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A. Burundi has a gross domestic product (GDP) per person of $700 a year, placing it at the bottom of the list in the CIA World Factbook. Rwanda has a GDP per person of $2,100, while it is $41,600 in the UK. It is expected to cost the UK between $26,000 and $40,000 to fly each migrant 4,000 miles and house them in Rwanda for three months.
D. Ethnic strife between the Tutsi and Hutu peoples led to a civil war and a state-orchestrated genocide that killed about 800,000 people in the 1990s. The country has been ruled ever since by a single political party, which has been accused of suppressing all opposition.
B. The Danish government passed a law last year allowing it to move asylum seekers outside Europe while their claims were processed. And, an official said last week that Denmark was talking to Rwanda. Meanwhile, Denmark has said it plans to host up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing the war in their nation.
C. Rwanda is densely populated, with 1,210 people for every square mile. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland has 717 people per square mile, while Denmark has 346. There are 34 people per square mile in the United States and only 3 per square mile in Australia, which also has sent asylum seekers to other nations.