Nicholas Shakespeare

The making of a monster: Paul Kagame’s bloodstained past

Rwanda’s President has been widely feted as ‘the man who ended the genocide’. But he may also have started it, according to Michela Wrong

‘God created me in a very strange way,’ Paul Kagame once told an obsequious interviewer. Credit: Alamy

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