{"id":6296,"date":"2017-07-23T19:32:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T19:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2017-07-23T20:22:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T20:22:55","slug":"revealed-despot-rwanda-dictator-labelled-a-visionary-by-tony-blair-falsifies-poverty-numbers-to-get-more-foreign-aid-and-even-sent-hitmen-to-britain-to-take-out-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/23\/revealed-despot-rwanda-dictator-labelled-a-visionary-by-tony-blair-falsifies-poverty-numbers-to-get-more-foreign-aid-and-even-sent-hitmen-to-britain-to-take-out-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: Despot Rwanda dictator labelled a ‘visionary’ by Tony Blair falsifies poverty numbers to get more foreign aid and ‘even sent hitmen to Britain to take out rivals’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Kagame is the President of\u00a0Rwanda and commanded a rebel force before<\/strong>Britain is the second biggest bilateral donor to Rwanda, giving \u00a364 million a year<\/strong>The Mail on Sunday found that the regime\u00a0twists records, lying about poverty\u00a0<\/strong>Human Rights activist Rene Mugenzi was warned by police that a hit squad\u00a0from Rwanda had come to the UK to kill him<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Emmanuel Gasakure could have enjoyed a comfortable life as a cardiologist in France. But when his native Rwanda was ripped apart by genocide in 1994, he returned to the country.<\/p>\n

He helped revive the health service as the nation recovered from terrible trauma and served as President Paul Kagame\u2019s adviser and personal physician for 14 years.<\/p>\n

But Gasakure grew disturbed by dark forces wrecking his lifetime\u2019s work. So he confronted the country\u2019s health minister, a friend of Kagame\u2019s wife, over missing funds, stray medical supplies and a mismanaged human resources project. Days later, this patriotic physician was arrested, tortured and then shot dead \u2013 by a police officer, reportedly in self-defence, inside a Kigali police station. One more dissident wiped out by a despotic regime. \u2018He was executed because he was denouncing corruption in the health sector,\u2019 said a friend. \u2018Kagame is a killer.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame inspects the 154 army troops during a ceremony in Kigali<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Few would now dispute this claim, given Kagame\u2019s lethal interventions in neighbouring nations and the constant stream of critics who have died or disappeared after falling out with his regime.<\/p>\n

His foes are not even safe abroad: one was strangled in South Africa, others have been eliminated in East Africa, while British and US authorities have issued warnings over Rwandan death squads.<\/p>\n

Yet this bloodstained dictator at the helm of a ruthless one-party state is hailed a hero by Western leaders lavishing torrents of foreign aid on his tiny nation as he prepares for his latest electoral coronation next month.<\/p>\n

Tony Blair says Kagame is a \u2018visionary\u2019. Bill Clinton called him one of the \u2018greatest leaders of our time\u2019. David Cameron proclaimed Rwanda \u2018a success story\u2019 that offers \u2018a role model for development\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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