{"id":693773,"date":"2019-08-28T11:33:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T11:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">F\u00e9licien Uwizeye, 71, and three other Rwandans, on Tuesday complained of endless assault of Rwandan prisoners in Uganda in addition to slavery after spending a year in detention there.<\/p>\n<p"},"modified":"2019-08-28T11:33:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T11:33:51","slug":"rwanda-deportees-cite-human-rights-abuses-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/28\/rwanda-deportees-cite-human-rights-abuses-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda: Deportees Cite Human Rights Abuses in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">F\u00e9licien Uwizeye, 71, and three other Rwandans, on Tuesday complained of endless assault of Rwandan prisoners in Uganda in addition to slavery after spending a year in detention there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">What Ugandan authorities are allowing to happen to innocent citizens of a neighboring state, he said, is not only wicked but also shameful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">When he traveled to Uganda a year ago in search of work as a casual labourer, Uwizeye had counted so much on getting a job in the rural farmlands there.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">But little did the father of seven know, that merely because of the current tensions between the two countries, he would spend the year in a jail doing hard labour, being beaten almost every other day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Uwizeye who hails from Burera District made the ill-fated trip on August 7, 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">He was deported last weekend, along with three other Rwandans &#8211; Jimmy Habimana, 27, Emmanuel Twizerimana, 25, and Jacob Ndayambaje, 36.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">&#8220;On the day I traveled, shortly after having my travel documents checked and cleared, and crossing into Uganda I run into a roadblock where people were being arrested in big numbers. They gathered us and we were taken to a police station where we spent three days before being taken to court. In court, we were summarily handed one year jails terms allegedly for entering Uganda illegally,&#8221; Uwizeye told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-b-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">&#8220;We were then taken to the prison in Kisoro [District] and later Ndorwa Prison where I found very many Rwandans. I realised that many more Rwandans would arrive every day until the prison was too full and they were being relocated to other prisons in Mparo, Kiburara and Mbarara.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">During all the 12 months in prison, he said, hard labour was the order of the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">His group was forced to carry heavy logs and make bricks all that time.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.responsive-aans-view-c-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">Whoever failed would be beaten harshly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">&#8220;We got to the point where we became used to the suffering and persevered until our time passed and we got out. But the people we have left behind a really suffering. The government of Uganda should be asked why innocent Rwandans are made to suffer to such an extent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">In March this year, Rwanda issued a travel advisory against its nationals travelling to Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">It came following series of abductions of Rwandans in different parts of Uganda that saw hundreds thrown into detention facilities without due process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">In Kabale prison, Uwizeye estimated that &#8220;about 500 Rwandans are still languishing there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t tell the number of those taken to in Mparo, Kiburara and other places since we had been separated but we heard that people are suffering so much there too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">For more than a year now, things have not been well with Rwanda and Uganda and many Rwandans have suffered as a result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Uwizeye&#8217;s fate is no different from that of hundreds other Rwandans deported from Uganda in the past few months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Those deported, however, count themselves lucky since many others are dying in Ugandan jails.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Relations between the two countries worsened with Kampala now reportedly supporting anti-Kigali armed groups, including RNC and FDLR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">On Monday, Albert Imanizabayo, 27, a resident of Kagugu Sector in Burera District, also told reporters in Kigali that he endured gruesome torture for a year in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00e9licien Uwizeye, 71, and three other Rwandans, on Tuesday complained of endless assault of Rwandan prisoners in Uganda in addition to slavery after spending a year in detention there. 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