Nduta (Tanzania) : a house of a Burundian refugee burned

The house was burned down by the administration of the camp which criticizes its owner for not following injunctions given to him. The chief of household was sentenced to forced labor while his members sleep under the stars.

Info SOS Médias Burundi

The chief of household is his sixties, Burundian, known as Claver Nahimana, nicknamed “Musitantri”. Nahimana lives in village 27 in zone I. He has 8 children.

His village is being relocated. Its occupants are installed at zone III. The concerned refused the new house of two rooms that the administration gave him because “very old and unable to contain his family whereas he has a wife and children, boys and girls”.

He stayed in his house in zone I.
Administration agents visited him last week and forced him to leave the place or to “return immediately to Burundi”.

As he wanted to refuse, his house was destroyed and burned.

“For the moment, he is also accused of doing the illegal coal business, which is not the case,” said one of his neighbors. The latter deplore that this family has just spent a week without any help, its members being forced to sleep under the stars.

The chief of the family, for his part, was sentenced to forced labor at the office of the president of the camp and to the post of the police, which makes his compatriots furious. Some have been in charge of the leniency of the president of the Nduta camp, in vain.

They fear that this family will be placed on the list of returnees, a punishment that is customary for any unwanted person or who is accused of any offense, small as it is at the Nduta camp since the announcement of the closure of this camp which is to happen next December.

These Burundians also denounce what they describe as”inhuman threats and practices that push them to forced return with the helpless eye of the UNHCR which is supposed to ensure their protection”.

Currently, the Nduta camp is home to more than 58,000 Burundian refugees, according to the latest figures provided by the UNHCR.

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A Burundian refugee in front of his house in Nduta (SOS Médias Burundi)