Nyanza Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nyanza/ The low down on African affairs Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Nyanza Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/nyanza/ 32 32 Rwanda arrest five suspected of raping women during lockdown https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/rwanda-arrest-five-suspected-of-raping-women-during-lockdown/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/04/rwanda-arrest-five-suspected-of-raping-women-during-lockdown/ Rwandan military authorities say five suspects have been arrested following reports of soldiers raping women detained for breaking the COVID 10 lockdown. Washington-based pressure group Human Rights Watch accuses the forces of killing and  raping people they’ve arrested. Human Rights Watch says at least two people suspected of breaking the lockdown were shot dead by […]

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]]> Rwandan military authorities say five suspects have been arrested following reports of soldiers raping women detained for breaking the COVID 10 lockdown.

Washington-based pressure group Human Rights Watch accuses the forces of killing and  raping people they’ve arrested.

Human Rights Watch says at least two people suspected of breaking the lockdown were shot dead by security forces in the southern district of Nyanza.

People accused of breaking the lockdown have been detained in football stadia, says the pressure group, and it is there that the soldiers raped the women.

Journalists and bloggers who reported on the abuses have been arrested.

Rwanda’s been praised for the swift action taken to curb the COVID 19 infections. To date it has had 176 confirmed infections and no deaths

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