{"id":9646,"date":"2018-08-01T06:20:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T06:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=9646"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:31:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T15:31:46","slug":"burundi-government-denies-involvement-in-forced-repatriation-of-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundi-government-denies-involvement-in-forced-repatriation-of-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi government denies involvement in forced repatriation of refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/burundian-refugees-in-tanzania-worried-about-being-forcibly-repatriated\/\" target=\"_blank\">After Burundian refugees in Tanzania expressed their fear about forced repatriation<\/a> and worries about Burundi government collaboration with Tanzania, the interior ministry rejects the accusation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9645\" style=\"width: 499px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9645\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9645\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Th\u00e9rence-Ntahiraja-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"T\u00e9rence Ntahiraja: \u201cWhen they flee to another country, Burundi has not any right to take a decision about them or cannot persecute them\u201d \" width=\"489\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Th\u00e9rence-Ntahiraja-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Th\u00e9rence-Ntahiraja-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Th\u00e9rence-Ntahiraja-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Th\u00e9rence-Ntahiraja.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9645\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">T\u00e9rence Ntahiraja: \u201cWhen they flee to another country, Burundi has not any right to take a decision about them or cannot persecute them\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>T\u00e9rence Ntahiraja, Assistant to the Interior Minister, says Burundi is not informed about the case of forced repatriation of Burundian refugees living in Tanzania. \u201cI don\u2019t know about their forced repatriation or persecution but if they are really suffering persecution, it is the violation of human rights,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ntahiraja says Burundi government has not any right or power to take a decision about these refugees. \u201cWhen they flee to another country, Burundi has not any right to take a decision about them or cannot persecute them. They are in the hands of UNHCR and the host country,\u201d he says, adding that Tanzania is probably pushing them to go back to their country because there are peace and stability.<br \/>\nHe says life in refugee camps is very difficult and calls on those exiled people to return to their country. \u201cIn refugee camps, there is no life. You don\u2019t work and earn your living, you have very limited rights. I invite my fellow Burundians to return so as to avoid all these problems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The assistant to the Interior Minister says Burundi government is ready to welcome them and help them return to their respective communities like it does for others.<\/p>\n<p>He says Burundi, Tanzania and UNHCR held a tripartite meeting since last year to proceed with voluntary repatriation. \u201cThis is what is going on, there are refugees who are voluntarily being repatriated\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Burundian refugees in different camps in Tanzania expressed their worries after Emmanuel Maganga, governor of Kigoma led a campaign in their camps to convince them to return to their country arguing that peace and security prevail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Burundian refugees in Tanzania expressed their fear about forced repatriation and worries about Burundi government collaboration with Tanzania, the interior ministry rejects the accusation. T\u00e9rence Ntahiraja, Assistant to the Interior Minister, says Burundi is not informed about the case of forced repatriation of Burundian refugees living in Tanzania. \u201cI don\u2019t know about their forced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,670],"tags":[113,1169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646"}],"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\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9650,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9646\/revisions\/9650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}