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Ingabire still leads FDU Inkingi
Despite
having declared that she distanced herself from terror activities of
FDU-Inkingi in 2018, Ingabire Victoire Umuhoza covertly kept on leading the organisation
founded by genocidaires and genocide ideologues who fled Rwanda after they
perpetrated the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.
“Clap
for our ‘heroine’ Victoire Ingabire who went in Rwanda in 2010 and strengthen
FDU-Inkinga’s activities,” Placide Kayumba, current FDU-Inkingi’s President said
on July 15, 2023, during the group’s meeting convened in Antwerp, Belgium.
While
living in Kigali, the self-proclaimed Rwandan opposition leader, receives daily
reports of FDU-Inkingi’s activities, participates in its meetings virtually,
and above all, collects financial support (internally referred to as Ingemu) from anti-Rwanda groups to
destabilize her motherland.
Ingabire
was the guest speaker in different FDU-Inkingi meetings. Ingabire participated
in the meetings convened in Brussels and Aalst, Belgium, in December 2021 and
on July 3, 2022, respectively.
Ingabire
encouraged FDU-Inkingi members to increase their financial contributions and
asked them to indoctrinate their extremist ideology into their children, which
will make it possible for them to overthrow the current RPF-led government.
On December
14, 2021, the FDU-Inkingi’s commissioner in charge of welfare,
Michel Niyibizi, thanked members for contributing €3,108 in that month,
announcing that the money was successfully sent to Ingabire.
The
FDU-Inkingi members fundraised €5,500 in 2023, and €7,700 in 2022.
The funds
are collected by Marie Yvonne Uwizeyimana who is based in Belgium, through
account BE43063706670701 owned by Nshimiyimana Issa. Niyibizi took the money and
sent it to Ingabire in Kigali.
Ingabire
uses the money in various activities aimed at tarnishing the image of the Rwandan
government, as well as plotting terror activities on Rwanda’s territory.
A
source who preferred anonymity said that in late December 2023, internal
conversations between FDU-Inkingi members, on WhatsApp groups, focused on
thanking Ingabire for “representing well the movement in Rwanda”.
Ingabire
has persistently accused the Rwandan government of violating human rights as well
as principles of democracy, facilitated by Western media as her propaganda fits
in their agenda towards Kigali.
Over
the past three decades, Ingabire participated in terror activities plotted by
armed militias she co-founded. Those include ALiR which later turned into FDLR, FDU-Inkingi and the P5
coalition which aim at destabilizing her home country and fellow citizens.
The
2019 terror attack by RUD-Urunana and P5 militia groups in Kinigi,
northern Rwanda, which claimed lives of 14 civilians is believed to have been
financed by Ingabire. At least 18 people were injured in the attack.
In
2013, Ingabire was tried and convicted for crimes related to genocide and
terrorism. She was sentenced to 15 years in jail, but released in 2018, on
presidential pardon.
Ingabire
later found FDU-Inkingi’s splinter in Rwanda, DALFA-Umurinzi, which is not allowed
to participate in Rwanda’s political space unless it changes its agenda which
focuses on divisionism.
In
2024 Ingabire has not changed and she still has the same criminal mindset.
Her
goal is to tarnish the image of the Rwandan government while relentlessly advocating
for genocidaires and genocide ideologues, as well as supporting terrorist
groups in a bid to destabilize Rwanda.