Kinshasa (AFP) – Rwandan Hutu rebels exiled in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have condemned the arrest of a group accused of plotting a grenade attack against the government in Kigali.
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Police in Rwanda arrested three men last Monday — well-known musician Kizito Mihigo, radio journalist Cassien Ntamuhanga and former soldier Jean Paul Dukuzumuremyi — accusing them of planning to attack the country’s leaders in revenge for the assassination of Patrick Karegeya, a former spy chief and fierce critic of President Paul Kagame.
The three men were said to have ties to the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a rebel group that includes remnants of the militia that carried out the 1994 genocide of Tutsis and is now based over the border in DR Congo.
In a statement on Sunday, the FDLR described the government’s decision to arrest the men as an “effort to silence those who refuse to adhere to its sectarian and undemocratic agenda”. FULL STORY