Security authorities are investigating 47 Congolese refugees for staging riots against their transfer from the Nyakabande transit center to a refugee camp.
The refugees staged protests on Tuesday to the extent of blocking the Bunagana-Kisoro-Kabale-Mbarara Highway after receiving news of their impending transfer to Nakivale refugees’ camp.
Hajji Shafique Ssekandi, the Kisoro Resident District Commissioner said the situation called for the intervention of anti-riot police to quell the protests and that 47 suspected rioters were detained at Kisoro police station for inciting violence but later released on police bond as investigations into the matter continue.
He also revealed that another refugee who has not been identified is in police custody for attempted murder after stabbing his colleague in the stomach during a fight in Bunagana town council.
Hajji Kekandi speaking…….
Mr. Emma Munyontore, the Deputy Commandant of Nyakabande transit center, says that about 400 refugees were transferred to Nakivale camp in Insigiro district yesterday and more than ten thousand of about 30.000 refugees were at the transit center. Mr. Emma speaking……
Meanwhile, hundreds of Congolese yesterday reportedly held a demonstration in Goma, accusing the Rwandan and Ugandan governments of backing M23 rebels to conquer the Bunagana border. Lieutenant-Colonel John Harvey, the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo described the accusations against Uganda and Rwanda as “nonsense”. ENDÂ Â