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Australia’s national broadcaster has reported that a network of alleged Rwandan spies is working to suppress dissident refugees in the country.
The Rwanda government however told the BBC that allegations made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) are baseless.
Mubarak Kalisa, a Rwandan dissident refugee, told ABC
how he thought he was far from danger when he got refuge in Brisbane after attempts on his life in South Africa.
Mr Kalisa alleges that he had been contacted by the Rwandan government who wanted to enlist him to kill his friend, after which he says he himself became a target. He has told ABC that threats on his life continued once in Australia.
“We’re after you… you will find yourself lying in a pool of your own blood. If we don’t find you, we’ll find your wife or your kids,” read one of the threats he says he was sent by text message.
Police in Australia have warned him to be vigilant whenever he is driving and feels followed.
“These are lies,” Olivier Nduhungirehe of Rwanda’s foreign affairs ministry told the BBC.
“We don’t have time to comment on everything reported in media.”
Rwanda’s government has previously denied accusations it had a hand in the murder of Patrick Karegeya, a former military intelligence chief who fled to South Africa.
It has also denied being behind the 2010 shooting of former army chief Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa. Mr Kalisa testified in that trial in 2011.