RWANDA: HUTU REFUGEES CROSS BORDER FROM TANZANIA UPDATE
(16 Dec 1996) Swahili/English/Nat
Over 56-thousand Rwandan Hutu refugees crossed the border from Tanzania into Rwanda Monday.
Tanzanian officials were using guns, helicopters, and trucks to keep the Rwandan Hutus on the road back home.
They want all of the 535-thousand Rwandans out of the country by the end of the year.
Rwandan Hutu refugees filled the road that links Tanzania to Rwanda as far as the eye could see, returning home after two and a half years of life in camps.
By Monday evening, more than 100-thousand had crossed the border.
The refugees streamed across the bridge over the Kagera River into Rwanda.
They were crossing at the rate of about three thousand per hour.
Some 22-thousand had crossed on Sunday.
Tanzania is serious about getting Rwandan refugees out of the country.
The Tanzanian government wants all of the 535-thousand Rwandan Hutus out by 31 December.
Authorities fired guns into the air to urge the refugees to return home.
Police also patrolled the roads and skies overhead to keep stragglers moving.
Some refugees reported that Tanzanian police also used tear gas and beat them with sticks to move them along yesterday.
Red Cross officials with megaphones welcomed the refugees back Monday.
And the Rwandan President, Pasteur Bizimungu, also turned out to greet them.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I welcome everybody. The extremists, those that orchestrated the genocide will be dealt with by justice "
SUPER CAPTION: Pasteur Bizimungu, Rwandan president
In Tanzania, Red Cross workers had bound children to their mothers with yellow twine to keep them from getting lost on the road.
Tanzania barred U-N aid workers and journalists from the road clogged with returning Hutus.
Only the International Committee of the Red Cross and Oxfam were allowed access to refugees.
Some refugees claimed that between three and 60 people have died in the turmoil, but other refugees dismissed those claims.
The Red Cross could not confirm reports of deaths caused by the forcible repatriation, and Tanzanian authorities refused to speak to reporters.
But some U-N officers denied the claims.
SOUNDBITE (English)
"Tanzanian army is not using force."
SUPER CAPTION: Roman Urasa, head of mission in Rwanda for UNHCR
The refugees fled from Rwanda to Tanzania in 1994, when more than a million Rwandan Hutus scattered into neighbouring countries, including Zaire and Tanzania.
They feared retribution for a Hutu-led genocide of 500-thousand minority Tutsis.
Last month, 640-thousand Rwandan refugees returned home from eastern Zaire when attacks by Zairean rebels freed them from Hutu militia control.
Despite the Tanzanian campaign to force them home, aid workers reported that thousands of refugees were continuing to flee from the border.
Hutu extremists who had controlled the camps tried to keep the refugees from returning by spreading rumours that the new Tutsi-led government was killing returning Hutus.
SOUNDBITE (Swahili)
" We were scared to come. There were many rumours in the camp about what would happen to us if we came back."
SUPER CAPTION: VOXPOP, refugee
Once across the border, refugees flowed peacefully back to their communities in a 15- mile line.
A Red Cross official said he expected the exodus to be over before the end of the week.
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The women and children are very strong God blessed all those who help to rescue those little children
AP, we appreciate your videos very much. Please just date them.
@youwot2430
2 жыл бұрын
december 1996 check the description g
all wars in Africa must end
Can you be more specific on the dates ? Thanks.
@aim1397
6 жыл бұрын
Julio Reed End of1996
@moekancha
3 жыл бұрын
There is a small arro ^ on the rite corner of this video title. U can click there and can see all the Imfo
Why racism is smarter than us human being?
Turabubona ubutwari Inkotanyi zagize muri mwebwe HE president Paul kagame kuko kuva mubohoye igihugu mugahagarika Genocide yakorewe abatutsi1994 ubu Rwanda niyambere muri Africa iyagatandatu kwisi mwisuku numutekano no kurwanya covid19 🙏🇷🇼
@ERISATVRWNdiho
2 жыл бұрын
Ko utavuga ko Ari urambere mukugira abaturage bashimye X 😆
African conflicts are very destructive , and leave irreparable scares .
@genghiskhanye
5 жыл бұрын
Go back to school and learn how many people died during WW2
@treasuredpossesion9047
5 ай бұрын
@@genghiskhanye There are more people who died during the Congo wars than WW2
It was dangerous
Those people deserve reperation💰 you by God have strip these people of everything,and now you don't offer 👿👿✝️the basic💵💵💰💰💰👑👑I never could understand why all the poor people give up everything they have,and it would be best to kick all those bad leaders out.because this is madness a man 80 years old👺 trying to lead a country this is a very sad situation all you people pray to God he will 👑📖🙏🙏🤲be all the people salvation just watch.🔥🔥🔥🔥⚰⚰⚰⚰😷😷😷Aman
Will always support Hutus against the actual criminal Tutsis . .
@James-ne9gy
Ай бұрын
Huh can you explain what you mean
@James-ne9gy
Ай бұрын
Are you saying you support the Hutus who chose to save or kill
Mwarangiza ngo mwakorewe genocide, ntimugirq umutima ngo byibura mutekereze ko abatutsi bo barimo biberangura muriyo migezi
we will never forget what RPF did to us and they still killing i am always sending my prayer to those who are still in that country.
@aliciamomat7963
3 жыл бұрын
Killing who?? Thw hutus?
@umutoni3639
3 жыл бұрын
@@aliciamomat7963 what do you mean tho
@omegatesfay7196
3 жыл бұрын
You said u won’t forget:( stupid. The tusi even forget ur evil crime. You guys don’t deserve to be forgiven.
@lindalisa8335
3 жыл бұрын
I feel sorry for you guys I always here that they are still killing there in Rwanda
@umutoni3639
3 жыл бұрын
@@lindalisa8335 yeah people are being killed in Rwanda even now
Intarahamwwe
@bilmar
5 жыл бұрын
educate yourself you stupid fuck, these are innocent refugees that were probably all massacred by the RPF!
@philipokarol4876
4 жыл бұрын
@@bilmar wrong. Most men and grown up women complicit in genocide. They're repatriated by force if you don't know that. We lived with some of these genocide perpetrators.
@bilmar
4 жыл бұрын
@@philipokarol4876 that's nice.. fool.
@philipokarol4876
4 жыл бұрын
@@bilmar Ok. The fact is BENACO where they're camped is close to my home. I know these murderers much well. Anyway Rwanda has gone a reconciliation way. Let's forgive but never forget.
@bilmar
4 жыл бұрын
@@philipokarol4876 take your reconciliation and shove it where the sun don't shine.. you cannot tell a Rwandan who knows the politics of his country nonsense.. please, take your fiction story elsewhere.
Africans lol
Why do you force refugees the asylum seekers to go to death sqaud to face bloody thirsty Kagame
@kayigirejpaul154
2 ай бұрын
Foolish stupid. Who forced them to return?? Who is behind them??
Uyu niwe mu president w'igicucu u Rwanda rwagize kuva rwabaho,amabyi gusa.
@ERISATVRWNdiho
2 жыл бұрын
Hhhh yakoze iki
Ninety percent of these people were massacred by the RPF I nkotanyi! it's crazy
@kayitaredeogratias6163
5 жыл бұрын
Who told you. Your comment is founded in hatred of RPF not truth.
@datacitystudio13
4 жыл бұрын
@Wakanda Forever But to exterminate Tutsis??? Was tustis not tribe of God in 1994????
@bilmar
4 жыл бұрын
@Wakanda Forever they will never finish us.
@muhozashallon8336
4 жыл бұрын
Wake up moron with empty head. That is fake information you are sharing.
@perfectsinner8084
3 жыл бұрын
The hutus who was masacred the tutsi firts in april 1994 millions of tutsi were killed. This is called karma for hutu