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Rwanda Election Watch: Dictators Don’t Step Down, But They Are Brought Down

Those are not my words, but a quote attributed to Patrick Karegeya (the former Rwandan intelligence chief who was jailed twice, stripped of his colonel rank, and forced into exile by the Kagame government) calling for the defeat of President Paul Kagame of Rwanda.

Kagame, the rebel-hero who defeated the genocidal government in July 1994, has been accused of heavy-handed crackdown on his political opponents and the independent media ahead of the presidential elections tomorrow August 9, 2010.

Kagame and his Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) are expected to win, but what next?

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