Burundi : neuf opposants blessés et les résidences universitaires fermées /voa

par webmaster le 1 mai 2015

Burundi : neuf opposants blessés et les résidences universitaires fermées

30/04/2015

De nouveaux heurts ont eu lieu dans le quartier de Kinanira, dans le sud de Bujumbura. Des jeunes avaient réussi à passer deux barrages avant d’être arrêtés par la police anti-émeute qui tirait à balles réelles.

Selon la croix rouge, le bilan partiel est de neuf blessés. La police déplore une soixantaine de blessés depuis le début des manifestations dimanche et 6 personnes ont été tuées.

Le gouvernement a fermé les résidences universitaires officiellement pour des problèmes de sécurité mais pris comme un geste pour enrayer la protestation.

Samedi, Pierre Nkurunziza a été désigné candidat de son parti, le Cndd-FDD, à la présidentielle du 26 juin. L’opposition et la société civile sont déterminées à se battre contre cet éventuel troisième mandat. M Nkurunziza a été élu en 2005 par le Parlement, puis au suffrage universel en 2010. Son camp assure que le premier mandat ne compte pas car du fait du suffrage indirect. Un émissaire américain et un envoyé onusien sont à Bujumbura pour tenter de trouver une solution.

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Monte McMurchy #

« An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods »

The citizens of Burundi are now embarking in on a civic social election process culminating int the election of a president. Citizen Candidates seeking public office in the ideal normative sense of prescriptive governance ought only to be seeking public office in order to serve all the good citizens of Burundi which ought to exclude serving and assisting only the ‘status quo’ elite economic social political oligarchy who only will continue to perpetuate the present ‘status quo’ ensuring that civic social change for the ordinary citizen is marginal at best. Burundi is a country blessed in natural pristine tropical forested beauty which has created and generated much wealth resources. Burundi is even more blessed with the Burundian citizen people, who often display exuberant entrepreneurial ambition. Alas, this presidential election is now roiled both in fear as to uncertain security publics grounded in that the incumbent President wishes not to respect the constitution in seeking a third term of office. Burundi is as well suffering in the concentration in personal private wealth benifiting only the elite oligarchy. Civic social anxiety in Burundi is increasing and respect for rule of law and prescriptive strong robust institutions is unravelling.

Sadly, this 2015 Burundi Election for President gives ample profound credence to this pithy aphorism by H.L. Mencken who writing in the Baltimore Sun in 1936 suggests most strong that « An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods »—–« in other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods ». Mencken was both alarmed and profoundly disquieted as to the lack of engaged inquisitive civic citizen participation in the civic electoral governance process which is predicated on an engaged articulate citizen who is not afraid nor adverse to hold the government to strict account. Mencken was even more concerned as to the increasing growth in blunt force power of the incumbent government to overwhelm the citizen with election promises and election bromides which in reality will signal no change in how government functions in serving the citizen. This is not merely an indigenous Burundian civic electoral issue of absolute concern. Rather, this presidential election in Burundi is a civic electoral matter of manifest urgency to all nation states who are engaged in governance conversations between the governed and those who govern.

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1 mai 2015

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