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Bujumbura (Agenzia Fides)-“There was shooting throughout the night in Bujumbura and it continued in certain districts until 9am. It is not yet known if anyone was injured or killed” Fides learned from local sources in the capital Burundi, where yesterday, 3 August, human rights activist Pierre-Claver Mbonimpa was seriously wounded.
“No one knows yet, who is shooting who. The situation is very confused” our sources say. Confusion was heightened by the murder of general Adolphe Nshimirimana, considered second in command in the regime of President Pierre Nkurunziza (see Fides 3/8/2015), but who, according to other sources, had fallen into disfavour and was therefore eliminated by his own regime.
“Doubt regarding the mandate and executors of the murder of Nshimirimana is fuelled by the circumstances of the general’s murder” our sources recall. “Nshimirimana was shot at 8am in the streets of a Bujumbura district considered pro government and under strict police control. How did the armed gang manage to reach the area, drill with bullets the car of the Head of security and escape without being stopped by anyone? These are the questions everyone is asking” our sources affirm.
In the meantime in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) opposition to President Nkurunziza, re-elected on 21 July for a third presidential mandate contrary to the Constitution, has formed a National Council for the Respect of the Arusha Agreements and the restoration of the rule of law in Burundi. (L.M.) (Agenzia Fides 4/8/2015)
