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Arkiveringsdatum 200107:
Human Rights Watch 19-12-12:
Från Burundi/ Tanzania: Burundians Pressured into Leaving
Mounting Intimidation for 163,000 Burundian Refugees and Asylum Seekers
The fear of violence, arrest, and deportation is driving many of the 163,000 Burundian refugees and asylum seekers in Tanzania out of the country. Tanzanian authorities have also made it very difficult for the United Nations refugee agency to properly check whether hundreds of refugees' recent decision to return to Burundi was voluntary.
In October and November 2019, Tanzanian officials specifically targeted parts of the Burundian refugee population whose insecure legal status and lack of access to aid make them particularly vulnerable to coerced return to Burundi. The actions come after the Tanzanian president, John Magufuli, said on October 11 that Burundian refugees should "go home."
"Refugees say police abuses, insecurity in Tanzania's refugee camps, and deportation threats drove them out of the country," said Bill Frelick, refugee rights director at Human Rights Watch. "Tanzania should reverse course before it ends up unlawfully coercing thousands more to leave."
In mid-November, Human Rights Watch interviewed 20 Burundian refugees in Uganda who described the pressure that caused them to leave Tanzania between August 2018 and October 2019. Seven returned to Burundi but said they then fled to Uganda to escape members of the Burundian ruling party's youth league, the Imbonerakure, who threatened, intimidated, or arbitrarily arrested them. Thirteen went directly to Uganda.
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innehållArkiveringsdatum 191214:
Human Rights Watch 19-12-04:
Från Burundi/ African leaders should raise concerns on Tanzania's pressure to return
Joint Civil Society Statement
Ahead of the African Union (AU) High-Level Dialogue on displacement taking place from 4-6 December in Uganda, African and international NGOs call on African leaders and regional organisations to urge the government of Tanzania to stop pressuring 163,000 refugees and asylum seekers into returning to Burundi, where there are ongoing serious human rights violations against real or perceived opposition supporters, including returning refugees.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled Burundi after a political crisis erupted in 2015 and led to political violence and serious human rights violations. Tanzania currently hosts the largest group of those refugees and should be commended for having opened its doors to them.
However, senior Tanzanian government officials have repeatedly pressured Burundian refugees to go back to Burundi. One of these calls came from President John Pombe Magufuli, who said on October 11 that Burundian refugees should "go home." An August 24 agreement between Tanzania and Burundi also says these refugees "are to return to their country of origin whether voluntarily or not" by December 31. To date, around 80,000 have returned with UNHCR's financial and logistical assistance under a September 2017 "voluntary repatriation" agreement between Burundi, Tanzania and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
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