The Rwandan government has paraded three of its own it claims had been ‘subjected to intense torture in Ugandan prisons by Uganda’s military intelligence authorities’.
They returned to Kigali this week.
According to state-owned New Times publications, Apollinaire Munyakazi and Eric Nsengimana left their home village in Rutsiro District in Western Province and headed to Uganda seeking green pastures last year.
The two had been invited by a friend to go and look for alternative sources of income in Uganda. On their trip to Uganda, through Cyanika border, they were stopped in Kisoro, southwestern Uganda.
“We boarded a bus thinking we were going to Uganda only to be stopped at a police station in Kisoro. They ordered every Rwandan to get out and the rest continued. They asked us our travel documents and we presented them. Instead of giving them back to us, we were told that we are under arrest,” Nsengimana, narrated.
The two countries are now in the second week of ‘cold war’ with Rwanda closing its borders and warning its citizens or crossing over to Uganda.