Do Not Disturb

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong, PublicAffairs, 2023.

The Assassination of Paul Karegeya

Paul Karegeya was assassinated in Room 905 of the Michelangelo Towers Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa on December 31 of 2013. He had been raised in a Roman Catholic, Banyarwanda cattle-herding family. Karegeya had belonged to the Rwandan Patriotic Front, and managed taking gold, coltan and diamonds from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He had been in charge of intelligence for Paul Kagame of Rwanda, but they had had a falling out. The Rwandan Patriotic Front had overthrown the Hutu government of Pasteur Bizimungu, which had killed 800,000 Tutsi's in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. Paul Kagame, the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, has become increasingly authoritarian after gaining power.