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Burundi: Teachers Suspend Their Planned Strike


Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
 

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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)

14 February 2008
Posted to the web 15 February 2008

Bujumbura

Teachers have suspended a strike that they have planned to start on 15 February.

Teachers' trade unions have planned to stage a strike to protest against the rape that teachers of Gihungwe primary school were subjected to. This move follows the progress of the investigations that the police have undertaken in order to arrest those bearing responsibilities. The unions say that strike would impact on the good progress of the police investigations.

Some parents and pupils looted five teachers of the Gihungwe primary school at the beginning of the last week. In the same incident, the assailants raped two female teachers. Following this incident, all teachers of Gihanga commune staged a two-day strike which ended on Tuesday.

The educational system remains in disorder. After the recent incidents that shook the University of Burundi, a more pronounced disparagement of teachers is noticed in primary schools and the secondary schools. Recently, pupils threatened to kill teachers in Cibitoke and Makamba provinces.



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