Jean-Léonard Rugambage was a Rwanda

Rwanda

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n journalist, acting editor of the newspaper Umuvugizi. He was shot dead in front of his home in Kigali

Kigali

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 on 24 June 2010.

The newspaper had recently been suspended by the governmennt

Politics of Rwanda

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, but continued to publish articles online. Rugambage was "highly critical" of Present Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame is the sixth and current President of the Republic of Rwanda. He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front , whose victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide...

's government. Shortly before being murdered, Rugambage had published an article on the attempted murder of former army chief Lieutenant-General Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, another critic of Kagame's. As Rugambage's murder was one of several of Kagame's critics and opponents during the build-up to the 2010 presidential election

Rwandan presidential election, 2010

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, his colleagues suggested national security services could have been involved. Police, however, arrested two suspects, one of whom they stated was related to a person allegedly killed by Rugambage in 1994, but for whose death Rugambage had been acquitted by courts in 2006. United Nations

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 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

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called for an investigation into the murders of several government opponents during the election campaign, including Rugambage's.