Burundi: Majority of IDPs returned home, but displacement continues near capital

Since the early 1990s, hundreds of thousands of Burundians have fled their homes to escape fighting between the government and Hutu rebel groups seeking to put an end to the political dominance of the Tutsi minority. Many others, predominantly Hutus, were forcibly displaced into camps by the government in the second part of the 1990s. The UN and the Burundian government have carried out a comprehensive survey of the IDPs in camps in Burundi in 2004, which gives precious information about the location of IDPs, their vulnerabilities and their aspirations.