ABOUT TWENTY ISCAM (MILITARY SENIOR STAFF TRAINING ACADEMY) STUDENTS KILLED IN A TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS' AMBUSH.

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 7, 2000 (NET PRESS). FNL (NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT) TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS CONTINUE TO MASSACRE PEACEFUL CITIZENS IN AREAS OF BUJUMBURA CITY QUARTERS AND SOME AREAS OF RURAL BUJUMBURA NEIGHBOURING THE CAPITAL CITY. YESTERDAY EVENING, BETWEEN 18,30 AND 19 O'CLOCK, THEY LAID AN AMBUSH TO A MILITARY VEHICLE ARRIVING FROM BURURI ON THE ROAD BUJUMBURA-IJENDA-BURURI IN THE COMMUNE OF KANYOSHA SOMEWHERE BETWEEN NYABIRABA AND BASEKEZA. THE YOUNG ISCAM STUDENTS MEMBERS OF MUZINGA HANDBALL TEAM HAD BEEN AT BURURI  TAKING PART INTO A HANDBALL COMPETITION. TEMPORARY EVALUATION REPORTS ABOUT TWO DOZENS KILLED AND UNKNOWN NUMBER OF MISSING.

AT 20,30 O'CLOCK THE SAME TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ATTACKED NEIGHBOURING ZONE OF KANYOSHA LOCATED IN THE MAYORSHIP OF BUJUMBURA, KILLING TWO PEOPLE WITH KNIVES AT BUSORO, A QUARTER MAINLY POPULATED BY HUTU PEOPLE.  ANOTHER PERSON WHO WAS ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE WAS ALSO SHOT DEAD. THE QUARTER OF BUSORO  MIGHT HAVE BEEN TARGETTED  FOR ITS DWELLERS, ALTHOUGH HUTU, NOT PAYING "WAR EFFORT CONTRIBUTION " TO THE FNL.

BURUNDI - SECURITY.

THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS CONTINUE TO ATTACK THE REGIONS BORDERING TANZANIA AND TO RUN AWAY THERE.

RUTANA, AUGUST 7, 2000 (NET PRESS). THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS CONTINUE TO SETTLE ON BURUNDI-TANZANIA BORDER AND WAGE ATTACKS AGAINST CIVILIAN POPULATIONS OF THE PROVINCE OF RUTANA. THE KIGOMA-BASED TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS (IN THE DISTRICT OF GASURA IN THE REFUGEE CAMPS OF KILELEMA, MTABILA AND MUHASHA) ARE SYSTEMATICALLY LOOTING CATTLE AND MONEY AND RUN AWAY  INTO TANZANIA AFTER COMMITTING CRIMES. THEY REPORTEDLY GET TANZANIA ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT BECAUSE EACH ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL IN THE AREA IS PAID SHILLINGS 5,000 PER STOLEN COW. THERE MIGHT EVEN BE PROSPECTS OF ATTACKING MILITARY POSITIONS ESTABLISHED IN THAT PROVINCE. LOCAL POPULATIONS OF RUTANA PROVINCE  ARE ANGRY AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MILITARY INTERVENTION AND ASSIST THEM RECOVER THEIR PROPERTY LOOTED WHICH IS WITHIN A 2-KM RANGE FROM THEIR HOUSES. IRON SHEETS LOOTED FROM THEIR HOUSES ARE ALSO VISIBLE FROM THAT DISTANCE. FOR THE TIME BEING, TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ARE TARGETTING THE REGION OF MPINGA (RUTANA PROVINCE) SINCE THERE ARE STILL MANY TUTSI PEOPLE LIVING THERE. THE LATTER MIGHT HAVE BEGUN TO FLEE.

BURUNDI - SOCIETY.

THE CASE OF A PHYSICIAN WHO DIED IN HIS CABINET IN CIBITOKE IS OPPOSING NGOZI AND CIBITOKE NATIVES.

CIBITOKE, AUGUST 7, 2000 (NET PRESS). HIS NAME WAS VICTOR NGIRIYIMANA, BORN IN NGOZI. HE WAS  A PHYSICIAN IN CIBITOKE. HE DIED IN HIS OFFICE WHILE WRITING HIS MONTHLY REPORT ON 28 JULY, 2000. HE AND HIS HOUSEHOLD ASSISTANT AS WELL AS ALL HIS PROPERTY WERE THEN TAKEN  IN AN AMBULANCE TO NGOZI WHERE RESIDED HIS FAMILY. NGOZI PEOPLE DID NOT LIKE AT ALL THAT KIND OF TREATMENT, AND ACCORDING TO THEM, THE BODY OF THE DEAD PERSON SHOULD HAVE BEEN TREATED WITH RESPECT. THEY ALSO WONDERED WHAT WAS HE SUFFERING OF.

"NET PRESS" CONTACTED THE PROVINCIAL LEADERS OF CIBITOKE WHO SAID THAT THE LATE DOCTOR WAS SUFFERING OF HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND THAT HE DIED ON SATURDAY 29 JULY, 2000, WHILE HE WAS WRITING HIS WORKING REPORT. A LADY WHO HAD COME TO LOOK FOR A DOCTOR WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SEE HIM AND SHE HAD STRAIGHTAWAY WARNED THE PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES.  ACCORDING TO INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO "NET PRESS", HE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK. AS HIS FAMILY RESIDES IN NGOZI, THE BODY OF THE LATE HAD BEEN TAKEN THERE AS WELL AS HIS PROPERTY, SITUATION TO WHICH NGOZI PEOPLE HAD REACTED THINKING THAT THEIR COUNTRYMAN WAS DISLIKED BY CIBITOKE PEOPLE. FOR THE WAY HE HAD BEEN TRANSPORTED WAS NOT AT ALL IN RESPECT OF BURUNDI TRADITION. CIBITOKE AUTHORITIES DENIER THAT AND, ACCORDING TO THEM, THE DEPARTED DOCTOR WAS IN GOOD TERMS WITH CIBITOKE POPULATION.

DR CONGO - SECURITY.

SUB-REGION TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS WORK HAND IN HAND AGAINST  BANYAMULENGE COMMUNITY.

UVIRA, AUGUST 7, 2000 (NET PRESS). THE COMMUNITY OF BANYAMULENGE IS STILL HAUNTED  BY THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS OF THE SUB-REGION. INDEED, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CONGOLESE MAYI-MAYI AS VANGUARD, THE BURUNDIAN CNDD-FDD, THE RWANDAN INTERAHAMWE AND FORMER RWANDAN ARMED FORCES... ARE CAUSING  DESPAIR AND PANICK AT UVIRA THOUGH CONTROLLED BY RCD (CONGOLESE RALLY FOR DEMOCRACY) TROOPS. THUS, LAST WEEK, THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS KILLED 4 CHILDREN AND WOUNDED ANOTHER 5. THE PRESENCE OF THESE "NEGATIVE FORCES" IN UVIRA CITY IS OBVIOUS AND LOCAL POPULATION IS WATCHING THEM MOVING TO AND FROM. THE MAYI-MAYI HAVE JUST PROPAGATED LEAFLETS SAYING THAT  A GENOCIDE IS BEING ORGANIZED AGAINST THEM BY THE BANYAMULENGE PEOPLE. "THIS IS A WAY OF RAISING THEIR "FELLOW COUNTRYMEN" AGAINST US", SAID THIS MORNING SOME BANYAMULENGE PEOPLE CONTACTED BY "NET PRESS". THE SAME SOURCES POINT OUT THAT ONE MAYI-MAYI OFFICER IN CHARGE OF OPERATIONS WAS CAPTURED BY RCD FORCES YESTERDAY ON AUGUST 6, 2000 AT KIGONGO 10 KM  OFF UVIRA CITY. THE SAME SOURCES ALSO SAY THAT THE BANYAMULENGE COMMUNITY IS NEVERTHELESS LIVING IN A FEAR OF PERPETUAL  ATTACKS AND THEY ARE CALLING ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO BE MORE SYMPATHETIC TO ITS FATE.

BURUNDI - SOCIETY.

PROSECUTED BY THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF KANYOSHA ZONE (MAYORSHIP OF BUJUMBURA), DISPLACED PERSONS ARE AT ALOSS.

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 7, 2000 (NET PRESS). FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME,   SOME OF THE WAR DISPLACED PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REFUGEES IN  KANYOSHA ZONE, KAJIJI QUARTER, BUJUMBURA MAYORSHIP. THEY ARE NOW COMPLAINING AGAINST TREATMENT GIVEN TO THEM BY MR. SYLVESTRE BAZOMBANZA, ASSISTANT CHIEF OF ZONE. HE IS ACCUSED OF PROSECUTING  AND ILL-TREATING THEM. THE ASSISTANT-CHIEF PRETENDS THAT, THE REFUGEES ARE NOT TAKING PART IN NIGHTS SHIFTS FOR SECURITY CONTROL. HE VERY OFTEN "PUNISHES" SEVERELY THOSE WHOM HE THINKS TO BE "STUBBORN". IN PRINCIPLE, PEOPLE WHO MUST TAKE OVER THE NIGHT ROUNDS ARE PUT ON A LIST IN A GIVEN ORDER AND IN A PLANED MANNER, AND A ROUND IS NOT TO BE DONE TWO DAYS SUCCESSIVELY. PEOPLE WHO ARE RECORDED AS "DIFFICULT " ARE SUBJECT TO SEVERE BEATINGS TILL CRYING AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THEIR SPOUSES AND CHILDREN. OTHERS MUST PAY FINES WITHOUT RECEIPT WHILE OTHERS ARE ARBITRARILY PUT IN JAIL  BY THE SAME ASSISTANT CHIEF OF ZONE.

THESE DISPLACED PERSONS ARE NOW WONDERING WHERE THEY MUST MOVE TO AND LIVE, FOR THEY HAD THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE GOING TO LIVE IN PEACE WHEN AFTER SURVIVING GENOCIDE PERPETRATED BY THE FNL AND CNDD TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS. THEY DEMAND THAT MR. SYLVESTRE BAZOMBANZA BE RAPIDLY DISMISSED AND "BE SENT BACK TO HIS FORMER JOB" (NOTE FROM THE EDITORIAL OFFICE : HE USED TO BE A POLICEMAN PRIOR TO HIS APPOINTMENT TO THE PRESENT JOB).

WHEN THE LEADER OF KANYOSHA ZONE, MR. JEAN DE DIEU NIYONGABO, WAS CONTACTED BY "NET PRESS", HE POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS HE WHO ASKED ALL ALL THE ASSISTANTS TO INSTRUCT THE CHIEFS OF HOUSEHOLD UNITS TO GO WITH MILITARIES AND WAKE UP PEOPLE WHO DO NOT TAKE PART IN NIGHT SECURITY ROUNDS AND GET THEM TO GET OUT OF THEIR BEDS FORCEFULLY. HE HOWEVER DENIED THE  USE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE POPULATION  BY LOCAL ADMINISTRATION . HE ALTHOUGH ADDED THAT : "A BLOW SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE OBSTINATE, INSTEAD OF A BIF 5,000 FINE, SINCE THESE PEOPLE CAN NOT AFFORD SUCH AN AMOUNT". THE LEADER OF KANYOSHA ZONE FINALLY STATED THAT THOSE DISPLACED PEOPLE EXAGGERATED THEIR ACCUSATIONS AND THAT, ANYWAY, IT WAS MUCH BETTER FOR HIM TO SEE THEM DISCONTENT RATHER THAN BEHEADED".

BURUNDI - UNIVERSITY.

STRIKES AT BURUNDI UNIVERSITY FOLLOW EACH OTHER AND ARE ALIKE - STUDENTS  NOT SATISFIED.

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 7, 2000 (NET PRESS). FOLLOWING LAST MONTH STRIKE FOR DELAYING THE PAYMENT OF FELLOWSHIPS AND THE MOST RECENT ONE LAST WEEK AT GITEGA-BASED I.S.A. (AGRICULTURE HIGHER INSTITUTE), A NEW STRIKE IS UNDER WAY AT BURUNDI UNIVERSITY AS ANNOUNCED LAST THURSDAY AUGUST 3, 2000. INDEED IN A LETTER TO BURUNDI UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR, GRADUATING STUDENTS AND TRAINING COURSE STUDENTS EMPHASIZED THAT THEY HAD DECIDED TO SUSPEND THEIR ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES FROM THIS MONDAY FOR THE REASON THAT "TRAINING COURSE  AND GRADUATING PAPER ALLOWANCES DO NOT MATCH ANY MORE THE CURRENT ECONOMIC PREVAILING SITUATION AND THAT THE RECTORIAL LEADERSHIP DOES NOT MEET THE CLAIMS OF THE STUDENTS". AS PLANNED BEFOREHAND, THE STUDENTS ATTENDING THE ABOVE-MENTIONNED CLASSES KEPT AWAY FROM AUDIENCES  AND HELD A GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

AT THE END OF THEIR EXCHANGE OF VIEWS, THEY ALL AGREED THAT : TRAINING COURSE FEES  FIXED AT (BIF 5,000 DURING ONE MONTH) AND GRADUATING PAPER ALLOWANCES - (BIF 15,000) DO NOT TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE CURRENT COST OF LIVING. SO THEY HAVE WORKED OUT AN APPROXIMATE ASSESSMENT TO BE SENT OVER TO THE LEADERSHIP INVOLVED. ACCORDING TO THAT ASSESSMENT, TRAINING COURSE CHARGES WILL INCREASE FROM BIF 5,000 TO 29,000 PER STUDENT UNDERGOING A PEDAGOGIC TRAINING COURSE AND BIF 182,000 PER STUDENT UNDERGOING A NON PEDAGOGIC TRAINING COURSE, I.E. BIF 42,000 FOR TRANSPORTATION EXPENDITURES AND BIF 140,000 TO COVER TRAINING COURSE REPORT EXPENDITURES (IN ENTERPRISES, COMPANIES...).  AS FOR GRADUATING PAPER EXPENDITURES, THEY WILL BE AMOUNTING TO BIF 210,000 PER STUDENT. IT IS WORTHWHILE NOTING THAT THE SOLUTION TO THAT PROBLEM MUST BE FOUND BEFORE THE END OF THIS MONTH FOR TWO MAIN REASONS : FIRST, STUDENTS TO UNDERTAKE NON PEDAGOGIC TRAINING COURSES (SUCH AS THOSE ATTENDING THE FACULTY OF ECONOMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES) WILL BE NOT RECEIVED IN THE END OF THIS MONTH AND SECONDLY, THE STUDENTS WHO MUST UNDERTAKE PEDAGOGIC TRAINING COURSES MUST PROBABLY START THEM IN SEPTEMBER WHEN THE SCHOOL YEAR STARTS.

STUDENTS CONTACTED BY "NET PRESS" POINTED OUT THAT IF THE LEADERSHIP INVOLVED CAN NOT PAY THE CLAIMED AMOUNTS, IT IS AT LEAST REQUESTED TO TRANSPORT THEM FROM THEIR DIFFERENT UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES TO THE DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE THEY WILL BE UNDERGOING TRAINING COURSES OR TO CANCEL THESE TRAINING COURSES AND GRADUATING PAPERS WHICH ARE, IN ANY WAY, NECESSARY FOR A UNIVERSITY GRADUATION. THE STUDENTS ADDED THAT THEY WILL RESUME THE AUDIENCES ONLY WHEN A COMPROMISE WITH UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP IS BE REACHED.

AS FOR THE UNIVERSITY LEADERSHIP, THE DIRECTOR RESPONSIBLE FOR ACADEMIC MATTERS HAS STATED THAT STUDENTS "WILL GET NOTHING FROM THE UNIVERSITY" SINCE THE QUESTION RAISED "IS QUITE LEGITIMATE  BUT MUST BE SOLVED AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL". HENCE, THE STUDENTS MUST GO BACK TO THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION. FINALLY THE DIRECTOR IN CHARGE OF ACADEMIC MATTERS SAID THAT IF THEY DO NOT UNDERGO THEIR TRAINING COURSES, "IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT THEY WILL BE NOT GRANTED DIPLOMAS".