Muhirwa left his commander Eddy right
Muhirwa was young tall innocent and vulnerable born in Rwanda and always wished that one day all people will live in peace, on the other side I was growing up in another country but we both shared the same goal of seeing all Rwandans live in peace and harmony. He grew up in the eastern side of Rwanda while I was growing up in the southern part of Uganda, my parents had left Rwanda in 1959 but his parents stayed in Rwanda hoping that the newly Hutu government was going to do as promised ‘democracy, Peace and Development’ contrarily to what the government turned up with of killings forcing people into exile.
Surprisingly this young man Muhirwa decided to join the Rwandese patriotic army with high hopes that the newly movement would help him reach his goals of seeing all people live together in peace and possibly harmony. On the training wing he was discriminated by the majority of young soldiers who believed that all people born in Rwanda were all extremist Hutu’s who supported the ruling government of President Juvenal Habyalimana.
He continuously preached peace to everyone but not all listened, Muhirwa was luckily deployed to become a body guard to my cousin Captain Eddy Rwigema, my cousin was a full combat soldier who shadowed Major Murangira and they both worked closely in order to shell the enemy out of all areas of Rwanda. My cousin captain Eddy Rwigema as well Major Murangira both got killed after the war for the reasons that I am not going to discuss today.
Captain Eddy Rwigema
After the death of captain Eddy Rwigema the young Muhirwa was not satisfied, he tried to protect his commander when they got attacked, with his MMG rifle he fought the attackers attempting covering fire to create the escape route for his commander but unfortunately Captain Eddy Rwigema realised that Major Birasa of whom they were travelling together in the car was already dead. Captain Eddy Rwigema had already been shot in the leg, he could not see that his body guard was shooting the attackers to create an escape route for him, he run out of the car and landed under the terrace, while under the terrace he witnessed Major Birasa being burnt in the car that they were travelling in.
In the end the attackers walked towards the terrace where Captain Eddy was laying, Muhirwa was still aiming to protect his commander but unfortunately Captain Eddy Rwigema decided to shoot himself using a hand gun, Muhirwa said that ‘Captain Eddy believed that the enemy was about to take him hostage’. Muhirwa went on to say that he recognized two attackers, he went further to explain that the attackers were from the high command, the soldiers that were responsible to protecting Paul Kagame who was our Commander- in- Chief, this is a unit that i was part of but unaware of the mission of course which eliminated my beloved cousin, Muhirwa explained that the soldiers he had recognised among them was Mugabo who was a W01 and later became a full Lieutenant after that successful mission of killing his colleagues.
Muhirwa approached me and explained how my cousin and Major Birasa had been killed by our own colleagues, I said to him that there was no evidence but he went on to say that he had witnessed the killers and will not leave any stone unturned until the killers have faced justice. As a person who was at the time working in Kagame’s entourage, I said to Muhirwa that there was no body to report this matter to and that if the two commanders got killed by our own army then the top commanders knew this and if he doesn’t stop talking he will be the next target . He walked away from me, I called him but he said that there was no need talking to me any further, after a couple of hours the widow of my Cousin Captain Eddy Rwigema contacted me, she accused me of knowing the death of my Cousin and never told her. She stated that Muhirwa had been to her house and had explained to her all that occurred and also that I had threatened Muhirwa not to say things with no evidences. The widow said that she was going to report all of us to the head of the army, hours later I was contacted by the chief body guard of the head of the army at the time, who said that I had to show them where Muhirwa was staying, I asked him the reasons behind wanting to see Muhirwa and said that they only wanted to ask him a few questions about what he had reported to the widow of Captain Eddy Rwigema.
He went on to say that Muhirwa required some psychological input, I agreed and they came to see me at Kagame’s residence where I was staying, I drove in front of them to the address where Muhirwa was staying, the body guards of the then head of the army said that they were to speak to him but later to return Muhirwa with them, he was never seen again.
The questions remain:
- Who killed Major Birasa and Captain Eddy Rwigema?
- Why was Muhirwa taken to answer few questions and never returned?
- Why were Major Birasa and Captain Eddy Rwigema Killed?
- Why is it that the soldiers participated in this killing were from the high command but the concealing evidences from the head of the army?
- Did Muhirwa who protected my cousin to the last minute die thinking that I betrayed him?
- Why did the window decide to contact every high ranking official in the army spilling the beans?
- Muhirwa’s family, do they know exactly what happened to him?
- Did Captain Eddy and Major Birasa know exactly what happened to them and their body guards?
- What did the killers benefit from killing innocent commanders and their body guards?
- The people responsible of executing the two commanders and their body guards, none of them is safe as I write this, either wanted or in exile and others have also been killed by those who used to send them to kill. What do people benefit from shedding blood?
Noble Marara