Bujumbura threatened to expel Rwandan citizens from its land. Last Wednesday, the country announced the indefinite closure of all its land borders with Rwanda, according to authorities, “ Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s bad neighbor After this announcement, Gitega was quick to implement the move.
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It is currently impossible to determine precisely the number of Rwandan nationals expelled from Burundian land since Wednesday, as the Burundian government has so far refused to discuss the matter. But the NGO SOS Torture/Burundi spoke of about thirty of these civilians who were handed over to Rwandan authorities on Thursday and Friday. border crossing Ruhwana, in Sibitok province, in the northwest of the country.
About forty others arrested by Imbonerakure, members of the ruling party’s youth league, were still incarcerated yesterday morning in the community dungeon of Mugina, in the same province of Sibitok, again awaiting their deportation, according to the same source.
Still others have been arrested in several other provinces and are in the process of being returned to Rwanda. But is it just a coincidence? The Burundian interior minister, Martin Niterets, announced on Wednesday that the work was facilitated by the fact that he was using a list of foreigners living in Burundi that had just been drawn up by provincial governors, according to the newspaper SOS Burundi Medias. Officially, all these arrested are Rwandans “ Irregular “, but according to our sources, several abuses have been reported, especially in rural areas.
Reaction from Kigali: Deputy government spokesperson Ellen Mukularinda calls on Rwandans to avoid the country “ Where we don’t want “, he said while assuring Burundians living in Rwanda that they can continue their business without any fear.
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