BURUNDI - NEGOTIATIONS.

THE CCD (COALITION AGAINST DICTATORSHIP) BELIEVES THAT BARUNDI PEOPLE WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO GET RID OF THE "MEDIOCRITY OF A SHORTSIGHTED AND AMNESIC POLITICAL CLASS".

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 11, 2000 (NET PRESS). IN A DECLARATION DATED AUGUST 9, 2000 THE CCD FEELS COMPASSION FOR THE NATIONAL ARMY FOLLOWING THE CRIMES PERPETRATED BY THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDES. THE CCD PRESENTS ITS MOST AFFECTED CONDOLENCES TO SECURITY FORCES AND FAMILIES OF NYABIRABA HOLOCAUST VICTIMS OF THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS PATRONIZED BY THE GENOCIDERS  " POSITIONNED IN THE TOPMOST PARTNERSHIP INSTITUTIONS AND CAJOLED BY THE GOVERNMENT".  INDEED SAYS CCD, THESE "STRUCTURES HAVE NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED THIS ARMY AS THEIR OWN AND THEY ARE RESORTING TO "DIFFERENT WAYS, WORKING TO DISMANTLE IT, AFTER PREVENTING IT FROM FIGHTING SERIOUSLY AND PLACING IT ON THE DEFENSIVE". THE DECLARATION ADDS THAT WITH SUCH A FATAL MOVE, "WE NOW ARE WAITING FOR ARUSHA DEATHBLOW MARKING THE END OF A BEATIFICATION PROCESS OF THE GENOCIDERS AND SENDING OUR INDEPENDENCE BACK TO SENDER".  AS FOR THE ARUSHA DRAFT ACCORD, IT IS SUMMARIZED BY CCD IN ONE SENTENCE : "COLONISE US AGAIN PLEASE , PROVIDED YOU GET RID OF THE TUTSI ",  SINCE THE DRAFT IS DOMINATED BY G7 CAPRICES AND PROVIDES FOR A "COLONIAL" SUPRANATIONAL STRUCTURE REFERRED TO AS AN "IMPLEMENTING COMMITTEE" COMMANDING FOREIGN TROOPS "WHILE OUR ARMY WILL BE DISMANTLED". THE CCD NOTES WITH BITTERNESS THAT THE DRAFT ACCORD IS BEARING THE SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION OF BURUNDI NATION AND THAT  " SUCH  A COPY IS NOT REVISABLE ". IN SPITE OF ALL THESE SETBACKS, THE CCD HAS FAITH IN BARUNDI PEOPLE "WHO SHALL OVERCOME, AND PUT AN END TO HUMILIATIONS IMPOSED UPON THEM BY THE CARELESSNESS OF LEADERS WHO KEEP TRAMPLING ON SACRED PRINCIPLES, AND TO THE MEDIOCRITY OF A SHORTSIGHTED AND AMNESIC POLITICAL CLASS". THE 'COALITION AGAINST DICTATORSHIP' FINALLY REITERATES ITS OPPOSITION TO THE ARUSHA "FALSE" PEACE PROCESS AND CONDEMNS THE MINIMIZING OF THE GENOCIDE AND DEMANDS THAT BE ABOLISHED STRUCTURES THAT PLANNED AND CARRIED OUT GENOCIDE.

BURUNDI - NEGOTIATIONS.

CANADA-BASED 'AC - GENOCIDE CIRIMOSO' DEMANDS THAT "ARUSHA NEGOTIATIONS BE SUSPENDED AS LONG AS GENOCIDE CONTINUES".

MONTREAL, AUGUST 11, 2000 (NET PRESS). FOLLOWING THE BLOODY AUGUST 6, 2000 BARBARITY THAT RESULTED IN A DEATH TOLL OF 32 PEOPLE AMONG WHOM 27 SERVICEMEN, CANADA-BASED ANTI-GENOCIDE ASSOCIATION "AC-GENOCIDE CIRIMOSO" HAS ISSUED A STATEMENT IN WHICH IT PRESENTS ITS CONDOLENCES TO AFFLICTED FAMILIES AND PROTESTS AGAINST CONTINUING ARUSHA NEGOTIATIONS WHILE INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE BEING DAILY MASSACRED. IN THIS RESPECT,  CANADA-BASED  "AC-GENOCIDE CIRIMOSO" DEMANDS THAT "ARUSHA NEGOTIATIONS BE IMMEDIATELY SUSPENDED AS LONG AS GENOCIDE CONTINUES". FURTHERMORE, IT DEMANDS THAT THE INCUMBENT GOVERNMENT ACKNOWLEDGES AND CONDEMNS THE GENOCIDE WAGED AGAINST TUTSI PEOPLE SINCE 1993 TILL NOW. IT REQUESTS SECURITY FORCES TO REMAIN SERENE AND TO CONTINUE THEIR NOBLE MISSION OF PROTECTING THE POPULATION AND NATIONAL TERRITORY. IT ALSO ASKS THE POPULATION TO BE ALWAYS VIGILANT IN CLOSE COOPERATION WITH SECURITY FORCES. ANTI-GENOCIDE "AC-CIRIMOSO CIRIMOSO" HAS OVERSEAS-BASED SECTIONS IN BELGIUM, CANADA, SWITZERLAND, BURKINA FASO... THOUGH AN "ICG" (INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP) REPORT ALLEGING THAT THE "COALITION FOR THE RESTORATION OF THE RULE OF LAW IN BURUNDI "ACCORD CADRE") OF WHICH AC-GENOCIDE IS MEMBER WAS AN URBAN-BASED GROUP ".

BURUNDI - POLITICS.

THE  NEWLY ESTABLISHED 'G 10' DEMANDS THE UN RECOGNITION OF THE REPORT ON 1993 GENOCIDE IN BURUNDI BE A PREREQUISITE CONDITION FOR THE SIGNING OF THE PEACE ACCORDS.

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 11, 2000 (NET PRESS). ACCORDING TO  "IRIN" PRESS AGENCY, THE EVENT OF A NEWLY ESTABLISHED G 10 IN INTER-BURUNDIAN NEGOTIATIONS IS HIGHLIGHTING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ISSUE OF GENOCIDE FOR ALL PRO-TUTSI PARTIES. RUKINGAMA-WING OF UPRONA AND PARENA PARTY OF FORMER PRESIDENT JEAN-BAPTISE BAGAZA TURNED FORMER "G8" INTO A "G10" WHEN THEY JOINED IN. THE SETTING UP OF THIS NEW GROUP IS REFLECTING THE PERSISTING CLAIM OF TUTSI PEOPLE IN BURUNDI THAT THE PEACE ACCORD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE UN S/1996/682 REPORT THAT HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THE GENOCIDE OF TUTSI PEOPLE SINCE OCTOBER 1993. IT IS TO BE RECALLED THAT ANOTHER UPRONA GROUP LEAD BY MR  CHARLES MUKASI HAS BEEN INSISTENTLY REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE IN ARUSHA NEGOTIATIONS, BECAUSE THE ISSUE OF GENOCIDE HAD ALWAYS BEEN OVERSHADOWED. ACCORDING TO THE ABOVE-MENTIONNED "IRIN", MUKASI'S UPRONA IS REFLECTING THE VIEWS OF MOST OF TUTSI PEOPLE LIVING IN BUJUMBURA, "WHOSE ACCEPTANCE OF THE ACCORD IS AN ESSENTIAL ONE". "IRIN" BELIEVES ALSO THAT SELF-DEFENCE ASSOCIATION "PA-AMASEKANYA" WHOSE AIM IS THE RECOGNITION OF THE GENOCIDE PERPETRATED AGAINST TUTSI PEOPLE",  IS GAINING INCREASED POPULARITY IN BUJUMBURA. QUOTING DIPLOMATIC SOURCES BASED IN BUJUMBURA, UN 'IRIN' POINTS OUT THAT THE ASSOCIATION "PA-AMASEKANYA" IS ARMING AND TRAINING HUNDREDS OF YOUNG TUTSI. "PA-AMASEKANYA" CHAIRMAN, MR. DIOMEDE RUTAMUCERO, IS HOLDING A PRESS CONFERENCE TOMORROW 12 AUGUST, 2000 AT 9 O'CLOCK AT 'SOURCE DU NIL' HOTEL.

BURUNDI - SECURITY.

THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ATTACK THE COMMUNE OF KIBAGO ONCE AGAIN.

MAKAMBA, AUGUST 11, 2000 (NET PRESS). DURING YESTERDAY'S NIGHT AUGUST 9, 2000, TANZANIA-BASED TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ATTACKED THE COMMUNE OF KIBAGO, MAKAMBA PROVINCE, AND CLASHED WITH DEFENCE FORCES BEFORE  RUNNING-AWAY INTO TANZANIA. THREE BOATS HAD CARRIED THEM FROM MUKWARA AND KAGUNGA (TANZANIA) AND THEY HAD ARMS AND AMMUNITIONS TO ATTACK THE COMMUNES OF KIBAGO, KAYOGORO AND MAKAMBA, IN MAKAMBA PROVINCE. ACCORDING TO INFORMATIONS FROM KIGOMA (TANZANIA), MR. JEAN-BOSCO NDAYIKENGURUKIYE, COMMANDER OF THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS OF CNDD-FDD, MIGHT HAVE REPORTEDLY INSTRUCTED HIS TROOPS TO INCREASE NUMBER OF ATTACKS ON ROADS AND TO EXTERMINATE ONLY TUTSI PEOPLE, I.E. THERE IS NO MORE SHOOTING AT BUSES. THEY ARE ADVISED TO STOP THEM AND SELECT ONLY TUTSI PEOPLE TO BE KILLED. THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS HAVE ALSO BEEN REPORTED TO BE PRESENT AT MITARA (BUGARAMA COMMUNE, BUJUMBURA RURAL PROVINCE) WHERE THEY ARE GIVEN FOOD SUPPLIES BY PEOPLE WHO WERE RECENTLY IN REGROUPED CAMPS. THEY ARE REPORTEDLY PLANNING  TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK AGAINST BUJUMBURA CITY.

BURUNDI - SECURITY.

PEOPLE ARE SUBJECTED TO BEATINGS BY TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS IN THE COMMUNE OF BUTEZI, RUYIGI PROVINCE.

RUYIGI, AUGUST 11, 2000 (NET PRESS). THE PROVINCE OF RUYIGI BORDERING TANZANIA IS NOW FACING A PROLIFERATION OF TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS WHO ARE DISTRESSING THE LOCAL POPULATION. ON TUESDAY 8 AUGUST, 2000 OVER FIFTY COWS WERE LOOTED ON MUNYINYA HILL, GISURU COMMUNE BY THOSE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS AS A PUNITIVE ACTION AGAINST THE POPULATION OF BUTEZI ACCUSED OF HAVING BACKED UP ON WESDESDAY 10, 2000, DEFENCE FORCES WHEN LARGE-SCALE OPERATIONS WERE CARRIED OUT IN  NYABITSINDA COMMUNE WHERE THE COMMAND POST OF THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS WAS DESTROYED. THE DEFEAT ANGERED THEM AND AS THEY WERE PLANNING TO REACH THE RUVUBU PARK, ABOUT FIFTY TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ATTACKED THE COMMUNE OF BUTEZI. THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT, THEY SUBJECTED LOCAL POPULATION TO BEATINGS IN ORDER TO DISCOURAGE IT AND KIDNAPPED 10 YOUNG BOYS IN THE SECTOR OF GITWA-MUGOGO IN THE SAME COMMUNE. THEIR PRESENCE HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED IN RUGOTI AND KIRASIRA, SAME COMMUNE. LOCAL SOURCES SAY THAT THE 10 YOUNG MEN HAVE NOT BEEN SEEN AGAIN. THEY ALSO SAY THAT SOME TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ARE ABOUT TO SETTLE IN THAT COMMUNE. ADMINISTRATION LEADERS OF RUYIGI PROVINCE ARE NOW WAGING A PACIFICATION CAMPAIGN IN COMMUNES WHERE SECURITY IS REPORTED TO BE PRECARIOUS.

BURUNDI - RELIGION.

BENE-YOZEFU BROTHERS RECTIFY AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN "NET PRESS" RELEASE DATED AUGUST 8, 2000.

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 11, 2000 (NET PRESS). IN "NET PRESS" RELEASE DATED AUGUST 8, 2000, THE EDITORIAL OFFICE REPORTED THE CEREMONIES OF VOWS BY BENE-YOSEFU AT GIHETA ON SUNDAY 6 AUGUST, 2000. "NET PRESS" SPECIAL ENVOY HAD PUBLISHED THE INTERVIEW HE WAS GIVEN BY CONGREGATION SECRETARY GENERAL RELATING TO CAMEROONESE PRIESTS WHO PREFER TO BE POSITIONNED IN TOWNS WHERE THEY FIND EASILY "WOMEN TO ENTERTAIN".  IT SEEMS THAT THIS LAST ASPECT MIGHT BE NOT QUITE CORRECT AND BENE-YOZEFU SECRETARY GENERAL REQUESTED THE EDITORIAL OFFICES TO AMEND THE PREVIOUS TOPIC AS FOLLOWS : "IT IS TO BE POINTED OUT THAT IN THAT HUGE COUNTRY, THE FEW PRIESTS THEY HAVE ARE SCATTERED THROUGHOUT MAINLY IN TOWNS WHERE PEOPLE ARE CONCENTRATED AND MAKE ROOM FOR BURUNDI MISSIONARIES WHO CERTAINLY FIND IT NOT THAT EASY TO EXPLAIN THE CONCEPT OF CHASTITY TO A  POPULATION WHERE POLYGAMY IS COMMON". HENCE, "NET PRESS" IS APOLOGIZING TO BENE-YOZEFU SECRETARY GENERAL FOR THAT WRONG INTERPRETATION OF HIS WORDS.