Allow me to  first and foremost extend my heartfelt condolences for your loss. You have  not only lost irreplaceable family members , but you have also been denied of the truth regarding what really happened in Bwindi in March 1999.

My name is  Noble Marara , I am a former soldier of the Rwanda Patriotic Army (1991-2000). I served in President Paul Kagame’s presidential guard unit .  I have written extensively about my experience in the RPA .

You may  want to read my book  : https://www.amazon.com/Behind-presidential-curtain-inside-bodyguard/dp/1974552411

Although you may be inclined  dismiss my intervention in this matter like those who have been misguided into branding me as another disgruntled element , I  challenge you take a closer look at the version of what happened by the Rwandan authorities that I say you were cleverly deceived into believing .  

In August of 2012 , Inyenyeri News Group raised the alarm over the  massacre of tourists in Bwingi : https://www.inyenyerinews.org/?s=kagame+s+unreported+killings

I continue to think as we wrote in this article in 2012 ,until proof of the contrary  that :

Kagame was behind the killing of those  tourists in Bwindi National Park, which was prominently featured in western media.

That the  RPF immediately blamed it on the Interahamwe and so did the western media.

Even though it was clear that  the crime had been committed by  RPF soldiers disguised as Interahamwe.

And further that the decision to kill western tourists venturing in that area had been taken for  these two reasons:

1. To internationalize the  issue of hutu rebels by accusing them of killing innocent western tourists and secure  RPF a “ go a head “ in fighting them the way it wants and wherever they are so much as suspected to be present in any area on its radar.

2. RPF suspected some Westerners of sympathizing with Hutu rebels and  disclosing to them the positions of the RPF. Moreover, the presence of foreigners near an insurgent area was hindering RPF operations covered up as counter-insurgent operations.

I am still astonished to see that the events as recounted by  Rwandan authorities ; including the alleged torture of witness who were extradited, taken through the American justice and immigration systems ,and now resettled  ( for some ) in Australia is still taken for truth with no further questions asked !

lt would be a source of serious  embarrassment for the powerful countries involved were they to  acknowledge having been duped by Rwanda for so long but the fact is that:  justice has yet to be served and the TRUTH is still owed to those who lost their loved ones to this additional political manipulation and deception that Mr Kagame has mastered .

These events in Bwindi, gave Mr Kagame the perfect excuse to justify his subsequent occupation of the mineral rich regions  of the EST of the DRC under the guise of “ hunting “ for Hutu rebels  for years until the defeat of his de facto proxy rebellion -the M23 .

Noble Marara

NB : This reaction to an online news paper that published an article citing the shock of the shock of the families of the victims of the Bwindi Massacre of 1999 upon learning of a “secret deal ” between the US and Australia to resettle “rwandan guerillas ” in Australia was never published by the publication it was sent to . Inyenyeri has decided to publish it at the request of the author .