Burundi does not want the peacekeeping troops of the African Union

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Burundi does not want the peacekeeping troops of the African Union

Many sites out there Try, the bad Situation in the African Burundi to improve. Now the African Union is a new attempt. However, with a peacekeeping force intends to Burundi did not help.

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“There is no government approval, we can even guarantee all the security,” said foreign Minister Alaine Nyamitwe on the edge of the summit of the African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa. This had previously decided that a high-level Delegation to Bujumbura to send to the deployment of an African peacekeeping force in Burundi to advise. This Mission was already failed, said the Minister.

The East African country since April 2015 from violence shaken, after President Pierre Nkurunziza re-candidacy had been announced. Protests were brutally crushed, an attempted coup failed. In July, Nkurunziza at the Opposition boycotted elections for a third term even though the Constitution only two terms in office which provides.

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To date, more than 400 people violently lost their lives. The peacekeeping force should, according to the conceptions of the AU security Smail Chergui militias to disarm civilians to protect, human rights observers to support, and illegal weapons seizure. But it is probably nothing – despite support from the highest authority.

All Of The Options

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the deployment of a peacekeeping force as a possible Option. “I would have all the options to support peace and stability and the respect of human rights in Burundi can contribute,” he said. On Saturday, he had, in a speech to the political leaders praised the constitutional limitation of their term of respect.

The other heads of state and government would have President Nkurunziza quickly to the establishment of a Dialogue with the Opposition, urging Mr. Ban said at the sidelines of the AU summit. The longer the beginning of the talks postpone, the more people would be killed. Already suffered more than a Million people affected by the crisis in the Central African country. Human rights activists throw Nkurunzizas government for mass murders and crimes against humanity. Hundreds of thousands of Burundians are fleeing.

ml/kle (dpa, afp, epd)