Rwanda recruiting refugees for military to throw Burundi government

 

President pierre Nkurunziza after being sworn in in third term on august 20,2015

 By Bentura Kwamboka

Burundi has repeatedly accused Rwanda of backing rebel’s intent on overthrowing Nkurunziza’s government. This comes after Rwanda recruited and trained refugees from Burundi, among them children.

In a confidential report by AFP on Thursday they had spoken to 18 Burundian refugees who provided details of their military training last summer in a Rwandan forest camp.
The refugees, who had crossed into the DR Congo, told the experts that they had been recruited in the Mahama refugee camp in eastern Rwanda in May and June 2015.

The group was given two months of military training in Rwanda by instructors. The report also added that Their training included military tactics and the maintenance and use of assault rifles and machine guns, as well as ideological and morale-building sessions.

Some were also trained in the use of grenades, anti-personnel and anti-tank mines, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.