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By: Robert Patrick Fati Gakwerere
Criminal Paul Kagame has ruled Rwanda for over two decades, first as de facto leader after the 1994 Tutsi genocide and officially as ruler since 2000 to this very day.
To his supporters, he is the architect of Rwanda’s remarkable recovery, a nation rebuilt from the ashes, boasting of consistent economic growth through doctored data and public relations manipulations, singing of reduced poverty which is a blatant lie, and propaganda of bringing regional stability, a joke coming from a terrorist-run state. Under his lying, crooked teeth in a speech written for him, Criminal Paul Kagame once noted, “We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.”
To his critics, Criminal Paul Kagame is a ruthless authoritarian bandit whose satanic regime is responsible for widespread political repression at home and abroad, and devastating interference across the Great Lakes region.
Criminal Paul Kagame’s domestic record is marked by a brutal, systematic suppression of dissent. Opposition leaders such as Victoire Ingabire, Diane Rwigara, former president Pasteur Bizimungu, and Deogratias Mushayidi have faced imprisonment on charges widely regarded by human rights groups as politically motivated. For Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza and Deogratias Mushayidi, they are still rotting in Criminal Paul Kagame’s dungeons, incarcerated for merely questioning Criminal Paul Kagame and his satanic regime. Criminal Paul Kagame’s fraudulent and circus elections routinely deliver landslide victories i.e 99.18% in 2024, amid Intimidations, media censorship, and rigged counts. In all cases, it’s Criminal Paul Kagame opposing Criminal Paul Kagame, as he is the one who identifies who will oppose him in order to legitimise and cover his sham elections.
Independent journalists and activists are routinely jailed, disappeared, or forced into exile. “Listen more to the one who criticizes you and less to the one who praises you. Learn from them and do something about it,” Criminal Paul Kagame once noted, yet critics argue this tolerance for criticism is illusory in practice.
The reach of Kagame’s repression extends far beyond Rwanda’s borders. Human rights organizations have documented a pattern of transnational killings targeting exiled Rwandan dissidents:
* Col Patrick Karegeya, former intelligence chief, was strangled in a Johannesburg hotel on the night of the 31 December 2013.
* Revocat Karemangingo, a businessman and critic, was shot by operatives of Rwanda’s Directorate of Military Intelligence near his home in Maputo, Mozambique. A Rwandan refugee leader in Mozambique, Revocat Karemangingo was shot dead near his home in the Mozambican on 13 September 2021. Before his brutal assassination, he had informed Mozambican security that Rwandan intelligence operatives in Mozambique wanted to kill him. His elder brother, Innocent Rutayisire, was eliminated on 12 March 2024 in Maputo, Mozambique.
* Cassien Ntamuhanga was kidnapped on 23 May 2021 and later eliminated in Maputo, Mozambique.
* Abdallah Seif Bamporiki, an opposition politician and Rwanda National Congress member, was shot dead in South Africa on 22nd February 2021, shortly after leading a memorial service for slain activist Col. Patrick Karegeya.
* Theogene Turatsinze, former head of the Rwanda Development Bank, was found dead in a river near Maputo, Mozambique, in 2012 after going missing.
* Charles Ingabire, a journalist who founded a critical news site, Inyenyeri News, was shot and killed in Kampala, Uganda, on 1 December 2011.
* Seth Sendashonga, a former interior minister, was killed by gunmen in Nairobi, Kenya, on 16 May 1998 after surviving an earlier attempt.
* Col Theoneste Lizinde, a former intelligence official, was found dead in Nairobi, Kenya, on 6 October 1996. Col. Theoneste Lizinde was eliminated alongside his friend, businessman Augustin Bugirimfura. Their lifeless bodies had bullets in their heads and eyes removed.
* Alexis Rushimirwa was assassinated in Nairobi, Kenya, by Rwanda’s Directorate of Military Intelligence on 6 June 2017.
* Emile Gafirita real names Emmanuel Mughisa, a former RPA (Now called RDF) and a key witness in an inquiry into the plane crash that sparked the 1994 Tutsi genocide, was kidnapped by Rwanda’s Directorate of Military Intelligence operatives from his home in the Nairobi suburb of Dagoretti in November 2014. He was expected to testify before French judges and was last seen being bundled into a vehicle by Rwanda’s operatives.
* Multiple attempts on Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a former army chief, including being shot in South Africa on 19 June 2010 (he survived) and further plots. High-profile cases include the 2020 abduction of Paul
* Paul Rusesabagina (“Hotel Rwanda” hero) from Dubai, followed by a trial condemned as unfair.
* Rwanda’s Directorate of Military Intelligence agent – Louis Baziga, a Rwandan exile and businessman in Mozambique, was shot dead in Maputo on 26 August 2019 by his own employer, Rwanda’s Directorate of Military Intelligence.
* Seleman Masiya, a Rwandan businessman and critic in exile, was assassinated in northern Maputo, Mozambique, in 2022.
* Jean Chrysostome Ntirugiribambe, former Rwandan army captain and UN tribunal investigator who fled in 1994, disappeared in Nairobi, Kenya, on 28 June 2015 after being forced into a car by armed men.
* Guillaume Rutembesa, a blogger exposing Criminal Paul Kagame’s wealth while living in exile, was abducted and disappeared in Nairobi, Kenya, on 6 November 2020.
* Joel Mutabazi, former presidential bodyguard who fell out with Kagame, was kidnapped in Kampala, Uganda, on 25 October 2013 and taken to Rwanda, where he was jailed.
* On 30 May 2019, Camir Nkurunziza, former bodyguard to Criminal Paul Kagame who became a critic, was shot dead in Cape Town, South Africa.
* Journalist Ndorimana Semana, alias Kanuma Christophe, who worked with different media outlets in Rwanda before fleeing to Nairobi, Kenya, died on 9 July 2019 at Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. He died of multiple organ failure due to high-grade poison. He was assassinated by Rwanda’s DMI.
* On 28 December 2023, Anne Rwigara died through a poison-related illness in California, USA. Anne Rwigara has been assassinated, 28 December 2023.
These cases highlight a pattern of targeting critics across Africa (especially Mozambique, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa), often involving shootings, stabbings, or abductions leading to disappearances. Investigations by groups like Human Rights Watch note over hundreds of such incidents, but full accountability remains elusive due to lack of international probes. The list of those who have been eliminated by Criminal Paul Kagame outside Rwanda in transnational killings is endless, and when you include those who have been eliminated internally, the list creates a pattern of systematic political genocide of those who dare to question him and his satanic regime.
After assassinating Col Patrick Karegeya, Criminal Paul Kagame remarked, “You cannot betray Rwanda and not get punished for it. Anyone, even those still alive, will reap the consequences. Anyone. It is a matter of time.”
Criminal Paul Kagame’s most serious crimes are due to repeated mineral wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), mineral wars linked to millions of deaths and vast resource plunder. The 2010 UN Mapping Report documented systematic massacres of Congolese civilians and raping during the First Congo War (1996–1997), describing violations that could amount to genocide if intent were proven. The Second Congo War (1998–2003), in which Criminal Paul Kagame’s army contributed, and led to an estimated 3 – 5 million deaths through combat, diseases, and starvation. The pattern continues today with the March 23 Movement (RDF-M23). UN experts, the United States, and the European Union accuse Rwanda of providing thousands of troops, weapons, and command support to M23. In 2025 alone, Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) captured Goma, Bukavu, and briefly Uvira. These advances have displaced over 7 million people in eastern DRC, exacerbating a severe humanitarian crisis. Kagame defends Rwanda’s actions as necessary for security, noting, “Rwanda will do anything to protect itself.”
Despite the gravity of these allegations, Criminal Paul Kagame has faced no International Criminal Court charges. Critics point to “victor’s justice,” and others say Criminal Paul Kagame is protected by Western countries because he is plundering the DRC on their behalf. Kagame personally said, “The powerful are powerful. They are big, but small on justice.”
