The thing to know about Rwandan President Paul Kagame is not just that he is a dictator responsible for human rights abuses but that, despite this, he has a great many friends.
Kagame, credited with commanding the rebel force that put an end to Rwanda’s genocide 20 years ago, has made himself a global celebrity. Bill Clinton hails him as among “the greatest leaders of our time.” Tony Blair calls him a “visionary.” Bill Gates works closely with him. Kagame has spoken at Harvard and received honorary doctorates from a number of universities in the United States and Europe.
for Rwandans, it can be lethal to be Kagame’s enemy.
That the Rwandan general is a dictator is an indisputable fact, These are the facts: Kagame is a tyrant because he has achieved power through violence and wields it with despotism. Is he also a bloodthirsty man? I think so because the facts prove it. In Nairobi in 1996, Seth Sendashonga, a minister in 1994 and later an opponent of Kagame, miraculously escaped an assassination attempt. However, two years later, on 19 May 1998, he and his driver were assassinated by two men armed with machine guns. According to Wikipedia, ‘The government of Rwanda is widely held responsible for the murder.
On 1 January 2014, the body of Patrick Karegeya, Kagame’s friend and collaborator for many years, who had become an opponent of the Rwandan dictator and fled to South Africa, was found in the Michelangelo Hotel in Johannesburg. The British writer and journalist Michela Wrong explains clearly and comprehensively in her beautiful book “Do not disturb”, published in 2021, why there can be no doubt that Paul Kagame was behind the murder.
"In Praise of Blood" published in 2018 is an incredible piece of investigative reporting by a Canadian journalist Judi Rever who risked her life to give us a disturbing history of the Rwandan genocide that puts Rwandan president Paul Kagame in his proper perspective.
