UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 IN CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 KIGALI 02761 01 OF 03 2707182 ACTION AF-01 INFO LOG-00 C-01 OASY-DD EUR-01 HA-09 H-01 INR-DD L-03 ADS-00 NSAE-00 NSCE-DD OMB-01 PA-01 PM-DZ PRS-01 P-01 SNP-DD SP-OD SVC-OO TRSE-DO T-00 2707432121 0 2614272 JUL 93 FM AMEMBASSY KIGALI TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMDEDIATE 4341 INFO AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BUJUMBURA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM PRIORITY AMEMBASSY KAMPALA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE PRIORITY USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY I A SECTION 01 OF 03 KIGALI 02761 YAOUNDE FOR DATT 5 0 12356 DECL OADR TAGS PGOV PREL MASS AORC OAU RW SUBJECT THE MDR VS THE MDR REF KIGALI 0749 CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 KIGALI 02761 01 OF 03 2707182 1 CONFIDENTIAL ENTIRE TEXT 2 SUMMARY SVVORN IN JULY 18 THE GOVERNMENT OF AGATHE UWILINGIYIMANA SURVIVED ITS FIRST CRISIS JULY 23 WHEN AGATHE WAS PRESSURED TO SIGN A LETTER OF RESIGNATION THEN PUBLICLY WITHDREW IT WITHIN HOURS THUS SHE BROKE FROM HER PARTY DURING ITS EXTRAORDINARY CONGRESS AND ATTACHED HERSELF FIRMLY TO THE SUSPENDED PRESIDENT FAUSTIN THE PARTY CONGRESS THEN VOTED TO THROW THEM BOTH OUT ALONG WITH THE THREE NEW MDR MINISTERS THE PRIME MINISTER AND OTHERS PLAN TO CHALLENGE THEIR EXCLUSION IN THE COURTS CLAIMING THE CONGRESS WAS ILLEGALLY CONVENED THIS PARTY CRISIS SO FAR HAS CREATED NO SECURITY PROBLEMS BUT COUPLED WITH THE RESIGNATION AND FLIGHT FROM THE COUNTRY OF DEFENSE MINISTER GASANA IT CREATES SOME CHANCES FOR RENEWED INSECURITY END Charles'ii s 'sE or Review ng UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 SUMMARY PRIME MINISTER RESIGNS AND RECANTS 3 AT 6 30 AM SATURDAY JULY 24 KIGALI WAS TREATED TOI RECORDED BROADCAST BU PRIMENMINISOER AGATHE UWCLIGIYIMANA IN CLEARAND MEASURED TONES THE PRIME MINISTER SAID THAT SHE HAD BEEN FORCED BY THE MDR CONGRESS TO SIGN A LETTER OF RESIGNATION THAT WAS AT 9 PM FRIDAY NIGHT IN HER BROADCAST THE PRIME MINISTER SAID THAT THE RESIGNATION WAS NULL AND VOID THAT SHE HAD BEEN FORCED TO SIGN IT BY THE PARTY CONGRESS AND THAT SHE AS A PATRIOT CHOSE NOW TO CONTINUE TO EXERCISE HER RESPONSIBILITIES AS PRIME CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 KIGALI 02761 01 OF 03 2707182 MINISTER 4 SOURCES FROM WITHIN THE PARTY CONGRESS TOLD US THAT THE PRIME MINISTER SEEMED TO HAVE AGREED WITH THE CONGRESS THAT SHE SHOULD RESIGN IN FACT SHE REPORTEDLY ASKED FOR THE JUDGMENT ON WHETHER SHE SHOULD RESIGN AND RECEIVED A RESOUNDING YES THE SAME SOURCE REPORTS THAT THERE WAS DANCING IN THE CONGRESS HALLS ONCE SHE HAD SIGNED THE LETTER BUT THAT ONLY AFTER 9 RM WHEN HER HUSBAND SHOWED UP THERE SEEMED TO BE SOME PROBLEM MEANTIME FRIDAY EVENING THERE WERE RUMORS FLOATING THAT SHE HAD BEEN BEATEN RAPED AND IN OTHER PHYSICAL WAYS FORCED TO SIGN THE RESIGNATION SOME SPECULATED THAT SHE HAD RESIGNED BECAUSE THE CABINET HAD SELECTED TWANIRAMUNGU TO BE THE PRIME MINISTER OF THE NEXT TRANSITION GOVERNMENT INSTEAD OF HER INHATEVER THE MOTIVATIONS AND WHATEVER THE ACTUAL FACTS OF THE CONGRESS THIS REMARKABLE WOMAN HAS DECIDED TO STICK IT OUT AT LEAST FOR NOW AND SUPPORT THE TWAGIRAMUNGU FACTION OF HER PARTY THB MRND 5 DENIED APPROVAL FOR A PUBLIC PARTY CONGRESS BY THE PREFECT OF KIGALI THE MDR SHIFTED ITS VENUE TO THE IWACU COOPERATPVE TRAININGNCENTER AD WAS GRANTED PROTECTION BY THE ENDERMARIE FOR A CONGRESS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS CLEARLY THIS WAS FANILITATED BX THE DIRETOR OF THEIWACU WHO CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case NO F-2014-01302 DOC No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 PAGE 04 KIGALI 02761 01 OF 03 2707182 6 AND NINETY- EIGHT MEMBERS WERE PRSSENT ACCORDING TO THE PARTY COMMUNIOUE THE COMMUNIOUE GOES TO GREAT TO ESTABLISH THE LEGITIMACY OF THE CONGRESS BIT ACCRDING TO MANY SOURCES IT WAS NOT A LEGITIMATE CONGRESS SINCE THE PRESIDENT OF THE PARTY WAS NOT A PARTICIPANT IN CALLING THE COCGRESS THIS WILL PROBABLY FIND ITS WAY INTO THE COURTS NOTE BY OMISSIONS IN PARA 5 AND 6 CORRECTION TO FOLLOW CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 KIGALI 02761 02 OF 03 2614562 ACTION AF-01 INFO LOG-00 C-01 DODE-DD EUR-01 HA-DQ INR-OD L-03 ADS-00 NSAE-DD NSCE-OD OMB-D1 PA-01 PM-02 SNP-DD SP-DD SSO-DD SVC-00 TRSE-DO T-DD 2707422 21 2614272 JUL 93 FM AMEMBASSY KIGALI TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMDEDIATE 4342 INFO AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BUJUMBURA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM PRIORITY AMEMBASSY KAMPALA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE PRIORITY USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY 0 I I A SECTION 02 OF 03 KIGALI 02761 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case NO Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 YAOUNDE FOR DATT E O 12356 DECL OADR TAGS PGOV PREL MAUS AORC OAU RW SUBJECTAFZER THE TEUOW OF THE RESIGNATION AND RENHWTIOF MN TPEIIO IN UTER THE PARTY SPENT CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 KIGALI 02761 02 OF 03 2614562 SATURDAY JULY 24 PREPARING A COMMUNIQUE OF SEVEN PAGES EXPLAINING WHAT IT HAD DONE AND WHY IT ACCUSED TWAGIRAMUNGU THREE MINISTERS WHO ACCEPTED POSITIONS IN THA CURCEMHD OHEEPARTY REJECTS THE PROTOCOL OF JULY 16 BY WHICH THE TRANSITION GOVERNMENT EXTEN DD ITS CONFIRMS THE SUSPENSION OF TWGIRAMUNGU AS PRESIDENT AND an TAKEN BY TWAGIRAMUNGU SINCE JULY 17 IT THEN GOES ON TO FIRE TWAGIRAMUNGU FRGM UOTD IDEMO AND CO EXCLUDE HIM FROM THE MDR PARTY AMD TO GIVE ITS AUTHORITY TO THE FIRST VICE PRESIDENT FORMER PRIME MINISTER DISMAS NSENGIYAREMYE 9 THE PARTY DECIDED TO EXCLUDE PRIME MINISTER UWILINGIYIMANA FROM THE MDR ALSO FOREIGN MINISTER GASANA INFORMATION MINISTER UCOGOZA AND MINISTER OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION MBONIMPA WERE ALSO HROWN OUT OITH PJTY 8THEIPARTY THEN CALLED ON THE PRESIDENT OF RWANDA TO CALL TOGETHER THE PARTIES TO CHOOSE A NEW PRIME MINISTER IN RESPONSE TO THE RESIGNATION OF PRIME MINISTER AGATHE 10 BUT THE PARTY ALSO REAFFIRMED ITS ATTACHMENT TO PEACE AND DEMOCRACY CALLED ON THE PRESIDENT TO EXPEDITE THE SIGNATURE OF THE PEACE ACCORD AND THANKED PRESIDENT MWINYI OF TANZANIA FOR HIS CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 03 KIGALI 02761 02 OF 03 2614562 FACILITATION OF THE PEACE PROCESS 11 THE PARTY CONGRESS AFFIRMED THAT THE MDR WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE NEW TRANSITION GOVERNMENT ACCORDING TO THE PROTOCOLS SIGNED IN ARUSHA ON UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No Doc NO 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 OCTOBER 30 1992 AND JANUARY 9 1993 IT ALSO REAFFIRMED ITS SUPPORT FOR JEAN KAMBANDA AS THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER SECURITY IMPLICATIONS 12 THE MDR WAS REFUSED THE RIGHT TO HOLD ITS PARTY CONGRESS BUT DID IT ANYWAY AND THERE WERE NO INCIDENTS AMID ALL THIS TURMOIL THIS HAS BEEN ONE OF THE MORE QUIET AND CALM WEEKENDS WE HAVE SEEN IN KIGALI FOR A LONG TIME 13 ONE EXPLANATION FOR THE LACK OF PROBLEMS IS THAT THE YOUTH OF THE MDR SEEM TO BE LARGELY LOYAL TO TWAGIRAMUNGU SINCE TWAGIRAMUNGU IS NOW IN THE CAT SEAT WITH THE SUPPORT OF ALL THE PARTIES PLUS THE RPF THERE IS NO REASON FOR HIS YOUTH TO BE OUT OF CONTROL 14 THE LONG-TERM SECURITY QUESTION WILL REST ON WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE RPF ARRIVES IN KIGALI AND HOW THE FANATICS WITHIN THE MDR AND THE MILITARY REACT TO THIS EVENT 15 RELATED TO THE SECURITY CONCERNS CREATED BY THE MDR CRISIS IS THE RESIGNATION OF DEFENSE MINISTER CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 04 KIGALI 02761 02 OF 03 2614562 JAMES GASANA GASANA WAS PROBABLY THE MOST RESPECTED MRND MEMBER OF THE CABINET RESPECTED BY OPPOSITION POLITICIANS AS WELL AS MEMBERS OF HIS OWN PARTY HE SOUGHT TO CARRY OUT HIS OBLIGELIONS AS THEY WERE SPELLED OUT INFORMAL GOVENMENT DBUBL OHINKN SOME OF THE PRESIDENT-U ENTOURAGE AND SOME OF THE MILITARY TO THE EXTENT THAT HE WAS THREATENED BY A MILITARY GROUP WHICH CALLS ITSELF AMASUSU HE IDENTIFIED THIS GROUP IN HIS LETTER OF RESIGNATION TO THE PRESIDENT HE THEN LEFT THE COUNTRY WITH HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN AND ISCI IN SWITZERLAND THERE MAY THAN APPEARS ON THE SURFACE BUT NOR THS MOMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF OTHER POLITICAL NOTE BY DOICC OMISSIONS IN TEXT CORRECTION TO FOLLOW CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517252 Date 0510512014 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 01 KIGALI 02761 03 OF 03 270722Z ACTION AF-01 INFO LOG-00 OASY-OO DODE-OO EUR-01 H-01 INR-OD L-03 ADS-00 NSAE-DD NSCE-DO OMB-01 PA-01 PM-OZ PRS-01 P-01 SNP-DO SP-00 SVC-00 USIE-OD 2707432121 0 2614272 JUL 93 FM AMEMBASSY KIGALI TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMDEDIATE 4343 INFO AMEMBASSY ADDIS ABABA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BRUSSELS PRIORITY AMEMBASSY BUJUMBURA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY DAR ES SALAAM PRIORITY AMEMBASSY KAMPALA PRIORITY AMEMBASSY PARIS PRIORITY AMEMBASSY YAOUNDE PRIORITY USMISSION USUN NEW YORK PRIORITY I I A SECTION 03 OF 03 KIGALI 02761 YAOUNDE FOR DATT E O 12356 DECL OADR TAGS PGOV PREL MASS AORC OAU RW SUBJECT THE MDR VS THE MDR UNCERTAINITES IT IS AN ALARMING EVENT TO MOST RWANDANS EVEN MRND MINISTER CASIMIR BIZIMUNGU CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL PAGE 02 KIGALI 02761 03 OF 03 2707222 COMMENTED PRIVATELY THAT IF GASANA CANNOT PROTECT HIMSELF WE ARE ALL THREATENED FLATEN CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05l2014 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No F-2014-01302 Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 UNCLASSIFIED US Department of State Case No Doc No 005517262 Date 05 05 2014 This document is from the holdings of The National Security Archive Suite 701 Gelman Library The George Washington University 2130 H Street NW Washington D C 20037 Phone 202 994-7000 Fax 202 994-7005 nsarchiv@gwu edu