Gov’t refutes refugee persecution claims

KIGALI - Government has allayed fears by some refugees returning from Uganda that they stand to be persecuted. The refugees who started returning home Tuesday, said the rumours being spread in the Uganda refugee camps include that the Rwandan government arrests and detains all the repatriated. “Those claims are baseless… they just lack enough information about their country. I have been there (in the camps) myself but we are preparing to send a team to give them the real picture of what Rwanda is and mobilize them,” Protais Musoni, the Minister of Local Government told The New Times.