“I didn’t want to come back until there had been a change of government,” said Buchumi Cezarie, 30, a mother-of-four who fled ethnic violence in the northern Giteranyi region in 1996.
She was speaking at a U.N.-run transit camp in Mugano in Burundi’s northeastern Muyinga province, after registering for an identity card that will guarantee her family a three-month “starter kit” containing food, pots and pans, plastic sheeting and other supplies to help them resettle.
“I hope we’ll be able to grow something to eat,” Cezarie said. “I don’t know if my old house will still be there or not.”
It is of course good news that so many refugees now feel that they are able to return to Burundi, but it will be a big challenge for the country to peacefully repatriate the returnees.
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