A powerful investigation into a grisly killing that leads to an unravelling of the benign image of Rwanda, a country showered with Western aid while its leaders began a bloody killing spree of their political opponents.
Patrick Karegeya was strangled in a luxury hotel room in Johannesburg. It was no casual act of violence, because Karegeya was a Rwandan spy chief turned dissident. When word of his death reached Rwanda, the reaction especially among his former friends and colleagues was jarringly gleeful. "When you choose to be a dog, you die like a dog," Rwanda's defense minister declared, "and the cleaners will wipe away the trash so that it does not stink." Rwandan President Paul Kagame, while denying that Rwanda had anything to do with the killing-"it's a big 'no'"-quickly sounded as though he wanted the credit: "I actually wish Rwanda did it. I really wish it."
Michela Wrong knew Patrick Karegeya well, and her investigation into the plot to kill him reveals a...