Hope Mafaranga
23 December 2008
Kampala — Over 2,000 Rwandan and Congolese refugees have illegally entered Kyenjojo district.
The resident district commissioner, Charles Mubiru disclosed this at a council meeting at the headquarters in Kasiina on Friday.
He said the number of the immigrants was a security threat and added that they were settling in Nyakagoma-Mukwano farmland in Kabagebge forest. They have put up structures and are cultivating the land.
"These refugees have their own administration. Leaders had started registering them but stopped after receiving death threats," Mubiru said.
LCs have asked officials to register them by force.
Up to a million people are thought to have fled clashes between Gen. Laurent Nkunda's forces and the Congolese Army.
Although a peace deal officially ended DR Congo's war in 2002, and a subsequent deal in January to disarm rebel groups in the east, Gen Nkunda and his men have not joined the army, as former rebel units were supposed to.
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