Gunmen wearing military uniforms shot dead a former Burundian security
chief who was a close ally of President Pierre Nkurunziza yesterday Sunday
August 2nd. According to presidential spokesman, Willy Nyamitwe who confirmed
the news, Gen. Adolphe Nshimirimana (pictured) was assassinated yesterday in a
car alongside three of his bodyguards in the Kamenge district in Bujumbura.
General Adolphe Nshimirimana was
in charge of the president’s personal security at the time of his death. When a
president refuses to step down…he brings war to his people!
Presidential spokesperson Nyamitwe said;
“I have lost a brother, a companion in the
struggle. The sad reality is that General Adolphe Nshimirimana is no longer
with this world,” he said in a message posted on
Twitter.
Police and witnesses said the General’s pick-up was
hit by two rockets
and sprayed with automatic gunfire along with his driver and two others.
General Adolphe was a close aide to President Pierre and was seen as the
mastermind behind the crackdown on the protests as well as a key player in
foiling the coup attempt.
There was no immediate claim of
responsibility for the assassination, although the coup plotters have since
regrouped and have launched a rebellion in the north of thecountry, and have also been linked to a
string of grenade attacks in Bujumbura. There are fears that renewed conflict in the country could reignite ethnic Hutu-Tutsi
violence and bring another humanitarian disaster to central Africa’s troubled
Great Lakes region. The last civil war in Burundi,
which ended in 2006, left at least 300,000 people dead.
AP/Daily Nation
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