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As with other similar books, journalists Judi Rever’s In Praise of Blood, Anjun Sundaram’s Bad News, the only characteristic Wrong’s Paul Kagame shares with the real man, is the name. This however, is as intended. The objective seems not to try to draw as true a picture of the character of Paul Kagame as possible, but to assassinate that character. None of what they tell us however, is new. Not even the lurid speculation about the death of the first head of the RPF, General Gisa Rwigyema, which especially excited some reviewers. I didn't know much about Rwanda apart from the atrocious 1994 genocide of the Tutsi's by the Hutu's, and a vague notion that ever since it has been relatively peaceful and developing well. It turns out the truth is much more complex.
But, in the final analysis, realpolitik reigns here. Diplomats, aid officials, and philanthropists ignore the “human rights violations”—in reality, government-sanctioned murder—because they have higher priorities. Kagame paints a pretty picture of “progress” that looks good in their reports, and the doctored statistics are impressive. But the reality that emerges from Wrong’s account is that the Tutsi forces under President Paul Kagame’s leadership have murdered nearly as many people as perished in the genocide. The examples she cites from independent studies add up to about 700,000 dead. Some 800,000 to one million people died in the genocide.Kagame, Karegewa, and Rwingyema were all members of the Tutsi ethnic community. Like so many others, they lived not in Rwanda but in neighboring Uganda. Karegewa even considered himself Ugandan, as his family had lived in the country for generations. As young men, they were all engaged in the brutal revolutionary movement that overthrew, first, the homicidal buffoon Idi Amin (1925-2003), and then his equally tyrannical successor, Milton Obote (1925-2005). The three all played roles in installing as Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni in 1986, who remains in office to this day. Later, they came together again to mount an invasion of Rwanda, to overthrow the Hutu regime led by Juvénal Habiyarimana (1937-94). It was Habiyarimana whose death in a plane crash is generally credited with triggering the genocide. Kirsty, husband Adrian, their young daughters and Kirsty’s mother move to the Brecon Beacons to fulfil the dream of opening a guest house. The place needs a lot of work - and not all the locals are friendly - but they’re finally ready to open the doors and welcome the first guests.
a b "New book shows a very different side to Rwanda's Paul Kagame". France 24. 5 April 2021 . Retrieved 6 April 2021. And, in the room next door to Quinn’s, an elderly fortune teller, who resides at the hotel full time, warns Quinn to leave while she can. Kagame made his old schoolmate his external intelligence chief. Wrong portrays Karegeya as an accomplished manipulator of foreign politicians in maintaining the saviour myth, even as he grew disillusioned with political repression and killings.Taking their cue from the book, the reviewers of course focus on international aid, and why it should be denied to Rwanda, or at the very least, be used as leverage to punish the country.
A sort of Agatha Christie mystery with the usual secrets and lies that make a good whodunit. Just didn’t make it as a brilliant thriller (for me). I enjoyed reading it but felt it was all a bit predictable, even the ending.Recordings of alleged Rwanda agents instructing the would-be assassins in methods of murder, are brandished as damning proof.
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