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[ 11/23/2011 11:31:12 PM ]
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Burundi - Society
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Burundi death squads killed 300: rights group
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| Government-backed death squads have killed more than 300 members of Burundi's former rebel group and opposition supporters in covert operations over the past five months, a rights group said Tuesday.
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The group said the central African country's regime and its proxies have waged a systematic campaign of extrajudicial killings against the former rebels, who went back to the bush after pulling out of 2010 polls over fraud claims.
"A devilish killing machine is targeting opposition activists," said Onesphore Nduwayo, the head of Government Action Observatory (OAG), a civil society coalition.
"For over five months now, more than 300 demobilised FNL (National Liberation Forces) fighters have been killed," he added.
"These people were arrested by the Imbonerakure (ruling party youth wing) or by police or secret service members, and were taken to unknown places where they were killed."
Government spokesman Philippe Nzobonariba said the rights group was teaming up with an opposition alliance to defame the government.
"The OAG is repeating accusations lifted from a memorandum by the ADC-Ikibiri without proving that the 300 people killed are FNL members," Nzobonariba told reporters, referring to the opposition coalition.
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Burundi death squads killed 300: rights group
Government-backed death squads have killed more than 300 members of Burundi's former rebel group and opposition supporters in covert operations over the past five months, a rights group said Tuesday.
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