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Burundi: FNL-Palipehutu Softens Its Stand
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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
16 October 2007
Posted to the web 16 October 2007
Bujumbura
FNL-PALIPEHUTU has already softened its stand after its attack that claimed the lives of three persons and wounded a FNL dissident commander put the schisms within this party into sharp focus.
FNL -PALIPEHUTU is now attempting to return to the Ceasefire Monitoring team. In the meantime, attacks against dissident combatants continue. Nestor Banzubaze, a commander of an FNL faction, was seriously wounded on Saturday 13 at 18:30 in Jabe quarter of the capital city of Bujumbura.
Three dissident combatants who were with him were shot dead. Those who carried out the attack have not yet been identified by the police. Banzubaze is now under treatment in a local military hospital with a strong security presence. This attack exposed the incompetence of the police and the intelligence services who failed to get information about a meeting that Banzubaze was holding just as they failed to get information about the meeting of the central committee of Uprona.
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Nestor Banzubaze is a commander of a faction of FNL dissidents who have refused to hand over their weapons to the national defence and security forces as other dissidents in Bubanza have done. His troops are stationed in Kayanza province. He has been crossing the Kibira forest into Rugazi where other FNL dissidents have been relocated after the deadly attack at Buterere. Banzubaze enrolled in the FDD forces in 1995.
After he carried out many successful military operations in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo, he received the rank of colonel but lost it after he shot out near the beginning of the year 2005. Disciplinary actions that were taken against him when he was at the Gashingwa waiting area demoted him to the rank of Captain and he entered the national defence force with that rank. Banzubaze deserted the National Defence Force to join PALIPEHUTU-FNL before the latter signed a ceasefire agreement.
The government of Burundi and the mediation team have been accused of being behind the schisms within FNL-PALIPEHUTU. The treatment of Nestor Banzubaze in a military hospital with high security might go toward proving the involvement of the government in the dissidence that has appeared within FNL after its delegation walked out of the commission in charge of monitoring the ceasefire agreement that was signed in July 2006.
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