00:01At the Burundi-Tanzania border, buses arrive with hundreds of Burundians on board.
00:06It's part of a push by the Tanzanian government aimed at repatriating thousands of Burundians.
00:13Some said they had negative experiences while living in Tanzania.
00:17Others, meanwhile, say they're happy to be back.
00:26I'm happy to have come back to my country. I didn't flee the war. I was there for economic reasons.
00:31I'm pleased because I'm going to look for ways to survive here, with my family, and the children will be
00:37able to go back to school.
00:40Tanzania closed the markets, they closed the schools, and our children were no longer studying.
00:44They destroyed our houses. You can see that we can't say the situation was good.
00:49We weren't allowed to move around. We were just like prisoners.
00:55In recent weeks, the Tanzanian government started dismantling two large refugee camps in a push that began several years ago.
01:26The Director General for Repatriation of the Burundian Ministry of the Interior says the government has sped up repatriations.
01:32in recent weeks.
01:37From the end of December, late December, we started implementing this accelerated repatriation,
01:42because according to the plans in place, we were supposed to finish with the Nduta and Ndrungasu camps in June.
01:53According to the UN, up to 17,000 Burundians in Tanzania say they're unable to return over fears for their
01:59safety or danger of political persecution.
02:01Our battery is given to the Nduta and Ndrungasu camp at the Mduta R Кi -"
02:04The suzy run is going to get several times to allow us to enter the Nduta,
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