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WORLD / Africa
Burundian politicians homes attacked
(AP)
Updated: 2007-08-21 09:17
BUJUMBURA - Grenade attacks on the homes of five prominent Burundian
opposition politicians wounded two bystanders but did not injure their
intended target, a police official said.
Police spokesman Pierre Chanel Mtarabaganyi said attackers dressed in
civilian clothes carried out a "meticulously prepared" attack, in which
five explosions occurred within 10 minutes on Monday. The vice chairman
of opposition party The Front for Democracy in Burundi, or Frodebu, was
among the intended victims, he said.
For the past two years, the African nation in the central Great Lakes
region has been relatively peaceful, after a 12-year civil war. The
conflict erupted in 1993 after paratroopers from the Tutsi ethnic
minority assassinated the country's first democratically elected
president, from the Hutu majority.
Burundi's government is currently in the grip of a power struggle after
the ruling party jailed its chairman for trying to destabilize the
country.
The sacking split the party into two factions, one of which has allied
itself to opposition parties blocking legislation. The opposition says
the system is weighted against them and the government is not doing
enough to tackle corruption.
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