Kigali had always accused Kampala of backing Rwandan rebels including the RNC, which is seeking to overthrow President Kagame.
A copy of the purported letter which was seen by APA in Kigali on Tuesday appears to suggest the Ugandan leader explaining that it all started when an unnamed official of his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) told him a Rwandan lady who had some important information to give him, wanted to meet him accompanied by an individual known as Gasana, who also had an important information to share.
It said the Rwandan lady identified as Charlotte Mukankusi who is currently assuming the role of Commissionner in Charge of Foreign Affairs in the Rwandan rebel group RNC, had asked Mr Museveni to back them.
The letter explained that the Ugandan leader had told his Rwandan guest that there was no way he would back them because what is happening in Rwanda is an internal matter to which Uganda wants to play no part.
News of the letter follows Kigali’s accusation that Kampala was harbouring dissidents against the Kagame regime, in addition to harassing its citizens.
Earlier last week, Rwandan Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera accused Uganda of offering succour to two foreign-based Rwanda rebel groups – Rwanda National Congress (RNC) and Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), claims Kampala has strenously denied.
The RNC is a rebel group led by some of Rwanda’s most prominent dissidents including South Africa-based Kayumba Nyamwasa.
Its founders say it is a political party.
The FDLR is a rebel group composed in part of former Rwandan soldiers and genocidaire Hutu militias who fled into the Democratic Republic of Congo after the massacre of more than one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus between April and July 1994.
RNC, is led by Kayumba Nyamwasa, a renegade Rwandan General who was in 2011 sentenced in absentia to 24 years in prison after he was convicted of multiple charges including terrorism, genocide denial and crimes against humanity.
The fugitive senior officer who is currently seeking asylum in South Africa is also the leader of a new rebel group known as “P5”, which operates in Eastern DR Congo’s South Kivu province, acoording to the latestw report by the UN Group of Experts on DRC.
Kigali has always accused Ugandan of backing armed groups and terrorist organisations hostile to Rwanda, including RNC, FDLR and others, who it claimed are backed in their subversive activities, including recruitment, by institutions and officials in Kampala.
It said that the details of these concerns have been repeatedly communicated to the government of Uganda, without any reaction from Kampala.