“You are seriously joking…, you are a self-destructive refugee and you need to apologize before anyone receives you. I can write a story on the Rwandan drama but prefer to hold station because clearly you have now shown your real face.” Ms. Pierrine Aylara, the former UNHCR-Representative in ZAMBIA responded to me on 22 August 2021 in other email thread, for simply telling her that she was morally wrong to force me to return back to my oppressors and incriminating me by saying that refusing to go back to Rwanda I don’t have a clean conscience (meaning that I am a criminal).
The principle of non-refoulement and its abuse by UNHCR-ZAMBIA
As stated by the United Nations, Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the principle of non-refoulement, it says that;
“Under the international human rights law, the principle of non-refoulement guarantees that no one should be returned to a country where they would face torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and other irreparable harm. This principle applies to all migrants at all times, irrespective of migration status.”