RWANDA: Harassed to harass in the name of dignity ''Young people as a tool to sustain oppression''
Rwandan government and security services are forcibly using young people into participating into activities that aim to promote its image and control its people.
Due to the nature of those activities and training provided in order to develop necessary skills knowledge to implement them, young people suffers various level of physical and psychological health issues which has led to some attempting to commit suicide, committing suicide, leaving Rwanda or seeking asylum abroad.
Activities that young people are obliged to attend include military training, basic spying skills development, and developing effective narratives to silence or to ridicule any criticism of the Rwandan government and Rwandan leadership.
This has been discovered in a 10 month investigation that Global Campaign for Rwandan Human Rights conducted.
Young people are targeted when they complete the secondary school and throughout their university education period.
Young people studying in their higher education abroad are also targeted with a special program that aims primordially to contribute in promoting the positive image of the Rwandan leadership.
The investigation identified that some young people education have been hindered by education attainment as result of leaving in fear and participating in many meetings and activities that costumes their energies time.
Global Campaign for Rwandan Human Rights established that an increasing number of young people are seeking asylum abroad in order to flee from being used as a tool of oppression.
The full report of the investigation can be found here.
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