In the years following the Rwandan genocide, many of the perpetrators or accomplices of these crimes sought refuge in Belgium, where they firmly established themselves and reorganised. The country has since become one of their main bases of operation. African Facts investigates.
African Facts can reveal that Kaumbu Mandungu Bula, one of the key advisers to the Congolese presidency, has direct links to Rwanda’s former first family in exile. Members of their network travel between Europe, Kinshasa and the Kivus, while others hold command positions in the Congolese army.
African Facts has investigated the background of Thaddée Kwitonda, a Belgian-Rwandan facing genocide charges, who now shuttles between Belgium and circles close to the Congolese presidency. He operates in a murky environment where Rwanda’s former ruling clan and members of criminal armed groups intersect.
This former Rwandan officer, who had undergone three years of training with the French special forces, was living discreetly near Troyes. He was the first to arrive at the site of the Rwandan president’s plane crash on 6 April 1994, along with three French soldiers. Amidst the genocide, his unit participated in a dubious operation overseen by a notorious French covert operative.
Colonel Aloys Ntiwiragabo was found in 2020 near Orléans in France after evading international justice for 26 years. He is the main architect of the denial of the Tutsi genocide. He was particularly involved in manipulating the French justice system in relation to the attack on 6 April 1994. Episode two.
Colonel Aloys Ntiwiragabo was found near Orléans in 2020, having evaded international justice for 26 years. He was not in Rwanda when the president's plane was shot down on 6 April 1994. However, he and his subordinates were involved in every aspect of the plot. First...
In North Kivu and Ituri, the Congolese intelligence services, army and Wazalendo militias have been carrying out raids on Maasai itinerant vendors. One vendor was burned alive in public on 2 September.
While the mayor and bishop of Orléans refused to bury Protais Zigiranyirazo, who is suspected of masterminding the wheeler-dealer circle that promoted the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, and while two investigating judges are attempting to clear former first lady Agathe Kanziga, who is also suspected of belonging to this circle, African Facts investigated the survival of this network.
For several years, a wave of racist persecutions has affected a part of the Rwandophone minority in the Democratic Republic of Congo. African Facts has investigated several cases of lynching that were followed by acts of anthropophagy.
While the role and importance of Rwandan génocidaires and their ideas in the conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are increasingly being relativised and downplayed, African Facts reveals the links between Rwanda’s former presidential family and various armed actors, including the FDLR, the FLN, and a Congolese general who coordinates the Wazalendo militias.
Many conflicts on the African continent are poorly understood today due to a lack of independent, factual and easily accessible sources of information. In our view, this information gap is a worrying and dangerous vacuum that allows misleading narratives, fanciful figures, fake news and hate speech to flourish. African Facts has therefore made it its mission to fill this which is conducive misinformation.
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