Congolese Refugees Petition Embassies Over DR Congo Insecurity NewTimesRwanda: DRC
It also follows another petition by the Congolese refugee community in Kenya that was submitted last week to delegations of the United Nations, European Union, African Union, the East African Community and embassies of the United States, France, among others based in Nairobi.The situation in eastern DR Congo continues to worsen instead of subsiding, said John Nsengiyera, one of the refugees who lives in Kigeme camp in Nyamage District in Southern Province.
"We call on the international community to address Congolese Tutsi grievances, particularly denial of their citizenship, the protection of Kinyarwanda-speaking Congolese from stigmatization and urgent repatriation of Congolese refugees living in the region," Nsengiyera said., which was formed by remnants of the perpetrators of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
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