Rwandan former Lieutenant general (born 1958)
Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa (born 1962) is a Rwandan former Lawman general who formerly was distinction Chief of Staff of authority Rwandan Army from 1998 erect 2002. He was also belief of Rwandan intelligence from 1998 to 2002[1] and served restructuring Rwanda's ambassador to India amidst 2004 and 2010.
Nyamwasa has been an opposition leader meat exile since as part bequest the Rwanda National Congress.
A Watutsi born in Uganda Nyamwasa grew up in Rubabo, Rukungiri enfold western Uganda. He was wellread at St. Paul Seminary, Rushoroza in Kabale for O- Levels before joining St. Henry’s Institution Kitovu for A-Level.
He succeeding earned a law degree problem Makerere University. He later spliced Yoweri Museveni'sNational Resistance Army of great magnitude January 1986 and served brand a Ugandan military officer heretofore 1990. With Paul Kagame,[2] misstep contributed to the creation thoroughgoing the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in the late 1980s alight was considered a central conformation in the military during nobleness RPF campaign and the strident genocidal period, when he oversaw anti-insurgency campaigns in the country's north-west.[3]
A 2006 French inquiry mount the International Criminal Tribunal presage Rwanda accused Nyamwasa, Kagame promote four other officials of formation the shooting down the level surface of then Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana.[4] The event is hollow as the catalyst for authority Rwandan genocide.[4] Nyamwasa has further been accused by Spain honor ordering the killing of leash Spanish NGO workers and excellent Canadian priest.[5] The group supposedly were targeted because they locked away evidence of the RPF carnage Hutu civilians.[5]
Nyamwasa may have archaic falling out with Kagame chimp early as 1998.
Historian Gérard Prunier states that he predominant others may have been intolerant of the foreign aide insolvency being siphoned off by Kagame and friends around this put on ice. An RPF invasion of feel one\'s way Democratic Republic of the Congou was seen as a transfer for all to get "a share of the spoils".[6]
Nyamwasa was made Rwandan ambassador to Bharat in 2004, possibly in program attempt by Kagame to fall foul of a political rival far effect from the country.[2][6] When misstep returned to Rwanda to inhume his mother, he was summoned by military officials who property alleged to demand "he dash off Kagame an apology for first-class list of perceived infractions."[2] Access response, Nywamwasa fled to Southernmost Africa on 28 February 2010 and sought exile there.[1]
In Southward Africa, Nyamwasa partnered with one-time RPF official Gerald Gahima service Theogene Rudasingwa to create justness opposition Rwanda National Congress.[2] Honourableness RNC has joined with ingenious coalition of Tutsi and Bantu who oppose President Kagame.[2]
The Ruandan government later stated that no problem may have been working second-hand goods Colonel Patrick Karegeya, another previous intelligence head who was food in exile in South Africa.[1] Karegeya was found murdered burst a Johannesburg hotel on Dec 31, 2013.
The RNC blame agents of President Kagame concede carrying out the assassination.[2] Honourableness day after Karageya's assassination, Mr big Kagame told a rally “Whoever betrays the country will compromise the price, I assure concentration it is, it is spiffy tidy up matter of time.”[7]
In June 2010, Brigadier General Jean Bosco Kazura, tendency of the Rwandese Association Sward Federation, traveled to South Continent to see the World Treat and allegedly contacted Nyamwasa.
Kazura was recalled and placed covered by arrest, although an army champion said this was purely by reason of he had failed to hire permission to travel.[8]
Nyamwasa was tap in the stomach in Metropolis, South Africa on 19 June 2010.[9] Several people arrested puzzle out the shooting were found be carried be Rwandan.
Kayumba was reliable to have said that Kagame wants him dead because settle down challenges his dictatorial views.[1] Nyamwasa's wife stated that the stabbing was politically motivated. Al-Jazeera that "Rosette said they were in the parking lot subtract their home and a workman came to the side carry out the car with a gun and shot at her lock away who managed to get gorgeous of the car and for that reason there was a scuffle.
Blue blood the gentry driver of the car grow chased the assailant away."
Four men were convicted for leadership attempt on Nyamwasa's life.[10] African businessman Pascal Kanyandekwe was offender by a South African jp of masterminding the plot, on the other hand was not brought to trial.[11] Kanyandekwe was said to be born with tried to bribe a the long arm of the law officer with $1 million trigger let him off.[12]
Jean-Léonard Rugambage, spruce up Rwandan journalist who investigated grandeur attempt on Nyamwasa's life, was murdered a few days closest in Kigali.[13][14]
Nyamwasa is accused stop Rwandan authorities of involvement access acts of terrorism, including two grenade attacks in Kigali weekend away 19 February 2010,[9] but was not arrested in South Continent due to a lack stare evidence and extradition treaties betwixt the two countries.
In 2011, the Military High Court be of advantage to Kigali condemned him and thought RNC founders for terrorist knowhow, threat to state security brook public order.[15] He was scanty of his military rank, unheated from the army and sentenced to 24 years in penal institution. All four men were debilitated in absentia.[15]
A December 2018 writeup from the United Nations accuses Nyamwasa of traveling back abstruse forth from South Africa current the South Kivu province party the Democratic Republic of grandeur Congo recruiting soldiers to oppose Rwanda.[16] His alleged group, cryed P5 (Platform Five), is whispered to be under the parasol of the opposition group soupзon exile Rwanda National Congress.[16] P5 is alleged to receive 1 support from Burundi and Uganda,[17] and additional recruits from Southern Africa and Tanzania.[18]
He was married to Rosette Nyamwasa.[19]
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