Rwandan Patriotic Front soldiers with a U.N. peacekeeper. U.N. photo

Gen Karenzi Ordered rape and killing of our only Grace, Grace means God’s favor:  Lt Grace Rukasi was a senior nurse, our Nightingale, a sister and a savior to our wounded or fallen men and women on the battled field. Lt Grace Rukasi born in Kabale town to mother Kamashara who was allegedly called Gen Habyalimana’s cousin. Never the less Lt Grace was born and educated in Uganda, grew up with Major and medical Doctor late Peter Baingana who were neighbours from childhood. Doctor Major Peter Baingana also had encouraged Grace to join the army and Grace spent most of her service treating soldiers and in hard situations.

Once Inkotanyi our fallen heroes

After the arrival of Major Kagame he received information from his right hand men that  Lt Grace Rukasi was very close to the soldiers, all casualties were calling Grace, she was an  empathetic nurse who could not rest until she got a solution to cure those in need, she was a dedicated nurse who was equipped with professional values, honesty, empathetic, responsible, trustworthy, and respectful. Grace had moved from being a nurse to a solution in any given situation. The casualties were many in numbers and the wounded plus traumatised forces due to the enemy fire.

Kagame believed that the closeness of Grace and the RPA forces was due to seeking information to send to Kigali rather than nursing values, Grace was taken by Epimaque Runanira, Mugisha Kanwa, Gasigwa who was based in the sick bay as an RCM. The above were briefed by Gen Karenzi Karake who told the three to rape Lt Grace and throw her in the river Kagera. This was all done as Karenzi Karake ordered, our empathetic nurse was raped by colleagues, all three took turns of raping her, then threw her in the river Kagera, miraculously she was pushed aside by the water and got stuck on the grass, she was breathless, anxious, appreciatively the locals picked her up and brought her back to the sick bay. She was looked after by other nurses, and started appealing to other commanders and begging for mercy because she knew that she was blameless. Gen Karenzi who had raped Lt Grace at some point had also reported to Kagame that Grace was communicating with Gen Habyalimana’s intelligence service.

Lt Grace who was born and grew up in Uganda, only spoke poor Kinyarwanda like many of us and instead spoke fluent Runyankole but was being accused of possible family relationship to Gen Habyalimana by Kagame and his poor intelligence network. Lt Grace Rukasi was imprisoned and later kept under surveillance by the directorate of military intelligence; her monitoring was headed by the top men.

Lt Grace would move around treating wounded and ill forces under surveillance until the end of war, then was later killed by a lorry which drove into her from behind while driving on Kanombe Kigali high way, this done because Major Paul Kagame and his  Gen Karenzi Karake, Jack Nziza and other top men believed that one day, Lt Grace  will speak out on the treatment she received from colleagues who were supposed to support her, but instead physically, psychologically, sexually and emotionally abused her.

The lorry that was staged to kill her was driven by Sgt Nyirumuringa who was later killed as well, apparently the top officers thought that no one will ever speak out about this malicious killing.

Comrades we will always remember you hope Colonel Tom Byabagamba with sun glasses will be released one day

A Courageous, friendly and hero Captain Kamugisha Herbert alias Mucocori was born in Mpororo in Uganda, attended Kitante secondary school and later Kyambogo College, is described as a hardworking man who valued others by those who knew him well. Like many young Rwandans of his time he joined the NRA in1980’s with a view to returning home one day. In 1990 his dream came true together with colleagues RPA attacked Rwanda, during his service time he was on field most of the time, mostly on operations, he conducted special missions, he was the man who would know the sabotages and killings of opposition leaders in Rwanda to blame it to Gen Habyalimana’s forces.

He would investigate on enemy positions and feed back to our commanders who would conduct the attack after designing a strategic plan based on Herbert’s report.

He spent most of his time in the outskirts of Kigali with his men who were known as abatekinisiye, together with Captain Kiyago there hard work will be remembered in history.

Kamugisha was later killed due to the hate and recklessness of the Kagame right hand men. He was assassinated in Ngenda by his close colleague who was an intelligence officer of 17 battalion Peterson Gasangwa is now a major in RDF.  Major Herbert Kamugisha had acquired a Pajero and a nice house in Kigali, he was ordered to hand his car to Gen Sam Kaka and his Audi car to another top commander, despite all this, he reminded the dual top commanders of how he came in Kigali on missions when none of them could face the enemy.  As further punishment by these commanders, he was deployed in the villages away from Kigali, another officer Justus Muhizi was sent by the above top commanders to disorganise Kamugisha’s wife who later fell in love with Justus Muhizi.  He was also reported to Major Kagame as an officer who was subversive among the RPA forces.

Again as what they had done was not enough, he was reported to Major Kagame that he was communicating the atrocities which were committed during the war to what they called their enemies. The order was released for Kamugisha to be killed immediately; he was shot while asleep in Ngenda by Peterson Gasangwa who was a 2LT at the time.  He never thought that his fellow officer had been deployed to finish him, he lost his cars, house and wife plus the country he had fought for in his entire life.

At the funeral service a brother to Captain Kamugisha who was a preacher in Uganda explained that his brother did not commit suicide as it had been reported by the army command, he instead said that his brother had already reported his worries to him, and that his commanders were planning to execute him. He however said that those who participated in killing Herbert Kamugisha will be questioned by ‘’God’’. Immediately boarded the car and returned to Uganda, left everyone at the funeral gobsmacked.

Major Mugisha Richard alias Cyojo, described as a spirited intrepid officer was injected a poisonous liquid by a counterfeit Gen Rutatina in Kanombe military Hospital. Major Mugisha was being framed that he had married a Hutu wife and himself was half Hutu and half Tutsi, was accused of telling Hutu in laws of how the Kagame Government was killing Hutu’s in war zones and DRC.

Major Mugisha had started to question injustice in the army, Mugisha had fragments in the head he sustained during his time on front line, even though many of our commanders who required medical attention were taken to overseas for treatment after the war. Kagame said that Mugisha should not be taken abroad, Kagame believed that Mugisha was half Hutu and married a Hutu woman and so was capable of showing or practicing his Hutuness by engaging with what he called enemies and ex-far. And so Kagame briefed Rutatina and Jack Nziza to eliminate Mugisha at any opportunity. And so was called as he was on waiting list for hospital treatment, the opportunity was created and poison was injected as part of his treatment. After his death in Kanombe the mother and his brother who was a Lieutenant in the RPA also known as Mugisha took the body to Rwamagana hospital and the post-mortem revealed a poisonous liquid in the head, the Rwamagana Hospital did not know that the person they conducted a post-mortem, had actually been killed under the directives of the top men. The brother and his mother all relocated to Uganda. The brother had been working in the Directorate of Military Intelligence, is now hiding but still being hunted like many other comrades, Major Mugisha was also accused of collaborating with Captain Serwada who had been indicted of starting a rebellion.

Captain Serwada was once described by friends as a tiger on frontline, those who knew him recalls that he could not rest until all comrades are out of enemy lines, meaning that he was always ahead in attacking the enemy and would be last online returning to the defence. He cared more for others, speaking Swahili and Luganda mainly. His Kinyarwanda was not fluent, the wrongdoing Captain Serwada was blamed of grouchy about injustice and nepotism among the RPA forces, he was accused of being a Hutu, he further questioned the logic of killing of guiltless civilians, and Captain Serwada writhed to differentiate Hutu from Tutsi because he had grown up in Baganda communities. The only thing he knew was that civilians should be protected and only fight the armed forces, Captain Serwada only thought that the war was to be conducted the same way he had evidenced and participated in the Museveni National resistance army Uganda. But Captain Serwada realised he was wrong when it was too late. He was at the time under the brigade of Col Dodo Twahirwa in Kibungo, questioned by his superiors as to why he was spending much time with Hutu civilians.

Poor Captain Serwada found out that he was going to be killed by his colleagues, from a reliable friend. He decided to run away and returned to the jungle next to Kagera national park, the area he had spent time during his guerrilla war time. Captain Serwada took his gun with ammunitions, and was looking for the way out of Rwanda through the national park full of animals with his AK 47 alone but fighting for his dear life, with a view to returning to Uganda.  Unfortunately couldn’t make it as he was followed by his colleagues and hunted down by over 100 soldiers who had been given orders to shoot and kill. The soldiers had been briefed that Captain Serwada became a rebel and was with hundreds of Hutu recruits in the jungle, was found alone pleaded for mercy but Col Dodo well-ordered Captain Serwada’s execution

The curtains will continue to focus on the unexplained killings of Kagame and his right hand men to expose the underlying lies of individuals, in October the curtains will unfold the critical analysis of the top commanders involved in many killings of our brothers and country men.

Written Noble Marara with the anonymous Veterans