AfroAmerica Network
Nairobi, Kenya
03.03.01
The alleged murderers of former Rwandan Interior Minister Seth Sendashonga are disappearing one by one.
After several months of investigation, the AfroAmerica Network correspondent in Nairobi has found that two of the people responsible for the assassination of former Rwandan Interior Minister Seth Sendashonga in May 1998 are dead, two are dying, and three others are free and healthy.
The person who was believed to have brought weapons from Kigali to Nairobi to kill Sendashonga is from Bwakira, Kibuye. He died poisoned shortly after he returned to Rwanda. Before Sendashonga's assassination, he lived in Nairobi as a businessman.
The second person involved in the assassination is also a businessman who still lives in Nairobi but travels to Rwanda once in a while. He is said to be very sick and may carry soon his secret into his grave. He goes by the name a former Congolese politician.
These two businessmen and Alphonse Mbayire, the former Rwandan diplomat in Nairobi and Rwandan Patriotic Army officer killed recently in Kicukiro, Kigali held a meeting at the house of a third Rwandan businessman who is also said to be sick and may also carry the secret into his grave. The plan to kill Sendashonga was hatched at this meeting.
This businessman allegedly collaborated with the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) in order to recover his properties. His brother, a Rwandan politician well connected to the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) introduced him to the DMI and helped him close a deal with Lieutenant Colonel Jacques Nziza, the Director of DMI and Lieutenant Colonel Patrick Karegeya, Director of External Intelligence at DMI.
A source in Nairobi said this third businessman accepted to facilitate Sendashonga's assassination and the RPF agreed to give him back his property and not to prosecute him for crimes he might have committed. The source added the businessman had regular contacts with Sendashonga and was well informed of his routine activities.
(c)AfroAmerica Network, March, 2001.
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