The plan all along was to trick him so he could be arrested in Kigali. His trial — which has been universally condemned as lacking in basic fairness and due process — was nothing short of a kangaroo court. His conviction on terrorism charges and year prison sentence was a foregone conclusion. Once again, the West has been mealie-mouthed about the unjust outcome instead of insisting Mr Rusesabagina be freed unconditionally so he can return to the United States.
Mr Kagame has a long history of going after political opponents. Bush in — Mr Rusesabagina was the most visible irritant to Mr Kagame. Rwanda is suspected of ordering hits abroad on a slew of former high-ranking officials-turned-dissidents. Lt Revocant Karemangingo killed by mysterious gunmen in Maputo in Abdallah Seif Bamporiki, a leading opposition politician, shot dead in South Africa in Patrick Karegeya, former chief of Rwandan intelligence, found dead in a hotel room in South Africa in Group Subscription.
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He says the Rwandan leader also has strong support from the UK and the US, because he has used aid money "more effectively than his African peers" and has wooed powerful lobby groups in the US, including Christian evangelicals and businessmen, to keep Washington onside. Ghanaian analyst Nii Akuetteh, a former executive director of Washington-based think-tank Africa Action, once dubbed Mr Kagame as "one of America's friendly tyrants", pointing out that he had trained at its military academies and had even addressed cadets at the prestigious West Point military academy when his son was there.
Mr Kagame's powerful network of spies have been accused of carrying out a spate cross-border assassinations and abductions. They are alleged to have even targeted their former intelligence chief Col Patrick Karegeya, who fled Rwanda after falling out with Mr Kagame. He was murdered in in his suite at an upmarket hotel in South Africa's main city, Johannesburg.
Mr Kagame did little to distance himself from the killing, while officially denying any involvement. It is a matter of time. Still believing that he has a patriotic mission to fulfil, Mr Kagame - Rwanda's de facto ruler since the genocide - is running for a third term on 4 August. This followed a controversial constitutional amendment in allowing him to run for three further terms, meaning he could theoretically remain in power until , although he sought to play down the possibility by saying that he did not want to be an "eternal leader".
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