{"id":10189,"date":"2018-09-21T06:39:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=10189"},"modified":"2018-09-21T06:39:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T06:39:04","slug":"peace-controversial-concept-among-burundian-politicians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/peace-controversial-concept-among-burundian-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace, controversial concept among Burundian politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>While the world celebrates the Peace Day each September 21, Burundian politicians\u2019 interpretations of peace diverge.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9927\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9927\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9927\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Martin-Nivyabandi-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"Martin Nivyabandi: \u201cThere is tranquility everywhere in the country\u201d.\" width=\"419\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Martin-Nivyabandi-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Martin-Nivyabandi-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Martin-Nivyabandi-600x345.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Martin-Nivyabandi.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin Nivyabandi: \u201cThere is tranquility everywhere in the country\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Martin Nivyabandi, Minister of Human Rights, says peace reigns throughout the country. He says Burundi successfully organized free and democratic elections in 2015 and freely elected its leaders. \u201cBesides, the country has just organized the constitutional referendum in 2018 thanks to peace and stability,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nivyabandi says there is tranquility in all parts of the country. \u201cThe population is engaged in development activities and there is a massive and voluntary return of Burundian refugees\u201d.<br \/>\nZ\u00e9non Nimubona, chairman of PARENA party, says peace means absence of internal and external tensions. He says there is no peace in Burundi. \u201cSince 2015, thousands of Burundians including politicians were forced into exile. Burundi has an issue with other countries namely Rwanda and does not cooperate anymore with international organizations namely European Union\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Nimubona also says these tensions and misunderstandings affect the population\u2019s lives. \u201cThere are extra tax expenses that the population is obliged to pay because the country does not cooperate with its former key donors anymore. This causes poverty and the latter is one of the characteristics which shows the lack of peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As for Keffa Nibizi, Chairman of FRODEBU Nyakuri party, he says there is peace and security throughout the country. \u201cIn my political party, we have representatives in all communes and no insecurity cases are reported. The declaration of the UN Secretary General special envoy, Michel Kafondo also confirms that there is peace in Burundi\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Juv\u00e9nal Ngorwanubusa, chairman of MRC-Rurenzangemero, wonders how the government can dare say there is peace while there are ongoing crimes in the country. \u201cThere are reports of forced disappearances, and approximately half of a million refugees are suffering outside the country. Moreover, people are killed and different attacks are perpetrated\u2026,\u201dhe says adding that Burundian people also suffer from extreme poverty.<\/p>\n<p>The Peace Day will be celebrated this September 21, 2018 in Bujumbura city under the national theme \u201cPromoting peace, source of human dignity and sustainable development\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the world celebrates the Peace Day each September 21, Burundian politicians\u2019 interpretations of peace diverge. Martin Nivyabandi, Minister of Human Rights, says peace reigns throughout the country. He says Burundi successfully organized free and democratic elections in 2015 and freely elected its leaders. \u201cBesides, the country has just organized the constitutional referendum in 2018 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[108,749],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10190,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10189\/revisions\/10190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}