President Paul Kagame owes Chairman Chris Smith and the United States Congress an apology. The President’s senior officials and his media have slundered the US Congress and Congressman Smith – that he was “bought” to hold hearings on Rwanda. These are crude and false utterances aimed at drawing attention away from the real issues – atrocities in Kagame’s Rwanda.

Let me begin this story with Mauro De Lorenzo. In 2012, I asked Mauro if he knew a good lobbying/legal firm. The reason I was looking for such firm was that my friend Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa had a challenge that we wanted to sort out. FULL STORY