In 2010, another member of the RNC, a former army chief named Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, was shot and wounded in Johannesburg.
The killings of Rwandan dissidents in South Africa have led to diplomatic tensions between the two countries, including the expulsion of diplomats, before a thaw in relations under the current South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
Lunga Ngqengelele, a spokesperson for the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation, said that South Africa and Rwanda still enjoyed ‘good working relations’.
About the murder of mr. Bamporiki has Mr. Ngqengelele said: “We are being led by the police, and so far they have not indicated that it is a political assassination.”
Outside South Africa, Rwandan government critics have also been targeted elsewhere. In Kenya, a former minister was shot dead in 1998 months after he said he feared for his life. In Belgium, a former government official’s mutilated body was found in a canal in 2005.
And in August last year, after an extensive abuse that Mr. Called ‘faultless’, Paul Rusesabagina, a government critic attributed to the rescue of 1,268 people during the genocide in Rwanda, was arrested and charged with terrorism. That case has yielded worldwide condemnation.
In the case of mr. Bamporiki, the man who apparently lured him to his death, has been calling him consistently for a week and insisting that he want to buy a bed at his store, Mr. Mutabazi, the RNC spokesperson, said on Monday. Mr. Bamporiki was at a party conference in Johannesburg at the time, but did not suspect anything illegal, said Mr. Mutabazi said.