Memorial Register

Aimable Karasira Disputed Academic / singer / YouTube commentator 6 May 2026 Rwanda Death in detention → TB Tom Byabagamba Disputed Colonel / former Presidential Guard commander 25 August 2026 Rwanda Death in detention → FR Frank Rusagara Disputed Brigadier General (rtd) / former Defence Ministry official March 2025 Rwanda Death in detention → John Williams Ntwali Disputed Investigative journalist 18 January 2023 Rwanda Suspicious death → RK Revocat Karemangingo Documented (public sources) Former army lieutenant / businessman / refugee community leader 13 September 2021 Mozambique Assassination → SB Seif Bamporiki Documented (public sources) Opposition politician / RNC coordinator 22 February 2021 South Africa Assassination → VA Venant Abayisenga Unresolved Opposition activist / aide to Victoire Ingabire 2021 (disappeared; presumed dead) Rwanda Enforced disappearance → Kizito Mihigo Disputed Gospel singer / peace activist 17 February 2020 Rwanda Death in detention → AM Anselme Mutuyimana Documented (public sources) Political assistant to Victoire Ingabire March 2019 Rwanda Assassination → KM Kalisa Mupende Disputed Former Director General of Finance, Office of the President 20 September 2019 Rwanda Death in detention → LB Louis Baziga Documented (public sources) Businessman / Rwandan diaspora community leader August 2019 Mozambique Assassination → SD Syldio Dusabumuremyi Documented (public sources) Opposition party national coordinator 2019 Rwanda Assassination → BT Boniface Twagirimana Unresolved Opposition party deputy leader October 2018 (disappeared from prison) Rwanda Enforced disappearance → JH Jean Damascène Habarugira Disputed Local opposition politician May 2017 Rwanda Suspicious death → I Illuminée Iragena Unresolved Political activist / nurse March 2016 (disappeared; reported dead under torture) Rwanda Enforced disappearance → Assinapol Rwigara Disputed Businessman / entrepreneur 4 February 2015 Rwanda Suspicious death → EG Emmanuel Gasakure Disputed Physician / former personal doctor to Paul Kagame March 2015 Rwanda Extrajudicial killing → Patrick Karegeya Documented (public sources) Former intelligence chief 1 January 2014 South Africa Assassination → T Théogène Turatsinze Documented (public sources) Former Managing Director, Rwanda Development Bank (BRD) October 2012 (body found ~15 October) Mozambique Assassination → Charles Ingabire Documented (public sources) Journalist / editor 2011 Uganda Assassination → JR Jean-Léonard Rugambage Disputed Journalist / acting editor, Umuvugizi 24 June 2010 Rwanda Assassination → Seth Sendashonga Documented (public sources) Politician / former interior minister 16 May 1998 Kenya Assassination → AB Augustin Bugirimfura Documented (public sources) Businessman / dissident October 1996 Kenya Assassination → Théoneste Lizinde Documented (public sources) Former military / political figure 1996 Kenya Assassination →