Ugandan authorities have dumped a group of 12 Rwandans who were illegally arrested and tortured from Ugandan prisons. The Rwandans were recieved by Rwanda Immigration authorities at Kagitumba Border in Nyagatare District this Tuesday morning. Early last month, Uganda also released 130 Rwandans from various illegal detention facilities where they were held without due process for varying periods of time and dumped them at the Rwandan border. They were released in two groups; one group came through Kagitumba border while the other came through Cyanika. That came after Uganda government officials promised to set them free during a virtual meeting with their Rwandan counterparts a week earlier. On June 4, senior Rwandan and Ugandan officials held a video conference as part of both countries continuing effort to work on normalising relations between both countries. This was the fourth Ad Hoc Commission meeting. In the meeting, the Rwandan delegation was led by foreign affairs minister Vincent Biruta while the Ugandan side was led by Sam Kutesa, the Ugandan foreign minister. It was also attended by Tete Antonio, Minister of External Relations of Angola, and Gilbert Kankonde Malamba, DR Congos Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Interior, Security and Customary Affairs. Angola and DR Congo are facilitators in the ongoing process to normalize the relations between Rwanda and Uganda. The process was kick-started by a Memorandum of Understanding signed between both countries in the Angolan capital Luanda in September last year.
