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November, 2020
CNRD terrorist group “Secretary-General” killed, and dozens captured including a “Colonel” in DRC
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The nightmare of Sgt. Maj. Robert Kabera’s defiled daughter Page 2
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Terror outfit RRM joins the string of failed anti-Rwanda groups Page 3
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Ongoing operations by the Congo military (FARDC) to eradicate illegal armed groups from its territory continue to gather momentum with the killing last Saturday of one Jean Marie Vianney Nyawenda, “Secretary-General” of the anti-Rwanda terrorist group CNRD-Ubwiyunge, who died along with thirty of the group’s fighters in the Itombwe Mountains of Fizi, Page 4 South Kivu Province. Get a free copy of our e-paper
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Family of Sgt. Maj. Kabera who defiled his daughter and fled to Uganda urge him to hand himself in Page 5
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The nightmare of Sgt. Maj. Robert Kabera’s defiled daughter me,” the girl says blowing her nose and wiping tears.
By Mary Cyusa The 15-year old daughter of Sgt. Maj. Robert Kabera is distraught. She is traumatized. She has injuries, and is crying. She also wants justice; she wants her father arrested and made answerable for what he did to her.
She says when he forced himself on her she was crying loudly, but her brother, whom she says is not well, could not do a thing. When Kabera was done abusing the child, he said “my daughter” and got away from her. She ran away as he grabbed a machete from under his bed and ran after his daughter, shouting he was going to commit suicide. Uwera was struggling to open the door so she could run, but Kabera took the keys from her. She feared he could cut her. But he let her go to her room.
Kabera, a soldier and musician in the RDF band, according to his daughter committed the crime in the evening of November 21, then fled – from his home in Ndera, Gasabo District – the very following day. He escaped to Uganda using a porous route in the Kagitumba area.
“What can I do to keep this between us?” Kabera asked, but she told him “nothing, get out of my room!”
Kabera’s daughter Uwera (real name withheld for confidentiality) said her nightmare began on a day like any other. She woke up in the morning, took a bath and went to school. When she came back for lunch, her step-mother whom they were living together told her she was taking the baby to Mutara, so she might not find anyone home when she came back from school later that day. Even the night was like all others. Her father went to a bar and called her at mid-night on a neighbour’s phone. “The neighbour knocked on our door and told me that daddy wanted to talk to me. When we talked, he was in a very loud place with so many men talking around him. He was in a bar,” Uwera narrates. “He told me to tell my brother (who usually slept in the sitting room) to take my room, and that I should sleep in his.” It was something usual that her father goes to drink until morning. So, Uwera told her brother to do as their father said, but told him he would get back to his spot once he came back home. Kabera reached home at 2 am. He was with other two men that Uwera told to go to their houses because her father had work at 6 am. She then gave her father help so he could reach his room because
Sgt. Maj. Robert Kabera (pictured) who has fled to Uganda following a heinous crime. He should be repatriated to answer for what he has done.
he was very drunk. “He usually even exceeds that level, only that my step mother usually is the one that takes him to bed,” says the tearful Uwera. Just as she was about to go back to her room, Kabera called her back. “I sat on his bed and he started taking off the long socks I was wearing.” She says she found this weird. But she only told him it was already morning and her Saturdays are usually hectic. “Who is the father here?” Kabera shot back. “Who gives orders here? Me or you!?” To all the questions she vulnerably replied, “You.” He then ordered her to lie on the bed, but she said “but daddy, everyone here has their own bed.” “He then angrily pushed me on the bed and forced himself on
when he forced himself on her she was crying loudly, but her brother, whom she says is not well, could not do a thing.
Dawn was the only thing she was waiting for, so she could run away from the house. At 4 am, she sneaked out and took a bike to her maternal uncle’s who then took her to the Isange One Stop Centre, where it was established that severe harm was done to her. Now Kabera is in Uganda where he has since been talking to the country’s media claiming he has fled “because my life and family are in danger.” He claims this is because “I have fallen out with the Kigali government,” something that prompted social media commentators to ask how a sergeant could “fall out” with the government. “It is the usual thing for wrongdoers to make up stories to tarnish government,” said an official that requested not to be named. Kabera has gone as far as concocting a story that “my country does not want anyone to interact with the Rwigema family, to whom I am related.” This lie is refuted by members of Kabera’s own family. His brother Sadi Ngabo said, “in no way are we related with the Rwigemas at all. It is just a strange lie!”
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Terror outfit RRM joins the string of failed anti-Rwanda groups By Joan Karera One of the armchair anti-Rwanda terror groups, the Rwandese Revolutionary Movement (RRM) has been hit with serious internal wrangles, according to reliable sources. In a press release issued on November 26, 2020, the group announced it had fired its vice-chairperson Kassim Kabuto Butoyi on accusations that “he had betrayed the ‘party’ because he was ‘working as an ally of Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF).’” Our source said such accusations are known to be used by members of terrorist groups in efforts to cover up their failures. Butoyi was the vice-president of RRM and held the same position in the MRCD coalition which was initially made up of four terrorist organizations; Parti Démocratique au Rwanda (PDR-Ihumure) of Paul Rusesabagina, Rwanda Dream Initiative (RDI-Rwanda Rwiza) of Faustin Twagiramun-
gu, Rwandese Revolution Movement (RRM) of Callixte Nsabimana ‘Sankara’, and CNRD-Ubwiyunge which was recently expelled from the coalition. “For sure these must be the most confused groups,” laughed a Kigali-based observer. Before joining RRM Butoyi was the chairman of the Rwanda National Congress (RNC) of Kayumba Nyamwasa in Cape Town, South Africa. The press release announcing Butoyi’s firing said that he “chose to betray the ‘party’ working as an ally of the RPF, as found in his own audio recordings aimed at exposing the secrets of some of his co-workers which he sent to different people in various places.” However, according to observers, since last year these anti-Rwanda terrorists have had a very tough time with their armed groups
getting clobbered repeatedly, and many of their leaders captured and in custody to answer for their crimes. “It has reached a point whereby almost all of the remaining members are scared of their shadows, and see RPF everywhere,” said a social media post. “On top of this, they know their plans to destabilize Rwanda have gone down the drain, and there is little doubt that even the remaining will be arrested to be made answerable for their crimes. Dragging RPF into their failures is just delusional, our source said. “This Kabuto has always been a member of different terrorist organizations.” RRM announced in the press release that Butoyi has been replaced by a renowned Genocide denier, Mukashema Esperance, known by many as a presenter on an online propaganda outlet, Ubumwe radio. Mukashema, who is based in The
Netherlands, was on Rusesabagina’s payroll whereby she was getting US$ 300 per month to air anti-Rwanda misinformation. The disintegration of this terror group comes following serious problems that each of the MRCD members is facing. FLN, the military wing of CNRD group which is hard at work inciting terrorism against innocent Rwandans has recently disintegrated into two groups. Rusesabagina’s PDR-Ihumure too is no more, following his arrest. And now RRM is disintegrating from its internal wrangles. Analysts have repeatedly pointed out that the so-called “opposition groups” – which mainly have been created out of personal ambitions for power – can never last. “They have nothing to ‘oppose’. They just
want to destabilize the country for selfish reasons, mostly ill-conceived ambitions for power, but also to distract from their crimes,” analysts comment.
Debris of the car burnt during one of MRCD-FLN armed attacks in Rwanda. RRM, a member of MRCD coalition sacked its vice president Kasim Butoyi Kabuto.
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CNRD terrorist group “Secretary-General” killed, and dozens captured including a “Colonel” in DRC
The Congolese military has killed Anti-Rwanda terror outfit FLN’s “secretary general”, Jean Marie Vianney Nyawenda in an operation that saw many of the group’s fighters killed and others captured.
By Fred Gashema Ongoing operations by the Congo military (FARDC) to eradicate illegal armed groups from its territory continue to gather momentum with the killing last Saturday of one Jean Marie Vianney Nyawenda, “Secretary-General” of the anti-Rwanda terrorist group CNRD-Ubwiyunge, who died along with thirty of the group’s fighters in the Itombwe Mountains of Fizi, South Kivu Province. The same operation led to the capture of “Col” Donat Bazamanza aka “Chairman” in Kalehe Territory. Bazamanza served as head of political affairs (G5) in the terror outfit. The developments are part of the ongoing crackdown to rout all foreign armed rebel or militia groups based in Congo that include anti-Rwanda terrorist groups which are the main source of instability in the region.
According to knowledgeable sources, FARDC had clashed with the remnants of CNRD that currently dwell in bushes, but masquerade as ordinary Congolese citizens within various vicinities. They have been spooked following routs by the government’s forces that saw over 2000 rebel fighters and their dependents captured and repatriated to Rwanda in mid-December 2019. A number of members of the terrorist group including its president, “Lt. Gen.” Laurent Ndagijimana alias Wilson Irategeka Rumbago were killed on spot. “Nyawenda, Bazamanza and other slain fighters were part of those that had survived earlier attacks by Congolese army under the Zokola 1 operations in 2019,” a knowledgeable source told us, adding, “FARDC has never ceased as it is currently busy cleaning those remnants, and all the efforts invested in the operations are paying off.”
According to Congolese media actualite.cd, after capturing alive “Col” Bazamanza, FARDC handed him to Rwandan authorities to face trial on terrorism related charges. Meanwhile the CNRD fighters that survived the FARDC attacks – which saw the their Secretary General killed along with dozens of their fellows in addition to their head of G5 being captured – were quick to turn against each other. They killed “Maj.” Ngarama Bahati, one of their military operations commanders, accusing him of betraying those that had been killed or captured. CNRD was part of a coalition of anti-Rwanda forces, the MRCD-Ubumwe whose “core mission” is to violently topple the current Rwanda government. CNRD was, in June this year, expelled from the coalition over allegedly embezzling $150,000 that was raised by terror suspect Paul Rusesabagina, the then
president of the coalition, as a budget to facilitate their activities. It was later ascertained that the money vanished into the pockets of CNRD’s top commanders that include “Brig. Gen.” Antoine Hakizimana, alias Jeva, which led one “Col.” Alex Rusanganwa alias Guado to defect and form his own breakaway group. According to observers, one can’t be wrong in saying that CNRD is reaching its end, “given the number of its fighters and top commanders that were either killed or captured and repatriated to Rwanda ever since FARDC kicked off its operations against illegal armed groups on its territory,” noted a security analyst. “Another reason CNRD is reaching its end is internal wrangles within its remnants; with individuals turning against each other in a spate of mutual suspicions that are even making them kill each other,” he added.
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Family of Sgt. Maj. Kabera who defiled his daughter and fled to Uganda urge him to hand himself in By Yves Muneza The family of deserted and disgraced RDF soldier Sgt. Maj. Robert Kabera, who fled to Uganda to evade justice after violating his own daughter, is urging him to hand himself in. Kabera, better known as “Sergeant Robert” throughout his music career, crossed to Uganda last Sunday after committing the crime on his daughter who currently is receiving treatment. Upon reaching Uganda, Robert Kabera was interviewed by different propaganda and mainstream media outlets there. Those media gave him forum to claim that he was seeking asylum “following political perse-
cution at home.” Kabera further claimed that he was being victimized because of his “close affiliations to the family of late General Fred Rwigema.” But the Ugandan media articles were more in the propagandist mold, as they did not seek to ascertain facts. Virunga Post has established from members of Kabera’s family that all the allegations he made claiming he was fleeing because he was “threatened by Rwandan security authorities” were total fabrications. He fled justice for the appalling crime on his fifteen-year old daughter. “Now he is telling lies against Rwanda,” lamented a family member.
Talking to Virunga Post on behalf of Kabera’s family members, Sadi Ngabo, his brother, said that the things that Ugandan media have been quoting Kabera about the family of the late Fred Rwigema are fabrications. “He cannot use Rwigema as an escape route from his crimes! He had no connection in any manner to the family of Rwigema.” “We as family members condemn in the strongest terms Robert’s immoral acts of defiling his own daughter, then fleeing justice to then lie that the Rwanda government is hunting him because he is related to Rwigema family!” Ngabo added: “Robert and I share the same father and I can tell you that in no way are we related to Rwigema. He cannot
use the name of a highly venerated name to cover for his crime.” Ngabo added that leave alone the fact they have no relation with the late Rwigema from their father’s family, they have no connections whatever from their mothers’ side. “It is a pity that Robert would choose to lie like that!” he said, further urging his brother to hand himself in for the terrible thing he has done. “For my brother to flee to Uganda after what he did was very wrong. As a soldier, he should turn himself in and face justice. What he did has given a bad image to the army and the family.”
Sgt. Maj. Robert Kabera fled to Uganda after committing a heinous crime, but from there he is telling fabricated stories.
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RNC’s Frank Ntwari in Kampala to review Ugandan facilitated RNC cadreship training By Alex Muhumuza News reaching our desk is that Frank Ntwari, the Rwanda National Congress “commissioner of youth” currently is in Uganda where he has been meeting Prossy Bonabaana and Sulah Nuwamanya – two of the most prominent Kampala-based agents of the terrorist group. According to reliable sources, the South Africa-based Ntwari – who is a brother in law to RNC head Kayumba Nyamwasa – is in Kampala to evaluate progress on cadreship training of RNC recruits in Uganda. He is also meeting RNC cadres that have been recruited from several parts of the country. In recent months, Virunga Post has reported details about recruitment activities for RNC going on all over Uganda and facilitated by the country’s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, but also with the participation of the Special Forces Command.
proxy, and assisted and facilitated the group openly. With CMI in charge, RNC has in the past recruited fighters, and CMI has provided them fake travel papers to training camps in the DRC. CMI has been facilitating the movements of officials and senior commanders of RNC throughout the region in their arms-purchasing operations, or to attend strategy meetings to destabilize Rwanda. However, in mid 2019 RNC and other DR Congo-based illegal armed groups suffered heavy military routs that saw many of the terrorist top commanders and fighters either killed, or captured and repatriated to Rwanda to answer for their crimes. Museveni and Nyamwasa were reported to have become desperate at the near total collapse of RNC. Their plans to destabilize Rwanda looked to have gone up in smoke.
It was then that they came up with their fresh, two-part plan – the first phase being “to build a movement of cadres with the right ideology.” It is for this reason that the likes of Bonabaana and Nuwamanya have been setting up cells and recruiting in several places, and apparently this is part of what they will be reviewing with Ntwari. Reliable sources have revealed that the trainers of the cadreship center, who offer online courses include people like: Gervais Condo, the US-based RNC secretary general; Epimaque Ntamashobora, the UK-based RNC commissioner in charge of mobilization, among others. Local-based instructors include Robert Higiro, Epimaque Runanira, and Rusagara. “Museveni and Nyamwasa realized that they miserably failed the first time, and they seem to be determined to move ahead,
instead of acknowledging they will never get anywhere,” said a Kigali-based security observer. According to reliable information, “phase two” of the plan is supposed to begin when a sizable enough body of cadres has been trained, “and understand the ideology well.” These are then supposed to be sent back to communities with significant numbers of Kinyarwanda-speakers, either Rwandan nationals or Ugandans of Rwandan origin. The idea is to further mobilize and recruit enough young men for war against Kigali. A security observer in Kigali, hearing of these things, remarked: “no matter their changes in strategy, their efforts will be futile. They will be just as decimated in the future as they were in the past!”
Reliable sources have revealed that Bonabaana and Nuwamanya, who were operating a shell NGO, Self Worth Initiative, have been using this cover to set up cells in places like Hoima, Fort Portal, Kakumiro, Namutamba, Mubende, Kiboga Nakivale refugee settlement, and other places in addition to Kampala. The focus has mainly been on those places with sizable Kinyarwanda-speaking communities. After the RNC agents have recruited its cadres with the help or facilitation of CMI, they are then taken to the RNC “cadreship training center” located in the Bugolobi suburb of Kampala, on Street 21, Mpanga Close. The cadreship training, it has been revealed, is part of a recently hatched, two-part plan by which the regime of Uganda’s President, Museveni, plots to overthrow the Rwandan government. It has long been an open secret that Museveni, in his long-term plan to destabilize Rwanda, adopted Nyamwasa’s Rwanda National Congress as his main
RNC’s Frank Ntwari. He’s been in Uganda to meet RNC agents and cadres.
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Ugandan Military Intelligence and Police in a clash of confusion following police arrest of RNC cadres in Mubende By Alex Muhumuza This website has learnt that police in Uganda’s Mubende District arrested eight cadres of Kayumba Nyamwasa’s RNC while they were holding a meeting on the premises of a primary school, Kalungi, situated in a place called Lubali. This occurred last month on 28. Reliable information we have is that the Ugandan Military Intelligence, CMI, on the guidance of President Museveni, has stepped up efforts “to strengthen RNC” in their long-term plot to violently overthrow the Kigali Administration. It has been reported that following the routing of the RNC’s fighters from the jungles of eastern DRC, prompting a crisis in the terror organization, the Ugandan regime hit upon the plan, together with Nyamwasa, to set up a cadreship training program. According to our reliable sources, the arrested RNC cadres are Nzayisenga Athanase, Bakunzi Bernard, Kasimu, Mugema Fred, Ngendahimana James, Nzeyimana Eric, Byaruhanga Robert and Gahungahirwe Vianney. Information we have is that, based on their confessions and
evidence found on their telephones and laptop, Lubali Police immediately initiated a file and the eight individuals were detained at the local police station. Our sources disclose that the group was mobilized by Kasimu and Nzeyimana Eric – two of the arrested men. The two RNC agents were sent from Nakivale by Frank Ntwari. Ntwari is the RNC “Commissioner of Youth” but seems to have stepped into the duties of Ben Rutabana who was the commissioner for capacity building (also in charge of recruitment). Rutabana has since September last year gone missing in Uganda, after he fell out with Nyamwasa and his brother in law Ntwari. When the two agents deployed by Ntwari and their six recruits were arrested and detained, they confessed to police that indeed they were with RNC. However, when CMI got information it directed police to hand over the case file to itself (CMI). This was following confirmation by RNC that “our cadres have been apprehended in Mubende.” Since then, the RNC cadres have been released on the orders of CMI.
CMI head Abel Kandiho intervened to have the RNC cadres released
Analysts are bound to see this turn of events as evident of confusion and misunderstanding between Ugandan security forces regarding the operations of RNC in Uganda. On the one hand it appears that CMI is supposed to work with, and facilitate all the activities of the anti-Rwanda RNC on a hush hush basis. No one except the military intelligence and the regime boss are supposed to know of RNC existence in Uganda. On the other hand police, as part of its duty, is mandated to arrest members of suspicious groups. Yet when they do exactly that, as they did after catching the eight RNC individuals red-handed while planning acts hostile to a neighboring country, CMI steps in to have them released.
Police in Uganda recently arrested cadres of Kayumba Nyamwasa’s RNC. Police seemed to have no idea that the Ugandan regime is the one giving RNC the backing, facilitation, and permission to operate in Uganda
“It is quite obvious the police has not been apprized of RNC operations in Uganda,” a commentator said on the condition of anonymity. This act by CMI among other things violates the letter and spirit of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in August last year in Luanda, Angola, between presidents Kagame and Museveni, and witnessed by the heads of state of Angola and the two Congos.
The MoU, part of an initiative by President Laurenco of Angola and Tshisekedi of DRC to normalize relations between Uganda and Rwanda, commits the parties among other things to: refrain from actions conducive to destabilization or subversion in the territory of the other party and neighboring countries, thereby eliminating all factors that may create such perception, as well as that of acts such as the financing, training, and infiltration of destabilizing forces. Uganda has done the opposite of these commitments, as reports of the regime’s support for RNC continue to come out. According to information obtained by this website earlier on, the first phase of a two-step plan by Kampala meant to violently overthrow the Rwandan Government is to build a movement of cadres “with the right ideology.” The phase began with the creation of the RNC cadreship training center which is located in Bugolobi, Mpanga Close, Street 21, Kampala. Everything is conducted by CMI. The eight that were arrested in Mubende must have been products of its program.
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