{"id":5177,"date":"2017-02-22T15:39:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=5177"},"modified":"2017-02-23T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T06:00:59","slug":"why-havent-these-internally-displaced-people-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/why-havent-these-internally-displaced-people-return-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Why haven\u2019t these internally displaced people returned home?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Non-internally displaced people have started building their homes in the Kabezi camp.<\/p><\/div>\n

The civil war that followed the assassination of the first democratically elected Melchior Ndadaye in 1993 caused many Burundians to be internally displaced.<\/p>\n

Many camps are still open till today even though the war was completely brought to an end in 2008 when the last rebel group, FNL, signed a peace agreement with the government.<\/p>\n

Displaced people living in Kabezi camp put forwards various reasons why they prefer to stay in the camp.
\nFor some, the camp has become their new home so that they don\u2019t fancy leaving it. For others \u201cgoing back and building new homes requires means we cannot afford\u201d, says L\u00e9ocadie Ndenzako, a 61 years old widow.<\/p>\n

The fear for living in isolation as many of their neighbours have settled elsewhere also prevents them from returning home. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Nyanduruko, 76, says \u201cwe can\u2019t go back and live alone. Many of our former neighbours have made their homes somewhere else\u201d.<\/p>\n

A woman who didn\u2019t want to be named claims she fears for her security if she returns home. She says the \u201cdivisive rhetoric has resurrected as we are associated with the failed coup-plotters\u201d.<\/p>\n

She says that sensitization to peaceful coexistence is prerequisite to ensure her and her likes\u2019 security.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Home Affairs dismisses claims that security for some particular groups of Burundians is not guaranteed. \u201cNone should stay in camps alleging their security is not ensured because the war has ended\u201d, says Th\u00e9rence Ntahiraja, the Ministry\u2019s spokesman.<\/p>\n

He says that there is no problem if those internally displaced people living in camps built on land belonging to the government remain there provided they transform the camps into villages where any person from any ethnic group can own a home.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they stay there and make villages, it\u2019s a great idea\u201d, says the Ministry\u2019s spokesman. \u201cHowever, the villages should not exclusively belong to any particular group of people, but to anyone who wishes to build there\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

The issue is with people living in camps built on other people\u2019s land. The spokesman for the Ministry says it\u2019s unfair that people live on others\u2019 lands and reserve their own lands for farming.<\/p>\n

To those who wish to regain their former residences, Ntahiraja says the Ministry of Home Affairs is ready to provide them with assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The civil war that followed the assassination of the first democratically elected Melchior Ndadaye in 1993 caused many Burundians to be internally displaced. Many camps are still open till today even though the war was completely brought to an end in 2008 when the last rebel group, FNL, signed a peace agreement with the government. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,670],"tags":[1016,1017],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5183,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5177\/revisions\/5183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}