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| Amnesties kill - the legacy of impunity in Zimbabwe |
| 2008-04-08 09:10:00 |
From “Breaking the Silence, Building True Peace - A report on the disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands”Before the first election in Zimbabwe there was also a general amnesty granted under the peace agreement drawn up by Lord Soames, the British High Commissioner at this time. This amnesty meant that all those who had committed human rights violations could not face prosecution, whether they were Rhodesians or ex-freedom fighters. This meant people who had done terrible things during the 1970s were not punished.Some of these Rhodesians who had tortured remained on in the Zimbabwean CIO and other units. A few used their position to act as South African agents to destabilise Zimbabwe. Others were recruited from ZANLA into 5 Brigade.In 1988, after the Unity Accord had brought an e...
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| Reuters issue bogus report on FNL "amnesty" |
| 2008-04-01 18:09:00 |
Reuters' latest report on Burundi claims that the FNL have demanded an amnesty, and that the Burundian government say they have acceded to this demand - yet the only sources given in the report refer not to an "amnesty" - which awards permanent protection from prosecution, but to "immunity". Under the terms of the peace agreements signed to date, the judicial immunity granted to Burundi's killers has always been clearly stated as a strictly temporary measure, pending the creation of a Special Court and Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Reuters' conflation of these two very different things can only serve to embolden those within Burundi's political elite who are determined to rewrite...
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| "It's the white people supplying the weapons in Africa" - breakthrough in struggle against impunity as Great Lakes gunrunner Victor Bout is arrested |
| 2008-03-07 14:29:00 |
From the Guardian, March 7 2008If Viktor Bout did not exist, a thriller writer would have invented him. A former Russian lieutenant, he became one of the world’s biggest arms dealers, flying his ancient Soviet planes into battlefields from Liberia to Afghanistan. His clients have included the Taliban and the US government, African warlords and the UN.He has as many aliases as an AK-47 has rounds, and has acquired the nicknames Merchant of Death and Lord of War. Pursued for years by the intelligence services of the world, and tracked for months by Thai detectives, yesterday the elusive 41-year-old was finally arrested in a five star hotel in Bangkok.This time Bout is accused of attempting to buy arms and explosives for leftwing Farc rebels in Colombia but...
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| Forgiveness, real and imagined |
| 2007-12-13 15:29:00 |
From the Times Literary Supplement, December 12th 2007When forgiveness becomes the public rallying cry, played out on daytime television soap operas, encouraged by civic and religious leaders, and praised far and wide for its power to heal, its slide into confusion and vulgarity is inevitable. It becomes identified with “closure”, it is sentimentalized and transformed into therapy, and the criteria for its practice are obscured. It melds into forgetfulness of wrong, and is granted all too easily, once the expected public theatrics are performed.From the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, November 23rd 2007Michael Okello 32, of Koch Goma internal refugee camp, complained that rebel team leader Martin Ojul chose a very disparaging way of asking f...
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| New Gatumba campaign website + new online petition calling for justice for the victims and survivors of Gatumba |
| 2007-12-12 04:37:00 |
From: http://www.gatumbasurvivors.org/The Gatumba Refugees Survivors foundation was founded immediately after the 2004 Gatumba Genocide on the consensus of all the survivors of this Genocide.A team of fifteen people headed its elected president Olivier Mandevu has been voted by the survivors to lead the organization.The foundation was legally incorporated in the state of New York in 2007.The goals of this organization:1) Promoting the memorial of the deceased.2) Working for the healing of the Gatumba Genocide Survivors.3) Speaking out against Genocides, oppressions, tortures and all other kinds of Human Rights Violations.4) Promoting justice with regard to the Gatumba Genocide perpetrators.5) Promoting Unity, Love and Reconciliation.The petition can be vi...
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| More on the general amnesty of the early 1990s, and other events that helped precipitate Burundi's decade-long war |
| 2007-12-06 10:57:00 |
From: http://www.unhcr.org/home/RSDCOI/3ae6a9fc3c.htmlAmnesty International Report 1994 - Burundi [looking at the events of 1993]The newly elected President and other leading figures were brutally killed by soldiers who tried to seize power in October. This sparked off widespread intercommunal violence and political killings in which tens of thousands of people, including children, were killed and hundreds of thousands became refugees. Many of the victims were executed extrajudicially by the army. Earlier, there were arrests of suspected government opponents in the first half of the year, and others were brought to trial, some being sentenced after apparently unfair trials. However, all ...
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| Victims respond to Sacramento Bee's pre-emptive attack on basic human rights |
| 2007-12-04 08:56:00 |
[UPDATED]In this article in the “Sacramento Bee”, a former US Ambassador to Burundi, Robert Krueger, urges that Burundi’s war criminals be awarded immunity from prosecution. Comments critical of this view have been posted in response, one of which has now been published. We reproduce it below:My sister Charlotte Wilson was murdered in Burundi on December 28th 2000, with her fiancé Richard Ndereyimana and 19 others, including a number of children. The killers were Hutu-extremists seeking “retribution” for the atrocities of the Tutsi-dominated army - and seeking, of course, to advance their own power. The families of the dead, and the survivors, want those responsible to be prosecuted as war criminals, fairly and impartially under international standards. We want this because we w...
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| FNL still arming and recruiting children, un-named European country denies humanitarian assistance to FNL deserters |
| 2007-12-03 06:33:00 |
UN says Burundi rebels are arming child soldiers By DANIEL K. KALINAKI The EastAfrican A draft UN Security Council report has accused Burundi’s last remaining rebel group, the Forces Nationales pour la Liberation (FNL), of recruiting and arming child soldiers. The draft report, part of which The EastAfrican has seen, will be discussed by the Security Council as early as February, which could lead to punitive action against the FNL and its leader, Agathon Rwasa, who continues to hold out against implementing terms of a peace agreement signed with President Pierre Nkurunziza’s government. “Children continue to be associated with the FNL,” the report notes. “It is reported that children are still in the ra...
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| Burundi's victims want justice - An open letter to the Sacramento Bee |
| 2007-12-01 00:30:00 |
Dear Sir/Madam,As someone who has been personally affected by the conflict in Burundi, I found it ironic that Robert Krueger’s argument for "Truth and Reconciliation" was premised on a such a grotesque distortion of the facts.Mr. Krueger’s claim that “Burundi has already seen too much retributive justice without the UN adding more” is bizarre and misleading. If by “retributive justice” Mr. Krueger means the prosecution, under fair and impartial international standards, of those suspected of crimes against humanity, then it simply isn’t true that Burundi has seen “too much” of it. As readers can see for themselves by reading the excellent reports of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, the defin...
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| Doctor Amanda runs Marathon for Rwanda in memory of murdered friend |
| 2007-03-25 09:33:00 |
Amanda Liddle (r) with Charlotte Wilson (l)In December 2000, Charlotte Wilson, a British volunteer teacher, was murdered by extremist rebels in war-torn Burundi. Now her friend Dr. Amanda Liddle, a medical researcher and trustee of the memorial fund set up in Charlotte’s name, plans to run the 2007 Flora London Marathon to raise money for the Rwandan school where she had been working.The Charlotte Wilson Memorial Fund (http://www.cwmf.org.uk/ - registered charity 1091955) has raised more than £20,000 since it was established in 2001. As well as supporting impoverished students at Shyogwe school, in Rwanda, it has funded a series of HIV awareness projects, helped rehabilitate Rwandan street children, and supported vita...
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| Afghan government votes to deny justice to victims of war crimes |
| 2007-02-03 02:09:00 |
Afghan Council Urges War Crimes AmnestyKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Parliament has voted for an amnesty for leaders accused of war crimes during a quarter-century of fighting, arguing that it would help heal the deep divisions in Afghanistan. The amnesty resolution, passed in the lower house Wednesday, covers the mujahedeen leaders who led the resistance against the Soviet occupation of the 1980s and later turned their weapons on one another, plunging the country into civil war. Lawmaker Sayed Mustafa Kazmi, who backed the resolution, said it was aimed at fostering national unity. But rights activists have called for Afghanistan's factional leaders and warlords to face prosecution for the massacres and torture they allege...
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| Agathon Rwasa demands $12 million to stop killing people - Tanzania admits bankrolling the FNL |
| 2007-01-30 17:28:00 |
From the East AfricanThe growing restlessness of the rebel leaders drove the countries involved in the regional initiative to arrange a meeting in Dar-es-Salaam last week in which the FNL leaders were persuaded to fulfil their obligations under the ceasefire agreement and return to Bujumbura. Sources close to the process told The EastAfrican that it was made specifically clear to the rebels that their $12 million claim to, among others, clear war debts, would not be honoured under the terms of the deal. Another source in the Tanzanian government also revealed to The EastAfrican that “it was made clear to the rebel leaders that they could not continue to lounge in the hotels here, while we paid all their bills and gave them a per diem.” ...
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| International pressure can work: Drama as Burundi court acquits key figures in fictitious coup plot - Torture victims vow international legal action |
| 2007-01-20 03:25:00 |
Pressure forces acquittal of Burundi coup plotters - SA Mail and GuardianPressure from the international community, NGOs and civil society led to the acquittal recently of five alleged coup plotters imprisoned in Burundi in August this year. The men were arrested and charged with plotting to overthrow the government, but the accusations were widely believed to have been fabricated by elements in the government. Well-placed sources in Burundi said the judge’s decision to acquit five of the accused was a “political decision due to international pressure.”Five of seven alleged coup plotters, including ex-president Domitien Ndayizeye, were found not guilty of plotting to overthrow the government and were released...
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| A new blog for the new year: "African Path" launches, giving serious news and comment on Africa |
| 2007-01-09 07:18:00 |
New "African Path" blogThe African Path web site has launched. African Path is created to fill a void in the marketplace for a strong Pan-African web site where news content and blogging can be merged into a unified voice. A lot of African bloggers are discussing issues relevant to the continent but online exposure to these blogs is limited. African Path aims to provide this much needed exposure. We aim to fill the void left by big media in covering information on Africa and providing a forum in which Africans can discuss issues concerning themselves both within and outside the continent.The African Path website features news headlines from global and major A...
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| Small sign of hope as court aquits 3 Burundi journalists |
| 2007-01-03 17:17:00 |
Bujumbura - A Burundi court on Wednesday acquitted three journalists jailed last year for reporting on allegations of a coup plot in the tiny Central African nation.Serge Nibizi and Domitile Kiramvu, both of African Public radio (RPA), were arrested in November, accused of violating legislation on secret information by reporting on a coup plot case while investigations were pending.Mathias Manirakiza, director of Radio Isanganiro was detained a week later, facing charges of allowing the station to broadcast information that would breach state security.All three, whose arrests were Burundi's latest legal tussle between media and authorities, had pleaded innocent."The court has received...
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| A bad day for Rwasa's Rwandan counterparts - Four genocide suspects arrested in the UK |
| 2006-12-29 05:29:00 |
From BBC OnlineFour men accused of taking part in the Rwanda genocide in 1994 have been arrested in the UK. Scotland Yard said the arrests followed a request from the Rwandan government for their extradition. Vincent Bajinya was arrested in north London, Charles Munyaneza in Bedford, Celestin Ugirashebuja in Essex and Emmanuel Nteziryayo in Manchester. All four - accused of killing members of the Tutsi ethnic group - will appear before magistrates in London on Friday. Mr Bajinya is also known as Dr Vincent Brown. A provisional extradition warrant accuses them of killing members of the Tutsi ethnic group "with the intent to destroy in whole or in part, that group". Scotland Yard said the extradition warrants had been issued by City of Westminster magistrates under Section 73 of the Extradit...
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| Justice for the victims of the December 28th 2000 Titanic Express massacre |
| 2006-12-27 01:46:00 |
From WikipediaThe Titanic Express massacre was an event which took place on 28 December 2000, in which 21 people were killed in an attack on a bus, the “Titanic Express”, close to the Burundi capital Bujumbura.The passengers, who had travelled from Kigali in Rwanda, were robbed of their valuables and then separated according to their ethnicity. Hutus and most Congolese were released unharmed. The Tutsis on board, and one British woman, Charlotte Wilson, who was traveling with her Burundian fiancé, were forced to lie face down on the ground and then shot. According to news reports, one of the Hutu passengers had been told to "tell the army we're going to kill them all and there's nothing you can do."The attack took ...
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| "Little truth and no reconciliation" |
| 2006-12-23 09:37:00 |
From The Guardian, Comment is FreeSix years ago, my sister Charlotte was dragged from a bus and shot dead in the tiny Central African state of Burundi. Twenty other passengers, among them her Burundian fiance, died with her. The killers were members of Palipehutu-FNL, a Hutu-extremist group seeking revenge on the country's then-dominant Tutsi minority. The massacre was unusual only inasmuch as it caught the attention of the international media. Since the start, in 1993, of the latest cycle of massacre and reprisal-massacre, 300,000 civilians have been killed. The vast majority of attacks have gone unreported. This time last year, it looked as if the cycle might finally have been broken. Following Burundi's first elections in more than a decade, the country's larger and more moderate Hutu-l...
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| Burundi Defence Minister blows the lid off CNDD-FDD's fraudulent coup plot allegations |
| 2006-12-18 16:07:00 |
From ReutersBurundi's defence minister on Sunday broke ranks with his government to deny accusations that a former president and six accomplices, whose trial resumes this week, had plotted to bring down the administration."We have in the army a secret services bureau, I would like to assure you that we don't have any indication of the existence of a coup," Major General Germain Niyoyankana told reporters."And no elements of the army are involved in that coup plot if there is one," he added.President Pierre Nkurunziza's government has come under increasing criticism from rights' groups and western nations for its handling of the alleged plot, which some fear might plunge the tiny central African nation into conflict agai...
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| "Burundi Youth" exposes Tutsi militia leader Deo Niyonzima over the recruitment of child soldiers and attacks against civilians |
| 2006-12-12 11:32:00 |
From "Burundi Youth"At around age 15 years old, Tutsi Leaders sent me around the capital Town of Burundi, to buy grenades. I thank God that I am alive and that I never participated in any killings. Those who sent me, had said that we had to protect ourselves against the possible attack of Hutu rebels, but I later found out that some of the grenades were used to attack civilians in the capital town such as Bwiza, Buyenzi, etc, I can name people like Deo Niyonzima (of the movement for Youth resistance, Sojedem)who at the time, was part of "Freres Dominicains", of his involvement to pick grenades and distribute it to Young ...
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| Burundi independent radio director "missing" after being summoned by CNDD-FDD prosecutor |
| 2006-12-11 12:59:00 |
From The Independent Federation of JournalistsIFJ Calls for End of Intimidation Campaign Against Independent Journalism in Burundi The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the government of Burundi to put an end to the repression of journalists after the government has stepped up its campaign of intimidation against journalists who have issued critical reports of an attempted coup in the country. Three journalists have been jailed and four others summoned by the prosecutor in the capital city of Bujumbura in less than two weeks in relation to reporting they did about an attempted coup in the country. Corneille Nibaruta,...
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| New blog, "Burundi Youth", gives eyewitness testimonies from the 1993 crisis |
| 2006-12-02 06:44:00 |
From Désiré Katihabwa, Burundi Youth Blog"...I will never forget how I walked down to the Presidential Palace, on the morning of 21 October 1993, where President Melchior Ndadaye resided. The palace had been surrounded by obvious Military soldiers, they were drinking beers and they looked very happy.You could see where Military tanks had broken into the palace, this was terrifying to me that such things could happen in the capital of Burundi.Tutsi were rejoicing that they killed President Ndadaye, when a Neighbour of mine, whose Father had been accused of the Military plot, then said:"You shouldn't be laughing because there will be consequences in the villages where Tutsi might be killed"W...
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| Amnesty International condemns Burundi press repression |
| 2006-11-30 07:54:00 |
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: AFR 16/022/2006 (Public) News Service No: 307 30 November 2006 Burundi: Freedom of expression under attack once more Amnesty International is concerned at reports of the arbitrary arrest and detention of Mathias Manirakiza, the Director of Isanganiro, a private radio station in Burundi, on 29 November. He is currently detained in Mpimba Central Prison in Bujumbura. Mathias Manirakiza has been charged with disturbing public order after broadcasting on 29 August 2006 information about alleged plans to attack the Office of the President, Pierre ...
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| Burundi government intensifies attack on press freedom - third radio journalist illegally detained |
| 2006-11-30 02:40:00 |
From The Committe to Protect Journalists The Committee to Protect Journalists demands that three radio journalists jailed in Burundi in the past week, including Matthias Manirakiza detained today, be released immediately.“This looks more and more like a campaign to silence respected independent broadcasters who have spearheaded investigative reporting on human rights abuses and corruption,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel Simon. “We call on the government of Burundi to release Matthias Manirakiza and two journalists from Radio Publique Africaine immediately and unconditionally.” Manirakiza, director of Radio Isanganiro, was held over a sto...
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| UN condemns "endemic" sexual violence, torture and killings in Burundi, calls for justice |
| 2006-11-28 12:31:00 |
From ReutersBUJUMBURA, 27 November (IRIN) - Human-rights violations have continued in Burundi, despite a new democratically elected government, according to a senior United Nations official in the country.Sexual violence is commonplace, while arbitrary killings, arrests and torture are also happening, according to Ismael Diallo, the director of the human-rights division of the UN Operation in Burundi (ONUB)."The human-rights situation has really not improved since the previous government; it has more or less remained the same, except for abuses by the intelligence services, which have become noticeably worse," Diallo said.Burundi is emerging from 13 ...
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| International Federation of Journalists condemns arrest of Nibizi and Kuramvu |
| 2006-11-28 12:28:00 |
From IFEXThe International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the jailing and harassment of journalists by the Burundi government in an apparent reaction to broadcasts that suggested a failed coup attempt was actually staged by the government.Two journalists were imprisoned on Wednesday, apparently in relation to a discussion about a coup attempt that was broadcast live in August on the privately-owned radio station Radio Publique Africaine (RPA). Two other journalists were summoned to appear in court on Friday over their involvement in the case.On Wednesday, RPA editor-in-chief Serge Nibizi and journalists Domitille Kiramvu and André-Palice Ndimurukundo were ...
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| UN Torture Committee raises concerns over widespread abuses, condemns immunity for rape and torture, urges creation of special war crimes court |
| 2006-11-27 07:18:00 |
In its conclusions on the initial report of Burundi, the Committee took note of the proposed amendments to Burundi's Penal Code, and of Burundi's intention to include articles prohibiting acts of torture, and other acts of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, including with regard to violence against women and children. Further, it acknowledged the delegation's statement that the Code of Criminal Procedure would be likewise revised over the course of 2007. The Committee welcomed the creation of the Ministry for National Solidarity, Human Rights and Gender, the Government Commission on Human Rights and the Centre for the Promotion of Human Rights and the Prevention of Genocide. The ...
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| UN urges South Africa to prosecute Apartheid torturers |
| 2006-11-25 03:29:00 |
From www.news24.comGeneva - South Africa should put those suspected of torturing prisoners under apartheid on trial and pay compensation to victims, said a United Nations human rights body on Friday. While welcoming the work of SA's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which probed apartheid era crimes, the UN committee against torture said "de facto impunity" persisted for those responsible for acts of torture. "(South Africa) should consider bringing to justice persons responsible for the institutionalisation of torture as an instrument of oppression to perpetuate apartheid," the committee said in its first report on SA. Its conclusions were issued at the end of a three-we...
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| CNDD-FDD government murders 16, jails journalists who exposed ruling party's lies |
| 2006-11-22 13:35:00 |
The day after Amnesty International revealed more details about the 16 alleged "FNL suspects" murdered by Burundian security forces in August, the Burundian government has jailed two journalists from the country's leading independent radio station, Radio Publique Africaine, who helped expose fraudulent claims by the ruling CNDD-FDD party of an alleged coup plot. In August, senior members of every major opposition party in Burundi - together with leaders of several more minor parties - were arrested and charged with conspiring to overthrow the government. The authorities have failed to present any evidence to support these charges, which are widely believed to be nothing more than a...
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| Free Serge Nibizi and Domitile Kiramvu! |
| 2006-11-22 13:31:00 |
From Reporters Sans FrontieresTwo radio journalists jailed in Bujumbura on state security chargeReporters Without Borders condemns today’s arrest of Serge Nibizi, editor-in-chief of privately-owned Radio Publique Africaine (RPA), and Domitile Kiramvu, one of his journalists, on charges of “disseminating news threatening state security” and “violating the confidentiality of a judicial investigation.”“President Pierre Nkurunziza claims to be committed to democratic values, so he should realise that throwing two journalists in prison for purely political reasons, before they have been tried, is contrary to all democratic standards,” the press freedom organisation said.“Burundi’s donors must put pressure on the president’s office to have Nib...
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| Burundi government makes renewed promise on war crimes tribunal... |
| 2006-11-14 06:04:00 |
With regard to the Gatumba massacre, the delegation said the State had issued a report which concluded that members of the Palipehutu FNL had been found guilty of these crimes. Now that there had been a ceasefire signed with this group, these cases were pending and would be looked at when a tribunal for war crimes was established. http://www.nieuwsbank.nl/en/2006/11/10/L018.htm...but serious doubts remain about the seriousness of this commitment:More than a year after the CNDD-FDD party came to power in Bujumbura, negotiations between the Burundian government and the UN on the creation of semi-international lega...
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| FNL demand "total immunity" from prosecution |
| 2006-11-12 13:29:00 |
From BBC Afrique: Burundi : amnistie "provisoire" pour les rebelles des FNLL'Assemblée nationale s'est prononcée pour un projet de loi accordant une immunité "provisoire" aux rebelles des Forces nationales de libération (FNL).Le vote de ce texte s'inscrit dans le cadre de l'accord de cessez-le-feu conclu le 7 septembre entre le gouvernement et les FNL, dernier mouvement rebelle encore en activité dans le pays."L'immunité provisoire accordée aux rebelles des FNL couvre les infractions à mobile politique commises entre le 1er juillet 1962 (indépendance du Burundi) et le 7 septembre dernier", a précisé la ministre burundaise de la Justice, Mme Clotilde Niragira.Elle a cependant relevé que cette loi ne concerne pas les crimes de génocide, les crimes contre l'humanité et les crime...
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| UN "peacekeeping troops" supply weapons to Hutu extremist killers in Burundi |
| 2006-11-02 03:37:00 |
In an exposé that has left South Africa's defence minister, Mosiuoa Lekota, raging, South Africa's "Star" newspaper has revealed that millions of rands worth of guns, bombs, military vehicles and ammunition have been "lost" by South African peacekeeping troops in Burundi. A stash of 50 of the missing mortar bombs were found in the hands of Agathon Rwasa's Palipehutu-FNL, which has killed hundreds of civilians in recent years. Amid longstanding rumours of corrupt links between South African UN employees and the Hutu-extremist militia group, these revelations will be of little surprise to many in Burundi. Take action - Fax your MP!Take action - sign the Gatumba petitionBurundi, human rights, Current Affairs, Politics, Afri...
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| UN initiates arms trade treaty |
| 2006-10-28 13:27:00 |
From BBC OnlineA United Nations committee has voted overwhelmingly to begin work on drawing up an international arms trade treaty. The measure would close loopholes in existing laws which mean guns still end up in conflict zones despite arms embargoes and export controls. It could also stop the supply of weapons to countries whose development is being hampered by arms spending. Only the US - a major arms manufacturer - voted against the treaty, saying it wanted to rely on existing agreements. A total of 139 states voted for the motion. There were 24 abstentions. Major weapons manufacturers such as Britain, France and Germany voted to begin work on the treaty, as did major emerging arms exporters Bulgaria and Ukraine. Russia and China, also major arms manufa...
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| Why Agathon Rwasa? |
| 2005-06-29 12:02:00 |
Technorati tags: Burundi, human rights, Current Affairs, Politics, AfricaSee also: Who is Agathon Rwasa?Q: Why single out Agathon Rwasa? Don't all sides in Burundi have blood on their hands? An estimated 300,000 people, mostly civilians, have died in Burundi since the current round of fighting began in 1993. Alongside the thousands of Tutsi civilians deliberately killed by Rwasa's FNL, thousands of others have been murdered by Burundi's largest rebel group, CNDD-FDD, according to human rights groups. And thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Hutu civilians have died in "reprisal attacks" by the Tutsi-dominated Burundian army. There are a number of different versions of the "Why Rwasa?" challenge. The most radical...
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| About |
| 2005-06-23 10:49:00 |
This website is managed by Richard Wilson, whose sister Charlotte, a British aid worker, was killed with her fiancé Richard Ndereyimana and 19 other civilians by FNL forces in the December 28th 2000 "Titanic Express" massacre. Contributions are also gratefully acknowledged from "Action Contre Genocide" and a number of others who wish to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals. Frequently asked questionsSee also: Why Agathon Rwasa?Q: Who is Agathon Rwasa?Agathon Rwasa assumed leadership of the Burundian rebel group Palipehutu-FNL (commonly known simply as "FNL"), in the spring of 2001, after deposing the group's previous leader, Cossan Kabura. Prior to that time he was the FNL "chief of operations" around the Burundian capital Bujumbura. The FNL is a Hutu-extremist group linked to the milit...
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