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Showing posts with label UNHCR Uganda. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNHCR Uganda. Show all posts

Sunday, July 18, 2010

A Young Rwandan Hutu Refugee Asked the Color of His Tears Because Nobody Seems to Care

THE BLOOD OF RWANDAN HUTU, IS IT RED?
The persecution of Hutu Rwandans did not begin yesterday or today. It is rooted in the Tutsi monarchy XVI th century and the period of African independence in the 1950s through the European colonization.

Indeed, the Hutu Rwandans have been subjected, abused, persecuted and massacred without thank you, the so-called civilized countries of the planet Earth and the so-called international community playing the role of interested observers. If one starts from the earliest period when the RPF and Inyenzi-INKOTANYI attacked RWANDA Monday, October 1, 1990 from Uganda, the report is damning. They called themselves inyenzi INKOTANYI RWANDA invaded from the customs in Kagitumba Prefecture BYUMBA giving border with Uganda. In three and a half years, the RPF-INKOTANYI had killed 650,000 innocent ethnic Hutu BYUMBA Prefecture alone without including others that were killed elsewhere in the prefectures of Ruhengeri, Gisenyi, Kibungo and Kigali . This carnage was perpetrated under the complacent eye of the so-called international community and the perpetrators of this grisly task were not worried to date!

In 1994, 6 April, the Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi MM. Juvenal HABYALIMANA and Cyprien Ntaryamira, attendants, pilots and those who followed them were killed by the RPF of Kagame supported by certain powers of this world. The book group of international experts, " SILENT ON ATTACK "on page .67 stresses that" foreign power "that helped the RPF shoot down the plane was actually Uganda .... The first and second meeting was used to plan the attack took place in Uganda, respectively, in the towns of Kabale and MBARARA.Une third meeting in which Kagame was present took place in March 1994 in Bobo-Dioulasso in BURKINA FASO. "Until to date the major powers involved have not yet leaked about the RPF-Inkotanyi of Kagame.

With the takeover of Kigali 19 July 1994 by the RPF-INKOTANYI, it has used the genocide to kill over 250,000 innocent Hutu Rwandans still under the complacent eye of the International Community (cfr YOUNG AMERICA No. 1822 07-13 December 1995 - Edition Black Africa ). A week later, then Prime Minister Faustin TWAGIRAMUNGU the RPF government-INKOTANYI himself said in BRUSSELS have "irrefutable evidence that more than 250,000 people had been killed since the RPF took power-Inkotanyi."

In 1995, April 22, at Kibeho in Gikongoro in southern RWANDA, five thousand (5000) war displaced Hutus were massacred in cold blood in broad daylight the soldiers of the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) under the Kagame eyes of UN observers. (Cfr the book by Maurice NIWESE "THE PEOPLE OF RWANDA ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE" (p.206). These Hutus were from the prefectures of Butare, Kigali, BYUMBA, Kibungo and GITARAMA. They are grouped in Kibeho from IDP camps Kaduha Musange Mbaza (Rukondo) Cyanika (KARAMA) KAMANA and Munin (Mubuga).

They were killed by RPF soldiers under the command of Col. FRED Ibinga, Commander of the axis Butare-Gikongoro CYANGUGU-then-by shooting, and nobody ever cared about the fate which was reserved, even the President of the Republic of the time Mr. Shepherd spoke BIZIMUNGU some three hundred (300) individuals! In 1995, KANAME (MAHOKO in the prefecture of Gisenyi), many thousands of Rwandan Hutus were massacred by the RPF-Inkotanyi of Kagame in the presence of the great of this world (cf. YOUNG AMERICA No.1811 21-27 September 1995 (p.11).



In 1996, the camps of Rwandan Hutu refugees in eastern Zaire (now DRC) contained more than two million (2,000,000) people. The RPF-INKOTANYI destroyed them with heavy weapons and many of these refugees have been massacred, others were forcibly repatriated in RWANDA. The 653,000 survivors were scattered in the jungles of Zaire as stipulated in newspaper " WORLD "of February 26, 1997.

There are more than ten years a Western witness said in a report to the Security Council of the United Nations that the Tutsi rebels have carried out killings. Among these refugees escaped between 200,000 and 250,000 have reached TING TINGS and their fate remains unclear Hutu refugees, while 400,000 have failed to call for all had been massacred by the RPF-Kagame INKOTANYI of which boast the world and pretending be powerless. The Worse is that the RPF-Inkotanyi, Paul Kagame and his lieutenants who have committed these crimes in Rwanda where the Hutu were not prosecuted. By cons, Ignace Murwanashyaka and STRATON MUSONI, respectively President and Vice-President of the FDLR who were trying to speak for the voiceless survivors of the massacres of Hutu RPF-Inkotanyi is breaking with their families and eventually arrested by the great of this world. As referenced in the book HONORS Ngbanda Nzambo " ORGANIZED CRIME IN CENTRAL AFRICA "(p.130), I quote:" If you do not join the RPF today, tomorrow will be too late when the body is in HABYALIMANA the streets of Kigali and his staff dragged before the courts told them Americans . Other people moving Goodwill understand the cause of the Rwandan Hutu are being hunted by the lobbying groups in the pay of the regime of Kagame.

In 1997, May 13, M'bandaka to many thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees were slaughtered like cattle into the slaughterhouse by soldiers of the RPF-INKOTANYI of Kagame commanded by Commander the one who loved DAVID is called < > (Cf. the journal "LIFE" No.2722 of 30 October 1997 (p.8) Gilbert Perrin.

In 1998, in January-February, in the caves of Kaname and Mukingo, respectively in the provinces of West and North of RWANDA. More than 5,000 (five miles) Rwandan Hutus have been grouped, locked up and massacred by the RPF of Kagame. Until now no power in this world only wants someone mentions the plight of these innocent Hutus in Rwanda.

What to say Hutu languishing in jails Rwandan death houses since 1994 to date and without criminal records established?? Many people have lost their lives. Do not forget the Arusha tribunal (ICTR), which condemns the innocent on the basis of false testimony prefabricated and / or assembled from scratch by the RPF-Inkotanyi and its network of informers as Ibuka! Furthermore, those trying to flee the continued RWANDA, abused if not killed by death squads of DMI Paul Kagame in the country of refuge in BURUNDI, in UGANDA, KENYA, Belgium, etc ... . Recall that these bully poor countries Hutu refugees once there, otherwise reject them forcefully in the face of their tormentors in RWANDA Oh! Great people of this world, international community and humanitarian organizations who take pleasure in such crimes of Kagame and his regime continue to let you destroy the Hutu Rwandan across the globe and is an open secret for now!

We urge you to reconsider your strategies if the history and God Almighty, the Great Judge, you will condemn leaders bloodshed of innocent Hutus.

Conclude with these words of Albert Einstein: " The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who look and refuse to act . "!

To all the people for the human misery and injustice to the poor and the weak, know that war does not build that simply exacerbate the hatred!

Story of a Rwandan, an eyewitness to the tragedy of his people.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

UN agency deplores forced returns of Rwandan refugees from Uganda

Rwandan refugees return to shore after fishing in Uganda

UN agency deplores forced returns of Rwandan refugees from Uganda

16 July 2010 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today deplored the forced returns of Rwandans from Uganda, with reports of police brutality being used to deport the asylum-seekers. On Wednesday, Ugandan police carried out an operation to round up and force out some 1,700 Rwandan refugees from the Nakivale and Kyaka camps in southwestern Ugandan.
In the Nakivale settlement, Rwandan asylum-seekers were assembled under the pretext that they would be told of the results of their asylum claims, with panic breaking out among the group when police fired shots.
“Force was used to push people onto trucks,” with the refugees then being driven across the border to Rwanda, UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming told reporters in Geneva today.
Meanwhile in the Kyaka camp, police and armed men surrounded a UN World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse filled with refugees who believed they would receive food supplies.
“Those who did not manage to escape were forced onto waiting trucks,” Ms. Fleming said, adding that many were not allowed to take their personal belongings with them.
Two men who jumped out of trucks en route back to Rwanda died, and some children were separated from their parents.
More than two dozen people who were not deported sustained injuries, some from police beatings. Among the injured were 6 pregnant women who were treated at a local hospital and then released.
UNHCR is interviewing those injured in the round-ups and tracing those separated from their families in the deportation.
“Although UNHCR was broadly aware of an agreement between the two countries to return failed asylum-seekers, we were not informed of the timing and the nature of this operation,” Ms. Fleming said.
She added that the agency staff at the settlements at the time of the incidents were asked to leave the scene.
The operations were targeted at failed asylum-seekers, but UNHCR has received confirmation that recognized refugees were among those returned to Rwanda.
In Kyaka, a woman told the agency that her two children were among the group sent back despite the fact that she and her family were recognized as refugees.
“UNCHR remains concerned about further deportations amid reports from refugees that police had threatened to return to Navikale and Kyaka to deport all those who escaped,” Ms. Fleming noted.
She stressed that the return of refugees and asylum-seekers whose asylum applications have not properly and finally been ruled on should only be taken voluntarily and in conditions of safety and dignity.
“We called upon the Ugandan authorities to halt the operation as soon as we became aware that it was under way,” the UNHCR spokesperson said.
“We have reiterated that there should be no further such returns contrary to the principles of national and international refugee law,” she added. “We have underlined that anyone deserving international protection should be allowed to remain in Uganda.”
Since the start of this year, more than 3,300 Rwandans have filed for asylum in Uganda, with 98 per cent of claims having been rejected in the past six months.
“UNHCR is concerned that asylum applications are not being determined properly and fairly,” Ms. Fleming stated. “We have been and will continue to address this issue with the Ugandan authorities.
Once in Rwanda, those deported this week were taken to Byumba province’s Rukomo transit center, which can only hold 500 people, has not been used for a year, and lacks water and adequate sleeping space. UNHCR is seeking access to the returnees are reportedly sleeping out in the open and do not have food or clean water.
As of this January, the agency estimates that there are nearly 128,000 refugees and more than 11,500 asylum-seekers in Uganda.

Mass removal of Rwandans from Ugandan refugee settlements



Mass removal of Rwandans from Ugandan refugee settlements

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/action/6596


Reports reaching IRRI and RLP indicate that on the morning of Wednesday 14th July 2010, OPM Directorate of Refugees and Police officers in Nakivale (Isingiro District) and Kyaka II (Kyenjonjo District) began rounding up Rwandans and forcing them against their will to board trucks to return them to Rwanda.

Reports indicate that those targeted in this manner were lured with the promise that they would be granted refugee status and food. Instead they were met by a large number of Ugandan police who rounded them up and forced them onto trucks. Shots were fired by police. Some individuals appear to have been injured during the process, and in some cases parents were separated from children. Reports further suggest that Rwandan security agents and authorities were present at the scene.

By removing settlement-based Rwandans in this manner, the Ugandan government is in breach of its own Citizenship and Immigration Act, which outlines the due processes by which failed asylum seekers who have exhausted their right of appeal should be deported. It has also violated the obligations created by domestic and international law, including the Constitution, the Children’s Statute and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. These breaches come just days before the African Union Summit on ‘Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa’ is due to begin in Kampala.

IRRI and RLP condemn this forcible removal of Rwandans from Ugandan refugee settlements.

We further note that this comes barely a month after our drawing public attention to the fact that many Rwandan refugees and asylum seekers fear persecution if returned to their country of origin (see report titled, “A Dangerous Impasse: Rwandan Refugees in Uganda” available on www.refugeelawproject.org and www.refugee-rights.org) The report made a number of recommendations to the governments of Uganda and Rwanda, and to UNHCR, in order to improve protection for this group of refugees. In particular, it stated that the Ugandan government must scrupulously uphold its international and national legal obligations with regard to the protection of refugees and to the truly voluntary nature of any repatriation.

We therefore call for an immediate halt to the current removal process. We also call on the Ugandan government to ensure that any failed asylum seekers are able to exhaust the appeal processes provided for under the Refugees Act, and, where these routes have indeed been exhausted, that the Government follow due process for deportation as provided for under the Citizenship and Immigration Control Act.

For further information or comments, please contact;
Dr. Chris Dolan, Director, Refugee Law Project,
dir@refugeelawproject.org, +256 414235330/ 343556

or

Dismas Nkunda, Co-Director, International Refugee Rights Initiative,
dismas.nkunda@refugee-rights.org +256 782310404 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +256 782310404      end_of_the_skype_highlighting