Monday, 24 June 2013

Street kids in Kigali city are calling up on authorities to stop the physical harassment done by some cops who arrest them and imprison them in the houses with bad condition. Where they do not care about some transmissible diseases like tuberculosis which end up being transmitted to the big number of kids imprisoned .

Audio clip (slide show) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8clxUPyHHl4&feature=youtu.be

Street kids in the early morning -Kigali city in the suburb of  Nyamirambo- Biryogo curious  to talk to the Journalist on Radio Salus,   Joachim Nkurikiyumukiza . 

                            The below first  three  pictures  show Streets kids curious to talk to journalist  



"Street kids ready to give testimonies  to Joachim Nkurikiyumukiza Journalist on Radio Salus , about the physical harassment done by police in the transition center Kabuga "



A eleven years street kid  talking about the cause of getting the street." I used to live with my mother who died recently.Soon after I was adopted in a family they treated me in a wild condition therefore my best choice was street and I feel at easy" Said the below kids on Joachim's Voice Recorder 


 A thirteen years old street kid "I came here because I was alone ,my father was imprisoned and my brother left to Uganda ,so I decided  to come here  and  look for money " said below kid on Joachim's voice recorder .

"The life  is progressively getting more dangerous , it has become  a very serious struggle  because police is always running after us  .whenever get caught  we are  brought to prison  called  Kabuga center , in the dangerous house with clean less chambers with no foods here we face serious physical punishment " Said the the street kid in black coat  on below picture .

"Nothing good  we get from Kabuga center, this place only make us upset ,police  torture us  in different ways  like burning us , they give us only  maize , some of us get attacked by diarrhea  as we are many  in a small chamber  we get all infected " said kids on below picture .



A sixteen  years old talking about how he was tortured  by the police " I was caught and brought to the center I spent there three months being beaten , eating  maize once a day , there was a time I was put on fire !   Said below kid on Joachim's voice recorder .

  Our  wish is to have the harassment  stopped  and  we need the Government  to  take care of us  and take     us from the streets  and help us to go to school .




                                                 



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