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Burundi: The political crisis continues

By on August 9, 2010

The historic leader of the former Hutu rebel National Liberation Forces (FNL), Agathon Rwasa, has denounced a “provocation” of the party in power after his “dismissal” recently by a breakaway faction of his party.

Decision endorsed Thursday by the Burundian government, whose intention is to see the FNL cracked down and melt “within the CNDD-FDD, which runs the country,” said Rwasa, confronted with his fifth attempt removal in five years. The historical leader of the FNL Hutu armed movement which became a political party in 2009, went into hiding after the municipal elections held on May, but marred by massive fraud.
Moreover, the new “president” of the breakaway faction of the FNL, Emmanuel Miburo, announced the withdrawal of his formation from the opposition coalition, the Democratic Alliance for Change (ADC). He qualified the ADC of a “coalition of failed parties, and he is willing to “collaborate as widely as possible” with the ruling party  in power “for the concord and peace of the country”.
Burundi is facing a serious political crisis since the municipal election of April 24, won largely by the ruling party and the results were contested by the opposition denouncing a widespread fraud.
The presidential election of June was won by the outgoing President Pierre Nkurunziza, the only candidate. His party, the CNDD-FDD, issued from the main Hutu rebels’ segment, won the parliamentary and the senatorial elections.

 

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