Bujumbura — The police carried out a cordon-search operation in three quarters of Kinama commune where violence has run rampant over the last three weeks.

The police caught about a hundred personally illegally living in Kinama. Many of these persons are Congolese and Rwandans. The police also seized military uniforms and ammunition.

This operation started last night at 2:00 with the help of the chiefs of quarters. Cordon search operations are part of the measures that the security minister, Police Commissioner Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, recently took in order to halt the trend of violence in Burundi.

The search has not diffused the tense situation between demobilised combatants and FNL combatants who still publicly carry weapons in the presence of the police in Kinama commune. The wife of the victim who died last Sunday blames a member of the presidential guard for the killing her husband with the help of the demobilised persons.