Rwandan general shot and wounded in South Africa, wife says

• Report rights infringement
• published: 24 Jul 2015
• views: 188

SHOTLIST Johannesburg, South Africa - 19 June 2010 ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Wide exterior of Morningside medi-clinic 2. Wide of people waiting outside clinic 3. Rosette Nyamwasa, wife of Kayumba Nyamwasa, outside clinic 4. Close-up of clinic sign 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rosette Nyamwasa, wife of Kayumba Nyamwasa: (Q) So do you think this is linked? "It is definitely (linked) because I don't think any South African or any other person would target my husband because, you know, when you have got any grudge with anybody, or if it was, you know, like another case but similar to the cases that happened here, you would have come and said give me money. No, the guy did (not do) as anything of that kind." 6. Wide of Rosette Nyamwasa speaking to media 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rosette Nyamwasa, wife of Kayumba Nyamwasa: "Actually, our President Kagame says this in the parliament, that he would actually kill my husband. That wherever he is he would follow him and kill him. This is not an isolated case because I guess this guy has nothing to do with my husband." 8. Mid of cameraman 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Patrick Karegeya, family friend and former member of Rwandan government: "I think it's really a high level of arrogance to think that you walk into somebody's country in the middle of the World Cup, everybody's focusing on the World Cup, and you know, shoot some dissident general. And then of course you guys in the press will turn off from the World Cup and talk about the crime that has been committed. So I don't know how you solve political crimes by murder." FILE: Bigogwe Military Camp, 20 kilometres (12.4 miles) east of Gisenyi, Northwest Rwanda - 20 December 1997 10. Then Colonel Kayumba Nyamwasa being interviewed Johannesburg, South Africa - 19 June 2010 ++NIGHT SHOT++ 11. Wide of Rosette Nyamwasa speaking to media STORYLINE A Rwandan general accused of extremism in his homeland was shot and wounded in South Africa on Saturday, his wife said, blaming Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Lieutenant General Kayumba Nyamwasa's wife, Rosette, interviewed on Saturday at a hospital in Johannesburg, said she and her husband were returning from shopping to the upscale gated community where they live in northern Johannesburg when a lone gunman fired on him. She said her husband was shot in the stomach and doctors told her he would make a full recovery. The gunman escaped. South African police said they had no information on the shooting. A South African foreign ministry official referred questions to police. In Rwanda, Rwandan Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said her government was unaware of the shooting. Rosette Nyamwasa said she has no proof, but suspected politics was the motive because the gunman did not try to rob her and her husband. She said Kagame has publicly threatened her family. "Our President Kagame says this in the parliament, that he would actually kill my husband. That wherever he is he would follow him and kill him," she said. The Rwandan government has linked Nyamwasa, who came to South Africa earlier this year, to three grenade attacks in Rwanda's capital on 19 February. The attacks in central Kigali killed one person and injured 30. The Rwandan government has accused Nyamwasa of trying to destabilise Rwanda - while he was in the country, and while he was in India, where he recently served as Rwanda's ambassador. South African police said earlier this year they had not arrested Nyamwasa because they do not have an extradition treaty with Rwanda. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/433dfabad7fe04d03e4bb77fdc0a90af Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork