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Why Is Rwanda’s Leader Sowing Chaos in Congo?

The Foreign Affairs Interview

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The Wake Up Call: How I Misjudged Kagame

There came a day when with a near audible mental ping, I realized I no longer believed most of the key truths upon which Kagame and his army, the RPF, had built their account. With me, there were two key elements if I can identify them, sort of my wake up call moments. One was the murder in Nairobi of Seth Sandoshanga, the former interior minister who had been part of Kagame's first post genocide government. And then the other incidents, the massacres in the forests of Eastern Congo in the late 1990s where you saw a mass exodus of Hutu civilians from refugee camps.

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