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In Rwanda, a deadly fight among the ruling elite

By Rodney Muhumuza
Published January 21, 2014 3:55pm ET
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In Rwanda, a deadly fight among the ruling elite
FILE - In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 file photo, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame speaks during the London Summit on Family Planning organized by the UK Government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with the United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, in central London. Critics of Rwanda's government say the killing in South Africa in early Jan. 2014 of prominent Rwandan dissident Patrick Karegeya is another sign of an increasingly violent power struggle among the country's Tutsi elite who have held power since 1994. (AP Photo/Carl Court, File, Pool) | Carl Court

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — The mourners who railed against Patrick Karegeya’s killers spoke of them as if they knew exactly who they were.

Officials in Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s government carried out the killing, some whispered in private, but none dared say so in public at a requiem in Uganda for the former Rwandan spymaster who was found dead in a Johannesburg hotel earlier this month.

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