Fulgence Ndagijimana fled Burundi due to civil strife and hostilities.
Fulgence Ndagijimana has found a new home in Saskatoon after he fled his former one in Burundi due to civil strife and hostilities.
Ndagijimana explained that “the situation is very difficult.”
He said over 250,000 Burundian refugees have already left for the neighbouring countries of Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Uganda.
President Pierre Nkurunziza’s decision to seek a third term last year, violating an agreement that limits presidents to two terms, has left Burundi on the brink of civil war.
And since then, Ndagijimana said thousands of people have been jailed, killed, and kidnapped making the situation in the country tense and grave.
Targeted by the government
Ndagijimana said he was personally targeted by the Burundian government as a person and as a pastor.
He said he was taken from his church office and detained for nine days, being accused of funding criminals and money laundering.
“When you go to work, you do not know where it will be safe all day, so the situation is most impossible to live,” he said.
He said the crisis is forcing many people to flee.
“It is a situation of concern with the violence, with the kidnapping… the violent ways the government is managing the crisis, we are in for trouble,” he said.
Ndagijimana worries that the current violence will result in a genocide.
“We hope this situation, which is a bloody one, will probably give place to a kind of hope.”
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