text: Aid group 'denied access' to Rwandan refugee camp in Burundi
  
  June 14, 2005 
  
  The international medical aid group Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has claimed in a press release that its medical staff have been prevented from accessing their clinic inside the Songore transit camp. The camp holds almost 7,000 Rwandan asylum seekers, who were receiving more than 100 medical consultations a day from MSF staff. MSF claims that the camp is now guarded by the Burundese military. 
  "It's unacceptable that our medical staff are denied access to our own health facility in Songore camp, denying medical care to the people in the camp. Also, by transporting these people back to Rwanda, MSF is not able to continue the medical care for those that were already under treatment. Some families have even been split apart because of family members being referred to a nearby hospital," says Michiel Hofman, operational director for MSF. 
  "MSF is very concerned about what can be seen as a forced repatriation where the basic rights of an asylum seeker are being denied", he added.
tokens: Aid group ' denied access ' to Rwandan refugee camp in Burundi June 14 , 2005 The international medical aid group Médecins Sans Frontières ( MSF ) has claimed in a press release that its medical staff have been prevented from accessing their clinic inside the Songore transit camp . The camp holds almost 7,000 Rwandan asylum seekers , who were receiving more than 100 medical consultations a day from MSF staff . MSF claims that the camp is now guarded by the Burundese military . " It 's unacceptable that our medical staff are denied access to our own health facility in Songore camp , denying medical care to the people in the camp . Also , by transporting these people back to Rwanda , MSF is not able to continue the medical care for those that were already under treatment . Some families have even been split apart because of family members being referred to a nearby hospital , " says Michiel Hofman , operational director for MSF . " MSF is very concerned about what can be seen as a forced repatriation where the basic rights of an asylum seeker are being denied " , he added .
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