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Strictly Confidential- NSENGIYUMVA CASE: a HIGH LEVEL CONSPIRACY; FABRICATION of TESTIMONIES AGAINST ME -Strictly Confidential Strictly confidential- NSENGIYUMVA CASE: A HIGH LEVEL CONSPIRACY; FABRICATION OF TESTIMONIES AGAINST ME -Strictly confidential- NSENGIYUMVA CASE: A HIGH LEVEL CONSPIRACY; FABRICATION OF TESTlMONIES AGAINST ME. 1. After having examined the accusations against Anatole NSENGIWMVA, after having studied different Prosecution statements, I arrived to a conclusion that it has been a well hatched plot against me, and that the majority of the Prosecution witnesses have been trained for that. and statements fabricated. 2. I have realised that some people or associations have participated in that conspiracy against me. The most important are: Hassan NGEZE; RPF; opposition political parties in place in 199 1-1 994 in Rwanda; AVEGA; IBUKA, and others. 3. In the following lines, I want to explain what I know, or what I think about every member of the conspiracy against me. 1 will say why I think that they are part to the plot, I will name the Prosecution witnesses fabricated by every member of the plot, and I will try to indicate the evidence. 4. I don't mean that all these forces acted together. I simply mean that every one has a share of responsibility, in conspiring against Anatole NSENGIYUMVA. I will hereunder try to demonstrate this. Hassan NGEZE 5. Mr Hassan NGEZE has trained a lot of witnesses to charge me, so that he could avoid some charges which were against him. He trained both Defense witnesses and Prosecution witnesses. But unfortunately for him, his manoeuvres have been discovered, and many of his witnesses have been found not credible. NGEZE himself has been qualified as a liar, who doesn't know what the truth meant. 6. It is important to say how I have known Mr Hassan NGEZE, and why he decided to harrass me, and to accuse me. Why did he target me and some of my officers, when all his allegations were completely false ? Why did he target me, more than other persons ? I will explain all this, and I will say how he proceeded. How have I known Hassan NGEZE, and my relations with him. 7. Before the October 1990 invasion of RWANDA by the RPF, I was in Kigali, in post in the Army General Staff, and in charge of the military intelligence. I would see reports from Gisenyi, talking about one troublemaker, whose name was a certain Hassan NGEZE. I had never seen him. The reports indicated that this Hassan NGEZE was manipulated by a rich businessman, whose name was Valens KAJEGUHAKWA. Strictly confidential- NSENGIYUMVA CASE: A HlGH LEVEL CONSPIRACY; FABRICATION OF TESTIMONIES AGAINST ME 8. Hassan NGEZE would write inflammatory articles in a newspaper created by Mr KAJEGUHAKWA, and NGEZE would sign articles prepared by Mr Valens KAJEGUHAKWA. Besides, Hassan NGEZE was presented as somebody who was involved in many shady activities, and who would create troubles in the city of Gisenyi. For all these reasons, he would be many times arrested. I had not seen him until 1990. 9. The first time I met Hassan NGEZE was towards mid-1990. Mr KAJEGUHAKWA, who wanted to join the RPF before the invasion of October 01, 1990, found a pretext, by saying that he had been attacked by soldiers, who wanted to kill him. He publicised that allegation, through his journal KANGUKA (not KANGURA), in which Hassan NGEZE would write inflammatory articles, together with a certain Vincent RWABUKWISI. But this time, to spread news about that alleged incident, NGEZE would have been ignored by his boss KAJEGUHAKWA, who prefered to refer to RWABUKWISI Vincent, who did not live in Gisenyi. NGEZE was angry. 10. As it was alleged that soldiers had attempted to attack KAJEGUHAKWA, the Chief of Staff sent me to Gisenyt, together with lieutenant-colonel RWABARINDA, who was in charge of the G3 in the General Staff. We had to investigate that problem. 11. In Gisenyi, we contacted the local Commander of the army, lieutenant-colonel BAHUFITE. He told us that a person who might tell us what happened was that NGEZE, who was very close to KAJEGUHAKWA, but who, for the moment, was not in very good terms with his boss. 12. We looked for NGEZE, and eventually met him at TAM-TAM bar, near Kivu Lake. This is the first time I saw that man. He told us many stories about KAJEGUHAKWA, and told us that his boss wanted to join the RPF, and had decided to find a pretext to leave the country. It was around May-June 1990. In September 1990, KAJEGUHAKWA left the country and joined the RF'F in UGANDA, and the attack came on 010ctober 1990. 13. The second time I saw NGEZE was on May 3 1, 1991. The official and private press had gone to MUTARA zone, to see by itself how the Rwandan army was controlling the whole territory. There were about 28 journalists. At a given moment, NGEZE told the other journalists that he had informed me about the date of the attack, but that I did nothing to prevent it. This was a lie. I told him that this was dishonest of him, as he was saying such a lie before so many joumalists. Eventualy, he alleged that he was kidding. Anyway, I was not happy with such a joke. 14. I met Hassan NGEZE for the third time in May 1994, in Gisenyi, during the period of the events. This is what I want to explain, and this will be the next topic. Why does Hassan NGEZE target me so persistently ? 15. In April 1994, when President HABYARIMANA was assassinated, I was in Gisenyi, as Gisenyi Operations Sector Commander. During the first days that followed the assassination of the President, I have not seen Mr Hassan NGEZE. I have not seen him Strictly confidential- NSENGIYUMVA CASE: A HIGH LEVEL CONSPIRACY; FABRICATION OF TESTIMONIES AGAINST ME on the 6th,on the 7Ih, on the 8Ih and on the 9Ih of April 1994, contrary to what he alleges. But on April 9, 1994, I heard a vehicle with a megaphone, and somebody who was saying that the population had to refrain from drinking water, because the Inyenzi had poisoned it. People said that it was NGEZE who was making that announcement. I remember that we have criticised that in the meeting of the Prefet, which has been held that very day. The population was told that the announcement was not serious, and that the person who did it had made a very bad joke. 16. The following days, almost every night around 2.00-3.00 a.m., we would hear many, many shots from the direction of NGEZE's residence in the city of Gisenyi, GACUBA I neighbourhood. At the beginning, we thought that the city of Gisenyi was attacked by the RPF. But eventually, we came to know that Hassan NGEZE had young men at his home, his body guards, and it is them who would shoot so intensely. The population was scared, and the situation was not tolerable. 17. The security council of the Prefecture of Gisenyi met, and discussed the question. It was decided that the Gendarmerie had to go and search NGEZE's house, and seize the weapons. The Gendarmerie tried to do so, but met a serious opposition of those young men, who would climb up the roof of NGEZE's house, and threaten the gendarmes with grenades and guns. 18. When this seemed to be very difficult for the gendarmerie, I proposed to the Council to let me do it with soldiers. I was given leave to act, and the local prosecutor gave me a search warrant. I organized the search. I gave that mission to my S2-S3 officer, Major Franqois-Xavier UWIMANA, who was in charge of operations. He prepared it, and proposed to me to send soldiers of the 42nd battalion, under the command of the battalion Commander, Captain HABIMANA Faustin. I OK'd the proposal and the operation took place. 19. The young men sensed danger quickly fled. NGEZE was not been found at his home. But when fleeing, the young men left EIGHT guns there, as well as a radio transmitterlreceiver, of the mark "KENWOOD, the same radio as those used by the RPF troops. The guns and the radio have been seized. But NGEZE has not been found. I have informed the General Staff of that incident, and asked it to help us to find NGEZE, so that I could interrogate him. I denounced that in a meeting of the Prefect, which was held on the Umuganda Stadium, on May 2, 1994. 20. At a given moment in May 1994, I heard NGEZE giving an interview on the radio. I advised the General Staff, and asked it again to help get NGEZE for interrogation. I was asked to transmit a message to all units to help me to get NGEZE. I did it. And some time after, around the 8Ih of May 1994, NGEZE was arrested in the city of GISENYI and brought into the military camp, to be questioned about the detention of eight guns and a radio transmitterlreceiver, like those in use in the RPF troops. 21. The interrogation was conducted by Major UWIMANA Franqois Xavier, S2-S3, with the collaboration of Lieutenant BIZUMUREMYI, as a former gendarmerie officer, and who was under the orders of Major UWIMANA, the S2-S3 officer. NGEZE spent one Strictly confidential- NSENGIYUMVA CASE: A HIGH LEVEL CONSPIRACY; FABRICATION OF TESTIMONIES AGAINST ME night in detention. The next day, when he was being just interrogated, I received a telegram from the Ministry of Defense, with a copy for information to the General Staff, asking me to release NGEZE immediately and without any condition.
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