Dokument #1286351
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
The government of Mozambique encourages the
voluntary return of Mozambican refugees, and to reinforce this
policy, a tripartite agreement was signed in 1989 with Malawi and
the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) (World
Refugee Report September 1991, 7-8). According to the same
source, another agreement was signed with Zimbabwe in 1990. This
agreement resulted in the repatriation, under UNHCR guidance, of
5,600 refugees from Zimbabwe and another 25,800 from Malawi. The
government of Mozambique and the UNHCR cared for these voluntary
repatriates. The same source also noted that the success of the
repatriation programme will depend on a general cease-fire between
the warring factions in Mozambique (Ibid.).
Country Reports 1992 states that the
government readily accepts and helps repatriates, and although
voluntary repatriation was minimal for most of 1992, the signing of
the peace accord and favourable rains encouraged the return of an
estimated 70,000 refugees to Mozambique between September and
December 1992 (1993, 180). The political affiliations of returning
refugees were not disclosed by the source. A source at the UNHCR
office in Ottawa corroborated the view that repatriates are
received and helped by the government, and stated that the UNHCR
has no evidence the government discriminates among repatriates
according to their political affiliations (31 May 1993).
The UNHCR has also announced that an
official repatriation program will begin in mid-1993, to consist of
transportation and vaccination for returnees, and improvement of
roads, water sources and facilities within Mozambique (1993
World Refugee Survey 1993, 67). For more information on
Mozambican displaced persons and the efforts to repatriate and/or
resettle them, please refer to the attachment from 1993 World
Refugee Survey.
Country Reports 1992 notes that
abuses of human rights continued in Mozambique in 1992, with the
most blatant abuses coming from the on-going civil conflict between
the National Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) and
the Mozambique National Resistance (RENAMO) (1993, 180).
Additional and/or corroborative information
on the requested subject could not be found among the sources
currently available to the DIRB in Ottawa.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1992. 1993. U.S. Department of State. Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office.
United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees (UNHCR), Ottawa. 31 May 1993. Telephone interview with the
spokesperson.
U.S. Committee for Refugees. 1993.
1993 World Refugee Survey. Washington: U.S. Committee for
Refugees.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau for
Refugee Programs. September 1991. World Refugee Report.
Washington: U.S. Department of State.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1992. 1993. U.S. Department of State. Washington:
U.S. Government Printing Office.
U.S. Committee for Refugees. 1993.
1993 World Refugee Survey. Washington: U.S. Committee for
Refugees.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau for
Refugee Programs. September 1991. World Refugee Report.
Washington: U.S. Department of State.