Refugees 101
A refugee is a person who is forced to flee his or her country due to past persecution, or a well-founded fear of future persecution, because of political opinion, race, religion, nationality, or particular social group. Read more...
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Refugee's Plea
(This letter was received by the Utah Office of Ethnic Affairs)
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a 21 year old Burundian
refugee living in Malawi since 2000. My parents were refugees in Rwanda since 1972 when they fled their home country, Burundi, where Hutus massacre by Tutsis were taking place. Both my parents are Hutus, one of the ethnic groups in Burundi. Hutus were persecuted and segregated by Tutsis who carried out genocide-like crimes against Hutus...