{The Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs (MIDIMAR) says 104 Rwandans last week repatriated from Republic Democratic of Congo (DRC).}
Talking to IGIHE, Frédéric Ntawukuriryayo, the communications officer in MIDIMAR said that the returnees include 7 men, 38 women and 59 children.
He said that Rwandans keeps repatriating despite obstacles despite misinformation and mistrust founded on false rumours.
“There is a problem of false information traded about by genocidaires who do not want these people to return,” he said.
Before removing the refugee status for Rwandans in different parts of the country, MIDIMAR had embarked on a repatriation program that involves a “Come and see, go and tell” where some refugees first visit the country and go back to bring to speed their fellow Rwandans about the general environment in the country, wooing them to come back.
Ntawukuriryayo said that other methods are still being applied including availing information through media and talking to them face to face as well.
MIDIMAR recently announced that 5,081 repatriated in 2015 through various borders of the country.
MIDIMAR showed that there is no statistics of refugees remaining in DRC forests as no census has been conducted.
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