Posted on 06/25/2010 11:42:48 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
NAIROBI (AFP) – A Rwandan journalist who accused the regime of attempting to assassinate a dissident general in Johannesburg was gunned down in Kigali, police said Friday, fuelling tensions ahead of August elections.
Jean-Leonard Rugambage's colleagues and media watchdog Reporters Without Borders alleged Thursday's killing was linked to reports alleging the involvement of President Paul Kagame's services in the assassination bid.
"He was killed in front of his house when he was going home at 10 pm last night," police spokesman Eric Kayiranga told AFP by telephone, adding that the "unknown gunman" responsible for the attack had fled.
Rugambage ran Umuvugizi, a banned publication in the local Kinyarwanda language. The newspaper's exiled editor said there was no doubt as to why his deputy was gunned down.
"It's clear that Jean-Leonard was killed following his investigations into last week's assassination attempt against General Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa," Jean Bosco Gasasira told Reporters Without Borders.
Nyamwasa, a former comrade-in-arms of Kagame in the Tutsi rebellion that ended the 1994 genocide, fled Rwanda earlier this year after being accused by the authorities of masterminding grenade attacks in Kigali.
The former army chief survived the June 19 shooting in front of his home in Johannesburg, for which Rwanda denied any responsibility. Four people were arrested.
The Umuvugizi website, in an article dated June 24, reported telephone calls between an intelligence chief in Kigali, Emmanuel Ndahiro, and "Rwandan citizens arrested in South Africa after the attempt".
A second article dated Friday was headlined: "The Kagame regime killed the deputy boss of Umuvugizi newspaper". It was illustrated with a picture of Kagame dressed as Adolf Hitler.
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It seems another blood bath is on the way for the poor folks living in Rwanda. Central African politics are brutal and maybe a bit like those Omama learned in Chicago.
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