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BURUNDI - SECURITY.
 
THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS STILL  MAKING VICTIMS AMONG SENIOR OFFICERS OF BURUNDI ARMY.
 
MUYINGA, AUGUST 17, 2000 (NET PRESS). THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS LAID AN AMBUSH ON 16th AUGUST, 2000 AT APPROXIMATELY 16 O'CLOCK NEAR RUVUBU PARK SOMEWHERE BETWEEN RUVUBU RIVER AND GASAVE, KIGAMBA COMMUNE, CANKUZO PROVINCE. ACCORDING TO FIRST-HAND NEWS AVAILABLE TO "NET PRESS", THE 4th MILITARY REGION COMMANDER, COLONEL BALTHAZAR NZEYIMANA AND HIS TWO ASSISTANTS DIED IN THE AMBUSH, TWO OTHERS WERE SEVERELY INJURED AND TAKEN TO CANKUZO HOSPITAL. THE ATTACK AGAINST THE COMMANDER'S VEHICLE HAPPENED ON HIS WAY BACK FROM A MEETING HELD AT CANKUZO BY DEFENCE MINISTER, COLONEL CYRILLE NDAYIRUKIYE, FOR EASTERN MILITARY REGION COMMANDERS.
 
ACCORDING TO CANKUZO LOCAL SOURCES, THE SITUATION IS CURRENTLY IN TURMOIL IN PROVINCES OF CANKUZO AND MUYINGA FOLLOWING MASSIVE INFILTRATIONS OF TANZANIA-BASED  TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS WHO SETTLED IN RUVUBU PARK. THE COLONEL BALTHAZAR NZEYIMANA'S DEATH OCCURRED 11 DAYS AFTER NYABIRABA 6th AUGUST, 2000 SLAUGHTER IN WHICH 27 ISCAM SENIOR MILITARY STUDENTS AND MEMBER OF 'MUZINGA' NATIONAL ARMY HANDBALL TEAM PERISHED.
 
BURUNDI - SECURITY.
 
PANICK IN KIBAGO COMMUNE, MAKAMBA PROVINCE.
 
MAKAMBA, AUGUST 17, 2000 (NET PRESS). THERE IS PANICK IN POPULATION ALL OVER THE COMMUNE OF KIBAGO, MAKAMBA PROVINCE,  FOLLOWING A RECENT ATTACK OF THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ON WEDNESDAY, 9 AUGUST, 2000 WHEN THE LATTER SET FIRE TO PALM TREES PLANTATIONS. HENCE, THE POPULATION CAN NOT CULTIVATE ANY MORE SINCE IT FEARS TO BE KILLED BY THOSE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS AND IT IS STILL STRANDED IN MBIZI, GAHAMA AND GATARE SITES FOR DISPLACED PEOPLE.
 
ACCORDING TO THE LATEST NEWS, ON 16th AUGUST, 2000 THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS PENETRATED ONCE MORE IN  THE COMMUNE OF KIBAGO WITH THE SAME INTENTION OF DESTROYING AND KILLING PEOPLE. EVEN LAST WEEK, THEY KILLED APPROXIMATELY 40 COWS, DISEMBOWELLED ONES IN GESTATION AND DISPLAYED THE FOETUS ON THEIR BODIES.
 
BURUNDI - ADMINISTRATION.
 
THE OFFICE OF A TECHNICAL ADVISER IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE IS BROKEN UP.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 17, 2000 (NET PRESS). THE OFFICE OF MR. THACIEN NZEYIMANA, TECHNICAL ADVISER IN THE FINANCE MINISTRY, WAS BROKEN UP WHILE HE WAS OVERSEAS ON A THREE-WEEK TEMPORARY DUTY. ACCORDING TO FIRST-HAND NEWS, THE OBJECTIVE, BY DOING SO, WAS TO ACCOMMODATE IN THAT OFFICE A NEW TECHNICAL ADVISER. BUT WHAT IS QUESTIONNABLE IS THE REASON WHY THE BUREAU WAS BROKEN UP WHEN ITS OCCUPANT  WAS OVERSEAS ON OFFICIAL DUTY, WHY DONE AFTER HIS DEPARTURE, AND NOT DONE BEFORE . THESE ARE QUESTIONS ONE MIGHT ASK AND THE RESPONSE MIGHT BE FOUND IN "NET PRESS" COMING RELEASES. (MORE TO COME ).
 
BURUNDI - TRADE UNION.
 
"COSYBU" TRADE-UNION ORGANIZATION TO DECREE A NON-STOP STRIKE.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 17, 2000 (NET PRESS). AFTER CONSULTATIONS WITH ALL INDEPENDENT TRADE UNION FEDERATIONS, THE COSYBU (BURUNDI TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION), HAS CALLED FOR A NON-STOP STRIKE FROM THIS AUGUST 18th, 2000. AT THE SAME TIME, THE COSYBU HAS DECIDED TO SUSPEND ITS SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT AND COMMITTED ITSELF TO ORGANIZE "ACTIONS AIMED AT SAVING BARUNDI WORKERS IN DISTRESS ".
 
INDEED, THE COSYBU BELIEVES THAT THE INCUMBENT GOVERNMENT VIOLATES "DELIBERATELY" LAWS PROMULGATED  AND INTERNATIONAL PACTS RATIFIED BY IT AND  HAS LOST LEGITIMACY. IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT 13 TRADE -UNION LEADERS SENT ON 7th AUGUST, 2000 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC IN WHICH THEY WERE REQUESTING HIM TO TURN "THE PAGE OF DICTATORSHIP AND OF SINGLE-PARTY SYSTEM, AND DEFINITELY SHIFT TO VIRTUES OF PROMOTING PLURALISTIC IDEAS, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND TRADE UNION FREEDOM".
 
IT IS TO BE HIGHLIGHTED THAT "THE 'ACCORD-CADRE' FOR THE RESTORATION OF A RULE OF LAW IN BURUNDI" HELD A MEETING THIS MORNING AND STATED THAT IT TOTALLY SUPPORTS THE STRIKE CALLED BY TRADE UNION ORGANIZATIONS, AS WELL AS THE DEMONSTRATION TO BE ORGANIZED BY SELF-DEFENCE ORGANIZATION "PA-AMASEKANYA" THIS SATURDAY AUGUST 20, 2000.
 
BURUNDI - GERMANY.
 
THE VISIT OF THE GERMAN DELEGATION IS POSTPONED SINE DIE.
 
BERLIN, AUGUST 17, 2000 (NET PRESS). WHEN THE OFFICE OF COUNTESS HELGA GRAFIN STRACHWITZ, DIRECTOR FOR AFRICA DEPARTMENT IN THE GERMAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, WAS INFORMED THAT MOST OF BARUNDI LEADERS THAT SHE HAD PLANNED TO MEET WERE STILL IN SOUTH AFRICA, SHE HAS DECIDED TO "POSTPONE  UNTIL A LATER DATE" THE VISIT SHE WAS EXPECTED TO PAY TO BURUNDI AUGUST 17-19, 2000. SHE NAMELY WAS WISHING TO HOLD MEETINGS WITH : THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, THE 1st VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, THE SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, THE MINISTER FOR THE PEACE PROCESS AND THE MINISTER FOR EXTERNAL AFFAIRS AND COOPERATION. BUT PRESIDENT PIERRE BUYOYA AND BOTH MINISTERS FOR THE PEACE PROCESS AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS ARE STILL ABROAD. IT IS TO BE EMPHASIZED THAT BURUNDI DELEGATION WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA WHILE THE MEDIATOR, FORMER SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT, NELSON MANDELA, WAS ON A VISIT TO MALAYSIA FROM WHERE HE IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE SOON.
 
BURUNDI - NEGOTIATIONS.
 
'PEOPLE'S PARTY' (P.P.) CHAIRMAN TO BE ALSO CANDIDATE TO THE POST OF TRANSITION PERIOD PRESIDENT.
 
JOHANNESBURG, AUGUST 17, 2000 (NET PRESS). AFTER CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN "KEY PLAYERS" THAT ENDED YESTERDAY AUGUST 16, 2000, THE G7 ANNOUNCED THAT IT HAD A NEW CANDIDATE TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSITION PERIOD, NAMELY PP PARTY CHAIRMAN, MR. SCHADRACK NIYONKURU. THE ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE AFTER LAST WEEK'S OFFICIALIZING MINANI-OBEDIENT FRODEBU SECRETARY GENERAL'S, MR. DOMITIEN NDAYIZEYE.
 
AS FOR THE G 10, THE CANDIDATES ARE MRS. JEAN-BAPTISTE BAGAZA OF PARENA PARTY AND PIERRE BUYOYA OF NEGOTIATING UPRONA. FORMER AMBASSADOR TO UN, MR. TERENCE NSANZE, HAD TO WITHDRAW HIS CANDIDACY. IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT AMONG THE "KEY PLAYERS", ONLY PRESIDENT PIERRE BUYOYA AND CNDD AND MINANI-OBEDIENT FRODEBU LEADERS ARE STILL IN SOUTH AFRICA TO MEET PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA UPON HIS ARRIVAL FROM MALAYSIA.
 
BURUNDI - GENOCIDE.
 
MUKASI-OBEDIENT UPRONA CHARGES FRODEBU PARTY WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF COLONEL BALTHAZAR NZEYIMANA.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 17, 2000 (NET PRESS). IN A COMMUNIQUE RELEASED THIS AUGUST 17, 2000, MUKASI-OBEDIENT UPRONA DENOUNCED THE UPSURGE OF VIOLENCE PERPETRATED BY THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS IN THIS COUNTRY. IT HELD THE FRODEBU PARTY "THAT DOMINATES THE INSTITUTIONS"  AS THE MAIN INSTIGATOR OF  ALL THE KILLINGS THAT KEEP PLUNGING THIS COUNTRY INTO MOURNING AND OF WHICH THE MOST RECENT IS COLONEL BALTHAZAR NZEYIMANA'S AND HIS AIDES'. UPRONA PARTY CONVEYED ITS CONDOLENCES TO THE AFFLICTED FAMILIES, TO SECURITY FORCES AND TO ALL "BARUNDI PEOPLE WHO ARE TIRED OF FRODEBU RULE".
 
IN SUCH A SITUATION, UPRONA PARTY HAS CALLED ALL BARUNDI PEOPLE, POLITICAL PARTIES, ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS, THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY AND ANY PEACE-LOVING PERSON TO RISE AS ALL TOGETHER AND CONDEMN "THIS GENOCIDAL REGIME". THE ABOVE PARTY POINTED OUT THAT THE ONLY WAY TO RESTORE PEACE IS BARUNDI PEOPLE'S ESTABLISHING RULE OF LAW, INSTITUTIONS WHICH SHALL, ACCORDING TO MUKASI-OBEDIENT UPRONA PARTY, RAPIDLY JOIN OTHER COUNTRIES WHICH HAVE PLEDGED TO FIGHT GENOCIDE IN THE SUB-REGION AND IN AFRICA BY THE RATIFICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF LUSAKA ACCORDS.
 

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