariwe mubyitirira? mushobora kuba mufite ibibazo byanyu mwihariye. ntimugakabye, ntabwo Perezida wacu ari umwicanyi. Tuzi neza aho yakuye Urwanda; mu menyo y’abicanyi, kandi tuzi naho arugejeje; aho abantu bose bareshya imbere y’amategeko. mwikomeza rero kumushinja ubwicanyi. ikimbabaza ni uko abenshi murimwe harimo na nyakwigendera karegeya ndetse n’uwo muyobozi wanyu rudasingwa, bari kumwe nawe mukobohoza igihugu. kuki mutashatse gukomeza gukorera hamwe nawe mu murongo mwiza mwari mufite? ahubwo mwahisemo kwirirwa mwiruka ibihugu mumwanduza. ariko muribeshya ntacyo muzamutwara. mbagiriye inama mwagaruka mugasaba imbabazi, nizeye ko yazibziha kuko ni nterahamwe yarazibabariye. twihanganishije umuryango wa nyakwigwndera. naho Nyakubahwa Perezida Kagame, komeza uteze imbere Urwanda kdi abanyarwanda turagushyigikiye.
An open letter to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda.
Kagame stop killing your colleagues. Though there is no proof of your direct involvement in these assassinations circumstantial evidence points and leads to your intelligence services
Someone should tell President Paul Kagame of Rwanda to stop killing his colleagues. There is a better and civilised way of dealing with political opposition than assassinating its members. You should know that one day you will relinquish power and this may come in so many forms such as; getting a permanent life threatening ailment that might incapacitate you from running the office of the president of your country, through election defeat (though at the moment it seems so remote), overthrown by your strong military (this is not so remote) or you may choose to retire. You started as a revolutionary, though sincerely speaking you have failed to revolutionaries the army, the intelligence services and other security agencies. The army and all security services should be transformed into people’s institutions representative of the demography of your country. You journey in denial that the Tusti-Hutu tensions do not exist anymore. Burundi has acknowledged this fact and moved on to transform its institutions that were previously Tusti-dominated into people’s institutions that clearly address the demography of that country. Today there is healing, reconciliation and open positive debate about Burundi’s past by the citizens of that country. There is a vibrant democracy developing in Burundi than in Rwanda. You take credit for revolutionising the economy including the IT industry. The relentless effort you have taken to do that should be the same effort to render into the institution of democracy. You have muzzled the press. You have jailed political opposition by concocting flimsy charges against them. You have tried them through kangaroo courts. You have denied them justice; you have bogged down the judiciary. You have extended the grip or grasp of your iron fist to control each and every aspect of the life of citizens of your country. In short you have turned Rwanda into a big and giant prison. The assassination of your political opponents living in exile thousands of kilometres away from Rwanda is clearly a manifestation of cowardice not expected from a gallant soldier like you. The kidnapping of exiles from Uganda. The two failed assassination attempts on Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa’s life. Now the assassination of Colonel Patrick Karegyeya. The forced exile of his wife and children. The expulsion of some of Rwanda’s diplomats in Europe because of the allegations that they are involved in attempts to kill or spy on members of your political opposition do not augur well for you. It would be of honour for you to retire one day and enjoy the status of a statesman just like Julius Nyerere of Tanzania did. But according to what is happening this may not be the case should the time of your leaving power come. We do not wish a politician of your stature leaving power and dying the way President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana left power and died. We do not want you to leave power the way President Modibo Keita (The first president of Mali) left power and eventually died. We would not be happy if you go through the same trials and tribulations of Charles Taylor of Liberia and president Gbagbo of Ivory Coast. Africa will not be proud for you to meet a similar fate that befell our beloved presidents Thomas Sankara of Burkina Faso and Ndadaye of Burundi. Africa does not want you to end the way Colonel Muammar Gadhafi of Libya ended. Neither does Africa need to see you end the way president Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda, Cyprian Ntaryamira of Burundi and President Samora Machel of Mozambique ended. It would be doing a disservice to Africa if you end the way president Muhammad Anwar Sadat of Egypt ended. The African continent does not want to see you sent into ‘retirement’ the way president Samuel Doe of Liberia was sent into retirement. You are a cockroach and poisonous snake. Why should you eliminate your comrade in arms this way? It is these people that brought you into power. It is these people that you have now targeted. What an irony! You are doing exactly what president Jaffar Numeiri of the Sudan did. Jaffar Numeiri assassinated the entire political bureau of the central committee of the communist party of the Sudan. Prominent amongst the people he killed were Abdul Khaliq Mahgoub (The secretary General of the Sudanese Communist Party), Joseph Garang (Garang was the first black lawyer in the Sudan and he should not be confused with John Garang), Alshafi Ahmed Elshikh, Babkir Elnour and Hashim Elatta. You should note that it was these members of the communist party that had brought him into power. They also helped him organise a successful counter-coup when he was temporarily overthrown in 1971. Here in Uganda where you were mentored I want you to remember very well. The assassinations of politicians like former chief justice Ben Kiwanuka, Oboth Ofumbi, GW Kalema, and so on did not help the regime of Iddi Amin we all know how he ended. Neither did the mysterious assassinations of NRA Commanders Ahmed Seguya, Sam Magala, Kaggwa ‘the giant’, of my father commander Prince Fred Nkuranga Rubereza, and of my uncle in Gulu late captain Prince David Ndayondi. And the assassination of Dr. Andrew Lutakome Kayiira, Smith Opon Acak, Edidian Babumba Luttamaguzi and so on were acts of cowardice which have no relevance in the real world.
Africa lost the talent of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah because of his intolerance to political opposition. Nkrumah’s megalomania led him into political oblivion. The incarceration and eventual death in prison of his arch political rival Dr Danquah turned many Ghanaians against Nkrumah. His introduction and excessive use of the Preventive Detention Act did not help him it instead created resentment amongst the population of that country. The assassination attempt on his life at Kulungugu (famously known in Ghana as the Kulungugu incident) was a desperate attempt by some members of the population to fight back and restore their dignity. Economic development goes vis-à -vis with democracy. You may ask why China is developing on such a rate economically when there are no elections. The answer is: there is democracy within the Chinese Communist Party; it democratically elects its leaders. To achieve democracy on a macro level we have to democratise the parties first. This is what is lacking in Africa more especially with the African revolutionary parties excluding the ANC in South Africa and to the lesser extent CCM in Tanzania. Most ‘revolutionary’ parties in Africa are nothing other than dictatorial and corrupt institutions of repression and oppression that do not live beyond the death or retirement of their founding presidents a good example is UNIP of Dr Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia. Chances are very minimal that the NRM as a revolutionary party in Uganda will survive after the departure of its founding president so will be the MPLA in Angola after the departure of president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. It is likely that in Uganda after the demise of the NRM party president the country might break into chaos with a possible return to civil war, in Angola, a military coup is possible after the demise of president Jose Eduardo Dos Santos. The international community would like to see a stable Angola and the military is positioned to perform that role because of Angola’s significant output of petroleum products and its position as a member of OPEC. Uganda is least important due to the fact that the biggest chunk of our annual budget is donor funded therefore, the international community would not allow or support any coup. There is a limited chance that Uganda may transition into full democracy after the exit of the NRM party. International support for a coup in Uganda of any nature is unthinkable. The western world always supports coups in countries: one; where there is immense mineral wealth and it is only the coup leaders that could guarantee continuous exploitation of those minerals like the case with the DRC and Libya, or, two; when a country is of strategic importance such as Egypt.