ugnet_: Burundi rebel says power share talks fail

[Matekopoko]

Hear hear!  One could have easily predicted this out come!

Netters, if I were to wage a bet, on the outcome of the so called Burundi peace involving Mbeki, Museveni, Mkapa and the rest of the so called African Leaders.. I would be a rich man by now!!! Oh Dear! One is simply amazed at the lack clear understanding of the Issues in Burundi which has contributed to the nightmarish situation  in that country.   What can I say... deal with  you  "Wisemen" or is it pseudo "WISEMEN"  like Museveni!! I hear warmonger Museveni is the  "Mediator" of the Burundi Peace talks!!

Matek


Burundi rebel says power share talks fail


DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 15 (Reuters) - A Burundi rebel leader said on Monday talks mediated by African leaders aimed at ending a decade of civil war had failed to work out a power-sharing solution to a conflict that has killed some 300,000 people.

"We have failed to agree on the issue of power sharing because we wanted the post of the speaker of parliament, and the government rejected our proposal," Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the Forces for the Defence of Democracy (FDD) Hutu rebels, told reporters at a summit of African presidents.

He added that the FDD also wanted the vice presidency but said the Tutsi-dominated Burundian government of President Domitien Ndayizeye had also rejected that demand.

"The transitional government wants to rule the country and parliament on its own. It doesn't want to compromise," he said after a session of talks with the presidents of Tanzania, South Africa, Uganda and Mozambique in Tanzania's main city of Dar Es Salaam.

Nkurunziza later resumed talks with the leaders and then left the talks for a second time, saying the presidents had asked him to remain in the city in case they needed to talk to him again to try to forge a compromise on power-sharing .

The FDD is one of several Hutu groups fighting to end the traditional political dominance of the Tutsi minority.

Ndayizeye, who was also in Dar Es Salaam, held separate consultations with some of the four presidents but did not take part in the talks involving Nkurunziza, officials said.

Nkurunziza said the FDD had been offered, and had rejected, the posts of second deputy speaker of parliament and minister of state in the president's office.

There was no immediate comment from Burundi government officials on Nkurunziza's comments. The summit follows talks last week between Ndayizeye and Nkurunziza held in Uganda which faltered after the two sides disagreed over power sharing.

The peace process faces many other challenges, including the refusal by another rebel group, the National Liberation Forces (FNL), to hold talks with Ndayizeye's transitional government.


  
09/15/03 17:05 ET

Hear hear!  One could have easily predicted this out come!

Netters,  if I were to wage a bet, on the outcome of the  so called Burundi peace  involving  Mbeki, Museveni,  Mkapa  and the rest of the so called African Leaders.. I would be a rich man by now!!! Oh Dear!

Matek