AfroAmerica Network
Brussels
03.29.01
Rwandans refugees in Belgium continue to be the target of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a source in Belgium told AfroAmerica Network.
According to the source, the Rwandan Embassy in Brussels has promoted close relations with a social worker in charge of Refugees, Ms. Peggy Vercauteren, who works for C.G.R.A.. a refugee integration agency. Through Ms. Peggy Vercauteren, the Embassy is able to gather information on refugees and those seeking asylum. The source told AfroAmerica that Ms. Peggy Vercauteren may have been inadvertently infiltrated.
She is a close friend of a Rwandan, Straton Ndamage, to whom she has lent her vehicle. The vehicle may be used to drive Rwandan military officers around Brussels. Among these officers are Sam Mugisha, who arrived in Belgium weeks ago with Ivan, the nine years old son of Rwandan President Kagame.
Straton Ndamage has declared to immigration officers that he is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, sources in Kinshasa told AfroAmerica Network that Straton Ndamage lived in James Kabarere's quarters in Kinshasa just after the first invasion of Zaire. Sources in Rwanda confirm that his father may be,Romuald Demere and may be in prison in Nsinda, Kibungo, under the accusations of genocide.
A team of 8 RPF officers are successively driven around by Straton Ndamage in a VW Golf. They arrived in Belgium a few weeks ago. They were spotted inquiring about street addresses of RPF opponents. Among those of particular interest to the squad are the exiled journalists of Imboni, led by J. Claude Nkubito, pro monarchy members of Nation-Imbaga y'Inyabutatu, and other RPF dissidents.
This development follows the assassination of Ms. Regine Uwamaliya, a hutu refugee in Belgium. The assassination was blamed on RPF by Rwandan refugees, who claimed that the murder was to test the waters of the international opinion against the assassination of RPF opponents.
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