20 October 2007
Bujumbura — FNL still demands that its security be guaranteed before it returns to the truce monitoring commission. FNL leaders also denounce the moves to create schisms within their party.
In a press release that was issued on 18 October 2007, FNL names several very important personalities that are involved in the plan to destabilize this armed movement
The chief of the intelligence services, General Adolphe Nshimirimana, the interior minister, General Evariste Ndayishimiye, the Assistant Chief of Staff of the National Defence force, General Godefroid Niyombare, and some South African secret services working for facilitation are pinpointed by FNL.
The leader of FRODEBU, Hon Léonce Ngendakumana, also recognizes that there is a group of politicians and army officers whose goal is to thwart any deal that the head of state reaches with opposition parties. â-šIt is that group that hunted the spokesman of Frodebu when the head of state was meeting a delegation of Frodebu in Ngozi", he said in a press conference that he held today in which he expressed his concern over the move to replace the real leaders of FNL with dissidents in the truce monitoring commission.
Leaders of FNL still maintain that those representing themselves as FNL dissidents are rather CNND-FDD combatants who were left in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003.
The activities of the truce monitoring commission are due to resume today. Leaders of FNL are, however, still demanding that their security be guaranteed after the South African peacekeepers serving under the African Union unjustly accused FNL members of the truce monitoring commission of stealing their weapons. This led FNL members of this commission to return to the bush in July of this year.
FNL-PALIPEHUTU is now faced with the serious problem of more than 1800 FNL dissidents who are stationed in three places with their security insured by the national security forces. Randa hosts 400 dissidents, Rugazi, 1000 and Gakungwe 370. Three dissidents leaders died last week in the capital city Bujumbura in an attack that also wounded Banes, a chief of one faction that has not laid down its weapons.
No FNL leaders are expected to participate in the truce monitoring commission meeting of this Saturday 20 October as most are Adventist Christians who would never lead an attack on Saturday during wartime and so are not considered to be likely to attend in a truce commission with no security guaranties this Saturday.
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