Burundi Army General shot dead
A security advisor to the Burundian vice president has been shot dead at the capital Bujumbura. Gen. Athanesa Kuraruza was shot alongside wife when they were about dropping off their daughter in school.
Burundi has been in a worst political turmoil ever since incumbent president Pierre Nkurunziza initiated his third term bid sometime in April 2015. This have seen the death of over 500 burundians with some hundreds of thousands fleeing the warring nation to neighbouring Rwanda.
In may of 2015 several coup attempts where carried out against president Nkurunziza's administration but none was successful enough to oust the incumbent. Burundian broke into protest shortly after Nkuruziza announced his term bid but he was backed by the country's constitutional court which eventually led to his re-election in June 2015.
Recent attacks have been launched against several government officials prior to the shooting of Gen. Kuraruza. It was reported last Sunday that the minister for human rights Martin Nivyabandi narrowly escaped a grenade attack as he was coming out from church.
In January 2016, fresh allegation arose from Amnesty rights international accusing the Burundian security network of both genocide and human right abuses including rape to young women. Though, they have since denied the allegation but that has not stop various human rights groups from campaigning against the violent turmoil in the country.
The international criminal court recently announced it will be conducting a full scale investigation into the violence currently bedeviling the country stressing that all those involve will be made to pay for their crimes committed against the state.
The Burundian president was the leader of the hutu rebel group who fought the a highly dominated tutsi army for many years before he eventually rode into power in 2005 as part of a peace brokered deal.
Burundi has been in a worst political turmoil ever since incumbent president Pierre Nkurunziza initiated his third term bid sometime in April 2015. This have seen the death of over 500 burundians with some hundreds of thousands fleeing the warring nation to neighbouring Rwanda.
In may of 2015 several coup attempts where carried out against president Nkurunziza's administration but none was successful enough to oust the incumbent. Burundian broke into protest shortly after Nkuruziza announced his term bid but he was backed by the country's constitutional court which eventually led to his re-election in June 2015.
Recent attacks have been launched against several government officials prior to the shooting of Gen. Kuraruza. It was reported last Sunday that the minister for human rights Martin Nivyabandi narrowly escaped a grenade attack as he was coming out from church.
In January 2016, fresh allegation arose from Amnesty rights international accusing the Burundian security network of both genocide and human right abuses including rape to young women. Though, they have since denied the allegation but that has not stop various human rights groups from campaigning against the violent turmoil in the country.
The international criminal court recently announced it will be conducting a full scale investigation into the violence currently bedeviling the country stressing that all those involve will be made to pay for their crimes committed against the state.
The Burundian president was the leader of the hutu rebel group who fought the a highly dominated tutsi army for many years before he eventually rode into power in 2005 as part of a peace brokered deal.
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