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Burundi: Justice Minister at the Conference of French-Speaking Countries
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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
17 February 2008
Posted to the web 18 February 2008
Bujumbura
The Burundi's Justice Minister, Ms Clotilde Niragira, has attended the conference of the French speaking countries known as Francophonie.
Justice Ministers of the Francophonie have already started their meeting in Paris, France. This conference is held when the investigations over the killing of the French aid worker in Burundi, Agnès Bury have not given any palpable results.
Recently, the family of the late Agnès Bury demanded that the French justice should be associated in the investigations in order to try fairly those bearing the responsibility. Currently, only one lady, Clavera Ntakarutimana, arrested in connection with the killing of Agnès Bury remains in prison. This lady worked for Maison Shalom before her arrest. Clavera Ntakarutimana is charged with the killing of the French aid worker as the police found that her gun had recently served. Currently, there are no scientific police in Burundi, and the allegations that the gun had recently served have been subjected to controversies as other police sources said that there were spider webs inside the gun.
The investigations over those bearing responsibilities of the killing of the late Agnès Bury still keep surprises in store as the case of Muyinga where the former Commander of the 4th Military Region executed 31 persons has done. Currently, very few still believe that the attack targeting the governor of Ruyigi has ever taken place. Although, there are marks that the bullets left on his house, circumstances have made it implausible that the locations could be attacked without leaving marks on a stable that is near his house.
The Government of Burundi is now in a very bad situation as the case of Muyinga keeps ricocheting. The President of the Republic who in past rejected that he had not hindered the activities of the judicial system with regard to the case of Muyinga was heard as saying, in an interview that he granted to a journalist of the Voice of America, that he stopped the arrest of Col. Bangirimana in order to prevent bloodletting. He also added that Col. Bangirinama might be tried after the analyses of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which the government has not set up yet. Despite the revelations of the Head of State, the Public prosecutor of the Republic, Mr.Elysée Ndaye, says that the government of Burundi is about to finish the paperwork in order to arrest Col. Bangirimana who fled to Tanzania in mid January 2008.
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The President of Republic is gradually losing the trust that the population has invested in him. â-šUmuhuza," (mediator) which is the nickname of the current head of state that the ruling party spread in 2005 was short-lived. The head of state has remained detached at a time he should have intervened. Various cases that his government failed to solve have contributed to undermine his popularity. In country where it has become difficult to distinguish the activities of the government and the ruling party, the alleged mishandling of the case of Ruyigi may not leave the authority of his government untouched as there are underhand sources saying that the ruling party has played its part in the killing of the French aid worker, Ms Agnès Bury, whose organisation has already suspended activities in Burundi.
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