CORRUPT OLD MATEKE DEEP IN UGANDA RWANDA COLD WAR

Twelve Rwandans among the many that were illegally incarcerated and detained in Uganda by the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) were yesterday sent to 18 months’ imprisonment in what obviously was a kangaroo court procedure.

Present in Kisoro in what obviously was a premeditated plan to unjustly lock up the Rwandan nationals was Uganda’s Minister of State for Regional Cooperation, Philemon Mateke. Old man Mateke is the coordinator of the anti-Rwanda activities of (Kayumba Nyamwasa’s) RNC, as well as FDLR in Uganda.

The 12 Rwandans that suffered the travesty of the kangaroo court procedure in Kisoro are Pacifique Munyaneza, Vedaste Murasanyi, Estien Niyongabo, Felicien Nsengimana, Jean De Dieu Habumugisha, Emmanuel Dusabimana, John Nsengimana, Bosco Nshimiye, Corniel Ntezimana, Joshua Iradukunda, Stephen Harindimana, and Eric Twinomujuni.

They were among the 35 Rwandans that recently were moved from CMI’s torture dungeons – in what was widely reported as the agency bowing to pressure and releasing innocent Rwandans from its custody – to different Ugandan police stations.

They were handed over to the Kisoro Magistrate Court this Wednesday, 30 October.

Then, at the time of their supposed sentencing, something very strange happened.

According to family members of the Rwandans who had gone to see them at Kisoro, thinking they would be released, Mateke came and entered the court premises. He then proceeded to engage the magistrate and the state attorney, right there in the court, “for a long time.”

What was a minister doing in a trial of these innocent Rwandans who had never interacted with Mateke?

Something very strange clearly was at play, analysts observed.

The detainees and their family members found out a little time later the shock Mateke had prepared for them. The magistrate pronounced that all the twelve were to be locked up on allegations of “illegal entry” and “illegal stay” in Uganda!

“This man Mateke is the most evil person!” exclaimed an eyewitness. “These people already had endured a lengthy illegal detention by CMI, suffering torture, and now the so-called judge in Kisoro has decided to lock up these innocents for another 18 months!”

They all had been held incommunicado in the dungeons of CMI, some for more than two years and never received a court trial. They asserted the charges of “illegal entry” or “illegal entry” were bogus.

Relatives of the 12 Rwandans in Kisoro, who had managed to track down where they had been taken, believe the harsh sentence meted out to these Rwandans was a result of Mateke’s animosity to Rwanda. It has been exposed many times. Last year in December when Congolese officials at Bunagana arrested senior FDLR officials LaForge Fils Bazeye and Theophile Abega, the two revealed they were coming from Kampala to attend a meeting organized by Mateke.

Mateke, at the instructions of Museveni, had convened the meeting at the Kampala Serena that brought the FDLR officials together with those of RNC, “to better coordinate the workings of the two groups.”

Now it appears the same person is in charge of ordering and overseeing persecution of innocent Rwandans, further exacerbating their suffering.