From the AFRICAN REVIEW
Asylum seekers waiting for help. Zimbabwe's Labour and Social Services
minister Paurina Mupariwa has said Rwandan refugees in the southern
African nation are reluctant to return home. FILE | AFRICA REVIEW |
By KITSEPILE NYATHI in HararePosted Wednesday, July 6 2011 at 08:57
Refugees from Rwanda who settled in Zimbabwe are reluctant to
return home despite efforts by President Paul Kagame’s government to
persuade them to return home.
Thousands of refugees who fled the 1994 genocide in Rwanda found refugee in Zimbabwe.
Rwanda
last month sent a delegation that visited Zimbabwe’s biggest refugee
camp in Manicaland Province to encourage the refugees to return home.
Zimbabwe’s
Labour and Social Services minister Paurina Mupariwa told the refugees
at the Tongogara refugee camp that it was now safe to return to their
country.
"You would agree with me that there is no
place like home and refugee life cannot continue forever,” she was
quoted as having said by the state owned Herald newspaper.
Mr Marcelline Hepie, the United Nations High ommission
for Refugees (UNCHR) country representative, said more than a quarter of
the 5,000 refugees in Zimbabwe originated from the Great Lakes region
but the majority were not willing to return home.
Voluntary repatriation
"Rwanda
is the only country insisting on the return of all its citizens before
the cessation clause befalls on them by the end of the year," Mr Hepie
was also quoted by the Herald as having said.
"Following
a high level delegation from Rwanda to Zimbabwe to sensitise their
citizens on voluntary repatriation, the community is in the process of
setting up a commission to join UNHCR and Zimbabwe for a "go and see"
visit to Rwanda to ascertain on the conditions of voluntary repatriation
in safety and dignity.
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