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Burundi: CNDD-FDD Failed to Provide Security for Citizens, Says the Leader of Frodebu
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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
5 February 2008
Posted to the web 5 February 2008
Bujumbura
The leader of Frodebu, Hon Léonce Ngendakumana, says that the CNDD-FDD led government has failed to ensure security for Burundians.
In a press conference that he held today, Hon Ngendakumana said ,"Now Sahwanya Frodebu party affirms that the CNDD-FDD party and the CNDD-FDD led government have failed to resolve the very important issue of bringing peace and security. It is plain to everyone, they failed."
Hon Ngendakumana also said that the government has failed to practice good governance. â-šWith respect to the good governance, it is clear, they failed. With regard to reconciliation, it is not possible when Burundians are killed on a daily basis," he said, adding that the government should meet with PALIPEHUTU-FNL to supplement their incomplete peace deals. It would be recalled that Frodebu itself is part of the current government, since last year, after striking a deal with president Nkurunziza in bid to end the political stalemate.
Hon Ngendakumana alsosaid that there is considerable evidence pointing toward the creation of a pro-government militia whose aim is to terrorize the people before the 2010 elections. Grounding his evidence on the setup of a militia in Bubanza where in 2007 sources reported that an agent of the National Intelligence Services, Jean Petit, who is now at large, played his part in distributing weapons to the militiamen, Hon Ngendakumana accuses the government of allowing those who bear responsibility for the summary executions in Kinama and Muyinga to flee to neighbouring countries with total impunity.
All opposition political parties deemed insufficient the measures that the security minister, police commissioner Alain Guillaume Bunyoni, devised to rid Burundi of its growing trend of violence.
The fulltime protection of main roads, night patrols and roundups, which Mr. Bunyoni promised, have not yet yielded any substantial results. These measures did not prevent unidentified armed persons in military uniforms from killing two persons in Musaga commune and Frodebu supporter in Kanyosha quarter last night. The police have already carried out search operations in Kinama and Mutakura in which they confiscated a few weapons.
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Despite the actions of the police, violence continues to shake the country, fuelling dissatisfaction with a government whose inertia and silence have started to create disillusionment in the hearts of Burundians who expected security to improve after the 2005 elections. As a result, many Burundians are horrified by officially sanctioned impunity, continue to send signals to the government that they seek to exact justice on their own. There was an altercation between the police and average citizens in Kanyosha urban commune today and citizens attempted to burn a suspected thief of motorcycles, but the police intervened in time.
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