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RNC Leader Theogene Rudasingwa Testifies Against Rwandan Paul Kagame in Spanish High Court
Spanish Senator Pere Sampol and Human Rights Activist Juan Carrero leading protests against General Paul Kagame in New York. Sep
&#; It took me so long to testify for three reasons: first, while inom was a member of the [Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)] government, doing so meant an automatic death sentence; second, even outside Rwanda , it is difficult to escape the control of Kagame and I did not want to go into exile so soon. I was born exile and had only lived inside my country for only five years ; third, as Chief of staff [or Rwandan General Paul Kagame] I had access and I wanted to uncover more information, before inom could, one day, testify, &#; Dr Theogene Rudasingwa told the Spanish High Court, known as Audiencia Nacional on Monday October 14,
Dr Rusasingwa was testifying as the key witness of the prosecution in the case against Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) and RPF le
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Ambassador Theogene Rudasingwa On Why People Become Apologists for Kagame’s Regime in Rwanda
By: Ambassador Theogene Rudasingwa
My name is Theogene Rudasingwa, and I appreciate Sir Edward Clay’s review of Michela Wrong’s book “Do not Disturb.&#;
I am one of the millions of actors in Rwanda’s seemingly never-ending drama. inom am one of those who have met Michela Wrong, and my story is part of her narrative in the book. I am one of those refugees who took arms in to invade Rwanda from Uganda in I served as a battlefield doctor before I took up diplomatic missions on behalf of the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), the Secretary General of the RPF, before I became Rwanda’s Ambassador to the United States and finally President Kagame’s Chief of Staff until before ultimately I went into exile in
The question that Sir Clay asks is a pertinent one. Why did we, who served the system, build it that way and kept quiet for so long?
I have reflected on that for a long time. I can answer for
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The RPF’s War
RPF origins
The Rwandan Patriotic Front was created by the succeeding generation of the Tutsi elite that had been ousted, along with the Mwami (King) Kigeri IV, with Rwanda's independence. By around , Tutsis had left Rwanda. 20 They were distributed across Belgian Congo, Burundi, Tanganyika and Uganda. 21 Around half went to Uganda, where the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) helped them settle in camps in Mbarara district. 22 Relations between Tutsi refugees and the Ugandan state took an abrupt turn with the seizure of power by Idi Amin in January Some Rwandan Tutsis joined the army and Amin's death squads, but many more enlisted into the Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), which joined forces with the Tanzanian army to overthrow Amin in January Elections in December returned Obote to a second presidency. 23 The most prominent Rwandan in the UNLA was future RPF leader Fred Rwigyema. Rwigyema underwent training in guerrilla tactics in Mo