In 2010, one more member of the R.N.C., a former army chief named Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, was shot and wounded in Johannesburg.
The killings of Rwandan dissidents in South Africa had led to diplomatic strains among the two nations, which includes the expulsion of diplomats, in advance of a thaw in relations below the latest South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa.
Lunga Ngqengelele, a spokesman for South Africa’s Division of Worldwide Relations and Cooperation, explained that South Africa and Rwanda carry on to take pleasure in “good operating relations.”
Of Mr. Bamporiki’s killing, Mr. Ngqengelele explained, “We are getting led by the police, and so far they have not indicated that this is a political killing.”
Past South Africa, Rwandan government critics have also been targeted elsewhere. In Kenya, a former minister was shot dead in 1998 months right after he explained he was afraid for his daily life. In Belgium, a former government official’s mangled physique was identified floating in a canal in 2005.
And final August, right after an elaborate ruse that Mr. Kagame referred to as “flawless,” Paul Rusesabagina, a government critic who was credited for conserving one,268 lives all through the Rwandan genocide, was arrested and charged with terrorism. That situation has drawn around the world condemnation.
In the situation of Mr. Bamporiki, the guy who ostensibly lured him to his death had been calling him regularly for a week, insistent that he desired to purchase a bed from his store, Mr. Mutabazi, the R.N.C. spokesman, explained on Monday. Mr. Bamporiki was at a get together conference in Johannesburg at the time, but did not suspect something untoward, Mr. Mutabazi explained.