Kagame locks himself as he closes neighboring borders.
Rwanda is often described as a thousand hills but also with a thousand problems, the latest closing of the Rwandan border with Burundi which indeed has been unofficially closed will be the latest thorn in the throat of Paul Kagame and Rwanda in general.
Uganda was a refugee home and military base for the Rwandan RPF/A before they seized power in Kigali in 1994. Mr Kagame was a close ally of President Yoweri Museveni then a rebel leader before Mr. Museveni captured power in Kampala in 1986.
Mr Museveni returned the favour by helping the then RPF /A Leader Gen. Fred Rwigyema who was not only an ally of President Museveni but a close friend who he recruited in the FRONASA during the time of fighting dictator Idi Amin the then President of Uganda from 1971-1979.
It was this background and brotherly relationship Mr. Museveni had with Gen. Fred Rwigyema that influenced him to install Mr Kagame after the sudden and mysterious death of Gen. Fred Rwigyema as RPF/A commander and Rwanda’s president 10 years later.
Their relationship between President Museveni and Kagame soured, as Uganda and Rwanda fought two wars for the spoils of power in resource-rich eastern DR Congo. But under pressure from USA and UK the two leaders rebuilt relations. However, the political reconciliation of these two leaders was not out of love but out of external pressure and the divorce is back again on their respective doors.
President Kagame is like a woman who has divorced many men but claims to be good despite complaints from all her former husbands that she is not fit for marriage. Indeed, you can’t love distant people when you have bad terms with your neighbors. President Kagame has quarreled with all his neighbors and threatened to kill them whenever they disagree politically.
“Those people [Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete] you just heard siding with Interahamwe and FDLR and urging negotiations… negotiations? Me, I do not even discuss this topic, because I will just wait for you [Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete] at the right place and I will hit you! He[Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete] did not deserve my answer. I did not waste my time answering him…It is well known. There is a line you cannot cross, there is a line, a line that you should never cross. It is impossible…”“
Kagame a hooligan and this is what he has been ever since, people did not know him well. The Late Mwalimu Nyerere said once a person eats a human meat, one will eat it forever, as he will continuously feel like eating more. Kagame killed many and people’s blood is haunting him so he is hungry of this so called bloodshed. He is looking at all his neighbors and feels if he can hit and shed like 40m blood may be he will feel happy, but alas, what a dream. Well the world should be on the guard, Kagame is a total hooligan. In fact at the time of those threats, President Jkaya Kikwete warned him that if he dares to attack his country they will teach him the same lesson they taught Idi Amin the then Ugandan President in 1979 “anyone who dares invade or provoke us will face dire consequences”.
President Kagame is the current chairperson of the EAC, I’m afraid, this way-the EAC’s future is hanging in balance! I don’t think that a mere disagreement or the allegations of by President Kagame would warrant all these border closings of Burundi and Uganda or public insults and threats.
This is the sound of fear-for-truth. Kagame knows what he’s doing in this entire conundrum. He has given sanctuary to the rebels and coup plotters in Burundi, he has been sending spies invading Uganda like swarms of locusts like Rene Rutagungira his former military escort to Gen.James Kabarebe .
Rwanda is the only country in the world with both Police and Military attaché, he has the all these machine killers in the Rwanda High Commission in Kampala. President Museveni being a tactician president he has been slowly but surely allowing his former Police Chief Gen. Kale Kayuhura to be used by Kagame machinery to arrest or kill all Rwandan dissents on the Ugandan Soil.
President Museveni in 1971 left Uganda after Idi Amin’s coup not because he was an imminent target but he was ideologically different from Amin, it follows that all Rwandans and friends of Rwanda should rise up against this murderous regime, he sounds as crack head …I feel sorry for his words and actions while he is the Chairperson of EAC….I think they should kick him out, Kagame now thinks he is lord of wars.
Mwesigye Christine