{"id":5440,"date":"2017-03-27T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=5440"},"modified":"2017-03-27T16:05:23","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T16:05:23","slug":"movement-against-president-nkurunzizas-third-term-goes-non-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/movement-against-president-nkurunzizas-third-term-goes-non-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"Movement against President Nkurunziza\u2019s third term goes non-violent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Protesters and police officers facing each other before the demonstrations of 2015 turned violent<\/p><\/div>\n

The movement \u201cHalte au Troisi\u00e8me Mandat\u201d [Halt to the Third Term], a collective of Civil Society Organizations campaigning against President Nkurunziza\u2019s \u201cunconstitutional\u201d third term, has launched this Sunday 26 March a programme of education to active non-violence to help actors overcome fear that the movement says resulted from repression.<\/p>\n

In a communiqu\u00e9 issued this Sunday, the movement says \u201cterror and resignation are progressively taking hold in Burundi\u201d as a result of \u201cthe bloody repression against mass protest over the third term\u201d.<\/p>\n

Vital Nshimirimana, the exiled chairman of a now banned rights group FORSC, a big name in the \u201cHalte au Troisi\u00e8me Mandat\u201d movement, says the programme named \u201cTsinda Ubwoba\u201d [Overcome fear] is intended to \u201craise individual and collective awareness that every Burundian has a role to play to prevent the country from sinking into terror and dictatorship\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to the communiqu\u00e9, the programme was launched one month before the second anniversary of the beginning of \u201cpeaceful\u201d mass protests that started on 26 April 2015.<\/p>\n

The protests turned violent and became fraught with crashes between protestors and the police, death and arrests of a number of demonstrators, road barring, the burning of cars by protesters and the like.<\/p>\n

The mass protests reached their climax on 13 May with a coup attempt. The repression that followed the failure of the coup put an end to the protests. Nshimirimana says members of the Halt to the Third Term movement \u201cwere hunted down, some have been killed, others subjected to enforced disappearances while others were forced into exile\u201d.<\/p>\n

Messages of the Tsinda Ubwoba programme will be broadcast for three months on the web and social media.<\/p>\n

For the Ministry of Home Affairs and the police, the launching of the programme is a non-event. This is because the Halte au Troisi\u00e8me Mandat movement \u201cdoes not exist in Burundi\u201d.<\/p>\n

Th\u00e9rence Ntahiraja, Spokesman for the Ministry of Home Affairs, says the civil society organisations have been banned as they didn\u2019t abide by their status and illegally collaborated with political parties in leading \u201cinsurrections and attempt to overthrow institutions\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe police cannot react on a document written by an organisation [Halte au Troisi\u00e8me Mandat] that does not exist in Burundi\u201d, says Pierre Nkurikiye, the National Police Spokesman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The movement \u201cHalte au Troisi\u00e8me Mandat\u201d [Halt to the Third Term], a collective of Civil Society Organizations campaigning against President Nkurunziza\u2019s \u201cunconstitutional\u201d third term, has launched this Sunday 26 March a programme of education to active non-violence to help actors overcome fear that the movement says resulted from repression. In a communiqu\u00e9 issued this Sunday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,670],"tags":[1056,762,1055],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5445,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5440\/revisions\/5445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}