28 December 2007
Bujumbura — The government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is to release five Burundians who were arrested on its territory. The DRC and Burundi Governments have already started talks aimed at releasing these Burundians including two militaries and three civilians.
These Burundians were arrested in November after the Congolese security forces suspected the presence of military men in a Burundian group that was joining DR Congo for prayer. The Congolese security forces suspected that these Burundians were recruits for the Congolese renegade commander, General Laurent Nkundabatware, who is waging a war in eastern Congo against the Congolese government's troops. These Burundians were stripped of their belongings which included mobile phones and money by the Congolese security forces.
The Burundian National Police succeeded in dismantling part of the recruiting network for General Nkundabatware last October. On 30 October 2007, four Burundians who were trying to cross the porous border between Burundi and Rwanda at Ruhwa were arrested. The police indicated that the ultimate destination of these Burundians, who were all from the national Tutsi-dominated quarters of Bujumbura, was to join the troops of Laurent Nkundabatware. Their accomplices of Burundian and Rwandan origins were also arrested.
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What tutsis are wanting ? We will ask to the US to give us a time and leave us Mai-MAI tutsis if they can beat us they can take our country, only Mai-Mai, not frdc army, because this is going far, those tutsis they know how they lost their young soldiers who came to fight in 1998-2002 , they were coming thousands but hundred were lucky to escape, we don't go to rwanda,burundi,uganda or somewhereelse they are coming from to attack them ,they are coming into our country,so we are very positive ,IF THEY CAN LET MAI-MAI TO DO A… [Read Full Text]