A soldier who killed six people at a displaced people’s camp in Ruyaga, near Bujumbura, last month, has been sentenced to death by a military council, Burundi radio reported. It said Private Claude Ndayisaba did not contest the crime. At the time, the incident was blamed on “confusion”. The soldier reportedly opened fire after a camp resident refused to show him his identity papers. The military council also sentenced three other soldiers to death, two of them for “premeditated murder after desertion”, and a further two received prison sentences.
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