“I will rather die than going back to Rwanda.' Why do tens of thousands of Rawandan refugees refuse to set foot in the tiny east African nation again?
The Rwandan refugee crisis is convoluted as it has its roots stretching back to 1959 when a Tutsi monarchy was toppled in a revolution, resulting in more than two million people fleeing to neighbouring countries where they lived for 35 years, only to return after the 1994 genocide ended with a Tutsi government back in power.
Because Rwanda is a very small country , there is not enough land for its 12 million-plus citizens, creating fierce friction between even members of the same tribes. The previous government of assassinated Hutu leaderhad always insisted that there was not enough land to accommodate any returnees from the 1959 exodus.
Under the Clause, United Nations member states hosting Rwandan refugees have to comply with the declaration, but actualities on the ground have always proved difficult for the implementation of this clause as the refugees stridently resist repatriation. Because of this resistance, which has seen both the 2013 and the 2017 deadlines being ignored, most of the host countries are left with no option but to let the Rwandan refugees continue to live in their countries even when their status has become vague following the decision of the UNHCR to invoke the Cessation Clause.
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