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| Burundi police foil demo |
| 2011-04-09 |
| [The Nation (Nairobi)] Burundi's police on Friday foiled a demonstration planned to demand justice for an assassinated anti-corruption activist and tossed in the slammer two would-be protesters. The demonstration had been organised to commemorate the second anniversary of the killing of Ernest Manirumva, a former deputy of the central African country's Olucome corruption watchdog. He was stabbed to death in 2009. "We don't understand why the regime is preventing us from marching to demand justice for the third time in a year. "It is a right enshrined in the constitution," Pacifique Nininahazwe, who heads a civil society group, said. |
| Posted by:Fred |