13 February 2008
Bujumbura — The police arrested one so-called FNL dissident in Gatumba today.
Two dissidents have left Buramata in Bubanza province for Gatumba where they tried to blackmail a local inhabitant called Ruteteza. These dissidents threatened to kill him in case he would not give them three million of francs. Mr. Ruteteza succeeded to inform the police which succeeded to arrest one of the so-called FNL dissidents. The dissidents were armed of one pistol. The police have not yet arrested the armed dissident as well as the taxi driver who brought them to Gatumba.
Insecurity has escalated in Gatumba over the last past days. On 9 February, an unidentified gang killed a lady who was going home along with her husband. The gang later told the husband of the victim who was hiding in the bush that they took him for a member of the parliament called Léandres. In the same night, unidentified persons carried out massive robberies in Gatumba and the surroundings. In the night of Sunday 10 February, heavy gunshots were heard in Gatumba. There was however no victim.
The management of the so called FNL dissidents has started to raise concerns after PALIPEHUTU-FNL and the facilitator reached agreement over the resumption of talks and the activities of the Joint Verification and Monitoring Mechanism. The so-called FNL who expected to replace those loyal to Agathon Rwasa in the Joint Verification and Monitoring Mechanism after they believed in the false promises that the facilitation and the government of Burundi sustained fear now for their future. Sources say that the rearmament of these so-called FNL dissidents has started in the two sites of Buramata and Randa. Recently, the representative of the African Union in Burundi, Ambassador Mamadou Bah, demanded the South African peacekeepers who are responsible of the security in the two sites to be more vigilant in their supervision of the sites in order to address the situation.
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