Summary of Michela Wrong's Do Not Disturb

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The Michelangelo Towers hotel in Johannesburg is a favorite with South Africa’s movers and shakers. It’s an ugly building, with more than a touch of the ridiculous, but the tables in the café restaurant are usually occupied by at least one of the tenderpreneur millionaires who benefited from Black Economic Empowerment.
#2 Patrick had made an unprecedented request: he asked his friend to book him a suite at the Michelangelo, explaining that he had a series of meetings planned with Russian, Zimbabwean, and Qatari businessmen. Money was no object.
#3 David felt uncomfortable around Apollo, and he took an instant dislike to him. He thought his uncle was being taken for a ride by Apollo, who seemed to love money more than anything else.
#4 Patrick’s daughter, Portia, was waiting for midnight to strike in South Africa so she could surprise him. She had written a letter to herself reviewing each year, setting goals. She was so hopeful and happy.

Sujets

• Histoire
• África
• Central Africa
• Central
• History
• Africa

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822544413
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The Michelangelo Towers hotel in Johannesburg is a favorite with South Africa’s movers and shakers. It’s an ugly building, with more than a touch of the ridiculous, but the tables in the café restaurant are usually occupied by at least one of the tenderpreneur millionaires who benefited from Black Economic Empowerment.

#2

Patrick had made an unprecedented request: he asked his friend to book him a suite at the Michelangelo, explaining that he had a series of meetings planned with Russian, Zimbabwean, and Qatari businessmen. Money was no object.

#3

David felt uncomfortable around Apollo, and he took an instant dislike to him. He thought his uncle was being taken for a ride by Apollo, who seemed to love money more than anything else.

#4

Patrick’s daughter, Portia, was waiting for midnight to strike in South Africa so she could surprise him. She had written a letter to herself reviewing each year, setting goals. She was so hopeful and happy.

#5

The family was beginning to worry about Patrick, because he hadn’t been in touch with them for several days. They knew he was in Africa, because his car was in the parking lot of the Michelangelo hotel, but they didn’t know which room he was in.

#6

When the police arrived, they went straight to Room 905. The victim was David’s surrogate father, not Apollo. His eyes were closed, and he looked like he was sleeping.

#7

The Rwandans had carefully planned out their attack, and the pieces of the puzzle now fit together. Patrick’s request for a hotel room had been designed to extract him from his well-guarded gated community.

#8

The assassins were members of the Hawks, South Africa’s police team specializing in organized crime. They killed Patrick between 8:30 and 9:00 p. m. The team was driven away in a car with Burundian diplomatic plates, while Apollo flew out the next morning.

#9

The reaction from the Rwandan government was one of pure triumphalism. When I asked Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo about the murder, she tweeted, This man was a self-declared enemy of the government, and my country, so I expect no pity.

#10

The Karegeya family struggled to figure out how to get to South Africa. They were given temporary South African passports and US documents that allowed them to leave and return to the United States.

#11

Patrick’s family wanted him buried in Mbarara, Uganda, but the government could not allow that because he was a citizen of Rwanda and a resident of South Africa at the time of his death.

#12

Patrick’s funeral was marked by raw outrage and mutual suspicions between Rwandan elite society members. They knew the informants were there amongst them, and reporting every little bit back to Kigali.

#13

When you walk into the room of someone who has recently died, mundane objects take on significance. These objects are imbued with magical powers now that they have outlived their owner.

#14

Patrick was a rare African atheist, and the strain of exile and the genocide took a toll on him. He began attending a local church, as he had befriended a Presbyterian couple who worshiped there.

#15

There is a substance that could be put in the food or drink of a victim, without him noticing. It could take days or months before it has an effect. It is very effective. Doctors wouldn’t even detect it.

#16

The Rwandan genocide, which was the fastest killing sprees in human history, was the only thing many outsiders knew about Rwanda. But the revolution that killed Patrick was evidence of a band of brothers who had risked all for one another.

#17

Patrick was one week out of prison, where he had spent 18 months after being found guilty of insubordination and desertion and stripped of his rank. He was released, and was warned to be careful about what he said or did.

#18

Patrick left the country, but not before hosting a party with friends and family who came to visit him. He was happy to be leaving, but he was also aware that his presence was creating political problems between the neighboring states.

#19

Patrick was warned that Kagame knew about his whereabouts and asked him to leave Kenya. He moved to Johannesburg, where he could remain on the African continent, and began to recoup his finances.

#20

The failure to prepare for a financial escape route was an indication of the hubris of the RPF leaders. They thought they were gods, and nothing could ever touch them. They had no need to prepare for tomorrow.

#21

Emile Rutagengwa was a former member of Rwanda’s Directorate of Military Intelligence, and he knew Patrick. He became family to David, driving him around and protecting him.

#22

After his high-octane globe-trotting, Patrick moved to a house on the Irene View Estate in Centurion. He had not switched off his capacious brain, and he was constantly soaking up information. He was offered a consultancy by the Somali Ministry of Internal Security, but it was only a six-month contract.

#23

Patrick began to gather information on how deep the discontent with Kagame’s rule went, not just in the Hutu community but also among former Tutsi insiders who felt they had been promised liberation only to be casually cast aside by Rwanda’s new regime.

#24

In February 2010, Rwanda’s former army chief of staff, General Kayumba Nyamwasa, came to stay with President Kagame. He was very polite and respectful towards me, but I could tell he was also very afraid of Kagame.

#25

The General is aristocratically good-looking, and his physique is thickset and sturdy. He has a reputation of being a cold-hearted killer, but he is also a sweetie.

#26

The General was accused of not longer subscribing to the ideals of the RPF, and of constantly talking to Patrick behind the backs of the government and party officials. He was given a deadline to write an apology letter.

#27

The RPF system produced the antibodies needed to ensure that the General never returned, as well as to discredit his legacy. The FDLR, a Hutu extremist movement set up in DRC by Habyarimana’s former army soldiers and militiamen, was suspected of carrying out grenade attacks in Kigali and its surrounding areas.

#28

In Delhi, the ambassador and his family were locked in a standoff with the Rwandan embassy officials, who demanded they leave the premises while simultaneously canceling their travel plans. While the General waited for his wife and children to arrive, he stayed with his old friend Patrick, whose fate increasingly seemed linked to his own.

#29

In the inner circle of the RPF, the fact that this kind of challenge warranted a terminal response was taken for granted. The standard liberal criticism of rebel movements is that they fail to make the transition to civilian government, but in reality, no transition is attempted at all; the habits, mindset, and structures of a military guerrilla movement simply shift wholesale from the forest dugouts to the capital city.

#30

The men who would go on to found the Rwanda National Congress were well aware of the generous pass that much of the international community gave Kagame. They wanted to dent Kagame’s image, so they needed to be specific and detailed about their accusations.

#31

Emile was not the only pawn in this chess game. Patrick was still in contact with Aimé Ntabana, who was working for Rwandan military intelligence. The two exiles had created a complex counterespionage operation.

#32

It was vital to demonstrate ethnic and social evenhandedness, so leading Hutu politicians were courted, with mixed success.

#33

The General was attacked, and a man was eventually arrested. His enemies attempted to finish him off in the hospital, but his supporters protected him and took him to the Morningside Clinic in Sandton. 447 calls were made between Bachisa and Vincent Ngendo, part of a two-man Rwandan team sent to Johannesburg to arrange the hit.

#34

The shooting of the General made it clear to Patrick that he was now in a life-or-death situation, and he had to be protected at all costs. The lives of the men and their families were changed forever.

#35

The buildup to Rwanda’s second presidential election in 2010 was not conducive to a free vote. In January 2010, Hutu opposition leader Victoire Ingabire had returned to Kigali after sixteen years in exile, intending to run. Instead, she was jailed. The grenades the government blamed on the General and Patrick kept exploding in Kigali, leaving residents jittery and terrified.

#36

The RPF had a blood oath that they would defend the group’s interests, and if they betrayed it, they would be executed. The group published a fifty-seven-page essay that criticized Kagame’s leadership and called for national dialogue.

#37

The Rwanda National Congress was formed in 2010, but many Tutsis in Rwanda were not comfortable having any contact with Hutu groups associated with the FDLR. The Kagame regime used this to accuse the RNC of being tied to the FDLR.

#38

Robert was eventually hired by a French private security company, and was posted to Senegal. He was approached by Rwandan intelligence a second time, asked to kill his friend Patrick, and laughed it off.