Yesterday, Rwanda’s military Intelligence Newspaper, Rushyashya which is written in Kinyarwanda run a story where it accused president Museveni of providing military training to Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa’s rebels in the district of Kibaale.
Articles which are published in Rushyashya, are all sanctioned and approved by President Paul Kagame’s office or the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI). We have to remember key regional political events which happened in the last 2 years prior to yesterday’s publication.
1) The political demonstrations and a failed coup d’etat in Burundi, which where all supported by Rwanda, but rebuked by Uganda and Tanzania. Paul Kagame expected Uganda’s support in Rwanda’s drive to change the regime in Bujumbura. By then, Museveni who was entering a presidential election of his own, was eager to stop the Burundi scenario from happening in the streets of Kampala, especially the dead town (Ville morte) demonstration style where city suburbs are closed down by demonstrations. Museveni didn’t want Burundi’s political events to set precedent for defiance proponents in Uganda, thus being against the coup d’etat and street demonstrations in Burundi.
2) While the failed coup d’etat was taking place in Burundi. President Nkurunziza left Tanzania for Uganda for a meeting with President Museveni, an action which made Kigali unhappy as there coup d’etat pawns where receiving setbacks in Bujumbura.
3) The Amama Mbabazi issue, during the 2016 presidential elections in Uganda. There was a big suspicion within Uganda’s intelligence services of Rwanda’s involvement in logistically supporting Amama Mbabazi. This led to Museveni and all state muscles to focus on Amama Mbabazi, the principle was to destroy him by all means with a possibility of arresting him. We all know how Amama Mbabazi was dealt. The intelligence game between Rwanda and Uganda where cancelling each other out.
4) The refusal of Paul Kagame to attend president Museveni’s inauguration was a sign that their relationship was at a low point.
5) When president Museveni appointed
the former president of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, to deputise him as chief negotiator in Burundi conflict; Rwanda was not happy with this decision because they saw Benjamin Mkapa as someone who is close to President Nkurunziza’s government/FDD-CNDD. In their murmurs, Rwanda cried of a special relationship that Benjamin Mkapa has with FDD CNDD since the time Benjamin Mkapa was still a president and FDD-CNDD was a major rebel group in Burundi. Rwanda was totally not happy with Museveni’s choice of deputy.
6) Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa’s constant investments in Uganda. We all know how Rwanda exiled Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa, revoked his Rwandese passport, his businesses confiscated by Paul Kagame’s family and constantly being trucked for elimination by the state of Rwanda. Paul Kagame has always questioned his Ugandan counterpart on the decision to allow
Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa to invest in Uganda. The answers from Kampala have always been the same, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa is a foreign investor like any other, who abides the law of Uganda. They have also advised Kigali to call other capitals where Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa has businesses to tell them to stop him from conducting business investments in there respective countries. The new $20 million dollar investment in Lira – Uganda, has made Kigali talking.
7) The recent reshuffle of long serving Uganda’s Ambassador to Rwanda, Richard Tumusiime Kabonero was another scare for Paul Kagame. Mr Richard had served as an ambassador in Rwanda since 2006, in recent years, some had accused him of being one of Kagame’s errant boy within Uganda’s system. Sometimes they used to watch premiership games in company of each other at Village Urugwiro.
8) The recent UPDF reshuffle. In a region where political instabilities, rebellions and relentless military threats are orders of the day; military reshuffle in one country are always followed keenly by other Countries in the region. In this case, Rwanda with peasant intelligence personnels who act on rumour mongering where concerned with the recent military reshuffle in Uganda, they termed the process as a war ready reshuffle, with war hardened officers bein appointed in strategic positions………
Therefore, the article published in DMI run newspaper Rushyashya, is a continuation of underground political, intelligence and Military suspicions between the two states.
Below is an article by Rushyashya translated in English by online Ugandan Newspaper theUgandan.com.ug 
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By Gakwerere Rpf
Exclusive: Rwanda accuses Museveni of training Kayumba Nyamwasa’s rebels in Kibaale District.
Rwanda accuses President Yoweri Museveni of helping recruit and train Rwandan refugees with the goal of ousting Paul Kagame, according to a confidential report by Rwandan media.
In statements quoted by Rwandan news agency Rushyashya, pointed to the potential recruitment of refugees into non-state armed groups in Uganda led by a former head of Rwandan intelligence, Lieutenant-General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa.
Without evidence to pin Uganda to the allegations, Rushyashya claims Rwanda’s leading diaspora-based opposition party, Rwanda National Congress (RNC) military bureau has assembled after its leaders met President Museveni and held closed-door talks in France last year to established a training camp in Kijuru Forest which shares a border with Kibaale and Kyenjojo districts. The report contains the strongest testimony yet that Uganda is meddling in Rwanda affairs and comes amid the worsening political fever ahead of presidential elections with Rwandans abroad will cast their votes on August 3, and those resident in Rwanda will follow suit on August 4.
But a more prickly issue is that the Government of Uganda and its close-knit security agencies are aware of the rebel activities in Kibaale but have decided to do nothing about it. Political analysts say that Kigali is watching the developments with the frosty relations between the two countries, following the military clashes between the RPF and UPDF in Kisangani, DR Congo in 1999/2000 still fresh in President Kagame’s mind.
The recruits are said to be at least 400 and being trained in the forest by several French Armed Forces’ Land Army (French: Armée de terre [aʀme də tɛʀ]) and that they were instructed in the use of weapons including assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades. The report said that the recruits were transported from the Rwanda border with an unarmed military escort and that the combatants “reported that their ultimate goal was to remove Rwandan President Paul Kagame from power.”
When asked whether Uganda is helping Rwanda rebels launch cross-border attacks, the deputy executive director of the Uganda Media Centre, Col (rtd) Shaban Bantariza, refused to deny or confirm the allegations but instead referred this reporter to Uganda’s Defence and Military spokesman Brig Richard Karemire who repeatedly declined to answer our calls.
Rushyashya also says that two other planning meetings were held in Charleroi, Belgium and Dallas, US that also had some Burundian army dissidents resolved to recruit youth to be taken for these trainings in the Ugandan forests with the aim of distabilizing the security of Rwanda by spending a lot of money on the locals through associations.
An officer from one of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) intelligence units who preferred anonymity said they had also received reports about the Rwandan rebels who disguise as boda boda riders in Kibaale town. According to sources in Rwanda, majority of the combatants come from Nyagatare, the largest and second most populous district (akarere) in Rwanda and other areas like Kayonza, Karangazi and Matimba. They left Rwanda under the disguise of fleeing from last year’s famine code-named ‘NZARAMBA’ back home and were welcomed by Kayumba’s agents after crossing the border at Cyanika in Kisoro District who transport them directly to Kibaale District.
The reports continue to say that Kayumba Nyamwasa, a Ugandan military officer before 1990 and President Museveni were recently reunited by one of Rwanda’s wealthiest men, Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa, who the Ugandan leader has given a good ahead to set up a $20m tobacco development investment to be launched in May 2017 in Arua, Northern Uganda.
Now exiled in South Africa, Tribert Rujugiro is believed to be the main financier of Kayumba’s RNC rebel trainings alongside Washington-based chief strategist, Condo Gervias. Condo alongside Dr. Emmanuel Hakizamana do most of the diplomatic work, including looking for guns.
A former economic adviser of President Paul Kagame and strong supporter of the ruling Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), Rujugiro fled Rwanda in 2009 after learning he was being investigated for quietly bankrolling the operations of anti-government groups in Rwanda and Diaspora.
This month, Gen David Muhoozi, the new Chief of Defence Forces, in apparent reference to similar allegations from Kinshasa accusing Kampala of aiding M23 rebels, whose military commander Sultan Makenga, mysteriously vanished from a round-the-clock UPDF watch in Uganda, said Uganda would never support belligerent forces to destabilise a neighbouring country.
Rwanda is due to hold a presidential election in August, which Kagame is widely expected to win. Presuming he is re-elected, a true test of Mr Kagame’s sincerity as a democrat will be his willingness to surrender power, as the constitution demands. Meanwhile he will be a formidable if fearsome operator, at home and abroad.
President Museveni’s old friend Tribert Rujugiro is believed to be the main financier of Kayumba’s RNC rebel
Unmasking Gen Kayumba, Museveni and Kagame’s ex-top aide
Once a close confidant of President Paul Kagame, Nyamwasa fled to South Africa this year after falling out with the president, later accusing him of using an anti-corruption campaign to frame opponents.
The flight of Nyamwasa, who fought alongside Kagame to end the 1994 genocide in the central African nation, was a sign of a growing rift between the president and some of his top aides.
During and after the war to end the genocide, Nyamwasa held a number of key positions, including army chief of staff and head of the country’s intelligence services.
Rwandan authorities still link Nyamwasa to a series of deadly grenade attacks in Kigali on 19 February 2010, and accuse him of nepotism and unlawful accumulation of wealth.
President Kagame threatened to crack down on several top army dissidents’ activities in 2010 and Lt Gen Nyamwasa felt increasingly under threat.
“After my departure, President Kagame addressed a press conference where he labelled Patrick Karegeya and I as ‘terrorists’,” he said in a statement.
“While passing out cadet officers in Gako, he called us ‘thieves’.
“In parliament he called us ‘flies’ whom he will crush with a hammer; with [the magazine] Jeune Afrique he called me a ‘traitor’.”
Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach in South Africa in June 2010 Several people arrested after the shooting were found to be Rwandan. Kayumba was recorded to have said that Kagame wants him dead because he challenges his dictatorial views. Nyamwasa’s wife stated that the attack was politically motivated. Al-Jazeera reported that “Rosette said they were in the parking lot of their home and a man came to the side of the car with a pistol and shot at her husband who managed to get out of the car and then there was a scuffle. The driver of the car then chased the assailant away.”
So exactly how true these Kayumba Nyamwasa rebel trainings in Kibaale District are, and whether they will lead to further unrest is difficult to tell.
But with its troubled past, the role of President Museveni in Rwandan politics (it is widely said Museveni played a big role in the October 1990 RPF invasion of Rwanda and Kagame joined his NRA bush war on day one) should not be underestimated.
http://theugandan.com.ug/exclusive-rwanda-accuses-museveni…/
