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Police Starts Rounding Up Congolese Refugees in Hoima

New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS
January 21, 2005
Posted to the web January 21, 2005
Kampala
THE Police in Hoima have started rounding up Congolese refugees who are
resisting to be relocated to Kyaka II settlement camp in Kyenjojo district,
write Fred Kayizzi and Amlan Tumusiime.
The Hoima Police station chief, Andrew Gidoi, said they arrested 15 refugees on
Tuesday for inciting others to resist the relocation.
He said the refugees were arrested while fishing on Lake Albert and their
fishing gear impounded.
Gidoi said the 15 were part of a group of about 8,000 refugees who fled to
Hoima district following renewed hostilities in the eastern Democratic Republic
of Congo.
the country representative of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Cindy Burns, last
weekend took a fleet of trucks to Hoima to relocate the refugees but most of
them eluded the exercise.
An official in the resident district commissioner's office, Sulait Dungu, said
only 76 refugees had registered to be relocated.
The police will hunt down those who resist the relocation, Francis Tumushabe,
the mid-western regional police chief, warned.

   

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