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Showing posts with label Rwanda Refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rwanda Refugees. Show all posts

Friday, July 30, 2010

Rwanda: Uganda Deports Rwandan Refugees

Rwanda: Uganda Deports Rwandan Refugees

On July 14 and 15, Ugandan police rounded up 1,700 Rwandan refugees and deported them back to Rwanda.
The police reportedly tricked the refugees, telling them they would distribute food and give them notice about their asylum appeals. Instead, they held them at gunpoint and forced them into trucks. Twenty-five people were injured from gunshots, and two people died after jumping off the trucks. In addition, some children were separated from their parents.

These outrageous acts are in violation of a number of accords and laws. The government is in violation 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." By separating children from their families, the government is also in violation of the Children's Statute and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Many Rwandans fled to neighboring Uganda during the 1994 genocide, while others have fled in the last couple of years due to persecution. While some Rwandans have legal refugee status, the Ugandan government has rejected about 98 percent of asylum applications this year. Still, an estimated 15,000 Rwandans reside in Uganda. 

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports both that the Ugandan and Rwandan governments coordinated the mass deportations. Human Rights Watch claims that this is not the first time that the Rwandan government has pressured another country to deport refugees. Besides Uganda, the Tanzanian and Burundian governments have also deported refugees
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Zimbabwe to deport violent Rwanda and Burundi refugees


Rwandan refugees, like these trekking from DR Congo, are scattered all over eastern and southern Africa. Photo/REUTERS 

By KITSEPILE NYATHI  (email the author)



Zimbabwe is deporting five refugees from Burundi and Rwanda following violent clashes that rocked a camp holding exiles from the Great Lakes region.
Burundians and Rwandans at the Tongogara Refugee Camp in eastern Zimbabwe are reportedly blaming each other for the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Last month, the camp was rocked by violent clashes that led to the arrest of the five refugees who were thrown into remand prison in the eastern city of Mutare.
At the weekend, they were transferred to Harare awaiting deportation despite protests by UNCHR.
“We are not going to allow them back at the camp. We have to deport them to their countries of origin,” Zimbabwe’s minister of Labour and Social Welfare Paurina Mpariwa told a Harare daily on Wednesday.
Deportations
“We want to set an example. They caused chaos and commotion at the camp. After all, there is no longer war in Rwanda and Burundi,” she said.
But UNCHR representative in Zimbabwe Marcelin Hepie told NewsDay that they were not happy with the impending deportations and were now trying to have the refugees resettled in neighbouring countries.
“We tried to advise government to release them because we felt spending two months in remand prison would have been enough punishment,” he said.
“They signed affidavits to say they will no longer misbehave.
“We used that as a tool to advise state security to release them, but unfortunately it did not yield fruits.”
The genocide
He said one of the affected refugees was a woman with a husband and children at the camp.
“There has been tension for over a year. They (Burundians) claim one group is genuine and the other is not genuine,” Mr Hepie said.
Rwandan refugees clashed with their counterparts from Burundi who were accusing them of misrepresenting themselves to the Zimbabwean authorities.
The Burundians accused the Rwandana of concealing their identities because they feared they could be linked to those being sought for crimes related to the genocide.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

RWANDAN REFUGEES IN UGANDA IN GREAT DANGER (17.07.10)

RWANDAN REFUGEES IN UGANDA IN GREAT DANGER (17.07.10)

According to international media, Non governmental organisations and humanitarian organizations, since 14th June 2010, three refugees died, 26 others were injured and hospitalized during gunpoint massive deportations of over 1,700 Rwandan refugees from Nakivale and Kyaka refugees' camps.
The United Democratic Forces, FDU INKINGI, express outrage and firm condemnation of this gross violation, by the government of UGANDA, of its own Citizenship and Immigration Act, as well as international laws pertaining to the protection of asylum seekers and genuine refugees. The situation is more worrisome, considering that the UNHCR distanced itself from this operation and that both governments of Uganda and Rwanda partly acknowledged their absolute dealings in this show of force.
The FDU INKINGI is surprised by the timing of this deportation of Rwandan refugees. Indeed, it comes amid reports of deepening insecurity in Rwanda, which culminated in an assassination spree targeting a party leader Mr. André Kagwa Rwisereka, vice president of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda murdered in Butare on 14th July; an acting Editor, Mr. Jean-Léonard Rugambage, Reporter of censored independent Magazine UMUVUGIZI shot dead in Kigali on 24th June ; the disappearance of the private secretary of the president of the Parti Social Imberakuri, as well as a crackdown on opposition leaders and their subsequent torture during their detention.
This happens also barely a few days after an attempt kidnapping of former journalist and detainee, Dominique Makeli in the Uganda capital city and the attempt assassination of the former Rwandan army chief of staff, Lieutenant General Kayumba Nyamwasa in South Africa. The Ugandan government is very well aware of widespread violations of human rights in Rwanda, which legitimate the fears of refugees to return home. The Ugandan based International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) and the Refugee Law Project (RLP) had warned Uganda not to yield to Rwandan government pressure and grant protection to asylum seekers. According to the UNHCR, since the beginning of 2010, 3,320 Rwandans have filed for asylum in Uganda.
The FDU INKINGI recalls that this is not the first time Rwandan refugees are forcibly banished. This was the case in Kibeho in 1995, in DRC in 1996-1997, in Burundi and in Tanzania. History shows that these push measures never solved the refugees’ problem, because they elude the root causes of the worriment.
The FDU INKINGI is particularly concerned about the secrecy of the operation. What kind of measures put in place by the Rwandan government to ensure a peaceful, humane and transparent resettlement of those returnees? Are they going to languish in camps inside Rwanda, or have their homes been secured prior to their deportation? Returnees are gathered in Rukomo camp where visibly there is no adequate transit infrastructure.
We call upon the governments of Uganda and Rwanda to suspend those operations. We expect the Human Rights and International organisations to go beyond mere condemnation of this blatant violation of international conventions, but also to follow up the process of resettlement of deportees inside Rwanda.
Ms. Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza
FDU INKINGI
Chair.

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.