Don't miss
- Washington “follows with interest” Morocco’s openness onto Africa (John Kerry)Posted 11 years ago
- The trial of South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius opened in Pretoria on Monday.Posted 11 years ago
- USA welcomes efforts of King Mohammed VI in MaliPosted 11 years ago
- Egypt’s population reaches 94 millionPosted 11 years ago
- Mugabe celebrates his 90thPosted 11 years ago
- Moroccan Monarch to Build a Perinatal Clinic in BamakoPosted 11 years ago
- King Mohammed VI handed a donation of bovine semen for the benefit of Malian breeders.Posted 11 years ago
- Moroccan King’s strategic tour to Africa: Strengthening the will of pan African Solidarity and stimulating the south-south cooperation mechanisms over the continentPosted 12 years ago
- Senior al-Qaida leader killed in AlgeriaPosted 12 years ago
- Libya: The trial of former Prime Minister al-Baghdadi AliPosted 12 years ago
Burundi: Tension does not stop rising in the country
By African Bulletin on June 18, 2010
The Burundian police charged on Wednesday, June 16th, 2010, about 200 activists of the National Liberation Forces (ex-rebels), who came down, from the surrounding hills of Bujumbura city, to protect their leader, Agathon Rwasa, from a possible arrest. According to numerous eye witnesses, the police charged the partisans using teargas and shooting real bullets. The Burundian police would have even used rocket launchers, and the toll balance was heavy: about fifteen persons were badly wounded and forty other activists arrested.
The police spokesman reacted by denouncing what he qualified as “false declaration”. He stated that “The police did not use any fire arms, or machine guns at all”, but he recognised the questioning of thirty two persons among whom seven women.
In the evening of June 16th, the tension was tangible in the Burundian capital. The leader of the FNL and his close relatives could not answer the telephone calls , while police was surrounding the access to his residence.