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07KIGALI762
2007-08-24 12:57:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Kigali
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ALLEGATIONS AGAINST RWANDAN DEPUTY DARFUR

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E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/11/2017
TAGS: PREL PHUM RW
SUBJECT: ALLEGATIONS AGAINST RWANDAN DEPUTY DARFUR
COMMANDER APPEAR UNFOUNDED

REF: KIGALI 0006 (NOTAL)

Classified By: Ambassador Michael R. Arietti, reason 1.4 (B/D)

C O N F I D E N T I A L KIGALI 000762

SIPDIS

SIPDIS

E.O. 12958: DECL: 05/11/2017
TAGS: PREL PHUM RW
SUBJECT: ALLEGATIONS AGAINST RWANDAN DEPUTY DARFUR
COMMANDER APPEAR UNFOUNDED

REF: KIGALI 0006 (NOTAL)

Classified By: Ambassador Michael R. Arietti, reason 1.4 (B/D)


1. (C) A Brussels-based opposition group, FDU-Inkingi,
recently accused Rwandan Major General Emmanuel Karenzi
Karake - the newly appointed Deputy Commander of the UN-AU
Hybrid Force in Darfur - of participation in various
massacres and murders of political opponents in the years
just before and after the 1994 genocide. FDU-Inkingi, an
umbrella grouping formed by three external opposition parties
in the fall of 2006 (reftel),is composed of various
disaffected Hutu politicians, and the adult Hutu off-spring
of senior officials in the pre-genocide Habyarimana and
Kayibanda governments (each of those governments was
near-exclusively Hutu and actively discriminatory towards
Tutsis and Rwanda's other minority group the Twas).


2. (C) Post has conducted a review of its own files and
other available sources, including an extensive internet
search, and finds no independent basis for these charges.
Karenzi Karake was a senior military figure when the Kagame
government faced an ex-FAR (ex-Armed Forces of Rwanda)
insurgency at home in the aftermath of the genocide, and when
it intervened in the Congo to confront that insurgency
directly. On that basis, he has long been the subject of
rumors of involvement in extrajudicial killings in Rwanda and
the Congo.


3. (C) As noted reftel, FDU-Ikingi frequently engages in
heavy-handed and ill-informed attacks on the Kagame
government, attempting with limited success to monitor events
in Rwanda from afar, and often attributing the worst possible
motivations for any action taken by the Rwandan government.
Absent any other sources for these accusations beyond the
FDU-Inkingi itself, we do not find them convincing.


4. (U) Career information for Major General Karenzi Karake
is listed below:

DPOB: 23 December 1960, Rwanda

2005: Commander, 4th Division, RDF (Rwanda Defense
Forces)
2004: Commander, 3rd Division, RDF
2000-2002: G3 (Chief of Operations, Plans and Training),RDF
1998-1999: Commander, 408 Brigade, RDF
1994-1997: G2 (Chief of Military Intelligence),RDF
1993: RPA (Rwanda Patriotic Army) Chief Military
Officer to UNAMIR (UN Mission to Rwanda)
1991-1992: RPA Chief Military Officer to NMOG (OAU observer
group in Rwanda)
1990: Field Commander, RPA
1984-1990: Service in National Resistance Army, Uganda

Post records show Karake participating in a 1993 IMET
training program for the RPA and FAR military observers
attached to UNAMIR.


5. (U) Post has emailed Karake's unclass bio to AF and AF/C.



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