Yououtubeur Aimable Karasira, a recently fired former university professor, is accused of denying the genocide of the Tutsis. Rwanda’s investigation bureau announced its arrest on Monday night on Twitter.
as reported from Kigali, Laure broulard
On his YouTube channel with 62,000 subscribers, Aimable Karasira has criticized the Rwandan government for several months and has made some very controversial comments. He regularly talks about the genocide of the Tutsis and the crimes against the Rwandan patriotic front, now in power.
In his latest video released on May 20, he compared Paul Kagame’s Rwanda to North Korea. He introduces himself as a genocide survivor and accuses RPF soldiers of killing their parents.
“Visible Karasira regularly comments on the Tutsi genocide and says it was not planned,” Rwanda’s investigative agency said on Twitter on Monday, adding that anyone who commits crimes on social networks would be punished.
In February last year Yvonne idamange, a YouTuber who criticized the government’s actions against the coronavirus and who wrongly assured that President Paul Kagame was dead had also been arrested.
As more Rwandans use social media to express themselves, at least six journalists or Internet commentators have been jailed, arrested or prosecuted in the past two years.
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