Emmanuel Gasakure could have enjoyed a comfortable life as a
cardiologist in France. But when his native Rwanda was ripped apart
by genocide in 1994, he returned to the country.
He helped revive the health service as the nation recovered from
terrible trauma and served as President Paul Kagame’s adviser and
personal physician for 14 years.
But Gasakure grew disturbed by dark forces wrecking his lifetime’s
work. So he confronted the country’s health minister, a friend of
Kagame’s wife, over missing funds, stray medical supplies and a
mismanaged human resources project. Days later, this patriotic
physician was arrested, tortured and then shot dead – by a police
officer, reportedly in self-defence, inside a Kigali police station. One
more dissident wiped out by a despotic regime. ‘He was executed
because he was denouncing corruption in the health sector,’ said a
friend. ‘Kagame is a killer.’
Few would now dispute this claim, given Kagame’s lethal
interventions
in neighbouring nations and the constant stream of critics who have
died or disappeared after falling out with his regime.
His foes are not even safe abroad: one was strangled in South Africa,
others have been eliminated in East Africa, while British and US
authorities have issued warnings over Rwandan death squads.
Yet this bloodstained dictator at the helm of a ruthless one-party state
is hailed a hero by Western leaders lavishing torrents of foreign aid on
his tiny nation as he prepares for his latest electoral coronation next
month.
Tony Blair says Kagame is a ‘visionary’. Bill Clinton called him one of
the ‘greatest leaders of our time’. David Cameron proclaimed Rwanda
‘a success story’ that offers ‘a role model for development’.
The United Nations tells other African nations to ‘emulate’ Rwanda.
The billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates works with him, the Davos
elite
fall at his feet and leading universities provide prestigious platforms
for
him to speak.
Britain is among the biggest cheerleaders, handing over huge sums
from taxpayers and ushering Rwanda into the Commonwealth eight
years ago.
Rwanda is the ultimate ‘donor darling’, where the barbarity of its
vicious regime is brushed aside in a desperate search for an aid
success story. And Britain backed the regime even after Kagame
overturned the constitution to retain power for another 17 years.
Now, The Mail on Sunday can reveal devastating evidence that
Rwanda may have distorted data, exaggerated claims of rapid
development and lied about levels of poverty in its bid to shore up its
credentials for foreign aid.
Our investigation reveals:
l Deaths of mothers and infants have been deliberately ‘unlogged’ to
boost mortality statistics, exaggerating health improvements;
l Britain boasts its aid helped fund near-universal use of mosquito
bed
nets, yet corruption and mismanagement by health officials led to a
massive malaria outbreak;
l Experts allege statistics on poverty are being manipulated to show
improvements when it is actually growing worse, not better;
l A British firm has withdrawn from helping analyse a key national
study used to measure poverty, reportedly due to concerns over data
manipulation;
l Multilateral partners have confronted Rwanda after discovering its
health data is ‘not credible’;
l World Bank sources say a famine caused by drought and failed
agricultural policies is being covered up by the state;
l Dissidents claim Western donors are being duped. ‘Britain ignores
reality and chooses to play an openly propagandistic role for the
regime,’ said David Himbara, a former Kagame aide.
Some of the most shocking evidence uncovered by this newspaper
comes from senior regime insiders who have fled the country. One
said he saw the president personally beat a colleague with sticks for
buying curtains from a store not owned by the ruling party, which has
vast assets and is controlled by Kagame. The victim remains behind
bars nine years later.
The MoS investigation was aided by a whistleblowing senior official at
a global multilateral agency. ‘I feel like an accomplice to murder,’ said
the source.
‘I thought I was working with God but it turned out I was working
with the Devil. This kind of regime is pure evil.’
President Kagame sells himself as saviour of Rwanda after ousting
Hutu militia accused of slaughtering about 800,000 mainly Tutsi
citizens in the genocide, then salvaging a shattered nation. He skilfully
exploited Western guilt over the genocide, despite sparking war in the
Democratic Republic of Congo that led to possibly five million deaths.
His forces carried out terrible atrocities, even on refugees, women and
children.
He was due to stand down this year. But Kagame held a referendum
to overturn limits on how long he could serve, claiming to be reacting
to public opinion and winning almost all the votes. He could now
stay
in power until 2034.
His last election in 2010 was a sham, with rivals jailed and
newspapers closed using state bodies backed by British aid.
One opponent was beheaded – yet Tony Blair, who has borrowed
Kagame’s private jet, sent the dictator effusive congratulations. In
May
thisyear, an activist called Diane Rwigara declared she would stand
against Kagame, bravely arguing ‘people are tired, people are angry’.
Her industrialist father died two years ago in a car crash the family
fear was a politically-linked murder. Two days later, nude
photographs
of the 35-year-old were leaked to a newspaper and circulated on
social media. Then the electoral commission rejected her bid.
‘Since the ruling Rwandan Patriotic Front took power 23 years ago,
Rwandans have faced huge – and often deadly – obstacles to
participating in public life and voicing criticism of government policy,’
said Amnesty International regional director Muthoni Wanyeki.
The roll call of dead critics includes an opposition figure who was
ordered to meet his village security official in May. A few days later
his family were called to collect his corpse from a hospital.
Human Rights Watch also revealed why visitors admire capital
Kigali’s
neat streets: the police execute petty criminals while ‘undesirables’
such as hawkers and the homeless are held in camps. The group
says there is official strategy to spread fear. Yet on Thursday, the
Department for International Development, overseen by Priti Patel,
issued a report boasting of ‘investing’ £64 million aid this year in
Rwanda to ‘build effective government institutions’ and support
‘development of an open and inclusive society’.
It praised Kagame’s ‘strong record of using aid effectively to… produce
impressive results’ and insisted his regime ‘plays a progressive role on
the world stage’.
Britain is the second biggest bilateral donor to Rwanda. The nation of
nearly 12 million people receives the highest levels of aid support per
capita in its region – about twice as much per head as Burundi,
Kenya or Uganda.

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