Do Not Disturb
The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad
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4.7 • 10 Ratings
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- $18.99
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Publisher Description
A powerful investigation into a grisly political murder and the authoritarian regime behind it: Do Not Disturb upends the narrative that Rwanda sold the world after one of the deadliest genocides of the twentieth century.
We think we know the story of Africa’s Great Lakes region. Following the Rwandan genocide, an idealistic group of young rebels overthrew the brutal regime in Kigali, ushering in an era of peace and stability that made Rwanda the donor darling of the West, winning comparisons with Switzerland and Singapore. But the truth was considerably more sinister.
Vividly sourcing her story with direct testimony from key participants, Wrong uses the story of the murder of Patrick Karegeya, once Rwanda’s head of external intelligence and a quicksilver operator of supple charm, to paint the portrait of a modern African dictatorship created in the chilling likeness of Paul Kagame, the president who sanctioned his former friend’s assassination.
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Journalist Wrong (It's Our Turn to Eat) delivers a distressing and deeply reported exposé of Rwandan president Paul Kagame and his control over an increasingly authoritarian state. Opening with an account of how Rwandan security operatives infiltrated South Africa in 2013 to assassinate Patrick Karegeya, the former intelligence chief of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, Wrong explains how the rebel military group seized power in 1994, putting an end to 100 days of genocide between the rival Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups. At the time, the two men were comrades-in-arms, and Karegeya helped facilitate Kagame's rise to power in the new, Tutsi-led government. By 2007, Rwanda was seen by the West as a model of economic development, but Karegeya was in exile after serving a prison term for speaking out against the government's press crackdowns, human rights abuses, and military intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Wrong folds the postcolonial history of Africa's Great Lakes region into her meticulous narrative, delineating the conflicts that wracked Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1980 and 2003, and shows how Western governments, journalists, and aid organizations have failed to hold Kagame's violent regime to account. This expert takedown packs a punch.
