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Hutu rebels attack
Burundi village,
150 civilians die
BUJUMBURA, Burundi
(AP) A 1,000-strong band of Hutu rebels at
tacked an army base outside the capital of Tutsi
ruled Burundi on Thursday (Jan. 1), launching
an hours-long battle that killed at least 150
civilians. ‘
Thirty rebels and twosoldiersalsodied, Lt. Col.
Mamert Sinrinzi told Burundian radio.
Burundi’s Hutu majority and minority Tutsi
led military government have been locked in
warfare for more than four years, ever since Tutsi
paratroopers killed the Central African nation’s
first Hutu president.
The conflict has killed at least 150,000 since
then, mostly civilians.
On Thursday, Hutu rebels attacked a base
outside Bujumbura, near Burundi’s main air
port. The army beat back the assault after hours
of heavy artillery fire.
The rebels then retreated through Gitaramu
village, embroiling villagers in the fighting.
Burundi’s ambassador to Britain, Jean-Luc
Ndizye, said at least 150 civilians — also Hutus —
died there.
Authorities were still counting bodies, strewn
in the fields of the community.
It was not immediately clear which side killed
the villagers.
In the past, Hutu rebels have killed Hutu
civilians they suspect of having failed to support
their rebellion.
But most of those attacks have been organized
strikes on specific locations; in this case, it ap
peared that the villagers happened to be in the
path of the Hutu rebels’ retreat.
Although rebels regularly strike in northwest
ern and southern Burundi, Thursday’s blood
shed was the first rebel attack on a military target
near the capital in two years.
The rebels’ decision to attack near the capital
may have stemmed from the fact that their turf
has been restricted by the new ruler in neighbor
ing Congo, formerly known as Zaire.
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Moi on top in Kenya vote
®Kenyan election results
reveal that Daniel arap Moi’s
20-year reign is likely to
continue for a fifth term.
By Hrvoje Hranjski
ASSOCIATED PRESS Writer
NAIROBI, Kenyo
Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's president for 20
years, appeared to have clinched a fifth
straight term Friday, but key rivals refused
to concede defeat and demanded new elec
tions amid widespread complaints of vote
rigging.
The first official but partial results re
leased by the Electoral Commission in this
week’s vote had Moi leading with 39 percent
to Mwai Kibaki's 33 percent. Raila Odinga
was third, with 11.5 percent.
Kibaki said both he and Odinga were
asking the commission to call new elections
in 21 days because of numerous irregulari
ties in voting and ballot counting.
“We do believe Moi is going to be reason
able,” said Kibaki, Moi’s vice president for
10 years. “The country is at a crossroads.
We don’t want to anticipate anything. We
will take further steps when we get there.”
Eight people have been killed in election
related violence in Kenya’s third multiparty
electionssinceindependencein 1963. Monday’s
vote had to be extended an extra day when
ballot boxes failed to show up and ballots were
sent to the wrong constituencies.
The painstaking process of counting the
ballots by hand continued Friday after a
third sleepless night for thousands of vote
counters. Riot police were deployed Thurs
day to guard uncounted ballots.
Friday’s results were based on returns
from 126 of 210 constituencies. Complete
official results were not expected until the
weekend. .
Unofficial tallies broadcast by the private
Kenya Television Network gave Moi the
requisite 25 percent of the vote in five of the
country’s eight provinces. He also had more
votes than the other 10 candidates, and he
won his parliamentary seat.
As in 1992, when Moi easily defeated a
divided opposition, his 14 opponents appar
ently never considered fielding just one or
two candidates against him.
“Those opposition leaders are to blame,”
said fruit and vegetable vendor David
Ocheyo. “If they had agreed on just one
candidate, we wouldn’t be having five more
years of Moi.”
The Kenya Human Rights Commission
blasted the “chaotic administration” of the
general elections and called for a government
of national unity “to address our present
political crisis.”
Kenyan and foreign observers have ex
pressed reservations about how the vote was
conducted but have stopped short of calling
for a rerun.
Both Kibaki and Odinga charged that wide
spread irregularities had affected “enough
votes to make a difference,” but they offered
no specifics,
Moi'sruling Kenya African National Union
party criticized the opposition leaders for
“threatening chaos even before the results
are announced.”
The opposition Safina party, which was
legalized only at the last minute, called Fri
day for all parties to negotiate a package of
serious political reforms as the basis for new
elections in two years.
“In our view, nuilification of the just com
pleted elections makes no sense,” a Safina
statement said. “Let us have a new General
Election in which there will be a chance for
the people to truly express their wishes after
the reforms, not before as some are suggest
ing.”
Eight of Moi’s 22 ministers lost their par
liamentary seats, but returns were too spotty
to determine whether KANU would retain
its control over Parliament.
Assassination plot against
Niger president thwarted,
MLAMEY, Niger
(AP) Five commandos claiming they were
hired by a former prime minister to assassi
nate Niger’s president have been arrested,
according to the government.
State television reported Thursday (Jan. 1)
that former Prime Minister Hama Amadou
was behind a plot to kill President Ibrahim
Mainassara, his younger brother, Yahaya
Bare, Interior Minister Idi Ango Oma and an
aide, Cherif Chako.
Few details were released, but several of the
commandos were shown on television, includ
ing the man identified as their leader, Ali
Mamane.
“My mission was to sow carnage,” he said.
“Hama Amadou promised me a large fortune
iflaccomplished this mission.” Hedid not say
when the plot was to be carried out.
The report said all five commandos had
confessed.
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