A leading pro-Tutsi party, the National Recovery Party or PARENA, has criticised the government of President Pierre Buyoya for accepting that foreign troops would be allowed into Burundi to keep the peace after eight years of civil war, Net Press reported on Monday.
In its newsletter of 6 October, PARENA accused Buyoya of "formulating damaging policies" with looming "tragic consequences".
It said the presence of the troops would be tantamount to an invasion of the country. "The troops may be coming under the flag of cooperation but they will be treated as invaders," Net Press reported the leader of PARENA, former Burundi president Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, as saying.
Officers from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa ended a two-week mission to Burundi on Thursday to review the peace process and the feasibility of sending a small peacekeeping force for Burundi.
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