Behind the activism: A portray of terrorist fundraiser René Mugenzi

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St John the Baptist Cathedral  and René Mugenzi

Activists receive attention when they are in the public eye during the rally, fundraising, or commenting on YouTube, radio, and television. But much of the works of so-called activists are not visible to the general public. However, this behind-the-scenes work is essential and deserves to be recognized. The public needs to pay more attention to the work of activists. Who do they get funds from? How do they use them?

Recently, two so-called activists highlighted the hidden dark side of activism – Paul Rusesabagina and René Mugenzi – should wake the public up about activism. Maybe this time people need to take a closer look than ever before.

Who is really René Mugenzi?

Paul Rusesabagina rose to fame for allegedly saving Tutsis during the 1994 genocide against Tutsis; as a pure Hollywood product, he has a foundation, a large number of honorary doctorates, and a US Presidential medal.

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Paul Rusesabagina, was paraded to the press on August 31,2020 by the Rwanda Investigation Bureau after being arrested through international cooperation

And like many Hollywood success stories; Rusesabagina is not a superhuman that saved hundreds of Tutsis but a terrorist sponsor. Like many Hollywood stars who spend part of their lives in prison or in rehab; Rusesabagina’s story will also end in prison in Rwanda.

Unlike Rusesabagina, Mugenzi was born in southern Russia to Rwandan parents. The 44-year-old left Russia as a child and grew up in Rwanda; Mugenzi’s father, Joseph Mugezi, was closed to the government that carried out the 1994 genocide against Tutsis. He was convicted by a Gacaca court for the crimes of genocide. Now living in the Netherlands, Joseph was president of FDU-Inkingi, a terrorist group formed by perpetrators of genocide in the DRC. In fact, the Dutch government is in the process of revoking his Dutch nationality.

René Mugenzi fled the country at the age of 18 and three years later moved to the UK.

Like his father, he is a genocide denier; he frequently appears in the media claiming that there was a double genocide.

In fact, René Mugenzi is a product of the genocide denial movement which uses the children of genocide perpetrators to spread genocide denial propaganda with impunity on social media and other media outlet under activism cover.

Where does René Mugenzi get funds?

According to his profile available on the internet; he describe himself as a “Human rights activist, community organizer and politician” It has taken three months to be able to inform the public that René Mugenzi stole £220,000 (approx. Rwf279m) from St John the Baptist Cathedral while volunteering as its treasurer. Mugenzi first appeared at Norwich Magistrates’ Court on July 15 and admitted fraud at the cathedral. His legal team fought for three months to prevent the public from knowing about the case.

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However, Mugenzi had repeatedly appeared in the media, published photos of his location on social media, revealed his work addresses online and even stood to become an MP in 2015.

Terrorist fundraiser

Mugenzi stood to become an MP in 2015. However, his legal team claimed that Mugenzi – an activist, politician and whatever he calls himself – used gambling like a drug to deal with mental health issues.

In fact, Mugenzi had a secret contact with Kizito Mihigo while he was spend his sentence in prison; besides, they together penned a biography of Kizito.

After the liberation of Kizito, Mugenzi has frequent sent money to Kizito for sustaining his living and organize the failed evasion in collaboration with FDLR.

The Victims of FLN terrorist attacks

In addition, Mugenzi is an active fundraiser for MRCD and FLN. Mugenzi is a member of MRCD (Mouvement Rwandais pour le Changement Démocratique), which has an armed wing known as FLN (National Liberation Forces (Forces de Libération Nationale).

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The victims of FLN terrorist attacks

The FLN has publicly claimed responsibility for several attacks in Nyabimata with two people dying on the spot and a third victim succumbed to gunshot wounds later, while at least two others sustained injuries. The second attack targeted public transport with the assailants ambushing at least three buses on Kigali-Rusizi road, killing at least six passengers in Nyungwe forest, at Kitabi, Nyamagabe district; recently, in Musanze district.

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Countering terrorism financing is an essential part of the fight against terror threat; to understand how Rusesabagina and Mugenzi through activism have been financing FLN will help to fight FLN and other terrorist groups.

BEHIND THE CHIMPREPORTS’ WAR DRUMS

Today, CMI’s propaganda outlet has awakened Ugandans with drums of war. This morning, I did not get time to read the news; one of my friends, who stay in Kampala, sent me these three apocalyptic articles. Is Rwanda planning invasion of western Uganda? Gen Muhoozi’s ‘Crush-to-dust’ Warning: Is UPDF Prepping for Combat Action? New Police recruits undergo intense military training.

As Rwandan, I understand how reading these articles while staying in Kampala is very scary.

But what hell is happening between our sister countries?

For those who are well informed; recently, a Rwandan National who is a member of RNC traveled to Uganda. Upon his arrival, CMI agents took him to an unknown location. Since then, his wife, Diana Rutabana, a French-Rwandan, urges the French Government to ask Uganda where her husband is. Eventually, CMI agents are the last people to have meet ben Rutabana. CMI propaganda arm believes that war stories can save time. But what scares me is that tomorrow, The Chimp Reports may report that Rutabana died during the battle in the DRC, or any place they imagine the war with their neighbor will take place.

WHAT HAPPENS IN UGANDA WHEN CMI GOES ROGUE?

The very existence of secret intelligence services presents a challenge to the principles of the rule of law. If a country works on the basis of the rule of law where every person has rights, how can a country accept a public-funded agency running around secret activities outside jurisdictional borders for the account of a terrorist group?

For a long time, the CMI has been ignoring its responsibility and the rule of law, even for some of Uganda’s noble public servants. No one can forget the photo of Kaweesi’s vehicle sprayed with a hail of bullets. I think that few people can forget the cold-blooded murder of Ibrahim Abiriga, the legislator of the municipality of Arua, in the north of Uganda, and most vocal supporters of the age limit amendments.

Every time when we talk to Ugandan, they say how horrified when they see CMI’s public hunting political opponents in the streets of Kampala; many families have lost a family member because of CMI’s extrajudicial execution. Not to mention, hundreds of Rwandans are dying into CMI’s numerous unlisted prisons – the so-called safe houses.

If the CMI has no regard for the rule of law mechanisms in its own country; if CMI can murder an assistant Inspector General of Police, a Member of Parliament; what would Rutabana’s family expected for a foreign citizen?

Out of favors of Kayumba                                

For those who know well Kayumba Nyamwasa. They can all testify how Kayumba is obsessed with Simon Bikindi. Kayumba thinks that songs are the best channel for hate propaganda. And this explains his relationship with Ben Rutabana and Callixte Nsabimana- his failed creation.

However, things started to get complicated for Ben Rutabana when his nephew, Diana Rwigara, started a so-called political movement; that time, Kayumba gave a mission to RNC’s head of capacity building to recruit Diana Rwigara. In his strategy, Kayumba though that it was strategically to have Diana’s so-called movement under his terrorist group, he considered Diana as an opportunity inside Rwanda. Unfortunately, Ben Rutabana was not willing to sacrifice his nephew. As days went on, Kayumba got angry with Ben Rutabana; he did not understand how Rutabana failed to recruit his nephew.

However, friends of Rutabana told me that Rutabana was terrified with how Kayumba assassinated Karegeya and feared to recruit his nephew into Kayumba’s killing gang.  Things got worse after Ben Rutabana contested against Kayumba’s strategy in DRC and his partnership with FDLR.

How a rogue operation unfolded?

Stranger things always start the same way; when Ben Rutabana was asked to report himself in Uganda; not in South Africa, Diana Rutabana tried to convince him not to travel in Uganda, but Ben Rutabana refused to listen to her.

Normally, if Kayumba wants to meet with Ben Rutabana should have traveled to South Africa. However, when he arrived in Uganda, Kayumba informed Rutabana that he will not travel to Uganda for security reasons. Instead, Rutabana was asked to report himself to CMI chief, Brigadier General Abel Kandiho. Diana Rutabana said that he talked to his husband after arriving in Kampala, and Rutabana was sounding very strange, he even told her about the changed plans, something he was not used. In fact, this was the first time; Rutabana was talking about his RNC activities. On the second day, Rutabana was scheduled to meet with Brig. General Kandiho. Unfortunately, one hour before meeting at the Emin Pasha Hotel, no far from the Independence Monument. Rutabana was contacted by his focal person; he told him that the meeting was canceled because Brig- General Kandiho was asked to consult President Museveni before meeting with Rutabana. The next day, CMI agents landed in his room and took Rutabana to an unknown place.

What Rutabana’s family should ask RNC; why Rutabana was asked to report himself in Uganda? What Rutabana’s family should ask the government of Uganda; why Rutabana was going to meet with CMI, where is Rutabana, why the Police have not yet opened an investigation?

Some of those questions should have been asked when Kaweesi, honorable Abariga was cold-blooded murdered. Unfortunately, CMI is an out of law killing machine for the sake of Museveni’s personal interests; in fact, CMI’s prime mission is to eliminate Museveni’s opponents, terrorize the opposition, and to destabilize the region.

What is even stranger is that Museveni and CMI are working with RNC and the FDLR. Every Ugandan wonders why. As Museveni’s paranoia grows, Museveni believes the use of the terrorist and genocidal group to destabilize the region will help him stand as a guarantee of peace for Ugandans in a destabilized region in the upcoming elections. In this case, I think there is a messy somewhere in CMI’s safe house, and whatever the government of Uganda is going to say, unless it fixes Museveni-Kayumba-Kandiho gang operating outside jurisdictional borders, many people will continue to die or lost in nature, and no one will dare to investigate.

RPF GAKWERERE: RNC’S LAST DAYS MESSENGER

In 2014, when Kayumba cold-blooded murdered Patrick Karegeya; everyone inside and outside RNC was shocked. The death of Karegeya has been like a wake-up call, and some people who have been working with Kayumba knew well how worse things were going to be in the upcoming years. This has caused the departure of Rudasingwa and Gahima scared of the beast they have helped to create.

In the meantime, Kayumba was reconstructing his communication team; that is how Rugema Kayumba, Kayumba’s nephew, was recruited. Mainly, Kayumba was seeking to have people who will follow blindly his orders. Apart from that, RNC has created several social media troll accounts including RPF Gakwerere to spread hate, lies, and Kayumba’s praises.

Self-destruction

When a man becomes the center of a collective organization, even a terrorist group like RNC; each and everything falls apart at the highest rate. Take a look at all the last terrorist adventures of Kayumba’s gang since it is no longer a political organization; every adventure has been a total fail, the partnership with FDLR has been a dishonor for every member of RNC, FLN has failed completely in less time than any rebellion in the history of the world.

However, the big failures are to come, recently Kayumba asked Ben Rutabana to report himself to Uganda’s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, unfortunately, since Rutabana arrived in Kampala; no one knows his whereabouts. Do not ask me why the RPF Gakwerere did not say anything about it. What I’m sure of is that if Kayumba wanted to kill Rutabana, RPF Gakwerere could not contradict his boss.

What people are asking; if RPF Gakwerere cannot help to explain where is the Head of RNC capacity building, who can believe what he is saying about Rwanda, the President of the Republic, President’s senior advisor, and other nonsense posts? If RPF Gakwerere has become a mouthpiece of Kayumba, someone who has failed in everything in the last nine years; who still needs to read his bullshits?

RNC was founded on lies, hate, crimes; it is an organized crime syndicate that is doomed to self-destroy. It is time for RPF Gakwerere, Rugema, and other members to realize that their terrorist ship is sinking and leave it on time. And if anyone still doubts about Kayumba’s thirsty for blood, ask Diana Rutabana.

 

Flash Back: Patrick Karegeya: Inside Love triangle that caused death of singer Jean Christophe Matata

A Burundian woman and her entire family is gripped in horrifying fear since January 2011 when a love affairs involving exiled Rwanda former spy chief Patrick Karegeya and deceased popular singer Jean Christophe Matata went sour. On January 03, Matata died abruptly in a South African hospital but no cause was reported.

 

News reports said at the time that he had died from multiple organ failure, but what caused the bizarre situation remains a mystery until now. A woman, whose names have been withheld for fear of reprisals, is hiding in Burundi after disappearing from South Africa.

In late December 2010, singer Jean Christophe Matata was in South Africa for a series of concerts in Pretoria and Johannesburg. While there, he established contact with this woman. The woman says she had an affair with the prolific singer but it had ended 7 years earlier (2003).

 

I used to be a close friend to late Matata even still in Burundi, said the woman in tears during her 3 hours interview on the Burundian shore of Lake Tanganyika. I had seen Matata for seven years but we met again when he came to South Africa

 

Genesis of the troubles

 

The woman narrates that during her stay in South Africa, she had been in a stormy sexual relationship with Patrick Karegeya, whose wife and children live in Canada.

 

The woman says she agreed to go out with Matata on the night of December 31st 2010 when it became apparent to her that Karegeya had travelled to Tanzania or Somalia. To her surprise, she received a text message from Col. Karegeya, reading, My trip has been canceled. If you can, come over and join me here (“urugendo rwanjye rwapfuye ubishoboye wansaga hano).

 

The woman, without hesitating, went to meet up her Karegeya whom she describes as boss because he was paying her regularly for sex. The woman says she was afraid while heading there because she thought Karegeya was well aware that she had had sex with with Matata.

 

Then, what happened when she met up with Karegeya?

 

It was like I had been struck by lightning because Karegeya was telling me how I met up with Matata, where I met him, all that we did as if he was there. He told me he didn’t trust Matata; that he [Matata] can be used by his enemies in Rwanda and they can task him [Matata] to harm him [Col. Karegeya] by just using me. I confessed that indeed I had sex with Matata but that he didn’t ask me anything about Karegeya, the woman narrates.

 

Karegeya, apparently unconvinced, gave the woman the assignment to go and search through Matata belongings as well as search through his cell phone to see whose calls he had received and details in messages.

 

The woman says she was hesitant but he convinced her that he would provide her with medicine which she would pour into Matata’s drink while they would be both in the room. The medicine would eventually make Matata go into roaring sleep allowing her to do anything with her time without any disturbances. The woman implemented the plan as set.

 

Once her mission was over, the woman immediately phoned Karegeya, who, in return, sent over a certain Frank Ntwali a brother-in-law to Kayumba Nyamwasa (another exiled Rwandan General living in South Africa) and the girl joined him at a hotel and gave him Matata’s documents and cell phone to check them up and retrieve whatever they needed. Frank left with the materials and the woman went back to the room.

 

The following morning when Matata woke up, he complained of severe headache, dizziness and was vomiting. And upon hearing this, the woman said she became afraid and refrained from accompanying Matata to his last concert which took place in Cape Town. Jean-Christophe Matata died on January 3, following an end-of-year concert. People who saw him on stage at the time reported Matata looked exhausted after the concert on the New Year eve and was rushed to hospital where he died.

 

Some people who accompanied Jean Christophe Matata have revealed previously that he started showing signs of weakness before and during the concert he held in Cape Town. They say crucial documents also went missing from his hotel room.

 

This lady, sobbing constantly, narrated that by the time she got the news of Matata’s death, her mind was clear with confirmation that the medicine from Karageya was indeed a poisonous substance. The woman immediately changed her cell phone so that Karegeya could not contact her anymore because she was convinced he could kill her.

 

But on several occasions, Karegeya, sent several message through Frank Ntwali, telling her that he needed her. She grew concerned about her safety and feared Col. Karegeya was planning to kill her, too. And that is how she made up her mind to leave South Africa for Burundi, her home country.

 

Matata’s son Pappy Matata is furious. He lives at Kivugiza in Nyamirambo, Kigali, and is angry no independent autopsy was done on his father.

 

Karegeya is the Osama bin Laden of Rwanda, not Khashoggi!

VIRUNGA POST

By Hubert Mugabo

The headline in The Guardian newspaper of Britain, dated 15 January 2019, says: “Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief”?

The author of the article, Michela Wrong, wants us to believe that the former external intelligence chief of Rwanda, Patrick Karegeya who died in a hotel in Sandton, Johannesburg on New Year’s Day 2014 is like Jamal Khashoggi the Saudi Journalist that met his end in the Saudi Consulate of Istanbul, Turkey, last year.

But Wrong is just purveying wrong impressions. She writes that a member of the South African judiciary, whom she does not name, told her “This is South Africa’s Khashoggi”, in reference to the deceased Rwandan. If Karegeya is Rwandan, in what sense can he be “South Africa’s Khashoggi”? My mind spins.

I have some news for Wrong and the Guardian however. To the people of Rwanda, especially those that lost family members…

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AT THE BOXING DAY – HIMBARA CHOOSES TO PUBLISH MORE OF HIS ANTI-RWANDA DRIVEL! (LAUGHABLE)

Himbara claims “Kagame’s 2018 was filled with violent rhetoric against perceived enemies”. To me this latest piece of vitriol, and it’s timing shows 2 things.

One, either Himbara is so consumed with resentment (and barely disguised envy) about the steps Rwanda has advanced that it‘s consuming his (Himbara) entire life.

Two, Rwanda’s achievements are filling Himbara with dread. because he is being disproved, and even his sponsors in anti-Rwanda hate can see their words are being disproved and shown to be false by the entire world.

You see, these people were banking on the possibility that Rwanda would descend into conflict or strife, leading to economic collapse.

They have worked around the clock to make Rwanda a failure. They have allied themselves with reactionary leaders in the region, in dastardly plots to bring conflict to Rwanda.

What has happened instead is the exact opposite of what they hoped for. These Himbaras, with their alliances of notorious genocide deniers, or revisionists such as the Judi Rever, Filip Reyntjens, Rusesabaginas (aka Rusisibiranya) have been frustrated as each and everyone of their plots have crashed and burned.

Instead of Rwanda becoming a banana republic as they wished, it is the countries run by their sponsors in the region that have become failed states.

Himbara and RNC’s main sponsor is now an “exhibit” in a corruption scandal in the United States.

A ridiculous republic run by a ridiculous murderer is now so bankrupt that it depends on looting salaries of its peacekeepers. Recent news is that the moment AU said it’s going to reduce their troops in Somalia, the leaders of that banana state cried like nursery school pupils denied some mandazis. Funny, don’t you think Himbara?

But Himbara – cunning obfuscater that he is – will not mention any of that. He chooses to mislead, and tries to direct ire at Rwanda. This fellow who was a real musongarere at Urugwiro when he had the chance to serve his country, sees clearly that Rwanda is taking strides, without him.

It is hard to believe how inflated the egos of these people – Himbara, Gahima, Rudasingwa RedCom et al.

They think they are endowed with such intellect a society will function less without them. But when they mess up, and leave (on their own accord) the country does even better without them.

The next best thing for them is to go to self exile, to throw stones from there. Sad!

UGANDA SECURITY TORTURES AND DEPORTS ANOTHER RWANDAN

Uganda’s security organs have for months been harassing Rwandans in Uganda, torturing and deporting them.

This morning a Rwandan businessman who was deported from Uganda held a press conference in Kigali and shared his ordeal with members of the media.

Patrick Niyigena, a Rwandan businessman was picked up at a petrol station near Owino market in downtown Kampala on Monday evening October 8, by three armed men with walkie talkies and traveling in a black tinted vehicle.

They approached him, confiscated all his identifications and money (US$2400), took him to a safe house in Natete, tied him up, injected him with an unknown substance, and left him locked him in a dark room for three days, regularly torturing and interrogating him.

Niyigena showed reporters visible fresh wounds and told them that his ribs are in deep pain from the torture he underwent.

Here is the whole story as told by Niyigena himself

Niyigena boarded a bus on Monday morning, Oct 08 enroute to Nairobi where he was supposed to buy refrigerator spare parts that he would take back home to Kigali and sell them on retail.

He made a stopover in Kampala to get some money from a friend and bring him some items from Nairobi. After meeting the friend at city garden in Kampala, Niyigena booked his bus ticket to Nairobi.

As he waited for boarding time, he took a walk around downtown. That’s when the two men approached him; they told him they were to ask him some questions. They bundled him into a black tinted pickup.

One of the men had a walkie talkie; the other had a pistol. Upon entering the vehicle, Niyigena realized that the driver was also armed. They drove him out of Kampala to the Natete suburb in a safe house.

Upon reaching there, they questioned him what he was in Uganda, what the government of Rwanda has sent him to do. They kept asking this question and Niyigena was convinced he had been a victim of mistaken identity. He kept telling them he has no links to the government but they would continue to beat him.

He told them he was in transit to Nairobi, only that he made a stopover to pick money from a friend who needed him to bring back some items from Nairobi.

Later that evening Niyigena was tied up, put into a tiny dark room on a cold floor and left there for the whole night.

The next day, more men showed up. They told him that they were going to inject him with “something that will keep you safe”.

Niyigena resisted. However, they forcefully injected him with the substance.

Immediately his entire body became weak; he was dehydrated and couldn’t move a single part of his body. This was also followed by the beatings and interrogations.

The arrest took place on Tuesday and was released on Friday. On Friday morning, a different person came, untied him and told him to go. Niyigena asked him for his identifications and money; but he was rudely told to disappear and go back to Rwanda.

Beaten down and weak, Niyigena found a group of motorcyclists and asked who amongst them knows where the Rwandan High Commission is located; one of them said he did and took him there. The embassy facilitated him to file a case at Old Kampala police station.

When Niyigena narrated his ordeal to the police officers, they simply responded that those are Kaka’s boys (Colonel Frank Kaka Bagyenda is Uganda’s Director General of the Internal Security Organisation- ISO).

The Rwanda High Commission also facilitated him to return back to Kigali.

While Niyigena is concerned about his lost business, he is most worried about the unknown substances injected in him.

He is appealing to the government of Rwanda to help him get proper medical treatment to prevent any harm to his health that may result from the injected substances.

Niyigena had been reading in papers incidents involving Rwandans in Uganda who are harassed, detained, and tortured; but he has always dismissed or minimized these stories. Until it happened to him.

Now he is pleading with fellow businessmen and women that not only are their businesses at risk but so are their lives. His advice to them is, “if they must continue doing business there, always walk in groups.”

As for his own life, “if government can get me the treatment to know what’s in my body, the rest I can start over.”

Dear President Kagame of Rwanda,

The Dolly Mama

“In all my travels, I’ve never seen a country’s population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.”  (Pastor Rick Warren)

Dear Mr. Kagame,

I visited your country this past week.  It was the first time I had ever been to Rwanda.  When I was growing up and then a young mother, your country was constantly in the news, and not for good reasons.  There was strife among your people groups and the politics that surrounded them and then ultimately horrific genocide in the spring of 1994.  Even I, an American child growing up in war-torn Ethiopia during the 1970s, would have been terrified to visit.

That was not the case about a year ago when I was invited to go on a clean water trip to your “Land of a Thousand Hills,” something I learned this past week was more true than I imagined.  I…

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President Museveni dances on Afande Kirumira’s grave

The watchman.

By Philip Kasekende

Most of us who have grown up under President Museveni’s leadership know how he likes to psychologically manipulate Ugandans the same way a grown person does to a child. As such, it is no coincidence that his most recent invention for referring to the people of Uganda is to use the term “bazukulu,”which is particularly condescending – far from endearing – when some of the audience includes grown people, in which case it reflects poorly on the president and his upbringing.

It’s much worse when Museveni tries to trivialize the loss of a loved at a time when the bereaved are trying to come to terms with it; more so when the orders to kill came from him and were carried out by the same people (CMI, ISO, and SFC) whom he later congratulates publicly for a job well-done.

In most Ugandan cultures, such insensitive behaviour towards…

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