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Five groups reject Arusha process

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    Five organisations representing radical Tutsis have rejected peace talks underway in Arusha, Tanzania, and threatened to take up arms to protect the interests of Burundi's genocide survivors, news agencies reported on Monday. "Burundians should not have to agree to be led by perpetrators of genocide," AFP quoted Diomede Rutamucero of the Paamasekanya Self-Defense Force as saying at a public meeting on Saturday. A peace accord signed in Arusha without the groups' voices being heard would be tantamount to a "declaration of war on the survivors of the genocide and they will have no other choice but to fight," he said. The four other organisations were UPRONA, the Rwagasore Revolutionary Youth, the Coalition Against Dictatorship and Action Against Genocide, AFP reported.

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