Ceasefire signed in Burundi may now make it possible for the Norwegian police to send back rejected asylum seekers from that country
Posted by African Press International on May 27, 2008
Publisher: Korir, africanpress@getmail.no source.aljazeera
With many Burundi nationals who are asylum seekers in Norway, most of whom have been denied asylum in the country, the peace deal between the rebels and the government may now open the way for those who are denied asylum status to be returned to their home country. Most of them may find it difficult, however, to fit in if send back because they have stayed for many years outside their country.
Those who will face the problem are the ones who had used Burundi situation to apply for asylum and yet probably they do not come from there. If the Norwegian police decides to return them now that peace has been achieved in Burundi, they will have to give the correct information on where they actually come from in order to save themselves from being returned to a country they do not belong.

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