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KARASIRA'S OWN WORDS — RECORDED LONG BEFORE HIS DEATH In this video, Karasira Aimable speaks with striking self-awareness about a pattern he had personally experienced. He recounts that when he was detained by RIB, certain voices abroad immediately framed it as abandonment and persecution, not out of genuine concern for him, but because his misfortune became a convenient political tool to portray the Rwandan government negatively. He is explicit: it was never about loving Karasira or Idamange. It was about exploiting their difficulties as ammunition. When the government goes about its normal business, these opportunists spin it as failure and celebrate loudly. But he notes that were Idamange to be released, were he himself to walk free, those same voices would go silent, with nothing left to say. He describes this as a deliberate system operated by politically immature actors who weaponize suffering, real or fabricated through petitions, claims of torture, death announcements, purely to sustain their own relevance and justify their life in exile. Beyond that, Karasira bluntly said, such political hawks do little else except post on YouTube, Facebook, and WhatsApp. He ends with a pointed remark: that he genuinely wonders how some of them are even managing to build homes and sustain families. As Karasira continues to rest in power peacefully, the clarity and candor of his own recorded words achieve precisely what no external defense could. They consolidate the liberators' cause from within, while quietly but decisively diluting the rhetoric of those who have built careers on misrepresenting Rwanda's story. Viewed against his subsequent death from medication overdose, this recording is a powerful rebuttal, made in his own voice, on his own terms, towards exactly the narrative that predictably emerged after he passed.