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Tutsi group condemns Buyoya-FDD meeting

    NAIROBI

    The Burundi Tutsi self-defence organisation, PA-Amasekanya, on Friday released a statement in which it denounced what it called the recently formed “alliance” between President Pierre Buyoya, the leader of the rebel Forces pour la defense de la democratie (FDD), Jean-Bosco Ndayikengukiye, and the late DRC President Kabila. The Burundi news agency Net Press quoted the group as saying that the alliance had not only betrayed the Rwandese, Ugandan and Congolese “comrades at arms”, but had “literally thrown the people of Burundi into [the] genocidal hands of Kabila and Ndayikengurukiye”. It said that the “anti-genocide cordon established in eastern DRC by Rwandan, Ugandan and Burundian armies” risked being weakened by “the new alliance”.

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