BURUNDI - SECURITY.

DESPITE OUR SENIOR STAFF STUDENTS' SLAUGHTERING, ARUSHA TALKS CONTINUE !

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 8, 2000 (NET PRESS). EVERYBODY REMEMBERS LAST SUNDAY'S  AUGUST 6, 2000 HECATOMB IN THE VICINITY OF NYABIRABA, KANYOSHA COMMUNE, BUJUMBURA RURAL PROVINCE, IN WHICH OVER THIRTY ISCAM SENIOR STAFF STUDENTS WERE SAVAGELY SLAIN BY THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS, AT SATAN'S ALTAR, ON THEIR WAY BACK FROM A SPORTS EVENT AT BURURI CITY. THE MASSACRE OCCURRED ON THE VERY DAY WHEN NEGOTIATING PARTIES LEFT FOR ARUSHA FOR A NEW, OR LAST ROUND OF NEGOTIATIONS. UP TO NOW, THE NEGOTIATORS ARE YET TO REACT. THEY HAVE JUST STATED THAT THEY "ARE SHOCKED BY THESE NEW KILLINGS" AND  THAT THIS THURSDAY AUGUST 9, 2000 WILL BE A MOURNING DAY AT ARUSHA WHERE A MASS IN MEMORY OF THE DEPARTED WILL BE CELEBRATED.  THE INCUMBENT LEADERSHIP WHICH HAS JUST LOST 27 ARMY OFFICERS HAS BEEN OBSERVING A TOTAL SILENCE.

IT IS TO BE RECALLED THAT SOME PEOPLE SAID THAT THE DRAFT ACCORD WAS "NOT BALANCED" AS IT IS NOT INCLUDING SOME ELEMENTS SUCH AS GENOCIDE, BUT THEY DID NOT REACT OVER THIS ONGOING GENOCIDE. NOTHING HAS IMPROVED AND GENOCIDE IS  GOING ON UNABATED. GENOCIDE SUPPORTERS ARE NOW EXULTING OVER THE SUCCESSFUL INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF THEIR VICTIMS. SUBSEQUENTLY, THOSE WHO FIGHT THIS PLAGUE SHOULD OUTSPOKENLY DENOUNCE THAT HORRIBLE CRIME.

IT IS WORTHWHILE RECALLING THAT ANOTHER HECATOMB HAD TAKEN PLACE AT BUGARAMA WHEN ARUSHA NEGOTIATIONS WERE BEING SECRETLY HELD AND HAD TO BE SUSPENDED TO ALLOW "CERTAIN" NEGOTIATORS TO MOURN THEIR PEOPLE. THE PROSPECTS OF SIGNING THE DRAFT ACCORDS SHOULD TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THESE FACTS SO AS TO ERADICATE FOR GOOD SUCH BARBARIC ACTIONS. ACCORDING TO FIRST HAND NEWS, THE BURIAL CEREMONIES WILL BE ORGANIZED TOMORROW ON 9 AUGUST, 2000 IN 'ISCAM' PREMISES, BUT THE AUTHORITIES HAVE DECIDED THAT THE EVENT WILL NOT BE COVERED BY NATIONAL TELEVISION.

BURUNDI - RELIGION.

IN AN ATMOSPHERE OF SUB-REGIONAL MISSIONNARY COOPERATION ANOTHER 18 NEW BENE-YOZEFU BROTHERS JOIN IN THE CONGREGATION.

GITEGA, AUGUST 8, 2000 (NET PRESS). GIHETA PARISH CHURCH WAS OVERCROWDED ON SUNDAY AUGUST 6, 2000, WHEN OVER TWENTY PRIESTS AND NUMEROUS BROTHERS  AMONG WHOM 12 HAD COME TO TAKE THEIR FIRST VOWS AND ANOTHER 6 THEIR PERPETUAL VOWS OF "CHASTITY, OBEDIENCE AND POVERTY", WERE SURROUNDING GITEGA ARCHBISHOP AND BENE-YOZEFU CONGREGATION SUPERIOR GENERAL. OBVIOUSLY HAPPY, BOTH BISHOP SIMON NTAMWANA AND BENE-YOZEFU SUPERIOR GENERAL, REVEREND EMMANUEL NYABENDA, REJOYCED OVER DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES IN WHICH BENE-YOZEFU BROTHERS WERE INVOLVED AND WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO INCREASE MUCH MORE FRATERNITY IN PEOPLE'S HEARTS.

BUT "NET PRESS" SPECIAL ENVOY WAS SURPRISED BY THE PRESENCE, AMONG THE 12 NEW BROTHERS, OF TWO CONGOLESE NATIONALS FROM KIVU REGION. WHEN BENE-YOZEFU SECRETARY GENERAL WAS ASKED THE QUESTION RELATING TO THEM, HE REPLIED  THAT MISSIONNARY COOPERATION WAS ONE OF THE DUTIES OF WHICH THE CONGREGATION IS PROUD TO HAVE ACCOMPLISHED. HE SAID THAT 5 BENE-YOZEFU BROTHERS WERE CURRENTLY IN TANZANIA WHERE THEY WORK IN  CRAFT-TRAINING SCHOOLS, WHILE IN CAMEROON, ANOTHER 3 ARE TAKING CARE OF PYGMEAS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE FORESTS AND  LOCAL BISHOPS WERE VERY SATISFIED WITH THEIR PERFORMANCES. IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT IN CAMEROON, THE FEW PRIESTS THEY HAVE  FIND IT MUCH BETTER TO BE POSITIONNED IN TOWNS WHERE IT IS EASIER TO GET WOMEN TO ENTERTAIN. HENCE, THE REASON WHY BARUNDI MISSIONNARIES ARE THE MOST WELCOME IS BECAUSE THEY ABIDE BETTER THAN  THEIR CAMEROONESE COLLEAGUES TO THE VOWS THEY DEVOTED THEMSELVES TO, INCLUDING CHASTITY.

BURUNDI - NEGOTIATIONS.

THE ANADDE (NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND DEVELOPMENT) PARTY REQUESTS POLITICAL LEADERS TO CARE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 8, 2000 (NET PRESS). IN A DECLARATION DATED AUGUST 4, 2000, THE ANADDE PARTY REACTED OVER WHAT IT TERMS AS A "DRAFT OF THE WOULD-BE ACCORD ON PEACE AND RECONCILIATION IN BURUNDI"  WHICH "MAKES NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY FLY INTO PIECES" AND THEREBY HINDERING THE CHANCES OF COEXISTENCE AMONG BOTH HUTU AND TUTSI PEOPLE. IN THIS PARTY OPINION, FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES SUCH AS "ETHNOCIDE" AND  TRIBAL AND REGIONAL EXCLUSION HAVE BEEN IGNORED, THEREFORE, THERE WAS NO REMEDY  TO BE FOUND". THE ANADDE PARTY THEN REQUIRES OF POLITICAL LEADERS TO CARE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS, TO HAVE THE COURAGE OF ADDRESSING THE ISSUE OF GENOCIDE AND EXCLUSION AND TO TACKLE JUDICIAL CASES, SUCH AS  COUP D'ETAT-RELATED ONES AND THOSE RELATING TO 1993 GENOCIDE, ON A DRASTIC LAW-ABIDING BASIS. THAT PARTY INVITES BARUNDI PEOPLE TO PUT AN END TO THEIR TORPOR SO AS TO MARGINALIZE THE IMPLACABLE KILLERS, TO FEEL ASHAMED OF THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED OVER THE LAST DECADES AND TO BEAR INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES. ANADDE PARTY TAKES THAT OPPORTUNITY TO WARN POLITICAL PARTIES' LEADERS "THAT DECLARATIONS SIGNED BY MR. PATRICE NSABABAGANWA WILL  BE VOID AS LONG AS  THE LATTER HAS BEEN DISMISSED BY  THE MINISTER IN CHARGE OF  POLITICAL PARTIES' ADMINISTRATION".

MEANWHILE ARUSHA NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE AND THEY HAVE EMBARKED ON A NEW TREND :  FROM NOW ON,  THERE IS AN "ETHNIC" SPLITTING AMONG NEGOTIATING PARTIES BETWEEN THE PRO-HUTU G7   AND  ALL-TUTSI OBEDIENT G10, EXCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. (SEE "NET PRESS" SITE "RUGAMBA", RUBRIC "AGORA").

BURUNDI - MOURNING.

THE SELF-DEFENCE ORGANIZATION  "PA-AMASEKANYA" CALLS ON ITS MEMBERS AND FOLLOWERS TO OBSERVE A MOURNING-DAY THIS THURSDAY AUGUST 10, 2000.

BUJUMBURA,AUGUST 8, 2000 (NET PRESS). SELF-DEFENCE ORGANIZATION "PA-AMASEKANYA" HAS JUST ISSUED A STATEMENT IN WHICH IT ATTRIBUTES THE MASSACRE OF ISCAM SENIOR STAFF STUDENTS TO THE INCUMBENT LEADERSHIP. IN THE OPINION OF THAT ORGANIZATION, IT IS INDEED "THE POLICIES OF THE INCUMBENT LEADERSHIP THAT MASSACRED THESE CITIZENS ON NATIONAL ROAD (NR) 7." AFTER CONDOLENCES TO THE AFFLICTED RELATIVES OF THE DEPARTED, "PA-AMASEKANYA" CONDEMNS THE POLICIES OF THE INCUMBENT LEADERSHIP WHICH IS BACKING UP THE AMNESTY OF GENOCIDERS AND ENCOURAGES THEM TO PURSUE THE GENOCIDE OF TUTSI PEOPLE. "PA-AMASEKANYA" CALLS ON BARUNDI CITIZENS, BOTH CIVILIANS AND MILITARY, TO REMAIN VIGILANT, "AND NOT TO ABIDE TO GENOCIDAL PLANS OF THE CURRENT LEADERSHIP DOMINATED BY TERRORISTS-TRIBAL-GENOCIDERS". IT ASKS THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO DENOUNCE ARUSHA  NEGOTIATIONS AND ACCORDS "WHICH ARE JUST A MEANS, A TERRIBLE WEAPON MADE AVAILABLE BY ONE PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY". FINALLY, "PA-AMASEKANYA" CALLS ON ITS MEMBERS AND FOLLOWERS TO OBSERVE A NATIONAL MOURNING-DAY ON THURSDAY AUGUST 10, 2000, ADDING THAT THE DAY WILL BE A NON WORKING IN SYMPATHY WITH ALL BARUNDI PEOPLE AFFLICTED BY TUTSI GENOCIDE.

BURUNDI - MOURNING.

BURUNDI UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR CALLS ON UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY TO OBSERVE A MOURNING DAY IN MEMORY OF ISCAM SENION STAFF STUDENTS MURDERED BY THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS.

BUJUMBURA, AUGUST 8, 2000 (NET PRESS). DR. THEODORE NIYONGABO, CHANCELLOR OF BURUNDI UNIVERSITY, ISSUED THIS MORNING A COMMUNIQUE IN WHICH HE POINTED OUT THAT THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY  "LEARNED WITH CONSTERNATION THE TRAGIC DEATH OF ISCAM SENIOR STAFF STUDENTS, COWARDLY ASSASSINATED ON THEIR WAY BACK FROM A SPORT MEETING AT BURURI CITY, BY THE TERRORISTS-GENOCIDERS ON SUNDAY AUGUST 6, 2000 AMONG WHOM SOME WERE ATTENDING BURUNDI UNIVERSITY". ON THAT OCCASION, BURUNDI UNIVERSITY CHANCELLOR  HAS CALLED ON THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE TO OBSERVE A DAY OF MOURNING IN MEMORY OF THE DEPARTED THIS WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 2000.

THE BURIAL OF THE LATE ISCAM STUDENTS WILL BE HELD TOMORROW WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9, 2000 AT 10 O'CLOCK IN  ISCAM PREMISES. THIS MORNING, THE EMOTION WAS AT ITS PEAK AND THE RELATIVES OF THE 27 DEPARTED HAVE BEEN AUTHORIZED TO MEDITATE IN FRONT OF THE COFFINS SINCE 11 O'CLOCK IN A HALL OF THAT INSTITUTE WHERE COFFINS WERE LINING UP.