Burundi: Have the Terrorists of the Islamic State Group ever arrived in Burundi?
The question deserves to be asked and deserves an answer when one looks at the modus operandi of criminals in Burundi.
Indeed, the newspaper Le Monde reported in April 2020, attacks by jihadist groups in northern Mozambique killing 52 people. Orlando Mudumane, a police spokesman, told AFP that “the victims were shot, some of them beheaded.” It is also reported that these terrorists are leaving Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province to launch attacks on southern neighbouring Tanzania. In a press briefing held on 21 October 2020 on the island of Pemba, in the Zanzibar archipelago, Simon Sirro, Tanzanian police chief, said that ”the attack took place in Kitaya, in the Mtwara region, killing several people’.
If we make you read these writings, it is not to scare you that the jihadists are close (because they are coming to Tanzania), that they will soon attack Burundi. Far from it. This is to tell you that the jihadists are indeed present in Burundi because the modus operandi of these groups is not at all different from what we observe in our country. To kill, the Islamic State group puts people away and executes them by gunfire or they behead them and take videos to be broadcast on social networks, a way to show their level of wickedness so that everyone is afraid of this group. That is why they are called terrorists.
How is this different from what the Burundian criminals (probably the SNR) who abducted, tied up, then executed and smashed the jaws of Jean Pierre Bukuru. They then took pictures of his body and posted them on social media. Jean Pierre Bukuru was abducted on 24 October 2020 in Kamenge by people in the vehicle of Kazungu, an NSS agent, according to eyewitnesses. Photos of his body had been circulating on social media since November 5, 2020. His older brother was also abducted in 2018 in Rukeco in Ngozi province, and they didn’t even see his body, his relatives said.
The practice is common in Burundi: killing men and then beheading them; rape girls and women, kill them and then behead them. We can give you a few examples of this atrocity: on 7 November 2020, the body of Jacqueline Minani, 45, was discovered in a bush in Kizi, Gasorwe commune in Muyinga province. The killers beheaded her, she would also be raped before she was killed. Those who committed this crime have not been identified so far. Evariste Nyandwi, who is believed to be a member of the cnddfdd (because his corpse was wearing a party T-shirt), was killed and beheaded on 9 November 2020 by men whom some witnesses believe to be imbonerakure. His body was discovered in Makaka in Mabayi commune in Cibitoke province. He is alleged to have been charged with theft. Hafashimana Domitile, a 65-year-old woman, was killed and then beheaded at her home in Gahanda, Kiryama, Songa commune in Bururi province, dated November 7, 2020. These unidentified criminals also killed his grandson. On 12 October 2020, a body of Bizimana Leoncia, 55, was discovered 200m from her home in the Nyamugari district of Gitega city, the country’s political capital. She was allegedly raped before being slit. Criminals remain unaccounted for, the police like to say that investigations are ongoing. Regine Ndabazi, a 65-year-old woman, was killed and beheaded on the night of August 30-31, 2020 on Sehe Hill, Masango area, Bukinanyana commune of Cibitoke province. On 8 August 2020, a body of a 12-year-old boy was discovered, beheaded by criminals on Kanyabitumba Hill, in the Mudende area of Buyengero commune in Rumonge province. A decapitated corpse of Prime Sindibagira was discovered at Kivuvu Hill, Mutoyi area, Bugendana commune, Gitega Province dated 27 July 2020.
July was a very special month for women. Bukuru de Ngozi, Spes Nshimirimana of Karuzi, Annita Nsavyimana of Muramvya, Marie Annick Ndayishemeze of Rutana were all raped and then killed beheaded. These were just illustrative examples, the list goes on.
The only difference between members of the Islamic State group and the terrorist criminals of the Ndayishimiye’s power is that the former kill people en masse while they kill one by one, but on a regular basis. The effects are ultimately the same.
The practice was reportedly taught in Burundi by the Genocidal Interahamwe FDRL group, which are both within the security forces and within the imbonerakure militia.
URN HITAMWONEZA calls on the UN Security Council, which continues to deploy means to combat terrorism around the world, to reserve the same fate for Burundian terrorists who constantly rape women and girls before killing and beheading them. They do the same for men; and corpses are thrown into rivers and others into bushes. Most are tied up with their arms behind. When these bodies are discovered, the administration rushes to have them buried without any identifications because most of the time, it is abducted persons who are killed by the state services (SNR or Imbonerakure). The first person responsible is only Evariste Ndayishimiye and his military clique. Fighting these kinds of terrorists is also like fighting this power that sustains it. All the people of Burundi must mobilize to get rid of them by all means and the international community must put pressure on them; the combination of these two actions could quickly free Burundi from these terrorists. WhatsApp contact: +31685638237
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