[dehai-news] (afriquenligne) Malawi Police round up 148 fleeing Ethiopian refugees


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From: Yemane Natnael (yemane_natnael@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2008 - 09:45:17 EDT


                        Malawi Police round up 148 fleeing Ethiopian refugees

17/09/2008

Blantyre, Malawi - Police in the central Malawi mountainous district of
Dedza have rounded up 148 Ethiopians who had fled from a United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)/Malawi government designated
refugee camp, police said here Wednesday.

"Police caught the Ethiopians as they were hiding in a hill," said police spokes man Flanklin Gausi.

Gausi
told PANA the Ethiopians, who included women and children, had hiked
and walked the 200 kilometres from the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in the
central district of Dowa.

He said during interrogation the Ethiopians said they wanted to flee to Zimbabwe through Mozambique.

"They said they were running away from problems at the camp," he said.

Dedza lies on the porous Malawi/Mozambique border.

"People
in the Linthipe area tipped us after noticing the strange people in
Lint hipe Hill who were talking in an incomprehensible tongue," he said.

Gausi said the Ethiopians fled Dzaleka Monday.

Police
rounded them up in the hill and took them to the immigration office in
the district which has since returned them to Dzaleka Refugee Camp.

There
are about 10,000 refugees and asylum seekers in Malawi mainly from the
Great Lakes region of Rwanda, Burundi and the DR Congo as well as
Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

At
the peak of Mozambique's 16-year civil war that ended in 1992, Malawi
hosted over 1 million Mozambican refugees some of whom have settled and
married or got married in Malawi.

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