Rwanda arrests three for 'offences against state security'
Sunday, 27 April 2014 06:18 By Agencies

Police said on April 14 they had arrested three people on charges of
threatening state security, among them a radio journalist and a famous
peace activist musician.
This picture taken on April 15, 2014 shows Rwandan musician Kizito
Mihigo speaking to the media in Kigali. Police in Rwanda said on April
14, 2014 they had arrested three people on charges of threatening
state security, among them a radio journalist and Mihigo, a famous
peace activist musician. AFP PHOTO / STEPHANIE AGLIETT
In a statement police said the three are accused of connections with
the Rwanda National Congress (RNC), an opposition party in exile.
They are also accused of "working for some time in collaboration with
the FDLR", Rwandan Hutu rebels who include the perpetrators of the
1994 genocide in their ranks and who are based in the forests of
neighbouring DR Congo.
According to the police, musician Kizito Mihigo was arrested on April
11, demobilised soldier Jean Paul Dukuzumuremyi over the weekend,
while Cassien Ntamuhanga, a journalist at Amazing Grace Radio who had
earlier been reported missing, was taken in on April 11.
The arrests come as Rwanda holds commemorations to mark the 20th
anniversary of the genocide, but also amid mounting criticism of the
alleged suppression of political dissent by Rwanda's President Paul
Kagame.
"Mihigo, Ntamuhanga and Dukuzumuremyi are under investigation for
involvement in planning terrorist attacks against Rwanda, planning
violent overthrow of the government, planning to assassinate
government officials and inciting violence among the population," the
statement said.
"The three are suspected to be working closely with senior members of
Rwanda National Congress (RNC) and the FDLR, and participating
actively in a network that has carried out several grenade attacks and
continues to plan terrorist action against Rwanda," it added.
Musician Mihigo is well-known in Rwanda. A devout Catholic and peace
campaigner who took part in composing a new national anthem in 2001,
he studied in France and Belgium and campaigned for peace and
reconciliation.
He was also known to give performances to prisoners jailed for their
role in the genocide that left an estimated 800,000 dead, even though
he had lost his father in the bloodshed.
But his most recent song was viewed as being critical of the Rwandan
regime by alluding to crimes allegedly committed by the Rwandan
Patriotic Front (RPF), which is led by President Kagame and which has
dominated the country since its then-rebel army ended the genocide.
Ntamuhanga lead the Amazing Grace Christian radio station, and
according to colleagues quoted by the organisation Reporters Without
Borders, had recently been questioned by the authorities over former
colleagues who have fled the central African nation.
The media watchdog ranked Rwanda 162nd out of 180 countries in its
2014 press freedom index.
According to police spokesman Damas Gatare, officers have "ample
evidence including grenades and testimonies obtained from other
accomplices" and the three "have admitted to working closely with
senior members of RNC and FDLR".
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