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BURUNDI - DEMONSTRATION.
THE CALL FOR A GENERAL STRIKE WIDELY
FOLLOWED.
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 18, 2000 (NET PRESS).
THE CALL FOR A GENERAL AND UNLIMITED STRIKE HAS WIDELY BEEN FOLLOWED IN
THE CAPITAL CITY. VERY FEW PEOPLE WENT TO THEIR SERVICE, IN THE MORNING
BUSES BEGAN TO OPERATE IN MOST OF BUJUMBURA QUARTERS FROM 9 O'CLOCK. IN
CERTAIN AREAS SUCH AS NYAKABIGA, MUSAGA OR KININDO, GROUPS OF YOUNG MEN
HAD RAISED BARRICADES IN THE STREETS WITH BARRELS AND EVEN SET FIRE TO
TYRES IN SOME PLACES.
THE ARMY GENERAL CHIEF OF STAFF, MAJOR-GENERAL
VINCENT NIYUNGEKO HAD TO INTERVENE AT KININDO TO ALLOW SITUATION
TO COME TO NORMAL , WHILE AT NGAGARA, GENDARMERIE CHIEF OF STAFF WAS ON
SPOT AND AT NYAKABIGA, COMMANDER MIVUBA OF THE INTERVENTION BRIGADE OF
BUJUMBURA HARDLY MANAGED TO BRING SITUATION UNDER CONTROL.
GENERALLY SPEAKING, FEW PERSONS WHO WENT
TO WORK MANAGED TO ARRIVE ONLY AFTER 9 O'CLOCK. BUT THE SITUATION
WAS MUCH DIFFERENT AT THE UNIVERSITY WHERE SECURITY FORCES (GENDARMERIE)
SURROUNDED CAMPUSES SINCE EARLY MORNING REMAINED PRESENT THE WHOLE MORNING.
EVEN FRESHMEN WHOSE AUDIENCES ARE LOCATED IN PEDAGOGY INSTITUTE PREMISES
(ROHERO CAMPUS) COULD NOT STUDY SINCE THEIR LECTURERS WERE NOT THERE.
STUDENTS WERE SEEN EVERYWHERE DOWNTOWN ON THEIR WAY BACK HOME. AT MUTANGA
CAMPUS, THE SITUATION WAS SHORT OF DETERIORATING : VEHICLES PASSING BY
THERE WERE DAMAGED BY STONE THROWNED BY STUDENTS PROTESTING AGAINST BEING
"SURROUNDED ". EVEN WINDOWS AND WINDSCREEN OF COLONEL LUCIEN NZOBONIMPA'S
LIGHT TRUCK HAVE BEEN SMASHED.
BURUNDI - ASSOCIATION.
THE JRR (RWAGASORE REVOLUTIONNARY YOUTH)
MOVEMENT DENOUNCED THE GOVERNMENT STRATEGY OF "MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE
FOR BARUNDI PEOPLE TO RESIST TO GENOCIDE AND TO THE DESTRUCTION OF BURUNDI".
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 18, 2000 (NET PRESS).
THIS 17th AUGUST, 2000, THE JRR MOVEMENT RELEASED A DECLARATION IN
WHICH IT DENOUNCES THE FACT THAT THE INCUMBENT GOVERNMENT IS CARRYING OUT
A "VERY EFFICIENT STRATEGY AIMED AT MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR BARUNDI PEOPLE
TO RESIST TO THE GENOCIDE AND TO THE DESTRUCTION OF BURUNDI". THE
JRR NOTES WITH REGRET THAT CITIZENS CAN NO MORE SATISFY THEIR MOST BASIC
NEEDS AND ADDS THAT : "WHILE BARUNDI PEOPLE ARE DYING OF HUNGER AND GENOCIDE,
BUYOYA AND HIS GENOCIDAL PARTNERS ARE DISCUSSING IN SOUTH AFRICA THE WAY
OF SHARING BURUNDI DEPLETED RESOURCES AND ALIENATING NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
BY PUTTING THIS COUNTRY UNDER TRUSTEESHIP OF WESTERN POWERS".
IN THE DECLARATION, THE JRR MOVEMENT PRESENTED
ITS MOST AFFLICTED CONDOLENCES TO COLONEL BALTHAZAR NZEYIMANA'S FAMILY
AND TO THOSE OF THE 2 SOLDIERS SLAUGHTERED WITH HIM BY TERORISTS-GENOCIDERS
"WHO ARE THIS GOVERMENT'S PROTEGES". THE JRR APPEALS ON SECURITY FORCES
TO "OPEN EYES" AND TO "RESIST AGAINST EXTERMINATION BY A REGIME THAT HAS
LOST LEGITIMACY" AND ON ALL "PATRIOTIC FORCES TO BE MOBILIZED FROM NOW
ON SO AS TO EFFICIENTLY RESIST THE GENOCIDE WHICH IS NOW BEING METICULOUSLY
PREPARED AT ARUSHA AND SOUTH AFRICA WITH PRESIDENT MANDELA'S AND
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY'S BLESSING".
THE JRR MOVEMENT FINALLY INVITED ALL ITS
MEMBERS AND FOLLOWERS TO SCRUPULOUSLY FOLLOW STRIKE AND DEMONSTRATION-RELATED
INSTRUCTIONS DECIDED UPON BY BOTH THE COSYBU (BURUNDI TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION)
THE ORGANIZATION OF SELF-DEFENCE "PA-AMASEKANYA".
BURUNDI - NEGOTIATIONS.
SOME "G 10"MEMBER PARTIES DECLARE TO HAVE
NEVER DEALT WITH THE ISSUE OF WHO SHOULD BE THE LEADER OF THE TRANSITION.
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 18, 2000 (NET PRESS).
THE CHAIRMAN OF SOCIALIST PANAFRICANIST MOVEMENT "MSP-INKINZO", DR. ALPHONSE
RUGAMBARARA, TOLD THIS MORNING "NET PRESS" THAT G 10 MEMBERS HAVE NEVER
TAKEN ANY DECISION RELATING TO WHOEVER CANDIDATE TO RULE DURING THE TRANSITION
PERIOD. THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION, SAID DR. RUGAMBARARA, IS RATHER NOT
THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSITION, BUT THE DRAFT ACCORD WHICH OCCULTS AMONG
OTHER THINGS THE GENOCIDE. HE ADDED THAT "ONE CAN NOT SPEAK ABOUT
THE PRESIDENT OF THE TRANSITION WHILE ONE DOES NOT EVEN KNOW WHETHER IT
WILL EVER EXIST". OTHERWISE, IF THE ACCORDS PROVE SATISFACTORY TO EVERYONE,
THE PRESIDENT MAY BE NOMINATED EVEN AFTER THE SIGNING. 'MSP-INKINZO' CHAIRMAN
STATED THAT HIS PARTY DENOUNCES THE "KEY PLAYERS" CONSULTATIONS WHOSE CRITERIA
CHOICE ARE NOT KNOWN AND AS WELL AS ITS RESULTS. ACCORDING TO SOUTH AFRICA-ORIGINATED
SOURCES, ONLY FORMER PRESIDENT JEAN-BAPTISTE BAGAZA HAS GIVEN UP THAT MEETING
AND GONE BACK HOME WHILE FORMER PRESIDENT SYLVESTRE NTIBANTUNGANYA IS STILL
THERE.
ON THE OTHER HAND, ABASA PARTY CIRCLES
SAY THAT, ITS PARTY CHAIRMAN, AMBASSADOR TERENCE NSANZE, IS STILL CANDIDATE
TO RULE THE TRANSITION, BUT THAT HIS CANDIDACY IS YET TO BE MADE OFFICIAL.
BURUNDI - SECURITY.
TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS BECOMING TOO ZEALOUS
IN KILLING CITIZENS.
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 18, 2000 (NET PRESS).
TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS CONTINUE TO CAUSE DEATH AND DESPAIR AMONG PEACEFUL
CITIZENS. ON AUGUST17, 2000, AT 19 O'CLOCK, THEY AMBUSHED TWO CARS
ARRIVING FROM GATUMBA ON THEIR WAY TO BUJUMBURA, A FEW METRES OF
RUSIZI RIVER BRIDGE. THE FIRST CAR TO BE ATTACKED WAS A TAXI CARRYING FOUR
PEOPLE. IN THE SHELLING, THE DRIVER WAS NOT SHOT AND MANAGED TO ESCAPE
BUT ONE OF THE PASSENGERS WAS SHOT DEAD.
A FEW MINUTES LATER, ANOTHER CAR,
"RENAULT" MARK, TAKING THE SAME ROUTE, HAS BEEN ATTACKED BY SAME TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS
IN PLAIN CLOTHES. ALL THREE PASSENGERS WERE KILLED AND THE CAR SET ON FIRE.
THE SAME NIGHT AT AROUND 22, 15 O'CLOCK,
ANOTHER ATTACK HAS BEEN LAUNCHED AGAINST MILITARY POSITIONS PROTECTING
THE KANYOSHA SITES FOR THE DISPLACED. DISPLACED PEOPLE IN CHARGE OF THEIR
CAMP SECURITY REPORTEDLY SAID TO HAVE SEEN TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS COMING
DOWN FROM BUJUMBURA RURAL'S MOUNTAINS WALKING PAST NKENGA NEAR "KIGWATI"
QUARTER. THEREAFTER, THEY INFORMED SECURITY FORCES AND THE EXCHANGE OF
FIRE LASTED ABOUT 30 MINUTES, KANYOSHA HEAD OF ZONE, MR. JEAN DE
DIEU NIYONGABO REPORTED . ONE TERRORIST-GENOCIDER DIED IN THE FIGHT AND
HIS WEAPON WAS SEIZED. THE SAME SOURCE SAID THAT, JUDGING FROM THE BLOOD
STAINS LEFT ON THE SPOT, MANY TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS MIGHT HAVE BEEN
KILLED, WHILE THERE WERE SOME SLIGHTLY INJURED AMONG SOLDIERS.
BURUNDI - ADMINISTRATION.
THE FINANCE MINISTRY TO GIVE SOME CLARIFICATIONS.
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 18, 2000 (NET PRESS).
FOLLOWING "NET PRESS" RELEASE DATED AUGUST 17, 2000 RELATING TO "THE
CABINET OF FINANCE MINISTRY'S TECHNICAL ADVISER OFFICE DOOR SMASHED" DURING
HIS ABSENCE, THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE REACTED. THE CHIEF OF CABINET OF THAT
MINISTRY POINTED OUT TO US THAT THE DOOR WAS NOT SMASHED, "BUT THEY HAVE
JUST HAD ITS LOCK CHANGED". THE REASON WAS THAT THE TECHNICAL ADVISER,
MR. THACIEN NZEYIMANA, HAD "FORGOTTEN" TO HAND OVER KEYS OF HIS OFFICE
WHEN HE TRAVELLED OVERSEAS ON OFFICIAL DUTY. HE ADDED THAT
THE REASON OF GETTING THE LOCK CHANGED WAS TO ACCOMMODATE A NEW ADVISER
WHO WAS GOING TO SHARE THE OFFICE WITH MR. NZEYIMANA, SINCE "WE CAN NOT
AFFORD TO WAIT FOR THE TECHNICAL ADVISER TO COME BACK (HE IS ON A-THREE-WEEK
OFFICIAL TOUR ) FOR THE NEW ADVISER'S ACCOMMODATION".
BURUNDI - ADMINISTRATION.
THE PLANNING MINISTRY DONATES
SECOND-HAND COMPUTERS EQUIPMENT TO FRODEBU PARTY.
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 18, 2000 (NET PRESS).
THE PLANNING MINISTRY JUST DONATED A SET OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT TO FRODEBU
HEAD OFFICE ON AUGUST 16, 2000 INCLUDING 12 SCREENS, 9 CENTRAL UNITS, 7
KEY BOARDS, 26 PRINTING TERMINALS, 6 ONDULATORS AND 3 HARD DISKS. OFFICIALLY,
THE SET OF COMPUTERS EQUIPMENT HAS BEEN HANDED OVER TO BURUNDI ASSOCIATION
OF THE UNEMPLOYED WHOSE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, MR. MAMERT RUKUKI AND ANOTHER
ASSOCIATION MEMBER, MR. ANACLET NDAYISABA, HAVE SIGNED A RECEIPT FOR THAT
EQUIPMENT. AS FOR THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING, IT WAS REPRESENTED BY THREE
STAFF MEMBERS, NAMELY MRS. CLEMENT BIGIRIMANA, CASSIEN HARERIMANA AND JEAN-MARIE
MASUMBUKO INSTRUCTED BY MINISTER LEON MBONIMPA'S CABINET TO
DO SO. THE SAID SET OF COMPUTER EQUIPMENT WAS IMMEDIATELY TAKEN TO NZOJIBWAMI-OBEDIENT
FRODEBU PARTY'S HEADQUARTERS, LOCATED IN "BOULEVARD DU 28 NOVEMBRE".
"NET PRESS" APOLOGIZES FOR THE DELAY FOR
THIS RELEASE. THE DELAY IS DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS.
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