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The minister of Relief and Disaster Preparedness, Musa Ecweru has said that no Kenyan refugee will be forced to return to Kenya even when the country regains total peace.
Ecweru says that although the signing of a power sharing deal between Kenya’s leading political parties has given hope to Kenyan refugees in Uganda to consider returning to their country, some of the Kenyan refugees are skeptical and want to stay in Uganda.
The minister says the Kenyan refugees will voluntarily choose whether and when to return to Kenya. He says international laws on refugees do not allow the home country or host country to force refugees to return to their home country.
Ecweru says the government of Uganda is working with the government of Kenya to send emissaries to Kenya to study the political situation and come back to advise the refugees on the situation on the ground.
Speaking in Kampala toady, the minister says the government of Uganda and that of Kenya in partnership with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees will work together to return the refugees if and when the refugees are ready to return to Kenya.
More than 6000 Kenyan refugees are registered in Uganda after arriving from neighboring Kenya following the disputed elections that led to tribal related political violence.
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