RWANDA, 28. Juni 2010: Rwanda police have arrested 2 people over the shooting of a reporter last week, and stated that it was a revenge attack.
The reporter Jean Leonard Rugambage, the acting editor of Umuvugizi newspaper, was fired on by 2 men who then fled in a car.
The government has denied as “baseless” accusations it was behind the killing. However, a police statement noted that one of the suspects is related to someone allegedly killed by Rugambage during the 1994 genocide.
Rugambage, who is survived by his wife and a child, was acquitted of genocide crimes by a local “gacaca” court in 2006.
According to the BBC, Human rights groups have accused President Paul Kagame of intimidating the media and the opposition ahead of elections due to take place in August.
The authorities recently suspended the Umuvugizi paper, prompting it to start publishing online instead.
