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Burundi says Rwanda expels 1,300 Burundians as relations fray
BUJUMBURA: Rwanda has expelled more than 1,300 Burundians in the past week after they refused to move to refugee camps, senior Burundi officials said on Monday, amid signs a political crisis is testing relations between the neighbouring countries.
Rwandan officials were **t immediately available for comment on the reported removals of Burundians who had been working there, many of them for years - an account confirmed by one of those affected. Rwanda has been hosting tens of thousands of people who have fled more than a year of political violence in Burundi - and others who have crossed the border for years for work, often without formal permission. "They were asked to go to refugee camps or return back to Burundi," the gover**r of Burundi’s Kirundo province next to the Rwandan border, Melchior Nankwahomba, told Reuters by phone. "Those who refused to go to refugee camps were chased ...and stripped of their possessions," he said, adding that they were pushed out by local officials. Burundi has accused Rwanda of interfering in its political crisis - which has seen Burundian government forces clash with protesters and rebels who say the president violated the constitution by standing for a third term last year. Rwanda has denied Burundi’s accusations. But the violence in Burundi has rattled Rwanda and other countries across the central African region were there are still fresh memories of the 1994 ge**cide in Rwanda, which like Burundi has a Hutu majority and Tutsi mi**rity. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Burundi says Rwanda expels 1,300 Burundians as relations fray || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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