Burundi Rejects Rebel Demand For Release Of Political Prisoners

Blantyre — Burundian President Pierre Buyoya on Friday rejected rebel demands that he release all political prisoners as a pre- condition to the implementation of the Burundi Peace Agreement.

Buyoya told journalists at a specially convened media briefing in Malawi's commercial capital Blantyre that rebels were demanding he release all political prisoners before they discuss signing an existing peace accord to end seven-years of civil war.

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