--- title: Rwanda: Why the Arrest of Its Intelligence Chief Is Causing Waves description: Rwandan officials are angry at the news of Karenzi Karake's arrest canonical: https://time.com/3932134/rwandas-intelligence-chief-uk/ author: Tara John article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-23T16:43:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:52.764Z article:section: World og:title: Rwanda: Why the Arrest of Its Intelligence Chief Is Causing Waves og:description: Rwandan officials are angry at the news of Karenzi Karake's arrest og:url: https://time.com/3932134/rwandas-intelligence-chief-uk/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c0ab6282dbf2e37/698857eff887dc5695e910cf/karenzi-karake1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Rwandan Lieutenant General Karenzi Karake og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rwanda: Why the Arrest of Its Intelligence Chief Is Causing Waves twitter:description: Rwandan officials are angry at the news of Karenzi Karake's arrest twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4c0ab6282dbf2e37/698857eff887dc5695e910cf/karenzi-karake1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why the Arrest of Rwanda's Intelligence Chief in the U.K. Is Causing Waves > Sponsored content. 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Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwanda’s foreign minister, [said the arrest was an outrage,](http://twitter.com/LMushikiwabo/status/613238464478343168 "undefined") adding: “Western solidarity in demeaning Africans is unacceptable. It is an outrage to arrest #Rwandan official based on pro-genocidaires lunacy!” The Metropolitan Police released a statement to [Reuters](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/22/us-rwanda-britain-arrest-idUSKBN0P22D120150622 "undefined") saying: “Karenzi Karake, 54, a Rwandan national appeared before Westminster Magistrates’ Court … after being arrested on a European Arrest Warrant on behalf of the authorities in Spain, where he is wanted in connection with war crimes against civilians.” The spy chief and 39 other Rwandan officials were indicted in 2008 by a Spanish court on charges of genocide and the killing of three Spanish nationals working for Medicos del Mondo. Andrew Mitchell, the former U.K. minister for international development, claimed Karake was arrested for political reasons rather than judicial ones. “It’s politically motivated and acted by supporters of the genocidal regime in Rwanda,” Mitchell [told the BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33235155 "undefined"). “The warrants were originally set up in 2008 against 40 officials… but a Spanish high court suspended these indictments in March 2014\. I think it is a misuse of the European Arrest Warrant system.” This sentiment is shared by a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable in 2008 from the U.S. Embassy in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. In the cable, the U.S. ambassador at that time described the Spanish indictment as “outrageous and inaccurate.” Christoph Wille, Africa analyst at the consultancy firm Control Risks, says that Rwanda and the U.K. have had good relations in recent years. “British and Rwandan officials lashed out because they feel it (the arrest warrant) may not hold and may simply strain relations between Rwanda and the U.K. which has historically been very good, arguably too good. I think the UK is keen to maintain that relationship, ” he says. Wille drew parallels between Karake’s case and 2008 arrest of the Rwandan politician Rose Kabuye in Frankfurt, Germany. The charges were eventually dropped in 2009, but not before Rwanda expelled the German ambassador and recalled Rwanda’s envoy from Berlin. Karake was a part of the Tutsi-led rebel movement known as the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which is still Rwanda’s ruling party after deposing the the Hutu government in July 1994 and ending the genocide that took the lives of 800,000 people, mainly from the minority Tutsi tribe. The government, which is headed by Paul Kagame has been accused of human rights abuses, including responsbility for massacres in both Rwanda and Congo after the 1994 genocide. “It’s a period during which the Rwandan army killed hundreds if not thousands of civilians in both Rwanda and the Congo (DRC), particularly in the late 90s. He (Karake) was one of the key figures and many victims and witnesses and often cites his name in serious crimes,” says Carina Tertsakian, a senior researcher on Rwanda at Human Rights Watch. Phil Clark, lecturer on Africa’s Great Lakes Region at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, [told the BBC](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33238670 "undefined") there were concerns about the evidence in the Spanish indictment. “There’s a sloppiness I think in much of the investigation that underpins this and even very critical human rights groups, that have tended not to be very friendly to Rwanda in the past, have raised questions about the quality of the Spanish arrest warrants.” Karake will remain in custody till his court hearing in London on Thursday. ### Inside the Tech Revolution That's Turning Rwanda Around  Fellows in Code Club 2015 work at the Hehe Labs headquarters at "The Office" in Kigali, Rwanda, a coworking space for young entrepreneurs. Cassandra Giraldo  "The Office", a coworking space in Kigali. It is a shared office where tech entrepreneurs, consultants, freelancers, small business owners, and remote employees rent desk space and share the costs of a full-service office. Cassandra Giraldo  Code Club 2015 fellows working at Hehe Labs. Cassandra Giraldo  A S.O.S. Kagugu Technical High School student during an after school coding club run by HeHe Lab's youth fellows. Cassandra Giraldo  Coding fellows gather around a computer to learn HTML at an after school program run by HeHe Labs at S.O.S. Technical High School. Cassandra Giraldo  Elisée Pax Mfura, 18, and his classmates leave the after-school program run by HeHe Labs. Cassandra Giraldo  Inside kLab, a co-working space for tech entrepreneurs located in Telecom House in Kigali's future high-tech ICT neighborhood, Kacyiru. Cassandra Giraldo  Young women transport corn husks in the outskirts of Kigali. Rwanda is attempting to turn it's agrarian society into a knowledge-based economy and instilling a sense of national identity and unity in Rwandans. Cassandra Giraldo  A government-sponsored fiber-optic cable expansion project was completed in 2011, improving telecommunication services throughout the country. Advertisements for phone service providors can be seen all over Kigali, even painted on family homes. Cassandra Giraldo  Josephine Niyigena, 25, chats with a friend on her cell phone while she sells fabric at Kimironko market in Kigali. The cellular network covers nearly 98% of the population. 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