In the last Jeune Afrique (July 2020), General Kagame again warned Victoire Ingabire, “I don’t know what justice will decide as far as she is concerned and what will happen. But one thing is certain: she will be put back in her rightful place, whatever the deliberate uproar deliberately organized around her case”.
These words recall the warning issued on 14 November 2019 to those like Victoire Ingabire and Kizito Mihigo who had “been in prison before being pardoned and started playing these games again”, he promised them that he would put them where they belong whatever noise would be made about it.
Three months later, Kizito Mihigo died following torture in detention.
In the same interview, General Kagame talks about Kizito Mihigo, who is “responsible” for “his mess” “whether you are a singer or a Nobel Prize winner, if you waste your life, it’s your mess (…) like her (Victoire Ingabire), he was arrested, tried, convicted, pardoned. And like her, he re-offended after his release. You know what happened next: the police arrested him as he was about to illegally cross the border into Burundi. These are the facts, there are no other facts. It’s his mess. »