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Burundi: Government Relocates the So-Called FNL Combatants


Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
 

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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)

13 December 2007
Posted to the web 14 December 2007

Bujumbura

The government of Burundi has started relocating the so-called FNL combatants to Buramata in the province of Bubanza. More than a hundred so-called combatants were relocated today.

This relocation follows the demand of the national assembly twelve days ago. At that time, the Defence Minister, Lt Germain Niyonyankana, asked for one week for the identification process.

The relocation of the so-called FNL combatants caused more than 700 students of Cibitoke boarding school to return home fearing for their security. They feared to live aside a site of combatants who were stationed at less than 150 metres from the school. The Education Minister, Dr. Saidi Kibeya, vainly tried to convince students to cohabit with the dissidents. Ananias Bucumi, the principal of this school that Dr Kibeya dismissed has not been reinstated.

The defence minister says that students can return back to school next Monday. More than a thousand so called FNL dissidents will have to be relocated to Buramata. Buramata was a waiting area located at four kilometres of Randa where more than 1500 other so-called FNL dissidents are stationed.



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