Rwanda's Former Spy Chief 'Murdered' In South Africa -- The Guardian
Rwandan dissidents claim Patrick Karegeya was assassinated on the orders of the country's president, Paul Kagame
The Michelangelo Towers hotel is a favourite haunt of international jet-setters, South African old money and the new black elite. Lulled by a grand piano, guests graze on Norwegian salmon and Mozambican prawns while looking out on a giant statue of Nelson Mandela in Africa's wealthiest district.
Come New Year's Day, denizens of the Johannesburg hotel could scarcely have dreamed of the horror unfolding upstairs in one of its luxurious rooms. Patrick Karegeya, a former spy chief in Rwanda living in exile in South Africa, was murdered. Later the room's safe revealed a bloodied towel and a rope‚ implying that Karegeya had been strangled.
As police began searching for a motive and culprit, Karegeya's fellow Rwandan dissidents were in no doubt: they immediately described it as a political assassination carried out on the orders of the country's president, Paul Kagame. It fitted a pattern, they claimed, of previous killings and disappearances of his opponents in South Africa and elsewhere.
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More News On The Death Of Rwanda's Ex-Spy Chief
Patrick Karegeya: Rwanda exile 'murdered' in Johannesburg -- BBC
Exiled Rwandan ex-spy boss murdered in South Africa -- Reuters
Rwandan Ex-Spy Chief Strangled in Johannesburg Hotel Room -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Rwandan ex-spy chief found 'murdered' in S. Africa -- Global Post/AFP
Body of Former Rwandan Spymaster Is Found in Johannesburg Hotel -- New York Times
Kagame fingered in killing of ex-spy chief -- News24
Patrick Karegeya: Why was Rwanda's Ex Spy Chief Murdered? -- Gianluca Mezzofiore, IBTimes
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