{UAH} Tracing Gen. Kalekyezi’s links with Rwanda
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CHANGE OF GUARDS – The Museveni regime's top cadre and former police chief, Gen. Kalekyezi was sacked and currently under arrest over alleged links with Rwanda. Museveni believes that Rwanda was propping up Gen. Kalekyezi to overthrow Museveni. Gen. Kalekyezi has also been serving Rwanda's interests by monitoring and failing Museveni's support for Rwandese dissident activities against Kagame. In the same regard he had facilitated the kidnap and forced extradition of the anti-Kagame dissident refugees back to Rwanda. Other than that, there were no other reasons for his sacking and there is not any other reason for his arrest. With regard to gross human rights abuses against Ugandans, there is nothing you can solely blame Gen. Kalekyezi that was not sanctioned by Museveni.
The alleged link to the Kawesi murder is just a cover for the above political crimes that threatened Museveni's hold on power. Museveni also wants to appease the donor community in regard to treatment of refugees which is a major source of forex. By neutralizing Gen. Kalekyezi and his network, Museveni aims to creat an environment where Rwandese dissidents will be able to organise without the roving eye of Rwanda's agents. That is why much of the information filtering from the tightly guarded arrest and detention of Gen. Kalekyezi is only coming from the Rwandese dissidents as Ugandans are kept in the dark. It is merry making and jubilation within the Rwandese dissident community. For the Ugandan victims of Gen. Kalekyezi's gross human rights abuses, you will have to wait for justice much longer because the reasons for his arrest and detention are far different from what you anticipate.
Gen. Kalekyezi's father, John Kalekyezi was deported to Rwanda by the British colonial administration shortly before independence. He was accused of having stolen arms from the armoury at Kisubi and armed a rebel squad to sabotage the visit by the top British monarch to open the Owen Falls Dam. From Rwanda, he found his way to Egypt before he linked with the eastern communist block where he met his death in a plane crash.
Gen. Kalekyezi grew up in Kisoro and adopted the Bafumbira tribe. He joined Museveni's Bush War (1981 -1986) where he enjoyed the preferential treatment that Museveni accorded the Rwandese Tutsi. Upon coming to power Kalekyezi rose to become Museveni's Principal Private Secretary.
When the Rwandese refugees deserted the NRA to invade Rwanda, Gen. Kalekyezi was among the other Banyarwanda who did not go because they had assumed Ugandan tribal identity. However, his cousin Sgt. Jack Nziiza who was also known as being a Mufumbira and had been under DMI's Counter Intelligence was deployed to the Uganda border in Kisoro to monitor the war. He soon defected to the RPF where he rose to become a General and one of Kagame's top confidants. Among the anti-Kagame Rwandese, Gen. Nziza is commonly referred to as Wa Mugande, Nziza (the other Ugandan, Nziza).
The Anglican Bishop of Muhabura, Halelimana, who was another Rwandese Tutsi who adopted the Bafumbira tribe played a vital role in supporting the RPF war. He offered the diocese resources for the furtherance of the RPF war in Rwanda. Throughout the war, Gen. Kalekyezi kept a low profile and did not publicly feature anywhere as having directly offered support.
After the takeover by the Tutsi in Rwanda, Gen. Kalekyezi as PPS was very instrumental in occasional facilitation of Kagame to sneak out of Rwanda and back. Kagame, who was the Vice President and Minister of Defence would pretend that he would be touring those areas bordering Uganda. Gen. Kalekyezi and Gen. Aronda (Deputy DMI at the time) would provide transport and security for Kagame from the border to Kampala where he would spend nights at Gen. Kalekyezi's private residence, sneak outside the country for some secret errands, return and sneak back to Rwanda without the figurehead Hutu President knowing. Not too soon after, the Hutu President was overthrown, detained and Kagame took over.
During the heightened relations between Kagame and Museveni in the late 1990s and early 2000, when those suspected to have links with Rwanda were systematically purged, Gen. Kalekyezi did not feature anywhere. He led the assault on suspected shadowy Rwanda backed PRA hideouts in Ituri from where he allegedly captured a number of PRA rebel suspects. He went ahead to neutralize the Rwanda backed Congolese rebel groups in Ituri where he was at one time threatened to be taken hostage.
It was Gen. Kalekyezi and Gen. Aronda who used their close connections with Rwanda to cement relations between Kagame and Museveni. By having the two Generals at the helm f the army and police, Rwanda felt secure. Gullible Ugandans have always baselesly hyped praise on the opportunistic Andrew Mwenda as having mediated the Museveni/Kagame sour relations. Gen. Kalekyezi played a vital role in negotiating amnesty for the alleged Rwanda backed PRA rebel captives detained in Makindye Military Prison.
Gen. Kalekyezi won Museveni's confidence more when he excelled in transforming the police force into an enforcement organ of the regime. Consequently, he also excelled as the chief persecutor of political dissenters. Gen. Kalekyezi was always careful not to make clear his stand on Museveni son's power inheritance project commonly known as the Muhoozi Project. He simply concentrated on neutralizing, suppressing and persecuting any form of dissent to Museveni's military dictatorship. With Aronda's mysterious death, Gen. Kalekyezi emerged as Museveni's defacto Vice President. No doubt Gen. Kalekyezi brought the Banyarwada predominantly closer to power circles and Museveni liked it owing to the Gen. Tinyefuza factor. This did not go well with the ethnic Hima in the top echelons of power. For them, "Mbwenu mzei yagwisa akagwe; ogu Omunyarwanda ogu Kihura….." (now Museveni is becoming scandalous; that Rwandese Kihura…..). This is what gave rise to the so called Gen. Kalekyezi – Gen. Tumukunde power struggle; it was simply a Hima -Tutsi conflict over supremacy. This also explains why a Hima and former KMP Commander Frank Mwesigwa has not been arrested.
In the meantime, the Rwandese dissidents struggling against Kagame sought alliance from the Hima under the patronage of Gen. Saleh. Rwanda government found alliance in Gen. Kalekyezi in monitoring and neutralizing their activities in Uganda. Museveni got torn apart in this complex situation. He resisted a lot of pressure from those who wanted Gen. Kalekyezi discarded. The most embarrassing move by Gen. Kalekyezi was when he intercepted a group of Rwandese refugee dissidents who were heading for Congo via Tanzania and Burundi armed with overwhelming evidence of state facilitation. The group is under detention and the regime is stuck on how to proceed without further straining the already fragile relations.
The matter grew worse when the Rwandese dissidents petitioned the ICC over Gen. Kalekyezi's alleged crimes against humanity – forced return of refugees to Rwanda. They alleged that the judicial system in Uganda had failed to take action. This was enough to force Museveni to act or else he would be labeled an accomplice and lose out on the donor refugee forex. Museveni has had to also succumb to pressure from persistent intelligence reports to the effect that Rwanda had been harboring sinister schemes of having Gen. Kalekyezi overthrow Museveni. Why not; if the Museveni regime was allegedly aiding the anti-Kagame dissidents!
Gen. Kalekyezi is married to a Kenyan national of Rwandese origin and a close relative of the last King of Rwanda. The last time Gen. Kalekyezi was in Rwanda was last year when he had gone to attend the burial of that last King. Since the information that at the time of his arrest Gen. Kalekyezi was planning to flee to Rwanda is from the same dissident group, its credibility is doubtful. What is not in doubt is that the ongoing saga may end up at the usual arrest and detention as Museveni watches the dust settle down. For Ugandans, your turn is not yet for justice from the atrocities of Gen. Kalekyezi and you may have to wait longer but for now you are just spectators in the ongoing Hima -Tutsi struggle for supremacy.
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