19 October 2007
Bujumbura — The government of Burundi has created another waiting area in the province of Bujumbura-Rural. More than 360 FNL dissidents who were at Rugazi in Bubanza province have been relocated to Gakungwe in the south of the capital city of Bujumbura not far from where the two 19 centuries explorers Stanley and Livingstone once met.
These FNL dissidents were transported in national Defence army vehicles yesterday. The creation of this waiting area in the south of the capital city is intended to help FNL dissidents from communes located in the south of Bujumbura-rural.
This transfer of dissidents to another waiting area follows on the heels of the visit of a team comprised of members of the facilitation bureau, the commission in charge of the monitoring of the truce and the national defence force. This visit to Randa and Rugazi on Wednesday was demanded by the chairman of the regional initiative for peace in Burundi, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, who supports the creation of large waiting area where all the dissidents would be relocated and supplied with food.
More than 1000 persons are stationed in the waiting area of Rugazi where would-be FNL dissidents flocked after the relocation of the remnants of the deadly attack of Buterere which claimed the lives of 20 persons among the dissidents.
The South African facilitation and the regional initiative for peace in Burundi are ready to continue the implementation of the peace deal that was signed in July by President Nkurunziza and Agathon Rwasa with FNL-PALIPEHUTU dissidents.
The facilitator in the Burundi's peace process, Charles Nquakula, has called on a meeting of the commission in charge of monitoring the truce for next weeks. Two days before this meeting there are no signs of the presence of delegates from Agathon Rwasa in Bujumbura capital.
The international community is still reserved over the moves of the government of Burundi, the region and the facilitation team to sideline the real leaders of FNL-PALIPEHUTU. It has not still accepted to back FNL dissidents despite the pressing demand of the Burundian Ambassador, Joseph Ntakarutimana, to the UN Security Council.
The international community that has funded the Burundian peace process since 1995 in order to avoid â-šanother Rwanda" does not want to walk on eggshells in disowning the peace deal to the tenants who only demand its implementation.
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