- Title: BURUNDI: AFTERMATH OF ATTACK ON HUTU STRONGHOLDS BY TUTSI-DOMINATED ARMY
- Date: 6th December 1995
- Summary: BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI (DECEMBER 6 AND 7, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) (DECEMBER 7, 1995) (MUTE) 1. GV WIDE OF HOUSES IN MATANGA DISTRICT 0.04 2. SLV BURNT AND DAMAGED HOUSES 0.09 (NATURAL) 3. SLV TWO DEAD BODIES BY SIDE OF HOUSE 0.16 (MUTE) 4. SLV FOUR MORE DEAD BODIES 0.23 5. SV DAMAGED HOUSE 0.28 6.
- Embargoed: 21st December 1995 12:00
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- Location: BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI
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- Country: Burundi
- Reuters ID: LVABZ8K19FA3SDHRGTFJAVS11HIM
- Story Text: Twenty-six people were killed in fighting in the capital of Burundi when the Tutsi-dominated army attacked rebel Hutu strongholds, state radio said on Thursday (December 7).
"Twenty-five assailants were killed by security forces while one civilian was killed by the wrongdoers (rebels)," the radio said, quoting military sources.
Western diplomats said the death toll from fighting in Bujumbura's eastern suburbs of Matanga, Kanyonsha and Buzigo the day before the offensive, on Wednesday (December 6), was certainly higher than 20.
Witnesses saw armoured personnel carriers backed by helicopter gunships move into the suburbs.
Burundi's ethnic violence pits the Tutsi government army against members of the majority Hutu community who have tried in vain for years to end Tutsi domination of state power.
Western diplomats said it was the biggest operation to date to flush out Hutu rebels in Bujumbura.
Burundi has remained unstable since renegade soldiers murdered the country's first elected president Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, in 1993. More than 100,000 people are estimated to have died in ethnic violence since his killing.
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