{"id":18869,"date":"2019-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/?guid=9a624f1fa49051412190e1b6a4617984"},"modified":"2019-09-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T00:00:00","slug":"frightening-spate-of-rwanda-opposition-members-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricajournal.com\/frightening-spate-of-rwanda-opposition-members-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Frightening spate of Rwanda opposition members’ killings"},"content":{"rendered":"
KIGALI, THE murder of a top opposition party official in Rwanda is the most recent in a series of killings of opposition officials in the country.<\/p>\n
Assailants killed Syldio Dusabumuremyi, the national coordinator of the United Democratic Forces (FDU)-Inkingi as he worked in his canteen in the southern Muhanga District on Monday night.<\/p>\n
He was stabbed after two men on a motorbike attacked the property.<\/p>\n
At least three other members of the FDU-Inkingi opposition coalition have died or disappeared across Rwanda in the past year.<\/p>\n
The violent killing of Syldio Dusabumuremyi is extremely alarming, said Joan Nyanyuki, Amnesty International’s East Africa director.<\/p>\n
Nyanyuki urged the government of President Paul Kagame to conduct an effective and independent investigation into the death and those of other opposition party members.<\/p>\n
Kagame was scheduled to speak at the 74th United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, United States.<\/p>\n
While he is popular with some influential governments abroad, human rights groups accuse him of political repression since assuming power in 2000.<\/p>\n
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Rwanda’s international partners and the UN must demand transparent and credible investigations into recent deaths and disappearances of opposition members.<\/p>\n
Lewis Mudge, Central Africa director at HRW, said on the international stage, Rwanda was celebrated as a model of law and order, yet there was an unpunished spate of violent and brazen attacks against opposition members.<\/p>\n
The contrast is jarring, Mudge said.<\/p>\n
The Rwanda Investigation Bureau stated it had arrested two suspects in connection with Dusabumuremyi’s murder.<\/p>\n
In 2014, former Rwandan intelligence chief Patrick Karegeya was found killed in a Johannesburg, South Africa. This came flowing numerous attempts on his life.<\/p>\n
Just three months ago, another Rwandan opposition activist Camir Nkurunziza was hijacked in Cape Town and killed. Nkurunziza is former bodyguard-turned-critic of Rwandan president Kagame.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Source: CAJ News Agency <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KIGALI, THE murder of a top opposition party official in Rwanda is the most recent in a series of killings of opposition officials in the country.Assailants killed Syldio Dusabumuremyi, the national coordinator of the United Democratic Forces (FDU)-In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n