· December, 2005

Stories about Burundi from December, 2005

Titanic Express massacre

15 December 2005

Agathon Rwasa demands justice over the Titanic Express massacre 5 years ago….”On December 28th 2000, twenty-one unarmed civilians, including Arthur Kabunda, Ibrahim Mugabo, Judith Nduwayo, Laetitia Mbyeyinzima, Charlotte Wilson and Richard Ndereyimana were massacred after their bus was ambushed at Mageyo, close to the Burundian capital Bujumbura. The attackers opened...

Voices From Zimbabwe Plus

  14 December 2005

Zimbabwe: With the elections gone and the country firmly in their grip, the ruling ZANU-PF unravelled their newest ploy to silence hostilities from their own citizens. Trevor Ncube, the publisher of two of Zimbabwe's independent newspapers The Independent and The Standard, and leading South African titles the Mail and Guardian,...

Burundi: UN corruption

2 December 2005

Agathon Rwasa calls for the UN Secretary General to demand an explanation from Carolyn Mcaskie who heads the UN office in Burundi…..”Never apologise. Never explain”? – Still no answers from the UN on how the FNL obtained UN Peacekeeper uniforms. Still no apology to Burundians”.