Britain should suspend aid to Rwanda to investigate assassinations linked to President Kagame, Labour said.
Britain gives £90 million a year to Rwanda, despite longstanding allegations that President Kagame has his opponents murdered overseas.
Jim Murphy, the Shadow Secretary of State for International Development, said: “The UK is a major donor to Rwanda. The British Government should use those contacts to get answers, and demand change. Ministers must make clear that Rwanda will receive no direct aid until we are certain that their Government isn’t involved in this sort of political thuggery.”
His comments came as the latest alleged victim was laid to rest in South Africa. Patrick Karegeya was found poisoned and strangled in a Johannesburg hotel room on New Year’s Day. He had fled to South Africa in 2007, set up an opposition party in exile, and often warned that assassins would try to kill him on President Kagame’s orders.
Rene Mugenzi, a Rwandan exile saved after Scotland Yard thwarted an assassination plot, said that Britain should have spoken out before.
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