Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch:
The Christian Science Monitor reports on calls for investigation of the murder of Rwandan Democratic Green Party Vice President Andre Kagwa Rwisereka:
Rwanda’s election season is in full swing and prominent critics of President Paul Kagame are turning up dead ahead of the Aug. 9 vote. Are the killings politically motivated?
That possibility has United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon concerned enough that he has urged Mr. Kagame’s government to conduct a full investigation into the latest death: that of Democratic Green Party vice chairman Andre Kagwa Rwisereka, who was found last week nearly decapitated.
But the New York-based advocacy group Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that an autopsy is needed after conflicting police statements have muddied the waters.
“This is the second killing of an outspoken critic of the Rwandan government in less than a month,” said HRW boss Kenneth Roth, referring also to Jean-Léonard Rugambage, a journalist who was shot dead outside his home in June. “An independent autopsy and inquiry are necessary to determine what happened to Rwisereka.”
Read the full article at the Christian Science Monitor.
This is just another way of spreading the propaganda orchestrated by the genocide perpetrators and their collaborators. But their days are numbered. Rwanda’s prosecution has uncovered what Victoire Ingabire and Rusesabagina have been doing in supporting FDLR-Get ready my sister Ingabire and brother Paul
One wonders why all these fatal incidents are blamed on the Government of Rwanda. Does it follow that all deaths occuring during the election period are committed by the government in any given country. Why don’t people take trouble to analyze case by case. The Rugambage’s case was a pure revenge and the killer pleaded guilty. The beer seller (Geen Party guy)’s case is still under investigation. But even before the investigations are concluded, why should one think that the government will kill someone and leave the dead bady on the road. Hacked by machette? It does not make any sense and if anything this is an insult.
Chris
Human Rights Watch’s agenda is to see Rwandan government fail. Ken Roth is no different from late A. Des Forges. Rwanda is a corruption free state. So Mr. Roth don’t expect President Kagame to yield and pay you to stop blackmailing his government. He has delivered that’s why his campaign rallies are attended by hundreds of thousands.
Rwanda shall prosper regardless of your efforts to …..make it fail.
An amazing Green Party story of courage in the face of deadly danger…
Not the first Green Party leader killed.
Petra Kelly and Major General Gert Bastain were murdered, and that murder made to look like something else…
May God comfort and protect these brave Greens and their families…