The recent relocation of Warrau migrants from Kabakaburi, in Region Two, to what have been described as poor living conditions, has come in for strong criticism from those who were helping them to integrate and the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) on Thursday called for authorities to provide increased humanitarian support.
The Regional Administration of Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) along with the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard is being accused of removing over 125 Warrau migrants from the community of Kabakaburi and deporting them to a camp in Region One under less than favourable conditions, without reason.
The Coast Guard removed the Warrau migrants, who journeyed from Region One to Kabakaburi in Region Two by canoe and placed them in a refugee camp on Khan’s Hill, Mabaruma. The banishment of the indigenous migrants from the Kakakaburi village was sudden and left the villagers there questioning the move.