By Martin Plaut
BBC regional analyst
A former captain in the rebel movement, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), says he was
ordered to provide security as missiles were fired at the plane carrying the
presidents of Rwanda and Burundi. Captain Josue Abdul Ruzibiza says he was ordered to
secure an area close to Kigali airport. Some 800,000 people were killed in the 1994
genocide
It was the assassination of the two presidents that unleashed the genocide that left
800,000 people dead. The former leader of the RPF, President Paul Kagame, is currently
in Belgium as part of a European tour, and has dismissed accusations of his
involvement in the killing of the two presidents as "invented".
Parliament
Captain Ruzibiza arrived in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, in December 1993. He was part
of the RPF battalion sent to the city to guard the movement's MPs and ministers, who
were joining the transitional government being formed under a peace agreement signed
in Arusha. Capt Ruzibiza told the BBC two missiles were brought from Parliament House,
where the battalion was being housed. As the plane carrying the two presidents came in
to land, the missiles were fired. "The missile didn't hit the engine and so didn't
cause the plane to roll over. It was the second missile that that hit the engine.
The first one hit the wing, and the plane could still land. But the second one
finished the plane off," said Captain Ruzibiza.
Denial His account comes after the result of a French judicial enquiry was leaked
earlier this week, blaming the downing of the plane on President Paul Kagame, who was
then the leader of the RPF.
The report has been dismissed as propaganda by the Rwandan authorities. But it fits
with the Capt Ruzibiza's testimony. He says the two men who actually fired the
missiles are now senior officers in the Rwandan presidential guard and military
intelligence. Asked why he had kept quite so long, Captain Ruzibiza - who is now in
exile - said he has lived in fear of his life.
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