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PALIPEHUTU “poised to invade Bujumbura”

[Congo] M. Roger Bouka-Owoko, executive director of Observatoire congolais des droits de l’homme OCDH,co-ordinating a press conference, 5 October 2006. Laudes Martial Mbon/IRIN
Roger Bouka-Owoko, executive director of Observatoire congolais des droits de l’homme
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    The rebel group, PALIPEHUTU, has warned foreigners to leave Burundi “as soon as possible” as its armed wing, the Forces nationales de liberation (FNL), was “approaching the capital, Bujumbura”. In a press release signed by its leader Cossan Kabura, PALIPEHUTU claimed its forces “are now well-prepared to finalise the task of restoring peace in Burundi by invading Bujumbura”. It also claimed “Uganda, Rwanda and Somalia” had sent troops to Burundi and “they must quit immediately”.

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