{"id":5174,"date":"2017-02-22T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=5174"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:15:51","slug":"kagaragara-residents-forcibly-evicted-from-their-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/kagaragara-residents-forcibly-evicted-from-their-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagaragara residents forcibly evicted from their homes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The administration of Bubanza western province of Burundi has thrown out more than 2000 people from Kagaragara locality of Buringa Commune on the grounds of security and preservation of the protected areas<\/a>. They say they do not know where to go to and call for humanitarian assistance. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Kagaragara

Kagaragara residents evicted from their homes have nowhere to go<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe police have moved us away from the Buringa zone office in the early morning of 20 February\u201d, says a mother of six. She says security forces have beaten them accusing them of refusing to leave the place. \u201cFrom now on, we don\u2019t know where to go,\u201d says a woman met in Buringa zone of Gihanga commune, in tears. She also says they live in dire straits. \u201cOur children will die of hunger as we have just spent four days without eating\u201d, says another woman crying.
\nResidents of Kagaragara say their houses have been destroyed and some of their injured children are now hospitalized. \u201cIt is regrettable to see that old people with their children and grand -children are wandering with no destination\u201d, says another old woman.<\/p>\n

They call on the Head of State to intervene. \u201cSince 20 February, security forces are chasing us away. They oblige us to leave the place without indicating the destination. We wonder whether or not we are Burundians. If we have another nationality, they may help us join our mother country,\u201d says a mother of six. \u201cThe governor has ordered the destruction of our houses. He promised the place to shelter us but in vain\u201d, says a mother of a nine-month kid, who passed out after breastfeeding her kid.<\/p>\n

Administrative officials say the residents of Kagaragara hill were moved from their places for two reasons: security and preservation of protected areas of the Rukoko National Park.<\/p>\n

In January 2017, three Burundian ministers of National Defense, Public Security and Home Affairs held a security meeting in Gihanga commune of Bubanza Province. They said the Kagaragara residents must leave the locality. \u201cThis place that borders the DRC and Rukoko Natural Park can be the target of enemy infiltrations\u201d, said Pascal Barandagiye, Home Affairs Minister in the meeting.<\/p>\n

On 21 December 2016, the Burundian Ombudsman, Edouard Nduwimana, promised to set up a commission to resolve the issue of Kagaragara residents. The latter said they occupied the place since 1952 and their lands are located between Rukoko National Park and Rusizi Wildlife Park in Bubanza western province of Burundi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The administration of Bubanza western province of Burundi has thrown out more than 2000 people from Kagaragara locality of Buringa Commune on the grounds of security and preservation of the protected areas. They say they do not know where to go to and call for humanitarian assistance. \u201cThe police have moved us away from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[924,923],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5176,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5174\/revisions\/5176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}