Fred Ibingira, another notorious RPF killer

By Radio Katwe
July 2, 2007

Fred Ibingira was one of the many Rwandese refugees in Uganda who joined the NRA bush war and when the NRA captured power in 1986 Ibingira was deployed in Military Intelligence at Basiima House in Kampala.

He used to live on Mawanda Road in Kamwokya with his sister called Faith who used to work with Bank of Uganda.

Ibingira had a mental problem and his "wires" used to get disconnected most of the time. Those who know him say that you can as well take him to be a mad man.

People who used to meet him in the evenings in Kamwokya and other places in Kampala used to be scared of him. He looked as if he could open fire on you without a reason.

But he was also a very clever guy and cunning man but we still checking for the names of the schools he went to in Uganda.

He used to drink with a very dark man called Gakwande who had big teeth. Gakwande was also an intelligence operative like Ibingira.

Ibingira was involved in massacres of Hutu civilians in Gikongoro in 1995 after the Rwanda Genocide. He was responsible for the massacre of thousands of displaced Hutus who had run away during the genocide and were now at Kibeho camp.

Later the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) mounted an operation to conceal the bodies in order to fit the 120 victims whom they had declared to the international community. The truth is there were thousands of victims.

At this time the RPA units operating out of Butare and Gikongoro had a very heavy Ugandan presence and Luganda was commonly spoken among the soldiers.

During that time, Colonel Ibingira systematically massacred Hutu civilians from Kibungo, Bugesera, Butare, to Gikongoro.

The Rwandan Patriotic Army also massacre of tens of thousands unarmed Hutu civilians in another place called Kanama from October to November 1997. The Rwanda Patriotic Army accepted the responsibility for these crimes.

To repair the damage to Kagame's image, Colonel Ibingira who ordered this massacre was sentenced to one year of house arrest. But when he came out of arrest he was later promoted to Major General.

Related Materials:
Massacres of Kibeho Internally Displaced Refugee Camp in Rwanda (Video)

Wikipedia on Kibeho Massacres of April 1995