Peter Verlinden

A great man, driven by great principles and who achieved great things with a small country.

The Rwanda as Singapore framing isn't a journalistic invention.

Kagame has been explicitly pursuing this template since at least 1995, the year after the genocide ended.

Per the Royal Society of International Studies analysis, in 2008 a consultant working in Kigali was personally asked by Kagame to write up a summary of Singapore's key lessons for the Rwandan cabinet.