FDU-MN-INKUBIRI: STATEMENT ON RWANDAN REFUGEES IN EASTERN DR CONGO
It is because of these miscalculations that of the 1,500,000 Hutu refugeespresent in the East of DRC at the time, only a couple of hundreds ofthousands survived from a possible crime of genocide, to finally be ignoredby the UN and its specialized agencies for close to two decades.
In light of these circumstances, we urge the concerned UN authorities, especially its refugee agency, to uphold their respective core values andmissions of providing protection and assistance to vulnerable personsduring or after armed conflicts by, among other things:
(1) abstaining from/ and dissuading any other stakeholder/ from anyresorting to the use of armed violence when its intended or unintended end-situation would be to enforce involuntary repatriation of Rwandan refugees;
(2) engaging representatives of Rwandan refugees themselves for the sakeof putting in place mechanisms of dialogue intended to address theirconcerns ;
(3) facilitating dialogue between the Rwandan refugees themselves and theDRC government in order to resolve urgent issues relating to properidentification, protection, assistance and voluntary repatriation ;
(4) addressing the issues of security and justice resulting from the facts established and recommendations made by the UN Mapping Report,especially taking into account the fact that most Rwandan suspects areprotected by the current Rwandan government ;
(5) providing adequate protection and assistance to those who might notopt for immediate voluntary repatriation through facilitating their settlementand their integration into the national economic spheres, education and health schemes;
We call upon the DRC government to uphold its obligations as contained inall national or international legal instruments relating to protection andassistance to refugees they are party to, by continuing to extend itshospitality and improving its protection and assistance to Rwandanrefugees.
We further urge the DRC government to resist any calls to act againstestablished mechanisms, just because of political expediency to advancecertain vested interests by negative internal or external state or non-stateactors.
Failure to protect and to assist Rwandan refugees in Eastern DRC inJanuary 2015 would amount to denying once again their humanity. Westrongly believe that the United Nations will not and should not fail again,like in 1994 or two years later in 1996.
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