Barely a week after Rwanda was heavily criticized by the refugees’ rights advocacy groups, it is again embroiled in fresh allegations of torturing a Rwandan refugee living in Uganda.

Pascal Manirakiza, who fled Rwanda while in school at CEPEM secondary school in Ruhengeri was found unconscious with marks of torture in Lusaze cemetery in Makindye, Kampala District and fingers are once again pointing to Rwanda’s security operatives.

Of all countries hosting Rwandan refugees, Uganda is said to be the most notorious when it comes to allegation of torture, abductions and assassination attempts on refugees.

The former student sought asylum and has been living in Kyaka refugee camp where it is alleged that his captors whisked him away to a safe house in Kampala where he was tortured.

A fortnight ago, the Rwandan government was accused by United Nations High Commission for Refugees for kidnapping, attempting to assassinate and illegal extradition of refugees living in Uganda.

Lt Joel Mutabazi and Innocent Kalisa whose whereabouts are still unknown are the most prominent fugitives to have faced assassination attempts recently and both UNHCR and the office of the prime minister of Uganda have blamed it on Rwanda.

The suspected Rwanda operatives were intercepted by officials from UNHCR and OPM as well as police from getting to Mr Manirakiza allegedly with the intention of killing him at the cemetery where he was dumped after torture.

However, Rwanda’s High commission in Uganda has vehemently denied these accusations calling them smear campaigns by the enemies of the state.

“A section of negativists have continued to misinform the general public that some agents of Rwanda are responsible for a number of abductions of Rwandan dissidents living in Uganda,” said Maj Gen Frank Mugambage, Rwanda’s ambassador to Uganda.

About Mr Manirakiza, the ambassador said that Rwanda has been able to establish through Rwanda National Police that much as Manirakiza was a student at CEPEM Secondary school, he had of late associated himself with FDRL, a terrorist group that was involved in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Rwanda maintains that it is the same FDLR group which Manirakiza is associated with that has from 2009 to July 2013 been responsible for thirty grenade attacks in Kigali and around the country and on learning that he (Manirakiza) was being investigated, he together with one of his accomplices called Bienvenue escaped and what happened to him may have something to do with those who were indulging him in the FDLR activities, certainly not Rwanda.

Douglas Asiimwe, a senior refugee officer in the OPM Uganda, was not available for comment about Mr Manirakiza’s case but he had condemned earlier arrests of Rwandan refugees calling it a deliberate move by Rwandan operatives.

“It makes no sense to  issue the arrest warrant now when a refugee (mutabazi) has been in the country for more than three years and Rwanda knew where he was all those years,” said Mr Asiimwe, in an earlier interview.

The OPM maintain that the manner in which Rwanda is trying to take some refugees back is not credible and it is suspicious of their intensions since there are laws that govern extraditing a person which are normally not followed and police should always take due diligence.