La guerre entre le Rwanda et l'Uganda aura-t-elle lieu?

Rwanda warns US, Britain about Museveni's intentions

source:Uganda Record

The Rwanda government has issued a warning to the United States and Britain about the rising tensions between Uganda and Rwanda.

According to a source, the Kigali regime has contacted the British and American governments warning that Uganda is in a military build-up for a looming war with Rwanda.

Informed sources say what is being planned by Museveni is something tantamount to what Nyamwasa calls "The second liberation of Rwanda."

Rwanda urged the two western countries that they must put pressure on Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni to pull back or else Rwanda reserves the right to attack Uganda in a preemptive strike.

Rwanda has accused the Museveni regime of hosting and supporting two renegade army officers, Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa and Col. Patrick Karegeya, in what Rwanda says is their plan to invade Rwanda.

Nyamwasa and Karegeya were in Uganda again last week, just days after a Rwandan army court sentenced them to 25 and 20 years in jail on various counts of subversion and treason.

Various sources say that Nyamwasa and Karegeya are behind an armed group taking shape in eastern Congo, backed by Museveni, and with plans to invade Rwanda in the next few months.

The Rwandan online newspaper Umuvugizi reported earlier this year about a plot by Rwanda to assassinate Museveni during one of his election campaign trips around Uganda.

A son of the late Rwandan army officer, Major-General Fred Rwigyema, is said to have undergone military training in the United States and is being patronized by Uganda. He is said to train alongside and work with Museveni's son, Lt. Col. Muhoozi Kainerugaba.

Reports say Gisa Rwigyema, who is 24, has been selected as the symbolic face of the planned invasion, owing to the sentiment still felt for Rwigyema within the Tutsi ethnic group in and out of Rwanda.

The main reason for Museveni's recent two-day state visit to South Africa, according to Rwandan sources, was to persuade South African president Jacob Zuma not to heed the arrest warrants that Kagame asked the international police organization Interpol to issue to all countries for Nyamwasa and Karegeya.

Also, the British and Americans appear to have requested South Africa to take the lead in diffusing the growing tensions between Uganda and Rwanda and Museveni might have been to South Africa to explain his side of the story to Zuma.

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