The 53 Rwandan nationals were handed over to Rwandan Immigration authorities on Tuesday 9, June 2020 at the Uganda-Rwanda border of Chanika in Kisoro district.
Malicerino Mwesigye, the Assistant Immigration Commissioner who chaired the handover, says the Rwandan nationals were arrested from different parts of the country without specific documents authorizing them to be in Uganda.
Mwesigye says they have been incarcerated in various Ugandan prisons.
He also says some of the deportations have finished serving their prison sentences while others have been pardoned by President Yoweri Museveni.
He adds that another 79 Rwandan nationals were also deported to Ntungamo district on Monday this week via Mirama border.
The deportation comes at a time when Uganda and Rwanda are resuming talks to resolve tension between the two countries through video conferencing. Rwanda accuses Ugandan authorities of abducting and trapping its residents in ungazetted areas.
Rwanda also accused Uganda of hosting and facilitating dissidents, in particular Rwanda’s National Congress-RNC and the Rwanda FDLR Liberation Democratic Forces, who declared war on the Kigali government.
Rwandan authorities handed the body of a Ugandan businessman who was shot dead by security officers on Monday. In Sebeya village, Burera district, about 15 kilometers from the Uganda-Rwanda borderline, Sidin Muhereza, a resident of Kagogo village in Bigaga parish, Butanda Sub County was shot dead.
He was suspected by Rwandan security officers of smuggling across porous frontiers.
