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Burundi: The Police Arrest Five Persons in Ruyigi
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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
22 January 2008
Posted to the web 22 January 2008
Bujumbura
The police have arrested five persons in connection with the invasion of the home of the governor of Ruyigi province. The arrested include the administrator of Ruyigi commune, the judge of a local court, a substitute public prosecutor, a policeman and an NGO worker. The police of Ruyigi arrested these five persons after the public prosecutor of the Court of Appeals of Gitega issued a summons.
The invasion of the home of the governor of Ruyigi, Moise Bukuru, took place on 18 January 2008. The governor of Ruyigi declared that people from the Tutsi-dominated quarter of Sanzu attacked him. The administrator of Ruyigi, Elie Ngendakuriyo, contradicted the governor, stating that it was not the whole quarter of Sanzu that attacked him, and an investigation was called for. The governor of Ruyigi demanded his administrator withdraw his words, but with no results.
The police transferred these five suspects to Gitega on Sunday. The suspects appeared before the public prosecutor of the court of Appealss of Gitega today. They all denied the accusations and said that the attack was a fabrication of the governor of Ruyigi. The prosecutor of the Court of Appeals of Gitega is the cousin of governor Bukuru. He has not visited Ruyigi since the attack on his cousin.
Things remain tense in Ruyigi province. On Sunday the head of state dispatched the Minister of the Interior, Venant Kamana, to Ruyigi in order to mollify the situation. Minister Kamana is a native of Ruyigi. The chief of the police also accompanied the interior minister. Minister Kamana has held two meetings with intellectuals from the province Ruyigi. He blamed intellectuals from other provinces for playing a role in the ethnic suspicion that arose in Ruyigi after the French aid worker Agnès Bury was killed. Minister Kamana left Ruyigi without having fully answered its inhabitants' many questions concerning the seemingly fabricated assault against their governor and the growing ethnic suspicion that arose in their province after a police cordon-search operation in Sanzu led to the capture of 30 weapons.
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Recently, the public prosecutor of the Court of Appeals of Gitega summoned to testify Ms Marguerite Barankitse, a peace award nominee and the head of Maison Shalom of Ruyigi. The public prosecutor asked Marguerite Barankitse about her feelings over the killing of French aid worker Agnès Bury. Although the situation in Ruyigi continues to be tense, Ms Barankitse is determined to Rema Hospital on 22 January 2008. She is confident that the government will ensure security at the hospital's opening since expects many top authorities of the country, including the First Vice-President of the Republic, Dr. Yves Sahinguvu, to attend. She says that â-šsecurity lies in our hearts", recalling the title of her work â-šHatred will not have the last word."
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