The arrest of Paul Rusesabagina is the most brazen operation that Paul Kagame's government has launched against perceived enemies abroad
time Trésor Rusesabagina spoke to his father was on his birthday, when the latter called from his home in San Antonio, Texas, to wish his son well. “He hadn’t been anywhere for ages because of lockdown and I thought he was just hanging out, watering his plants.”
For the former manager of the Hotel des Mille Collines, the rendition is a nightmare come true. Since moving his family to Belgium in 1996, where he applied for asylum before relocating to America, he had lived in anticipation of just such an event. “He’s always been paranoid about them arresting him, shutting him down, because he had a voice,” said his son, Trésor. “In Rwanda, to have an opinion is a crime.
On social media Mr Kagame’s backers are circulating a clip filmed in 2018 which appears to mark the moment when Mr Rusesabagina came out in favour of armed struggle. “The time has come for us to use any means possible to bring about change in Rwanda,” he said, calling on Rwandans to support the National Liberation Front, the armed wing of a coalition of opposition groups which included his own. “All political means have been tried and failed.
This makes Mr Rusesabagina’s rendition all the more surprising, given the international condemnation it courts. The real motive may have been jealousy, says a former confidant of Mr Kagame: “There can only be one post-genocide hero in Rwanda and that’s Kagame. He wasn’t going to share the limelight with anyone.”
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