KIGALI – Rwandan President Paul Kagame warned that “treason brings consequences”, apparently referring to the country’s former spy chief, found dead in South Africa.
The body of Patrick Karegeya – a fierce critic of Kagame – was found on New Year’s Day in a luxury hotel room in Johannesburg where he had spent the past several years in exile.
Police, who found a bloodied towel and a rope in the room’s safe, said a preliminary investigation indicated he might have been strangled and opened a murder probe. Karegeya’s supporters immediately accused the Rwandan government of being behind his killing.
“If someone feels no shame in destroying what we have built over a period of time, I for my part will not feel shy of protecting what we have built,” Kagame said at a prayer breakfast in Kigali. FULL STORY
