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Rwandan military not helping, Buyoya says

    NAIROBI
    Burundian President Pierre Buyoya on Saturday denied that his country was receiving military aid from Rwanda to help it fight Hutu militia groups. Speaking on Saturday in the Rwandan capital Kigali after meeting with President Pasteur Bizimungu, Buyoya said his country had "all the means" necessary to defeat the rebels. He said "there is no danger of seeing the terrorists destabilising neither the country nor Bujumbura city". Buyoya also disputed the view recently expressed by former Burundian President Sylvestre Ntibantuganya that Burundi was heading towards a 1994 Rwanda-like situation. "I do not share his views," he told journalists. "We have no indications to affirm that," Buyoya said.

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