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Burundi: FNL Factions Clash in Kibira Forest
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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
5 October 2007
Posted to the web 5 October 2007
Bujumbura
Clashes between different FNL factions continue in the Kibira forest.
Dissidents led by Barnes fought combatants loyal to Agathon Rwasa in Matongo commune early yesterday. The number of victims is still unknown.
Dissidents led by Barnes deserted the ranks of combatants loyal to Rwasa Agathon on Monday in Musigati commune. Clashes that took place in Kibira forest of the same commune on that day claimed the lives of two dissidents.
The dissidents led by Barnes have refused to mix with those stationed at Rugazi. More than 50 combatants are now stationed at Kungore in Matongo commune.
Barnes is said to be a former combatant of CNDD-FDD who deserted the army for PALIPEHUTU-FNL. He was in the Kibira forest along with Jean-Berchmans Ndayishimiye.
The spokesman of PALIPEHUTU-FNL, Pasteur Habimana, accuses the government and the ruling party of being behind this trouble within his movement. He said that the dissidence is not caused by FNL combatants but rather by CNDD-FDD combatants in disguise who attacked our lines, but they got served."
The government of Burundi and the mediation team are suspected to be behind this factional struggle within PALIPEHUTU-FNL.
Schisms within this armed political movement reappeared in July this year after an FNL delegation led by Jean Berchmans Ndayishimiye pulled out of the ceasefire monitoring team on the grounds that their security was not insured.
Their South African body guards serving under the African Union had already accused the delegations of stealing their weapons.
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Before FNL stopped attending the talks of the ceasefire monitoring team, its combatants had been stationed in waiting areas for more than 10 months, but neither the government nor the mediation team provided them with food, a problem that 900 FNL dissidents who are stationed at Rugazi do not have.
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