He was speaking less than two weeks after the body of former intelligence chief Patrick Karegeya was found, apparently murdered, in South Africa. Rwanda President Paul Kagame has warned that those who betray the country with face consequences. His allies said he been killed by government agents- a charge denied by the high commissioner to South Africa. Mr. Karegeya had been convicted in absentia of threatening state security and promoting ethnic divisions, in connecting with a series of grenade attacks in the capital, Kigali.
Mr. Karegeya's co- founder of the Rwanda National Congress, Lt. Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa, has survived two assassination attempts, also in South Africa. Both men were part of Mr. Kagame's rebel forces which came to power in 1994, ending the genocide of their fellow ethnic Tutsis. Mr. Kagame has been accused of not tolerating opposition. He maintains that Rwanda needs a strong government to prevent a return of ethnic conflict.
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