Patrick Karagaya, who was the former head of external intelligence and ended up being murdered in South Africa,

almost certainly on President Paul Kagame's orders.

The really amazing thing is that he was one of Kagame's oldest friends.

Patrick Karagaya left his car in the car park at Michelangelo Towers and made his way up to sweet 905.

His family would never hear from him again.

He said that Patrick and I are like flies.

And if they require them to use a hammer to kill a fly, you'll do it.

preliminary investigation revealed that he might have been strangled as he displayed his neck was swollen

and police also found on the scene a bloodied towel as well as rope in the hotel safe.

Should everyone agree when the Rwandan Defence Minister said in relation to that murdered former intelligence chief,

when you choose to be a dog, you die like a dog.

President Kagame himself said whoever betrays the country will pay the price, will face negative consequences.

That's not your government basically nudging and winking that they were behind those killings.

Let me put it this way.

I don't know anybody who betrays a country that gets rewarded.

Let me just put it this way.

I'm Brian Klaus and you're listening to Power Corrupts, the podcast where we shine a light under the hidden and often nefarious forces that shape our world.

Throughout human history, exile has been a way to get rid of unwanted people without killing them.

From the Stone Age, when hunter-gatherers who broke social codes were forced to leave the band and fend for themselves to Napoleon on Elba,

our species has often relied on this implicit bargain.

Go far, far away, never come back and you can stay alive.

Now, after hundreds of thousands of years of exiled people coexisting out of sight and out of mind, that bargain is breaking down.

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