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Carjackings are common in South Africa, but Nyamwasa was no ordinary victim.
A former Rwandan army chief of staff, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, has been shot in South Africa and taken to hospital in a critical condition..
Q&A: Rwanda’s controversial history
As Rwanda officially commemorates 20 years since the genocide, some of those who were there to stop the war and re-build the country have become enemies of the state.
Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa is one such person.
Former Lieutenant General Nyamwasa had been Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army and head of Rwandan intelligence as well as Rwanda’s ambassador to India.
Once a close ally of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, he’s now persona non grata.
Nyamwasa says the very circumstances that pushed them to pick up arms back in 1990 are still very much alive in Rwanda today.
Al Jazeera: It has been 20 years since one of the worst massacres in the history of humanity, how far has your home country come?
Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa: There is a lot of disappointment in the government’s efforts to truly reconcile the country and making sure that we avoid the same circumstances that led to war.
The current government is doing exactly the same thing th