The Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Fee (RDRC) on Tuesday, July 28, facilitated 22 former little one combatants to reunite with their households in Musanze District.
The reunification adopted the youngsters's profitable completion of civic schooling and rehabilitation at Mutobo Demobilisation and Reintegration Centre.
Since 2021, the fee has reunited greater than 1,097 former little one members of DR Congo-based armed teams with their households by way of its rehabilitation and reintegration programme.
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Talking in the course of the reunification ceremony, RDRC Chairperson Valerie Nyirahabineza mentioned the youngsters, together with one woman, had 'endured extreme hardships and had been victims of kid rights violations.”
“Kids deserve higher. They deserve love and safety from battle,” she mentioned.
“We traced and ready their households for this reunion. That’s the reason they’re right here at present.”
Nyirahabineza mentioned the households of twenty-two of the youngsters had been situated, whereas the search continued for the households of two different kids.
“We can not abandon them whereas their friends return house. We are going to proceed looking for their households,” she added.
She famous {that a} household is “a toddler's supply of hope, future, and the muse of their improvement.”
Modeste Ngororano, one of many mother and father, expressed gratitude for being reunited along with his son and praised the federal government's rehabilitation and reintegration efforts.
“My little one seems to be neat and wholesome,” he mentioned of the impression of the time he had spent on the Mutobo centre. “We’re grateful for this reunification and for the assist offered by way of the reintegration course of.”
One other father or mother, Anonciata Nyiramugusha from Bugeshi Sector in Rubavu District, known as for continued efforts to deliver house kids who stay with armed teams.
“There ought to be extra efforts to encourage different kids who’re nonetheless within the forest to return house,” she mentioned.
The kids had been recruited by armed teams such because the FDLR, a Kinshasa-backed militia whose founders are linked to the 1994 Genocide towards the Tutsi.
Based on the Rwanda Demobilisation and Reintegration Fee, greater than 12,600 former members of armed teams have been reintegrated into the society since 2001.
