‘We choose good guys and bad guys’: beneath the myth of ‘model’ Rwanda

President Paul Kagame - long feted by leaders in the west - is accused of serial human rights abuses in expansive new book

A devastating new book will accuse Rwanda's president Paul Kagame - long feted by his prominent international supporters as the model of visionary new African leadership - of being a serial human rights abuser, including for his role in a sustained campaign of assassinating his rivals in exile.

Written by Michela Wrong, the author who covered the Rwandan genocide in 1994, when more than 800,000 people - largely ethnic Tutsis as well as moderate Hutus - were killed by Hutu militias over 100 days, Do Not Disturb represents one of the most far-reaching historical revisions of Kagame and his regime.