AfroAmerica Network
Michigan, USA
01.05.01
Rwandan President General Paul Kagame has appointed Jerome Habimana Habimana Deputy Director of SONARWA, a Rwandan insurance company.
Habimana belongs to the group of Rwandan Tutsi living in North America who met last September in Detroit, Michigan and quit the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) after denouncing its ideology and criminal behaviors. In Kigali this group is known as the "Michigan Group."
Habimana who hails from Kibuye arrived in the United States of America in 1989 to study business administration. According to a source his appointment is intended to show that Professor Kimenyi and the "Michigan Group' are not a threat to the RPF and can be co-opted any time. It is also one way of mending fences with Tutsi from Kibuye who have been very critical of the RPF after Sebarenzi Kabuye's departure into exile and Kabera's assassination. Sebarenzi Kabuye served as Speaker of the National Transitional Assembly (NTA) and was forced to resign and flee the country. As to Kabera, after serving as governor of Kibuye, Kagame appointed him adviser to former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu. He was assassinated near his house after a meeting with Kagame.No investigation has ever been carried out to find out the perpetrator of the crime. Both politicians are from Kibuye.
A source close to the RPF-led National reconciliation Commission said that the RPF would do whatever it takes to divide political opposition and even to eliminate it.
In Kigali there is speculation that former Speaker Sebarenzi Kabuye might end his exile and return to Rwanda for a prestigious position.
A relative familiar with his current political activities told AfroAmerica Network that the former Speaker is busy building a political party that will appeal to all Rwandan people and lead to Kagame's demise. "Sebarenzi escaped political assassination", the source said. "The idea that he will serve under Kagame and his RPF regime is preposterous". According to the source, the RPF is spreading the rumor in order to counter growing internal and external opposition.
A political source recently told AfroAmerica Network that the RPF is very much afraid of the Republican Democratic Movement (MDR), a predominately Hutu party that led the country to independence and was suspended in 1973 and re-launched in 1991. To divide and destroy it, the RPF has recruited a group of Hutu to do the job. The group includes Stanley Safari, Jean de Dieu Ntiruhungwa, Eugene Nsazabiga, and Jean-Berchmas Habinshuti. The group has the mission to accuse MDR of genocide. By the time elections are held, the RPF will have ghosts to compete against, the source said.
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