Retired Rwandan general in custody.
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BY NICHOLAS KOTCH, 2014-08-22 14:50:46.0
A RETIRED Rwandan army general is being held in custody in a barracks
in the small central African country whose president, Paul Kagame, has
accused exiled opponents of fomenting rebellion.
Brig-Gen Frank Rusagara, a former defence attaché at Rwanda's high
commission in Britain, was arrested in Kigali last Sunday, diplomatic
sources said.
In its brief report on Wednesday, the government's New Times quoted
the defence ministry as confirming the arrest. Investigations were
continuing, a ministry spokesman told the daily newspaper, declining
to say why the general was arrested.
Brig-Gen Rusagara retired last year from the army -- one of Africa's
most effective and disciplined.
"Of course there is speculation that he was in contact with the RNC
(Rwanda National Congress) but no evidence has been put forward so
far," a European diplomat in Kigali said on Thursday.
"It's not clear under what legal framework he has been arrested but as
a former army general he is subject to different rules than ...
civilians," he added.
The RNC has become a rallying point for Mr Kagame's political
opponents, many of whom are former loyalists who fought alongside him
to end the genocide against the Tutsi minority in 1994. An influential
group of RNC activists has been based in South Africa and Rwanda
suspects that Pretoria is overly tolerant of their activities in
exile.
Relations between South Africa and Rwanda came close to rupture in
March this year. The two countries expelled each other's diplomats
after a reported assassination attempt in Pretoria against Rwanda's
former army head, Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa. Two months earlier Mr Kagame's
former intelligence chief, Patrick Kareyega, was murdered in Sandton's
Michelangelo Hotel.
Bilateral tension has subsided since then, at least on the surface.
Despite the dramatic growth of its economy and its reputation for
efficiency, Rwanda's internal stability has increasingly appeared to
be underpinned by intolerance of any dissent. Mr Kagame was first
elected president in 2003 and although his constitutional mandate will
end in 2017 there is widespread conjecture that he wants to stay on.
In reality he has been in charge of the former German and Belgian
colony since 1994 when he and the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) drove
majority Hutu forces responsible for the genocide into exile in
neighbouring Zaire, now called the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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