In late 1997, when GoR officers ordered all Congolese Tutsis to return to Rwanda, Makenga took part in a mutiny which led to his arrest and imprisonment on the Rwandan island of Iwawa for several years.
In late 1997, when GoR officers ordered all Congolese Tutsis to return to Rwanda, Makenga took part in a mutiny which led to his arrest and imprisonment on the Rwandan island of Iwawa for several years.