PAUL KAGAME
POSITION: President of Rwanda
REPUTATION: Liberator turned despot
It is an all too familiar story. The leaders of liberation movements (usually armies) turn themselves into despots as soon as they vanquish the genocidal regimes they seek to replace. Paul Kagame followed this well-travelled path after his Uganda-based Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) drove out Rwanda’s Hutu-dominated regime, which had presided over the horrendous massacre of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus. By the
