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Infiltrators from Tanzania, Rutana governor says

    NAIROBI

    The main security problem in southeastern Rutana Province was “rebel infiltrations from Tanzania,” Burundi news agency ABP on Wednesday quoted Governor Leonidas Hakizimana as saying. With an increased number of government troops in the area, the rebels had retreated into Tanzania, “certainly to reorganise,” he said, adding that “the army should track down the assailants” and young people should be trained in self-defence. Hakizimana said the population of Rutana was “slowly recovering” from the Muziye massacre of 12 October in which 9 people, including two UN staff members, were murdered.

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