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Burundi: series of attacks while the president is companying

By on June 15, 2010
Pierre Nkurunziza launched his two weeks electoral campaign to succeed to himself. He remains the only one in the race after the withdrawal of the six opposition candidates who always denounce the massive frauds during the municipal elections of last May.

Burundi organises its first democratic elections one year after the last FNL rebel movement, the national Forces of liberation, laid down arms, after more than ten years of civil war which counted a death toll of more than three hundred thousand persons.
To start his own campaign, Pierre Nkurunziza chose his native hill in North Burundi, while the opposition (ex-candidates) announced that they are going to call their partisans to the boycott of these presidential elections. Although the authorities indicated that there was no tension in Bujumbura streets on Saturday; the media reported that there were four attacks grenades which made seven wounded persons in three different districts. And about twenty offices of the ruling party, the CNDD-FDD, were burned in the province. “All is about acts of sabotage connected to the elections”. It was asserted.
These incidents intervene while Burundi knows deep political tensions. The opposition is still disputing the results of the municipal elections of May 24th, widely gained by the CNDD-FDD – the Hutu ex-rebellion and ruling party – of President Pierre Nkurunziza.

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