Some 200 Ugandans reportedly deported from Tanzania were “self-settled” in Tanzania and therefore not eligible for refugee assistance, officials from UNHCR and Uganda’s Department of Refugees told IRIN. The ‘Guardian’ newspaper reported last week that the group had recently been deported from Tanzania’s Kagera region, where many had lived for years, married Tanzanians and had children. It quoted the deportees as saying they had been forced by Tanzanian authorities to leave their possessions, wives and children behind. Some charged that their expulsion had been engineered by Rwanda, which accused them of “aiding Hutu refugees who are hostile to the Kigali regime,” the newspaper reported.
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