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Bujumbura-Burundi.
 
BURUNDI - GENOCIDE
 
THE ANTI-GENOCIDE ORGANIZATION "AC GENOCIDE-CIRIMOSO" TO CELEBRATE THE 50th COMMEMORATIVE DAY OF 1993 GENOCIDE TOMORROW AUGUST 21, 2000.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 20, 2000 (NET PRESS). ANTI-GENOCIDE ASSOCIATION "AC GENOCIDE-CIRIMOSO" IS TO COMMEMORATE THIS 21st AUGUST, 2000 THE 50th COMMEMORATIVE DAY OF THE RESISTANCE TO THE GENOCIDE OF TUTSI PEOPLE "WITH A SPECIAL THOUGHT TO ALL THE PAST AND PRESENT VICTIMS OF THE GENOCIDE OF TUTSI, ONGOING WHILE BOTH THE GOVERNMENT OF BURUNDI AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY ARE INDIFFERENT".  ACTIVITIES WILL BE HELD FROM 17 O'CLOCK IN THE "PALAIS DES ARTS ET DE LA CULTURE" AND MEDITATION, TESTIMONIES AND EXCHANGES OF VIEWS ARE ON THE AGENDA. "AC GENOCIDE-CIRIMOSO" IS SAYING THAT IT HAS ALWAYS DENOUNCED THE  "CONFABULATIONS ORGANIZED AROUND THE FRODEBU PARTY-STATE" AND THAT IT IS TODAY DENOUNCING "THE IMMINENT CONSECRATION OF THE FALSE ACCORDS ALREADY CONDEMNED BY HISTORY". AC GENOCIDE-CIRIMOSO FINALLY SAYS THAT "PRESIDENT MANDELA'S AURA AND BLACKMAILING ARE NOT GOING TO CHANGE NOTHING AT ALL".
 
BURUNDI - PEACE PROCESS.
DEMONSTRATION TO BE ORGANIZED IN BRUSSELS AGAINST TUTSI GENOCIDE IN BURUNDI.
 
BRUSSELS, AUGUST 20, 2000 (NET PRESS). THE ASSOCIATIONS "AFFLENET", "ARPAC", "ASP", "HAVILA", "ICFB", "SOLIDARITE DES GRANDS-LACS", "UPRONA", ARE TO ORGANIZE THIS THURSDAY 24th AUGUST, 2000 IN BRUSSELS A DEMONSTRATION TO PROTEST AGAINST THE ONGOING GENOCIDE THAT IS DECIMATING POPULATIONS IN BURUNDI. THOSE ASSOCIATIONS HAD SIGNED ON AUGUST 9, 2000 A "BRUSSELS DECLARATION" CALLING THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO PUNISH THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN BURUNDI LIKE OTHER CRIMES OF GENOCIDE STRONGLY PUNISHED SINCE THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR.
 
ACCORDING TO THE FRENCH PAPER "LE MONDE" IN ITS EDITORIAL ENTITLED "JUGER LES CRIMES DE GUERRE" ("JUDGING WAR CRIMES") DATED 15th AUGUST 2000, "THE IDEA OF ESTABLISHING AN INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE IS STILL BEING UNDER CONSIDERATION". "LE MONDE" EDITORIAL WRITER IS PRAISING THE LIFTING OF GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET'S IMMUNITY, AS WELL AS THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL'S DECISION OF ESTABLISHING A SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR SIERRA LEONE THAT "IS A SYMBOL, SINCE THE SIGNING OF JULY 1999 LOME ACCORDS,  OF A MAJOR DEFEAT FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST  IMPUNITY". HOWEVER, THE SAME EDITORIAL WRITER IS DEPLORING THE ATTITUDE OF AMERICAN AND BRITISH DIPLOMATS WHO ARE NAMELY  EVOKING "AMNESTIES FOR BURUNDI AND CONGO-KINSHASA AND FOR OTHER COUNTRIES INVOLVED IN CHAOTIC PEACE PROCESSES". (SEE "NET PRESS" SITE "RUGAMBA", RUBRIC "AGORA" AND THE DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE ON  THE JOURNAL INTERNET SITE http:/www.lemonde.fr).
 
BURUNDI -  DETENTION.
 
PA-AMASEKANYA AND COSYBU (CONFEDERATION OF BURUNDI TRADE UNION ORGANIZATION) CHAIRMEN  IMPRISONED IN 'BSR' (GENDARMERIE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION CENTER).
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 20, 2000 (NET PRESS). "PA-SELF-DEFENCE POWER-AMASEKANYA" CHAIRMAN, MR. DIOMEDE RUTAMUCERO IS JAILED IN THE GENDARMERIE 'BSR' (SPECIAL RESEARCH CENTER) SINCE THIS MORNING AUGUST 20, 2000 AT 4 O'CLOCK. HE WAS ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF HAVING ORGANIZED ON AUGUST 19, 2000 A DEMONSTRATION TO "FIGHT GENOCIDE AND DEMAND THE DISMISSAL OF INCUMBENT GOVERNMENT".  HOWEVER, "PA- AMASEKANYA" FOLLOWERS  DID DO THEIR  SUNDAY'S JOGGING  IN SPITE OF THE ARREST OF THEIR LEADER.
 
 ON AUGUST 18, 2000, COSYBU CHAIRMAN-NEWLY ELECTED, DR. PIERRE-CLAVER HAJAYANDI, WAS ALSO ARRESTED AND JAILED IN THE BSR WITH HIS CAR AND MOBILE TELEPHONE. HE HAD CALLED ON ALL THE EMPLOYEES AND WORKERS TO OBSERVE AN UNLIMITED STRIKE FROM  LAST AUGUST 18, 2000.
 
 BURUNDI - PEACE PROCESS.
 
AN UNPLEASANT ATMOSPHERE IS PREVAILING IN BUJUMBURA TOWN.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 20, 2000 (NET PRESS). INDIGNATION IS TOTALLY PREVAILING IN ANTI-GENOCIDE CYCLES. LEADERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS   RELEASED A PRESS COMMUNIQUE DATED AUGUST 18, 2000 BY WHICH THEY DENOUNCED THE ARUSHA DRAFT ACCORD THAT IS OCCULTING THE GENOCIDE OF TUTSI PEOPLE THOUGH ACKNOWLEDGED BY UN INTERNATIONAL ENQUIRY COMMITTEE REPORT NUMBER S/1996/682, A DRAFT ACCORD THAT "SHOWS A DELIBERATE WILLINGNESS TO DENY TO THE TUTSI COMMUNITY A MINIMUM PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL SURVIVAL".  AMONG OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS, THE SIGNATORIES OF THE COMMUNIQUE DEMANDED THAT THE GOVERNMENT, THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY , THE  G 10 GROUP AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC NOT TO SIGN THE DRAFT ACCORD  ON AUGUST 28, 2000.
 
ON THE FOLLOWING DAY, SATURDAY 19th AUGUST, 2000 A DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE GENOCIDE AND THE ARUSHA PEACE PROCESS ORGANIZED BY THE SELF-DEFENCE ORGANIZATION "PA-AMASEKANYA" WAS SEVERELY REPRESSED BY POLICE FORCES AND ABOUT HALF A DOZEN PERSONS WERE ARRESTED. THOSE PERSONS HAS LATER BEEN SET FREE AT AROUND 16 O'CLOCK.
 
NEXT WEEK, FROM 21 - 27 AUGUST, 2000, MAY BE HARD SINCE  INDIGNATION, ANGER AND FEARS ARE INCREASINGLY GROWING  ON THE EVE  OF THE DEADLINE OF AUGUST 28, 2000. THE APPEAL ISSUED BY THE COSYBU OF OBSERVING AN UNLIMITED STRIKE ON FRIDAY 18, 2000 REMAINS VALID IN SPITE OF COSYBU CHAIRMAN'S DETENTION, DR. PIERRE-CLAVER HAJAYANDI.
 
THE DECISION OF BUJUMBURA MAYOR, MR. PIE NTIYANKUNDIYE,TO ORGANIZE A  MEETING   OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC WITH THE POPULATION IN THE PREMISES OF THE ISLAMIC CULTURAL  CENTER  MAY BE VIEWED AS AN ATTEMPT TO DEFUSE THE PREVAILING TENSION. INVITATIONS TO ATTEND THE MEETING HAVE BEEN SENT TO 50 PERSONS PER ZONE, SAID THE MAYORSHIP SOURCES.
 
BURUNDI - NGO'S - INTERNATIONAL  JUSTICE.
 
A BURUNDIAN NATIONAL  COMPLAINING AGAINST TWO NORTH AMERICAN NGO'S.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 20, 2000 (NET PRESS). A REPRESENTATIVE OF AN WASHINGTON -BASED WELL KNOWN NGO "THE INTERNATIONAL  JUSTICE MISSION" HAS BEEN ON A FACT-FINDING MISSION IN BURUNDI ON AUGUST 9-12, 2000  WHERE IT HAS COLLECTED INFORMATION AND CLUES RELATING TO   DAYTON (OHIO)  NGO'S DISPUTES IN BURUNDI, NAMELY "THE ALBERT SCHWEITZER SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL INC." AND "THE BLACK DIAMOND PEACE FOUNDATION".
 
THE  MOST SCANDALOUS DISPUTE INVOLVES  A BURUNDIAN NATIONAL , MR. CHIRSTOPHE FURAHA, WHO WAS VICTIM OF AN ABUSE OF CONFIDENCE SINCE 1998, BY A REPRESENTATIVE OF THOSE TWO NORTH-AMERICAN NGO'S, PROFESSOR DR. FLUENT ARTHUR BOGAERTS. INDEED, IN OCTOBER 1998, THE LATTER WAS BLOCKED IN BUJUMBURA TOWN  FOR SOME TIME DUE TO DIFFICULTIES OF MONEY  TRANSFER  RELATED TO EMBARGO, SAID MR. FURAHA , WHO URGENTLY UNDERTOOK TO BORROW MONEY SO AS MR. BOGAERTS SETTLE HOTEL BILLS ( A PRESIDENTIAL SUITE) AND BUY AN AIR TICKET. MR. BOGAERTS HAD PLEDGED THAT THE TWO AMERICAN NGO'S WOULD REIMBURSE  RAPIDLY AND  GENEROUSLY AWARD  BUJUMBURA  FRIENDS FOR THEIR GENEROSITY. UNFORTUNATELY, ADDED MR.  FURAHA, BOGAERTS'S PROMISES DID NOT COME TRUE, SINCE HE IS NOW IN A MESS  OF WHICH  CONSEQUENCES  HAVE  NOT BEEN  FORESEEN. HE ALSO ADDED THAT IN THE USA, A COUNTRY CLAIMING TO BE A HUMAN RIGHTS CHAMPION, THE SETTLEMENT OF SUCH A PREJUDICE BEFORE COURTS COSTS  $US MILLION TO BE PAID  EITHER BY THE SUSPECT OR HIS INSURANCE.
 
FACING SUCH A PARTICULAR  SHOCKING  CASE, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES OF MR. FURAHA RESIDING IN THE USA  HAVE MANAGED TO SENSITIZE  PERSONS AND DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS THAT ARE NOW POSITIVELY REACTING. AS EVERYTHING WAS QUITE CLEAR, THE TWO NGO'S HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED THE INITIAL DEBT OF APPROXIMATELY BIF 10,000,000.  FOR THE TIME BEING, THANKS TO THE  INTERVENTION OF "THE INTERNATIONAL  JUSTICE MISSION" WHOSE RECORDS ARE  KNOWN WORLDWIDE, IT IS CERTAIN THAT THE BURUNDIAN CITIZEN WILL BE RAPIDLY REFUNDED AND FAIRLY PAID DAMAGES. OTHERWISE, A MEMORABLE PROCESS IS LIKELY TO BE STARTED AND IT WILL HAVE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA REPERCUSSIONS.
 
BURUNDI - DEMONSTRATION.
 
ABUSES COMMITTED BY  A SENIOR  ARMY OFFICER WHO KNOWINGLY LIES  THAT   A DEMONSTRATOR  DIED.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 20, 2000 (NET PRESS). DURING  YESTERDAY'S  19 AUGUST, 2000 MANIFESTATION ORGANIZED BY "PA-AMASEKANYA", GENDARMES SEIZED SOME MOBILE TELEPHONES. THE INSTRUCTIONS TO DO SO WERE GIVEN BY 2nd  INTERVENTION BATALLION COMMANDER, MAJOR BIZURU WHO WAS WIDELY TALKED ABOUT DURING THE FIRST ABORTED COUP D'ETAT AGAINST THE LATE NDADAYE A FEW  DAYS BEFORE HIS 1993 BEING SWORN IN.
 
THE MISFORTUNE TOOK PLACE SHORTLY AFTER THE ARREST OF SOME PERSONS, AMONG WHOM MR. GREGOIRE HEBERIMANA, NICKNAMED HEBERI. ACCORDING TO HIM AND  FAMILY MEMBERS,  HIS YOUNGER BROTHER  WHO WAS NOT AWARE OF HIS ELDER BROTHER'S MISADVENTURE MADE ATTEMPTS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM BY PHONE, BUT A VOICE QUITE UNFAMILIAR TO HIM RESPONDED THAT MR. HEBERI WAS NOT AVAILABLE. AS THE ANSWER WAS NOT A CONVINCING ONE, HEBERI'S YOUNGER BROTHER REDIALLED AGAIN  BUT THE SAME VOICE REPLIED THAT THERE WAS NO  NEED TO INSIST : "DO NOT INSIST, PLEASE,  I AM AN 'ASSAILANT'". THE FELLOW WAS STUPEFIED, HEBERI RELATIVES REPORTED. THE POOR FELLOW COULD NOT BELIEVE IT AT ALL AND REDIALLED ONCE AGAIN BUT THE VOICE  GAVE HIM THE SAME ANSWER AND ADDED : "HE IS DEAD". AS A POWDER TRAIL, THE NEWS WAS TAKEN EVEN TO MR. HEBERI'S CHILDREN RESIDING IN BELGIUM. IT CAUSED CONSTERNATION. HIS CHILDREN WERE ONLY ABLE TO KNOW THE REAL STATE OF THINGS TODAY AFTER A NIGHTMARE. WHEN MR. GREGOIRE HEBERIMANA ALIAS "HEBERI" WAS CONTACTED BY "NET PRESS", HE STATED THAT HE WAS SHOCKED BY MAJOR BIZURU'S BEHAVIOUR, HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SEIZURE OF HIS MOBILE TELEPHONE WHICH IS NOT YET TO BE RECOVERED.
 
BURUNDI - ADMINISTRATION.
 
THE ASSOCIATION OF THE JOBLESS REACTS OVER  A "NET PRESS" TOPIC.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 20, 2000 (NET PRESS). BURUNDI ASSOCIATION OF THE JOBLESS HAS GIVEN CLARIFICATIONS RELATING TO INFORMATION RELEASED IN  "NET PRESS" AUGUST 18 EDITION RELATING TO THE DONATION OF COMPUTERS BY THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING TO FRODEBU PARTY. THAT ASSOCIATION INFORMS THAT : 1° BURUNDI ASSOCIATION OF THE JOBLESS APOLOGIZES TO INFORM  "NET PRESS" THAT ITS 18 AUGUST, 2000 RELEASE RELATING TO SECOND-HAND  COMPUTER  EQUIPMENTS  DONATED BY THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING WERE GIVEN QUITE OFFICIALLY. 2° THE  SECOND-HAND COMPUTER EQUIPMENTS ARE AT THE ASSOCIATION'S HEAD OFFICE. 3° THE ASSOCIATION INFORMS "NET PRESS" THAT IT IS GOING TO LODGE A COMPLAINT IN JUSTICE AGAINST THE PERSON HAVING FORGED THAT  DIFFAMATION. 4° THAT EQUIPMENT WAS NOT LATER GIVEN TO FRODEBU HEADQUARTERS - IT IS  NOT TRUE, IT IS TREMENDOUSLY UNTRUE. 5° THE SECRETARY GENERAL OF THAT ASSOCIATION, MR. MAMERT RUKUKI, DEMANDS THAT A MEDIA CONFRONTATION BE ORGANIZED VS THE PERSON HAVING DONE SUCH FORGERY".  THE  REACTION IS SIGNED BY MR. MAMERT RUKUKI, SECRETARY GENERAL  OF BURUNDI JOBLESS ORGANIZATION.
 

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