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Burundi: Tensions high in run-up to Burundi elections
[IRINNews: 2010-03-04]

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BUJUMBURA, 4 March 2010 (IRIN) - As Burundi approaches elections designed to cap the country"s democratic transition after years of civil conflict, there is growing concern about worsening security and limits to political freedom. "The situation is explosive," Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, chairman of the Association for the Promotion of Human and Prisoner Rights (APRODH), told IRIN. "Demobilised people [former members of now defunct armed groups] have become uncontrollable," he said. (Read an IRIN st. . .

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