Our Statement on the Death of Théogène Turatsinze in Mozambique

Théogène Turatsinze, the former managing director of the Development Bank of Rwanda, went missing in Maputo, Mozambique on 11 October 2012. Four days later his body was found, tied up, floating in a river near the city. He had fled to Mozambique after being removed from his position at the bank. ## A man who knew where the money went Turatsinze was not a politician or a journalist. He was a banker, and, it was widely reported, a man believed to have left Rwanda carrying a list of clandestine payments made by top Rwandan government officials. Whatever he knew, he did not live long enough to share it. His body, bound and dumped in water, sent the message his killers intended: even a quiet exile in another country, keeping his own counsel, was within reach. The pattern of Rwandan critics dying unnatural deaths abroad, from Charles Ingabire in Uganda a year earlier, to Patrick Karegeya in South Africa two years later, has its early chapters here. Kigali issued a rare public statement demanding a probe into his murder; the investigation in Mozambique went nowhere, and his family has never had the truth. ## Our demands - The Government of Mozambique must reopen the investigation into Théogène Turatsinze's murder, including the circumstances of his disappearance and the motive ascribed to the documents he carried.

• Host governments must treat every threat against Rwandan exiles, political, journalistic, financial, as part of a single pattern of transnational repression, and protect accordingly.
• The financial dealings behind his removal from the bank must be independently audited and published. A list of payments was rumoured to exist. A body floating in a river was what the world received instead. The Global Campaign for Rwandans' Human Rights demands justice for Théogène Turatsinze and the truth his death was meant to bury.