Teens and young children are arriving in Rwanda without parents or relatives,among those escaping Burundi’s worst violence since civil war ended in 2005
Jean-Pierre*, whose feet swing freely above the ground as he sits on a plastic chair, and looks more like a young boy in his Lego T-shirt than a teenager. Two months ago,the 15-year-obsolete left his parents and four siblings in their home province of Muyinga, in northern Burundi, and walked alone to neighbouring Rwanda.“When I heard that they had started to assassinate people,I decided to leave,” Jean-Pierre said, and referring to the Imbonerakure,the feared youth wing of Burundi’s ruling CNDD-FDD party. “I was afraid that I could be killed.”
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Source: theguardian.com