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FM AMEMBASSY KIGALI
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 2307
INFO AMEMBASSY BUJUMBURA
AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM
AMEMBASSY KAMPALA
AMEMBASSY NAIROBI
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BUJUMBURA FOR RSO - CHRIS REILLY
E. 0. 12356: DECL: OADR
TAGS: PGOV, PINS, ASEC, MOPS, RW
SUBJECT: INSECURITY CONTINUES AROUND KIGALI
1. (C) SUMMARY: INTERNAL INSECURITY, MARKED BY
INTERPARTY VIOLENCE, PLAGUED KIGALI ALL WEEK. AN
OPPOSITION MARCH NOVEMBER 19 ENDED IN CLASHES THAT
INJURED AN ESTIMATED 50 PEOPLE. THE AMBASSADOR
IMPRESSED UPON BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND THE DEFENSE
MINISTER THE NEED FOR STRONG LEADERSHIP TO END THE
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VIOLENCE AND PAVE THE WAY FOR PEACE ACCORDS. END
SUMMARY.
LOCAL INCIDENTS
2. (U) THE MURDER OF AN INTERAHAMWE LEADER (YOUTH OF
THE PRESIDENT'S MRND PARTY) THE EVENING OF NOVEMBER
16 IN A NEIGHBORHOOD OUTSIDE KIGALI, SPARKED REVENGE
KILLING OF AT LEAST FIVE MDR YOUTH IN THE SAME AREA.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF STATE
REVIEW AUTHORITY: CHARLES L DARIS
DATE/CASE ID: 22 SEP 2008 200103014
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AS OF NOVEMBER 20, HOUSES IN THE AREA ARE STILL BEING
BURNED AND THOSE ARRESTED HAVE BEEN RELEASED,
ACCORDING TO A HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP. REPORTS FROM
ANOTHER AREA OF KIGALI ALSO INVOLVE POLITICAL PARTY
MURDERS, THIS TIME BY AN INTERAHAMWE YOUTH DISGUISED
IN AN OPPOSITION PSD UNIFORM.
DEMONSTRATION FOR ARUSHA
3. (U) ON THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19, THE OPPOSITION
POLITICAL PARTIES, MDR, PSD, PL, AND PDC, HELD A
DEMONSTRATION IN KIGALI WHICH STARTED AT
APPROXIMATELY 0700. THEY WERE JOINED BY MEMBERS OF
THE PSR AND MFBP. THE CROWD ASSEMBLED NEAR THE
CENTER OF TOWN AND MARCHED THROUGH THE SECTION OF
KIGALI IN FRONT OF THE PRISON TO NYAMIRAMBO AND
EVENTUALLY TO THE REGIONAL STADIUM FOR AN ALL DAY
RALLY.
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4. (U) UPON TERMINATION OF THE RALLY, THERE WAS A
CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES MENTIONED ABOVE AND
THE INTERAHAMME, THE YOUTH GROUP OF THE MRND. THERE
WERE NUMEROUS REPORTS OF WINDOWS BEING BROKEN,
VEHICLES AND HOUSES DAMAGED AND MAJOR TRAFFIC
BLOCKAGES IN THE AREAS OF DOWNTOWN AND ON THE ROUTE
LEADING TO THE REGIONAL STADIUM. REPORTS INDICATE 50
PERSONS INJURED, AT LEAST TWO SERIOUSLY.
5. (U) THERE ARE UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF TEAR GAS
BEING USED. THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS OF HOUSES BEING
PILLAGED AND BURNED IN SEVERAL AREAS OF THE CITY
DURING THE EVENING OF THE 19TH AND THE EARLY MORNING
OF NOVEMBER 20TH. KIGALI AUTHORITIES CLAIM THAT THE
YOUTH OF THE OPPOSITIBS1#1
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6. (C) THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE TOLD THE AMBASSADOR
THAT MDR, PL, PSD YOUTH WERE SET ON DELIBERATELY
CAUSING TROUBLE. THE INTERAHANNE SPENT THE NIGHT
GETTING REVENGE.
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7. (C) IN A LONG MEETING WITH PRESIDENT HABYARIMANA
NOVEMBER 18, PRIMARILY TO DISCUSS THE ARUSHA PROCESS,
I RAISED THE ISSUE OF INTERNAL SECURITY. I URGED THE
PRESIDENT TO BECOME MORE ACTIVE IN MAKING CLEAR TO
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THE MRND, THE INTERAHAMWE, AND TO THE PUBLIC, THAT
THE KINDS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE THAT WERE TAKING
PLACE WERE UNACCEPTABLE. THE PRESIDENT WAS A LITTLE
DEFENSIVE. HE SAID THAT HE HAD ALREADY MADE SPEECHES
CALLING FOR IMPROVEMENT IN INTERNAL SECURITY AND HAD
CALLED A MEETING OF THE PREFETS TO DISCUSS THE
PROBLEM JUST THE WEEK BEFORE. I SAID THAT THE PUBLIC
ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MEETING WITH THE PREFETS QUOTED
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THE PRESIDENT AS PRAISING THE PREFETS FOR THEIR GOOD
WORK, NOT FOR GIVING THEM STRICT ORDERS ON WHAT
NEEDED TO BE DONE TO BE FAIR TO ALL PARTIES.
8. (C) THE PRESIDENT, AGAIN DEFENSIVE, SAID THAT
THE PRESS WAS TREATING HIS PARTIES UNFAIRLY. FOR
EXAMPLE, HE SAID, THE PRESS HAD SIMPLY CRITICIZED THE
CDR FOR ITS DEMONSTRATION ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, AND
HAD NOT CRITICIZED THE USE OF THE PSD AND MDR WHICH
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HAD SUBSEQUENTLY ATTACKED THEM. I TOLD THE PRESIDENT
HE HAD BEEN BADLY MISLED ABOUT THE BEHAVIOR OF THE
CDR; THIS PARTICULAR INCIDENT WE HAD BEEN ABLE TO
INVESTIGATE WITH AMERICAN OFFICERS. I TOLD HIM THAT
NOT ONLY WAS THE CDR UNRULY, UNLIKE THE LIES THEY HAD
SPREAD ABOUT IT AFTERWARDS, BUT THE GENDARMES HAD
FIRED INTO THE OFFICE OF THE PSD AND HAD TRIED TO HIT
THE OFFICE OF MDR LEADER TWAGIRAMUNGU. I ASKED THE
PRESIDENT HOW MANY SHOTS HAD BEEN FIRED. HE SAID HE
HAD HEARD 20 OR 30, BECAUSE THEY TOOK PLACE CLOSE TO
HIS OFFICE. I SAID THAT WAS OUR COUNT ALSO, THAT WE
HAD FOUND HOLES IN THE PSD WALLS ACCOUNTING FOR
ALMOST ALL OF THE BULLETS THAT HAD BEEN FIRED.
9 . (C) I TOLD THE PRESIDENT THAT IF HE WAS
COMMITTED TO THE ARUSHA PROCESS, HE HAD TO DO MORE ON
INTERNAL SECURITY. I SAID IT WAS MY VIEW THAT THE
RPF WOULD ULTIMATELY NOT AGREE TO A PEACE ACCORD WTNME? Q THE PRESIDENT ACCEPTED MY
JUDGMENT THAT HE NEEDED TO DO MORE ON THE INTERNAL
SECURITY FRONT AND SAID HE WOULD BECOME MORE ACTIVE
TO PROTECT SECURITY OF PEOPLE IN RWANDA. WE WILL SEE.
10. (C) I MADE A SIMILAR PRESENTATION TO MINISTER OF
DEFENSE GASANA, STRESSING THE NEED FOR THE LEADERSHIP
OF ALL PARTIES, BUT ESPECIALLY THE MRND, TO REDUCE
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THE LEVEL OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE BY THEIR YOUTH
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