The Kagame administration has accused Burundi of becoming a haven for armed groups that invaded and killed its Citizens in Bugarama last weekend.
According to the RDF Spokesman Rene Ngendahimana, the armed group invaded under the cover of the night and killed two people including a 12-year-old boy and returned to their bases in Burundi.
However, the Burundi Ministry of Défense has refuted the allegations as baseless and unfounded, according to the Burundi Military Spokesperson Col. Gaspard Baratuza, Burundi has and will never invade or harbour any armed group that will or has an intention of destabilizing its neighbour.
This is not a new phenomenon in the Great lakes region, in both two wars Rwanda invaded its vast neighbour Congo it played the same attacks game with some armed infiltrations which according to reliable information Inyenyeri news has obtained were perpetrated by the Kagame Security forces for the purpose of invading or using its proxies like M23 to destabilize its neighbour Congo.
Rwanda has now accused its neighbour Burundi of harbouring armed groups that killed its people on its territory, warning that “provocation can no longer be tolerated” and raising the prospect of all-out war.
Indeed, such an outcome could drag the whole region into a conflict that we witnessed when Rwanda invaded Congo; this brought in several African nations and considered African World War.
Kagame is the most cunning political animal who has mastered the international politics but also its weakness. For example, when he is going to do his dirty politics he will create travels so that his killings or murders are not attributed to him. The recent trip to the United States in Harvard University was doctored by his spin-doctors with an intention of invading Burundi on the pretext of pursuing the armed groups that crossed into Burundi.
Since the Burundi aborted coup in 2015 which was supported and celebrated by Kagame has seen all the Coup planners and sympathizers housed and financed by the Kigali administration.
Kagame is not only accusing Burundi for harbouring armed groups, but he has accused his long and mentor President Yoweri Museveni of allowing the French military to train Gen. Kayumba’s armed group that will topple his government. These allegations were also refuted by the Uganda Military as baseless and rumour mongering with the intention of watering down the good and brotherhood relationship the two sister nations enjoy. Inyenyeri news has exclusively obtained reliable information that Kagame has hatched a plan to assassinate President Museveni in Habyarimana style; it’s in this regard that President Museveni reshuffled his military chiefs including his own son.
Besides, President Nkurunziza is planning to take his country into the strong block of the South and Central African Development Community known as SADAC, which in its legislation Article 4(b) states that nations under this block will act in accordance with the principles of Solidarity, peace and Security. This implies that if you attack one country you attack all. This Article is well known to President Kagame and wants to invade Burundi before it joins this block.
According to our informers in Kigali, Kagame finds himself in the political Island because his mentor President Musveni has learnt all these games Kagame is playing not forgetting both Kisangani I and II in which the Ugandan military was inflicted heavy causalities by Kagame security forces. President Museveni has described Kagame as politically bankrupt and calls him a mad dog that can bite any time, he doesn’t therefore take any chances and he knows Kagame more than anybody else having witnessed him butchering comrades in Luwero Triangle Bush war that brought Museveni into power in 1986.
Kagame usurped power unexpectedly after the mysterious death of the founder of RPF Gen. Fred. Rwigyema, he has been both the president and de-facto president since 1994, he has also changed the Rwandan Constitution to extend his rule until 2034.
No authoritarian leader cedes power easily, or turns it over to bodies he cannot control. This is especially true of leaders who come to power by guerrilla war, as Kagame did. Guerrilla leaders win wars by being paranoid and ruthless. Once they take power, they are expected to abandon those qualities and embrace opposite ones: tolerance, compromise and humility. Almost none manages to do so and Kagame will not be exception. He has cunningly proven himself to be a visionary figure in some ways, so there seemed hope that he would be an exception. Events of invading his neighbours like Congo direct or using proxies suggest otherwise and has left both Rwandans and international observers speechless and betrayed.
Jacqueline Umurungi
Brussels