Photo: Dr. Emmanuel Ndahiro, Rwandan Spy Chief.
Rwandan External Special Operations (DMI-ESO) services have detained two citizens of Uganda accusing them of undermining the security of the country. According to sources in Kigali, the two businessmen Didas Ndamira and Simpson Mpiriwe were allegedly arrested while trying to illegally cross the Rwandan-Ugandan border and charged with security violations and serious breach to Rwandan territorial integrity.
Rwandan officials have admitted holding the two individuals while investigations on their motives are ongoing. However, the sources told AfroAmerica Network that the two individuals are accused of belonging to the “fifth column” working for the former Rwandan General Kayumba Nyamwasa and Colonel Patrick Karegeya, both exiled in South Africa.
Sources in Kigali have told AfroAmerica Network that recently there have been palpable anxiety in Kigali following rumors alleging that both former high ranking Rwandan Patriotic Army officers and close allies to the Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame are organizing an armed rebellion to overthrow Kagame’s government. The rumors mention Uganda, Tanzania, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the potential, if not simultaneous, launching pads of the rebellion.
General Kayumba Nyamwasa was a victim of two assassination attempts allegedly by Rwandan intelligence operatives, with the first assassination attempt on June 19, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa where he has sought exile (see our article here ). After the first assassination attempt, the South African Government pointed a finger to intelligence operatives from Rwanda as responsible for the failed assassination. The accusation led to a strain in the two governments relations. The South African Government eventually recalled its Ambassador to Rwanda (see our article here and here).
The relations between Uganda and Rwanda have further deteriorated in the last months. Despite being one of the godfathers of the RPF rebellion led by Paul Kagame and that eventually took power in Rwanda, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni failed to attend the swearing in ceremony of Kagame for a seven year term (see the article in our AfroAmerica Discourses by clicking here http://www.afroamerica.net/Africa/AfroAmerica_Discourses/Entries/2010/9/6_Suspect_Absence_of_Museveni_at_Kagames_Swearing.html). Paul Kagame was sworn in after controversial elections marred by unprecedented repression against the opposition, assassination of opposition figures and journalists, and overwhelming condemnation from the international community. President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, did not show up in Kagame’s swearing in ceremony either.
©AfroAmerica Network, 2010. All rights reserved.Photo: Dr. Emmanuel Ndahiro, Rwandan Spy Chief.
Rwandan External Special Operations (DMI-ESO) services have detained two citizens of Uganda accusing them of undermining the security of the country. According to sources in Kigali, the two businessmen Didas Ndamira and Simpson Mpiriwe were allegedly arrested while trying to illegally cross the Rwandan-Ugandan border and charged with security violations and serious breach to Rwandan territorial integrity.
Rwandan officials have admitted holding the two individuals while investigations on their motives are ongoing. However, the sources told AfroAmerica Network that the two individuals are accused of belonging to the “fifth column” working for the former Rwandan General Kayumba Nyamwasa and Colonel Patrick Karegeya, both exiled in South Africa.
Sources in Kigali have told AfroAmerica Network that recently there have been palpable anxiety in Kigali following rumors alleging that both former high ranking Rwandan Patriotic Army officers and close allies to the Rwandan dictator Paul Kagame are organizing an armed rebellion to overthrow Kagame’s government. The rumors mention Uganda, Tanzania, or the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the potential, if not simultaneous, launching pads of the rebellion.
General Kayumba Nyamwasa was a victim of two assassination attempts allegedly by Rwandan intelligence operatives, with the first assassination attempt on June 19, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa where he has sought exile (see our article here ). After the first assassination attempt, the South African Government pointed a finger to intelligence operatives from Rwanda as responsible for the failed assassination. The accusation led to a strain in the two governments relations. The South African Government eventually recalled its Ambassador to Rwanda (see our article here and here).
The relations between Uganda and Rwanda have further deteriorated in the last months. Despite being one of the godfathers of the RPF rebellion led by Paul Kagame and that eventually took power in Rwanda, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni failed to attend the swearing in ceremony of Kagame for a seven year term (see the article in our AfroAmerica Discourses on Suspect Absence of Yoweri Museveni in Paul Kagame’s swearing in Ceremony). Paul Kagame was sworn in after controversial elections marred by unprecedented repression against the opposition, assassination of opposition figures and journalists, and overwhelming condemnation from the international community. President of Tanzania Jakaya Kikwete, did not show up in Kagame’s swearing in ceremony either.
©AfroAmerica Network, 2010. All rights reserved.
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