International rights group Human Rights Watch alleges that street children in Rwanda are being subject to abuse at a holding center
KIGALI - Rwanda, often lauded internationally for its economic progress and reintegration after the 1994 genocide, is detaining and abusing street children at a holding center in the capital, an international rights group said Monday.
Rwanda’s justice minister, Johnston Busingye, said the center trains young people in skills including carpentry and welding and rehabilitates them from life on the streets.Rwanda adopted a law in 2017 that defines Gikondo, open since 2005, as a rehabilitation center for people including minors exhibiting “deviant” behavior. Human Rights Watch said the government is arbitrarily arresting and holding people there, and subjecting them to ill treatment.
President Paul Kagame, who won a third term in office in 2017, is praised abroad for steering a peaceful recovery in Rwanda since the 1994 genocide, when extremists from the Hutu ethnic majority killed an estimated 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Nelly Nshutinamagara, 12, who lives on the streets of Kigali, told Reuters he was arrested by police at night, taken to Gikondo, and beaten with batons.
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