BURUNDI - GENOCIDE.
12th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENOCIDE OF TUTSI FROM NTEGA
AND MARANGARA - ONGOING GENOCIDE STILL CONTINUES AND LIKELY TO BE HIDDEN.
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 14, 2000 (NET PRESS). TOMORROW AUGUST
15, 2000, TUTSI SURVIVORS FROM MARANGARA AND NTEGA TOGETHER WITH FREINDS,
WILL REMEMBER THE GENOCIDE PERPETRATED BY THE PALIPEHUTU ("HUTU PEOPLE'S
LIBERATION PARTY") AGAINST THE POPULATIONS OF THE TWO NORTHERN COMMUNES
OF NGOZI AND KIRUNDO PROVINCES. IT WAS ON 15 AUGUST, 1988 WHEN THE
PALIPEHUTU KILLERS TRAINED AND INDOCTRINATED IN RWANDA BY HABYALIMANA'S
REGIME LAUNCHED OPERATIONS OF SYSTEMATIC MASSACRES OF ALL TUTSI PEOPLE
LIVING IN THE TWO COMMUNES WITH A DEATHTOLL OF OVER 5,000 TUTSI WILDLY
KILLED WITH KNIVES, STICKS ETC... WOMEN WERE DISEMBOWELED WHILE CHILDREN
WERE THROWN IN LATRINES ALIVE. THE ARMY INTERVENTION DID CURTAIL THE DISASTER
AND LIMIT IT ONLY TO THE TWO COMMUNES, BUT STILL THE DAMAGE WAS ALREADY
SERIOUS. THOSE MASSACRES MARKED THE BEGINNING OF AN UNPUNISHED GENOCIDE
AGAINST TUTSI PEOPLE AND THE KILLERS SIMPLY SOON BENEFITING FROM
AMNESTY.
BURUNDI - SECURITY.
TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS' TRAINING STILL UNDER WAY IN KITANGA
(TANZANIA).
KASURU, AUGUST 14, 2000 (NET PRESS). APPROXIMATELY 4,000
TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ARE PURSUING TRAINING IN THE VILLAGE OF KITANGA,
KASURU DISTRICT, KASURU-BASED SOURCES SAY. TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ARE REPORTEDLY
INTENDING TO ATTACK BURUNDI PROVINCES BORDERING TANZANIA SUCH AS
RUYIGI, RUTANA AND MAKAMBA AS WELL AS PROVINCES THAT USED TO BE CALM UP
TO NOW SUCH AS KARUSI, TO SHOW THE OPINION THAT THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS
ARE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. THAT IS WHY THEY HAVE MOVEMENTS TOWARDS THE
RUVUBU PARK. MILITARY SOURCES CONTACTED BY "NET PRESS" LOCAL CORRESPONDENT
IN RUYIGI HAVE AFFIRMED TO BE AWARE OF TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS' ATTEMPTS
AND THAT, WHEN TIME COMES, APPROPRIATE ACTION WILL BE TAKEN. AN ATMOSPHERE
OF FEAR PREVAILS ON SPOT AMONG POPULATION WHERE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS HAVE
BEEN LATELY REPORTED, SUCH AS THE COMMUNE OF NYABIKERE, KARUSI PROVINCE.
THE SAME CASE IS REPORTED WHERE POPULATIONS OF SECTORS OF MARAMVYA
AND NYARUNAZI, MARAMVYA ZONE, WERE TARGETTED BY TERRORIST-GENOCIDERS LAST
WEEK AND WHERE AT LEAST 19 PERSONS HAVE BEEN KILLED. AS FOR LOCAL OFFICIALS,
THEY HAVE REINFORCED MILITARY POSITIONS. HOWEVER, THE POPULATION, MOSTLY
HUTU, IS STILL SHOCKED AND TRAUMATIZED BY SCENES OF HORROR THAT IT WAS
SUBJECT TO FOR 2 DAYS.
IN FACT, THE FIRST ATTACK WAS LAUNCHED ON WEDNESDAY 9th
AUGUST-10th AUGUST, 2000 NIGHT AND IT CAUSED LESSER DAMAGE THAN THE SECOND
ONE DONE THE NIGHT AFTER, WHEN A TRADER FROM MARAMVYA, AND OF SAME ZONE,
WAS SHOT AT BY CNDD-FDD TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS WHO ALSO ROBED BIF 173,500
AND SEVERELY WOUNDED HIS WIFE AND CAUSING THE WHOLE POPULATION OF THE COMMUNE
(APPROXIMATELY 6,000 PEOPLE) TO FLEE TO A MILITARY POSITION LOCATED AT
THE OFFICE OF THE COMMUNE. THE FOLLOWING NIGHT, THE SAME GROUP OF
TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS, CAME BACK "TO PUNISH THE POPULATION OBEDIENT TO
LOCAL OFFICIALS AND THE NATIONAL ARMY". THEY CAME BACK IN PLAIN MILITARY
UNIFORMS AROUND 21 O'CLOCK AND PRETENDED TO BE SOLDIERS OF THE NATIONAL
ARMY. THEY INSTRUCTED NYARUNAZI POPULATION TO WAKE UP AND START NIGHT ROUNDS
"TO PREVENT NEW ATTACKS FROM TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS" LIKE THE ONE OF THE
DAY BEFORE. THE POPULATION HAS THEN BEEN TOLD TO LIE DOWN ON THE GROUND
AND ON THE TOP OF EACH OTHER PILING UP 5-PERSON AT A TIME. THOSE WHO OBEYED,
TOTALLING 18, WERE COLDLY SHOT AT WHILE 3 OTHERS WHO MANAGED TO RUN
AWAY ARE STILL ALIVE. BEFORE KILLING THE VICTIMS, THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS
TOOK A BIF 5,000 FROM EACH OF THEM (THIS IS A COFFEE-SALE PERIOD). THAT
CNDD ACTION IS INDEED A REAL CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
BURUNDI - NEGOTIATIONS.
BENELUX-BASED 'AC-GENOCIDE' TO DEMAND THAT ARUSHA NEGOTIATORS
OPPOSING GENOCIDE TO STRAIGHTAWAY WITHDRAW FROM THESE "SHAMEFUL
NEGOTIATIONS".
HAARLEM, AUGUST 14, 2000 (NET PRESS). IN ITS DECLARATION
DATED AUGUST 12, 2000 AND RELEASED AT HAARLEM (THE NETHERLANDS)), BENELUX-BASED
SECTION OF ANTI-GENOCIDE ASSOCIATION "AC GENOCIDE-CIRIMOSO"
ACCUSED THE INCUMBENT GOVERNMENT, CERTAIN COUNTRIES, AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN
COUNTRIES BACKING UP AND STIRRING UP "THE ONGOING GENOCIDE OF TUTSI AND
PEACE-LOVING HUTU PEOPLES MASSACRE". IT IS PRESENTING ITS CONDOLENCES TO
THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTIMS OF NYABIRABA KILLED IN A SAVAGE AND BARBARIC
WAY. TO THIS END, IT DEMANDS THAT PRESIDENT BUYOYA "NOTE BY HIMSELF HIS
INCAPACITY TO IMPLEMENT HIS "POSSIBLE MISSION" (NB : PRESIDENT PIERRE BUYOYA
IS THE AUTHOR OF A BOOK ENTITLED " POSSIBLE MISSION"), STEP
DOWN IN RESPECTFUL MANNER AND NOT PERSIST IN MESMERIZING ENDLESSLY
BARUNDI PEOPLE AND THEIR NATIONAL ARMED FORCES BY OLD-FASHIONNED SPEECHES
DEPRIVED OF ANY SUBSTANCE". BENELUX-BASED AC-GENOCIDE SECTION DEMANDS THAT
BARUNDI PEOPLE "PROVIDE THEMSELVES WITH NECESSARY MEANS TO SET IN
MOTION A NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT AGAINST GENOCIDE". IT RECOMMENDS
THAT ARMED FORCES BE PROVIDED WITHOUT DELAY WITH "A COMMAND THAT IS UP
THE IMPERATIVE OF THE MOMENT" AND THAT NEGOTIATORS "WITHDRAW FROM THESE
SHAMEFUL NEGOTIATIONS IN ORDER TO EFFICIENTLY EMBARK ON ORGANIZING NATIONAL
RESISTANCE AGAINST GENOCIDE" SEE www cbinf. com/netpress.bi, RUBRIC
"AGORA").
BURUNDI - GENOCIDE.
THE ASSASSINATION OF THE ARMY HANDBALL TEAM MEMBERS IS
STILL RAISING "CONSTERNATION" AND "INDIGNATION" WORLDWIDE.
GENEVA, AUGUST 14, 2000 (NET PRESS). AFTER CANADA-BASED
'AC GENOCIDE' SECTION, IT IS THE TURN OF SWITZERLAND-BASED AC GENOCIDE
TO REACT OVER THE "COWARD ASSASSINATION" OF MUZINGA (ARMY) HANDBALL TEAM
MEMBERS. IN A DECLARATION AVAILABLE TO "NET PRESS", SWITZERLAND-BASED AC
GENOCIDE SECTION POINTED OUT THAT "IT IS WITH CONSTERNATION AND DEEP INDIGNATION"
THAT IT HAS LEARNED THE "VILE ACTION THAT IS ONCE MORE CARRIED OUT BY THOSE
WHOSE SOLE POLITICAL PROGRAMME IS THE EXTERMINATION OF TUTSI PEOPLE". SWITZERLAND-BASED
AC GENOCIDE IS PRESENTING ITS MOST MOVED CONDOLENCES TO PARENTS AND FAMILIES
OF THE VICTIMS OF THAT HOLOCAUST, TO THE SENIOR STAFF HIGHER INSTITUTE
(ISCAM), TO THE ARMED FORCES, TO BURUNDI UNIVERSITY AND AS WELL AS TO BURUNDI
NATION AS A WHOLE. FOLLOWING THIS HECATOMB SIMILAR TO THE ONES THAT HAVE
OCCURRED AT KIBIMBA, TEZA, BUGENDANA, BUTA, ETC... SWITZERLAND-BASED AC
GENOCIDE "CIRIMOSO" IS ASKING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO "FINALLY WAKE
UP AND CONDEMN THIS BARBARISM SUPPORTED BY IT THROUGH SILENCE, ACTIONS
AND INACTIVITY". FINALLY, SWITZERLAND-BASED AC GENOCIDE DEMANDED THAT "GVT
OFFICIALS AND POLITICAL PARTY LEADERS WHO HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE FRODEBU-CNDD-FDD-PALIPEHUTU
GENOCIDERS POLITICAL PARTNERS IN THE ARUSHA SHAMEFUL NEGOTIATIONS",
AND, IN PARTICULAR THE HEAD OF STATE, BEAR "RESPONSIBILITY VIS-A-VIS BARUNDI
PEOPLE AND SHOULD PUT AN END TO THIS PROCESS THAT SHALL ONLY RESULT IN
TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF BARUNDI AND BURUNDI NATION". (SEE www.cbinf.com/netpress.bi,
RUBRIC "AGORA).
BURUNDI - NEGOTIATIONS.
THE MEDIATION SAYS IT IS OPTIMISTIC IN SPITE OF THE LAST
"ROUND'S" INCONCLUSIVE RESULTS.
ARUSHA, AUGUST 14, 2000 (NET PRESS). IN A SUNDAY 13 AUGUST,
2000 PRESS RELEASE, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FACILITATION TEAM IN INTER-BURUNDIAN
NEGOTIATIONS, MR. MARK BOMANI OF TANZANIA, SAID HE WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT
THERE WAS NO COMPROMISE REACHED AT THE END OF THE LAST SESSION OF "ARUSHA
TALKS THAT ENDED LAST SATURDAY (12 AUGUST, 2000) EVENING". HOWEVER, HE
SAID HE WAS CONFIDENT IN PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA'S "CONTINUING CONTACTS
WITH ALL PARTIES INVOLVED WHICH WILL MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR A CONSENSUS TO
BE REACHED ON THE FEW OUTSTANDING ISSUES BEFORE THE SIGNING CEREMONY STILL
FIXED ON AUGUST 28, 2000".
ACCORDING TO THE MEDIATION, THERE ARE ONLY TWO ESSENTIAL
OUTSTANDING ISSUES, NAMELY THE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES AND THE NOMINATION
OF THE LEADER OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD, WHILE THE G 10 (INCLUDING ALL TUTSI-OBEDIENT
POLITICAL PARTIES WHICH WAS ESTABLISHED LAST MONDAY 7 AUGUST, 2000)
BELIEVES THEY ARE 6 OF THEM, NAMELY : THE GENOCIDE STARTED IN OCTOBER 1993
AND ITS UN-RELATED REPORT, THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM, THE TRANSITION PERIOD,
THE ISSUE OF SECURITY FORCES, THE CEASE-FIRE AND GUARANTEES "NOT PUTTING
THE COUNTRY UNDER FOREIGN TRUSTEESHIP". IT IS ALSO WORTHWHILE POINTING
OUT THAT FORMER PRESIDENT SYLVESTRE NTIBANTUNGANYA IS IN SOUTH AFRICA SINCE
YESTERDAY 13 AUGUST, 2000 BY AIR, AS WELL AS FORMER PRESIDENT JEAN-BAPTISTE
BAGAZA, AND FRODEBU PARTY CHAIRMAN, DR. JEAN MINANI, AND CNDD LEADER, MR.
LEONARD NYANGOMA, WHO WAS ALSO PRESENT AT ARUSHA. PRESIDENT PIERRE BUYOYA
LEFT BUJUMBURA THIS MONDAY 14 AUGUST, 2000 AT 13 O'CLOCK FOR SOUTH
AFRICA TO PARTICIPATE IN THESE "NEW CONSULTATIONS" IN WHICH OTHER "PEOPLE
LIKELY TO GIVE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION" MIGHT BE INVITED.