Decapitated… Indeed, the former sergeant-major of the Rwandan army (RDF), Robert Kabera, also known as the musician “Sergeant Robert,” was assassinated in Kamengo, in the Mpigi district, Uganda. His body was found on a construction site where he was building a house. He is said to have been decapitated—the head was missing—and possibly mutilated. A video is circulating that corroborates this monstrous modus operandi. In November 2020, the RDF opened an investigation against him for allegations of sexual assault against a minor member of his family. He then left Rwanda and took refuge in Uganda. He was arrested there in 2022, before being released. Kabera presented himself as a critic of Kagame’s government and claimed he was threatened because of his admiration for the singer Kizito Mihigo as well as his family ties to the late Fred Rwigema, founding commander of the RPF, of whom he was the nephew. Precisely in order to understand this atavistic culture of violence of the RPF, it is necessary to go back to its Ugandan origins, as Gérard Prunier explains below in the text and in substance: “In 1990, the hard core of the movement consisted of young men who had grown up as refugees in Uganda in the 1980s, in a context of civil war marked by great violence. Some had witnessed the massacres committed in the Luwero region. Once the war was won by Museveni’s forces, these same men were sent back into combat, this time in northern Uganda, against the troops of the prophetess Alice Lakwena. They were no longer insurgents, but the forces of law and order charged with suppressing the rebellious local populations. It was then that they committed massacres of such magnitude that Museveni sent military judges to the north to restore order within his own army. One of these judges was Kagame. And some of the men he had to judge later became his subordinates. On 1 October 1990, the RPF attacked Rwanda from Ugandan territory, under the command of Fred Rwigema, former major-general and deputy commander of the Ugandan army, a long-time friend of Museveni. The two men had known each other since their studies and their revolutionary engagement in Mozambique. On the third day of the offensive, Fred Rwigema held a meeting in the presence of three of his closest collaborators: Commander Peter Bayingana, Chris Bunyenyezi and Stephen Ndugurata. A severe dispute broke out between Rwigema and two of his aides, while the third remained silent. The reasons for this altercation were multiple. Rwigema, a polite man and great guerrilla strategist, was fully aware of the destructive potential of ethnic identities and the Hutu-Tutsi divide. He wanted to advance slowly: politicize the peasants, wait for the government to make mistakes and gradually rally the rural masses to his cause. This was not the vision of Bayingana and Bunyenyezi, who wanted power quickly, without worrying too much about the problems that might arise later. The dispute worsened. Bayingana drew his pistol and shot Rwigema in the head. In the confusion, Ndugurata escaped, returned to Uganda and explained to Museveni what had happened. In a state of shock, Museveni sent his brother Salim Saleh to Rwanda. He found Rwigema’s body in the marsh, buried him with dignity, arrested the culprits, brought them back to Uganda for interrogation and had them executed. Kagame maintained a close relationship with Bayingana and Bunyenyezi: in 1988, while he was a military judge in northern Uganda, he had spared their lives when they were detained for atrocities against civilian populations." The murder of Rwigema could be the result of a plan aimed at eliminating a potential Rwandan president who was far too charismatic for his soulless rival. xitter.cf/jf_le_drian/status/211…