A senior official in an opposition political party in Rwanda was stabbed to death, in what the party’s leader described on Tuesday as an attempt to intimidate them.
Sylidio Dusabumuremyi, the national coordinator of the FDU-Inkingi party, was stabbed to death at his workplace, a canteen at a health center in southern Rwanda, on Monday evening, the party’s leader Victoire Ingabire said.
The authorities however said they were investigating the killing and two people had been arrested.
“It is clear that it is intimidation against opposition members. They want to prevent me from creating an opposition party,” Ingabire told Reuters on Tuesday as she was arriving at a hearing in the case of nine other people from her party who face terrorism-related charges.
Ingabire, who was jailed in 2010 is seeking to have her party recognized by the authorities.
Dusabumuremyi was at least the second aide to Ingabire to be killed this year; her spokesman was found dead in March.
Ingabire returned to Rwanda to launch an opposition political movement in 2010 after 16 years exile in the Netherlands.
