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BURUNDI - DEMONSTRATION.
 
SECURITY FORCES RESORT TO TOUGH METHODS TO DISRUPT COSYBU STRIKE.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 21, 2000 (NET PRESS). IN SPITE OF COSYBU (CONFEDERATION OF BURUNDI TRADE UNION ORGANIZATION) CHAIRMAN'S DETENTION, DR. PIERRE-CLAVER HAJAYANDI, THE COSYBU HAS NOT LIFTED ITS GENERAL AND UNLIMITED STRIKE STARTED ON THURSDAY AUGUST 17, 2000. THIS MORNING SECURITY FORCES HAD TO RESORT TO TOUGH  METHODS IN ORDER TO OVERCOME GROUPS OF YOUNGSTERS WHO  HAD RAISED BARRICADES IN ROADS. AN OUTNUMBERING SECURITY FORCES WAS PRESENT SINCE  AS EARLY AS 4 O'CLOCK AND MANAGED TO STABILIZE THE SITUATION ONLY AT AROUND 8 O'CLOCK. IN MOST OF BUJUMBURA QUARTERS, BUSES BEGAN TO BE OPERATIONNAL ONLY AT AROUND 8,30 . THE SITUATION WAS QUITE AMAZING  IN THE ZONE OF NGAGARA WHERE  BUSES WERE PRESENT BUT NO PASSENGERS TO BOARD THEM UNTIL 8,30 , AND PEOPLE WERE GATHERING IN BUS PARKS  AS  IF THEY WATCHING HOW THE SITUATION WOULD DEVELOP. SOLDIERS WERE OUTNUMBERING  CIVILIANS AT CROSSROADS UNTIL 8 O'CLOCK.  AT THE UNIVERSITY, ESPECIALLY AT MUTANGA CAMPUS, HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS AND GENDARMES HAD SURROUNDED THE AREA AND HAD EVEN BEEN DISPATCHED INSIDE THE PREMISES TO THE EXTENT THAT MOVEMENTS OF STUDENTS WERE HAMPERED, NOT TO SAY IMPOSSIBLE. ALL THE ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES WERE SUSPENDED.
 
BURUNDI - DETENTION.
 
COSYBU ANDSELF-DEFENCE ORGANIZATION "PA-AMASEKANYA"  LEADERS STILL IN JAIL AND THEIR FAMILIES ARE WORRYING ...
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 21, 2000 (NET PRESS). DR. PIERRE-CLAVER HAJAYANDI AND MR. DIOMEDE RUTAMUCERO, RESPECTIVELY CHAIRMEN OF COSYBU (CONFEDERATION OF BURUNDI TRADE UNION ORGANIZATIONS) AND 'PA-SELF-DEFENCE POWER-AMASEKANYA' ARE STILL IN JAIL  WHERE THEY WERE TAKEN RESPECTIVELY ON 18 AND 19 AUGUST, 2000. DR. HAJAYANDI IS ACCUSED OF HAVING CALLED FOR AN UNLIMITED STRIKE  AND MR. RUTAMUCERO OF HAVING ORGANIZED A DEMONSTRATION REJECTING THE GENOCIDE OF TUTSI PEOPLE AND DEMANDING THE RESIGNATION OF THE INCUMBENT GOVERNMENT.  DR. HAJAYANDI'S FAMILY  IS ALREADY WORRIED ABOUT HIM, FOR HE WAS TRANSFERRED FROM THE BSR (GENDARMERIE SPECIAL INVESTIGATION CENTER) TO PSR  (SPECIAL TRAFFIC POLICE) IN A SMALL CELL FULL OF FLEAS. ACCORDING TO HIS FAMILY, HIS SHOES AND BELT WERE TAKEN AWAY AND HE WAS THEN BEATEN ON THE FEET THIS MORNING. EVEN THE PERSON WHO BROUGHT HIM FOOD WAS BEATEN. WHEN "NET PRESS" CONTACTED POLICE CIRCLES, IT WAS ANSWERED THAT IT WAS A "LIE". THEY ADDED THAT DR. HAJAYANDI HAD NEVER BEEN IN TROUBLE SINCE HIS ARREST AND THAT "THESE ARE LIES FORGED BY HIS FAMILY AIMED AT EXERTING PRESSURE AND AT SETTING HIM FREE".
 
AS FOR MR. DIOMEDE RUTAMUCERO, PA-AMASEKANYA CHAIRMAN, HIS FAMILY SAID THAT HIS WIFE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SEE HIM. EVEN IF FOOD WAS BROUGHT TO HIM, THERE WAS NO TALKING TO HIM. HIS LAWYER , MASTER NZEMBA, WAS ALSO DENIED ACCESS TO  HIM, ALTHOUGH THE NEW  PENAL CODE PROCEDURES SPECIFIES THAT THE LAWYER  MAY SEE THE DEFENDANT AT ANY TIME.
 
BURUNDI - ASSOCIATION.
 
RWAGASORE REVOLUTIONNARY YOUTH (JRR) "TO REAFFIRM ITS SUPPORT FOR THE UNLIMITED STRIKE".
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 21, 2000 (NET PRESS).  AFTER HAVING  DENOUNCED  "THE POLICY OF REPRISALS AGAINST ORGANIZATIONS  FIGHTING AGAINST THE DESTRUCTION OF BURUNDI NATION" INITIATED BY TODAY'S LEADERSHIP, THE JRR MOVEMENT  EXPRESSES ITS INDIGNATION IN A DECLARATION DATED AUGUST 20, 2000 OVER COSYBU AND PA-AMASEKANYA CHAIRMEN'S ARREST, RESPECTIVELY DR. PIERRE-CLAVER HAJAYANDI AND MR. DIOMEDE RUTAMUCERO. THE FORMER FOR HAVING DECREED THE STRIKE "IN ORDER TO PUT A STOP TO THE PROCESS OF DESTROYING THE NATION EXPECTED TO BE ACCOMPLISHED THIS AUGUST 28, AND THE SECOND FOR HAVING ORGANIZED A DEMONSTRATION AIMED AT "REJECTING GENOCIDE AND DEMANDING THE RESIGNATION OF THIS GOVERNMENT WHICH IS ENCOURAGING THE GENOCIDE OF TUTSI PEOPLE".
 
GIVEN THE ABOVE SITUATION, THE JRR "CONDEMNS ENERGETICALLY THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP WHOSE GOVERNING METHODS IS  DICTATORSHIP". THE JRR ALSO DEMANDS THE "UNCONDITIONNAL AND IMMEDIATE" LIBERATION OF DR. PIERRE-CLAVER HAJAYANDI AND MR. DIOMEDE RUTAMUCERO. THE DECLARATION FURTHER  REAFFIRMS ITS SUPPORT FOR THE UNLIMITED STRIKE AND CALLS ON ITS MEMBERS AND FOLLOWERS TO TOTALLY BACK IT UP "TO SAVE THE HONOUR WORKERS AND BARUNDI PEOPLE IN DESPAIR". FINALLY, THE DECLARATION REQUESTS OF ALL PATRIOTS TO MASSIVELY RESPOND TO ANY ACTION AIMED AT  SETTING FREE THE TWO PATRIOTS AND BARUNDI PEOPLE TAKEN HOSTAGE  BY "THE MAFIA-LIKE ORGANIZATION OF COUP PLOTTERS AND GENOCIDERS". (SEE  www.cbinf.com/netpress.bi, RUBRIC "AGORA".
 
BURUNDI - NEGOTIATIONS.
 
KARUSI NATIVES AND RESIDENTS  DENOUNCE THE "GOVERNMENT PLAN" OF STATIONING "REBELS" IN THEIR PROVINCE.
 
BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 21, 2000 (NET PRESS). KARUSI PROVINCE NATIVES AND RESIDENTS REGROUPED IN KARUSI DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION (ADEKAR) WROTE ON AUGUST 18, 2000 A LETTER TO THE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF THE PEACE PROCESS AND SENT COPIES TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC AND TO HIS TWO DEPUTIES. IN THE LETTER,  THEY PROTESTED AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT PLAN OF STATIONING AND "RESETTLING" TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS "RETURNEES" IN THAT PROVINCE. "AT THE MOMENT WHEN ARUSHA TALKS ARE ABOUT TO BE SIGNED, UNANIMOUS AND RELIABLE SOURCES REVEAL THE EXISTENCE OF A PLAN TO STATION REBEL TROOPS TO BE MERGED WITH THE NATIONAL ARMY IN SOME PROVINCES, INCLUDING OURS, AND ALSO A PLAN TO RESETTLE RETURNEES IN STATE-OWNED LAND PROPERTIES AND THOSE BELONGING TO  THE 1993 GENOCIDE VICTIMS". "HAVING NO INTENTION TO APPRAISE THE WAYS AND MEANS OF IMPLEMENTING THE PEACE ACCORDS CURRENTLY BEING NEGOTIATED", THE ADEKAR WHICH CONSIDERS ITSELF TO BE THE SPOKESMAN OF 1993 DISPLACED PEOPLE AND 1996 FORMER-REPATRIATED, REQUIRED THE GOVERNMENT "NOT TO ADD A DRAMA TO ANOTHER "  BY  CARRYING  OUT THOSE PROJECTS, "UNLESS THE ARUSHA ACCORDS ARE AIMING AT LEGITIMIZING THE 1993 GENOCIDE AND CONFIRMING THAT ONE OF THEIR OBJECTIVES IS TO EXTERMINATE TUTSI PEOPLE AND TO TAKE UP THEIR LANDS". THE PLANS TO STATION AND RESETTLE GENOCIDAL RETURNEES IN KARUSI PROVINCE AND OTHER PROVINCES WHERE THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE GENOCIDE IS BY ALL MEANS A RISKY ONE, ADEKAR  SAYS. FINALLY, ADEKAR TOLD THE MINISTER THAT ALL PEACE-LOVING MEN AND WOMEN ARE DETERMINED TO FIGHT THE TWO PROJECTS WITH ALL THEIR ENERGY : "RATHER TO DIE WITH HONOUR DEFENDING MEMORIES OF THE DEPARTED THAN TO ACCEPT TO DIE, AS OTHERS DID IN 1993, AS VICTIMS OF A SECTARIAN POLICY OR  FOR THE SAKE OF AN OBVIOUSLY SHORT-LIVED PEACE PROCESS". IT IS TO BE EMPHASIZED THAT, IN ADEKAR'S OPINION, THE PLAN OF OCCUPYING LAND PROPERTIES OF THE VICTIMS OF THE GENOCIDE FROM KARUSI IS HIGHLIGHTING "REGIONALISM TENDENCY IN SOLVING A NATION WIDE PROBLEM" WHEN THE LOGICAL SOLUTION WOULD BE TO SEND RETURNEES TO THEIR NATIVE PROVINCES. (SEE wwww;cbinf.com/netpress.bi, RUBRIC "AGORA".
 
 
BURUNDI - REFUGEES.
 
THE HCR TO BUILD REFUGEE CAMPS FOR POTENTIAL  BURUNDI REFUGEES.
 
NGARA, AUGUST 21, 2000 (NET PRESS). ACCORDING TO NGARA SOURCES, REFUGEE CAMPS HAVE BEEN BUILT IN TANZANIA FOR POTENTIAL BARUNDI REFUGEES. THE SAME SOURCES SAY THAT AFTER THE COMPLETION OF MUYOVOZI  CAMPS THAT RECEIVED NO  REFUGEES  SO FAR  UP TO NOW, THE HCR HAS NEVERTHELESS BEGAN TO BUILD A SECOND ONE FOR BARUNDI "WOULD-BE REFUGEES SOON TO FLEE INSECURITY" LIKELY TO PREVAIL IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SIGNING OF ARUSHA ACCORDS. THE SAME SOURCES EXPRESSED THEIR  INDIGNATION OVER THE FACT THAT THE HCR HAD BEEN CONSIDERING VERY LONG AGO, EVEN BEFORE THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS' PENETRATION OF  RUVUBU PARK THAT IT MIGHT  BE THE MOST SUITABLE PLACE FOR A REFUGEE CAMP.   IN SHORT, IT HAD BEEN ANTICIPATED THAT THE RIPARIAN POPULATION WAS GOING TO LEAVE "SOONER " THAT  "UNSAFE AREA".  THUS ANOTHER REFUGEE CAMP IS UNDER WAY IN GITARI, NGARA DISTRICT (TANZANIA), 15 KM OFF THE COMMUNE OF KIGAMBA, CANKUZO PROVINCE.
 

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