{"id":36584,"date":"2017-12-23T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-23T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-gatsinzi-recounts-ordeal-torture-by\/"},"modified":"2017-12-27T14:33:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T14:33:57","slug":"rwandan-gatsinzi-recounts-ordeal-torture-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-gatsinzi-recounts-ordeal-torture-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan Gatsinzi recounts ordeal torture by Ugandan army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gatsinzi was kidnaped in Uganda a fortnight ago by men clad in Uganda\u2019s military uniform suspected to be agents of Chieftaincy Military Intelligence (CMI).<\/p>\n<p>He was captured when he was visiting his son who studies in Uganda and was returned to Rwanda on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Seated in a wheelchair and recounting his ordeal to journalists at Rwanda National Police Headquarters in Kigali, Gatsinzi said that he was detained incommunicado with his face covered. He said the torture lasted for 12 days. <\/p>\n<p>{{How he was detained}}<\/p>\n<p>Gatsinzi says that he was in Kampala city when one of military men deceived him that there was a Rwandan colleague identified as Rugema who wanted to talk to him.<\/p>\n<p> It is in that time when men clad in military uniform forced him into a car and Rugema told Gatsinzi \u201cyou shot Kayumba and the bullet remains still inside him.\u201d Rugema is Kayumba Nyamwasa\u2019s niece.<\/p>\n<p>Kayumba is former Lieutenant General and Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army. He fled to South Africa in 2010 and was sentenced in absentia to 24 years in prison by the Military High Court in Kigali over terrorist acts. Nyamwasa was shot in the stomach in Johannesburg, South Africa in June 2010. He blamed the murder attempt on the Government of Rwanda which rejected the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Another Rwandan citizen, Rutagungira, was kidnapped by Ugandan security operatives in August this year and held incommunicado at Mbuya military barracks for months where he was subjected to terrible torture before being dragged into court.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"560\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oX2bLqMG8kA\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23444 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gatsinzi-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23445 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gatsinz.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23446 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gatsnz.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23447 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/gatsz.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan Fid\u00e8le Gatsinzi, who was reportedly abducted by Ugandan security agencies, has been discharged and returned to the country with inability to walk as a result of the torture he faced in Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36584"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36584"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}