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With his wrists handcuffed, the former manager of the Rusesabagina hotel, a critic of the genocide of President Paul Kagame’s regime since the 1994 genocide, was shown to the media at the national police headquarters in the capital Kigali on Monday. .
The 66-year-old man, wearing a mouth guard, was silent. However, he has previously said that he is the victim of a smear campaign in Rwanda.
“Rusesabagina is suspected of being the founder or leader or sponsor or member of a violent armed extremist terrorist force,” said police spokesman Thierry Murangira, adding that the charges included terrorism, terrorist financing, arson, kidnapping and murder.
“International cooperation”
Events must have taken place in June and December 2018.
However, Murangira did not reveal where Rusesabagina, who lives in Belgium, was arrested. According to the authorities, the arrest must have taken place after international cooperation.
Eric Van Duyse, a spokesman for the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office, said they had been informed of the arrest, but did not know details.
Paul Rusesabagina was played by Don Cheadle in the Oscar-nominated film “Hotel Rwanda,” which tells the story of how the former hotel manager saved 1,268 moderate Tutsis and Hutus from being killed by the Interahamwe Hutu militia during the genocide by hiding them in the Hotel des Diplomates in Kigali. Approximately 800,000 Tutsis and Hutus critical of the regime were assassinated more than 100 days before the forces of current president Kagame overthrew the then regime.
He accused the regime
Rusesabagina, whose father was Hutu and her mother Tutsi, moved from her homeland after the genocide and has since received much international attention. Among other things, he was awarded the highest civilian award in the United States, the President’s Medal of Freedom, 2005.
In Rwanda, it has created anger after statements such as another pending genocide, this time of Tutsis against Hutus. He has also accused the government of President Paul Kagame of killing opposition figures, both in Rwanda and abroad, as well as in prisons and torturing activists. Kagame, for his part, has accused Rusesabagina of using the 1994 genocide for his own financial gain.
Rusesabagina has been identified by Rusesabagina as being involved in attacks carried out by the rebel group National Liberation Front in southern Rwanda, on the border with Burundi.
