Dubious coup

Opposition leaders are rounded up after claims of a plot to kill the President

Efforts at national reconciliation are threatened by the arrest and maltreatment of opposition leaders after the government claimed that there was a plot to overthrow it and to assassinate President Pierre Nkurunziza. One alleged conspirator was Alain Mugarabona, head of FNL-Icanzo, a dissident wing of the Forces Nationales de Libération (FNL), who was arrested in early August, with about ten others.

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Pierre Nkurunziza, Alain Mugarabona, Damien Ndarisigaranye, Anicet Niyongabo, Prudence Manirakiza, Alphonse-Marie Kadege, Déo Niyonzima, Domitien Ndayizeye, Evariste Ndayishimiye, Adolphe Nshimirimana, Alice Nzomukunda, Aloys Rubuka, Pierre Buyoya, Léonce Ngendakumana, Léonard Nyangoma, Aloys Kabura, Alexis Sinduhije, Hussein Radjabu, Kofi Annan, Nureldin Satti, Agathon Rwasa, Forces Nationales de Libération, Union pour le Progrès National, Parti pour la Réconciliation des Peuples, Solidarité Jeunesse pour la Défense des Minorités, Front pour la Démocratie au Burundi, Radio Publique Africaine, Conseil National pour la Défense de la Démocratie-Forces de Défense de la Démocratie, L'Association Burundaise de Presse, Iteka,, Société Sucrière du Mosso, Observatoire

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