Gihembe Refugee Camp — Few of the 14,700 Congolese refugees in Rwanda's Gihembe camp envisage returning home any time soon. As with Rwanda's total caseload of 75,000 Congolese refugees, most are Tutsis who arrived between 1995 and 1997 from Masisi and Rutshuru territories in North Kivu, a province which still has a plethora of armed groups, making it too dangerous for the UN to organize refugee returns.
Many of those in Gihembe, such as John Amini Kayihura, arrived as young orphans, fleeing Congolese militias or the Rwandan Interahamwe extremists who did much of the killing during Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
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