{"id":23818,"date":"2016-03-10T08:50:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T08:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-100-rwandan-refugees-repatriate-from-drc\/"},"modified":"2016-03-10T08:50:28","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T08:50:28","slug":"over-100-rwandan-refugees-repatriate-from-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-100-rwandan-refugees-repatriate-from-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 100 Rwandan refugees repatriate from DRC forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A total of 104 Rwandan refugees that had fled the country in 1994 have today repatriated from various regions of Southern Kivu including Walikale, Karehe and Masisi in the Republic Democratic of Congo (DRC). They have arrived in Rwanda at Rusizi border post.}<\/p>\n<p>They have revealed how they were mistreated as refugees and used to hear falsified information that Rwanda is insecure which hindered their repatriation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Congolese and FDLR could always say; \u2018Rwandans are wicked,\u2019 yet we cultivated their land without getting paid. They would also tell us that there is no security in Rwanda. This is how we lived as in refugees for this long ,\u201d said one repatriate Mukeshimana Iradukunda.<\/p>\n<p>Repatriated Rwandans revealed how delightful they are for being warmly welcomed and requested their neighbors remaining in DRC forests to reject false rumors about Rwanda and return to their native country which is now safe.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving in Nyagatare provisional camp today, repatriated refugees received basic home materials including casseroles, blankets, foods and medical insurance.<br \/>\nThe 104 include 66 children born in forests, 30 women and 8 men. They will be integrated into their families after one day.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10878 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rrrrrrrrrrr.jpg\" alt=\"Repatriated Rwandans \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10879 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0000-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A total of 104 Rwandan refugees that had fled the country in 1994 have today repatriated from various regions of Southern Kivu including Walikale, Karehe and Masisi in the Republic Democratic of Congo (DRC). They have arrived in Rwanda at Rusizi border post.} They have revealed how they were mistreated as refugees and used to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23818"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}