GREAT LAKES: IRIN-CEA Update 1,051
BURUNDI: Army-rebel clashes continue
Fighting between the army and rebels is ongoing in different parts of the
country, with the intensity of clashes varying between regions and from
day to day, army spokesman Colonel Longin Minani told IRIN on Monday.
"There has been fighting going on since last week and it is still
continuing now. We have launched an operation in different areas and will
go on until we are satisfied that we have displaced the rebels completely,
or until we do not see them anymore," he said. Minani said he had no
statistics of casualties for the ongoing operation, but that the forces
being engaged by the army were believed to be Burundi rebels working with
Rwandese ex-FAR (former Rwandan army), Congolese Mayi-Mayi and some
Ugandan rebels. "We are attacking them everywhere, whenever we get
information of their presence... The intensity changes every day," Minani
said. News organisations reported at the weekend that some 30 rebels and
seven soldiers had been killed in recent clashes.
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