Making the story all the stranger, this force was supposedly built from an ethnic community considered marginal even in its home region. It was a carefully disguised invasion by tiny, neighboring, post-genocide Rwanda of a country 90 times its size. Much the same can be said of Rwanda’s record on human rights, which under Kagame has included a campaign of assassinations targeting his exiled critics. After the most famous of these killings, that of his former spy chief Patrick Karegeya, in 2013, a smiling Kagame told a national prayer breakfast: “Whoever is against our country will not escape our wrath. The person will face consequences.”

Source: International New York Times March 30, 2021 09:00 UTC