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Tafi Mhaka: From Patrick Karegeya to Jamal Khashoggi: African and Arab lives matter, too 

By Tafi Mhaka

“When you choose to be a dog, you die like a dog, and the cleaners will wipe away the trash so that it does not stink for them”. This is how Rwanda’s then-Minister of Defence General James Kabarebe publicly responded to the violent death of a dissident in South Africa. Colonel Patrick Karegeya’s lifeless body was discovered in an upmarket hotel room in Sandton, Johannesburg on January 2, 2014.