By RFIPalled on 03-09-2019Modified on 03-09-2019 at 22:27

The disappearance of the public scene, for several weeks, figures of the Kigali regime, including Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera, or former Chief of Staff James Kabarebe, questions. For the critics of Paul Kagame, these personalities have fallen out of favor. For the Rwandan government, it is a new campaign of denigration of the country, photos in support. The controversy swells on social networks between the government and its detractors.

The head of the Rwandan diplomacy had not tweeted since July 14, while he is constantly present on social networks. " The minister was just suffering, " says an official source. Richard Sezibera himself came out of his silence ... to denounce on Twitter " conspiracy theorists ".

They are conspiracy theorists, some are murderous hacks with limited wisdom and no sense of decency! Expect no less ..... !!!! https://t.co/e5wJ33gyYO

Richard Sezibera (@rsezibera) September 3, 2019

But opponents and former dignitaries of the regime say they have noted the disappearance for several weeks of Emmanuel Ndahiro, former chief of intelligence or General James Kabarebe, one of the pillars of the Rwandan army.

It is notably David Himbara, former adviser to President Kagame, who leads the charge. Since mid-August, the detractor said Monday, the former chief of staff and defense minister is under house arrest.

In the process, the general finds himself everywhere in the newspaper of the regime. " Exposing them in public is the last game in town ", does not demoral opponent. " Himbara, you've become a joker, " replies a government member.

For the researcher Filip Reyntiens, himself taken to task for asking the question on social networks, this situation is indicative of a twofold phenomenon: first of the shelving for 25 years of some of the caciques du diet by Paul Kagame; on the other hand, the will of the opposition to play on the dissensions within the party in power the RPF and to sow discord by propagating rumors and speculations.

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