Pambazuka News

Burundi: Army says killed 50 rebels in clashes

2008-05-09

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/conflict/47980

Burundi's army said on Thursday it had killed 50 fighters from the country's last active rebel group in renewed clashes outside the capital Bujumbura. The attack came barely a day after leaders of the Forces for National Liberation (FNL), an ethnic Hutu guerrilla group, said they would drop an amnesty demand and return to the tiny coffee-growing country to implement a long awaited peace deal.