Rwandan refugees in Mozambique are starting to return home.
The Rwandan government is assisting in the reintegration of refugees. The repatriation is voluntary, and 19 refugees will be taken home this week.
Boakyewaa Lawrencia 
After nearly three decades since fleeing the 1994 genocide, a group of Rwandan refugees in Mozambique has begun their journey home.
In the 100 days between April and June 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were killed. Millions more others were forced to flee to neighboring countries.
According to Mozambican authorities, there are approximately 3,000 Rwandan refugees in the nation.
Many of them now believe that the circumstances that prompted them to flee their homeland have improved.
The Rwandan government is assisting in the reintegration of refugees. The repatriation is voluntary, and 19 refugees will be taken home this week.
Miyonsenoa Domoties, one of the refugees, said she was confident in Rwanda's peace and was coming home after eight years in Mozambique.
"We decided to flee to Mozambique. "However, after some time, excellent information was received indicating that Rwanda was at peace, so we decided to return home," she said.
The genocide began on April 6, 1994, when Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was killed when his jet was shot down above Kigali airport.
