Burundi, is violence the last refuge of the incompetent?

Remember the Pope John Paul II saying, "The social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create"

Audace Machado

People called it “intifada”. I thought about “Indian removal.”  How policemen happened to impound this retired Justin Nyakabeto’s family from his property since 30 years, and that way?
Chiefly, the main problem is the violence that happened in Burundi last may 28th. Yes, bullet, stones, contact fighting, etc., were used in Bujumbura last Tuesday. Yes, there was bloodshed!  Some may think “it happens everywhere in the world, so what?” Let’s say yes, as some do, but let’s not agree that pregnant women can be physically abused in different ways.

Picture/ Teedy Mazina

So, simply, let’s just say “No!” It can’t continue like that. The case is also different because of some regional and local socio-economic and political realities. Now, I can remember Jeannette Rankin saying, “I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for the war”. And if there still any unemotional “yes”, stay tuned here till the video access.

Back to some roots of the problem, it’s about a family whose father is a Justin Nyakabeto who bought, legally, a house in 1972. This house is now declared to belong to someone else. So, Justin and his family are urged to leave it by hook or by crook. 
Policemen came execute that National Land and Property Commission (CNTB) judgment, as Nyakabeto’s still claiming injustice! Neighbors came to support that family. That was hours of fighting.  Policemen used real bullets, gas, stones against young inhabitants. Women were physically abused. Is that “Monopoly of violence” that people are learning?  Independent personality   tried to get involved to “cease the fire”. How can those authorities, including, stay as stubborn as mule?
Might everyone be interested to understand why that is happening in that main place, Ngagara?     Meanwhile, Ngagara is different from Kibera, it is, from Armenia  or Georgia.
But, why do people wait people fight, revenge or even die, to act?

Picture/Iwacu (CNTB)

Let’s remind that we are in a country where particular crimes are still on, despite political arguments. That commission were represented by Pasteur Habimana,  seen claiming to journalists, “come and see me now,how strong I am!” I wish he could know some people like   late Daniel Inouye.

This event rose back some  political and social questions,  : people thought that policemen were really re-formatted  from what some opinions call “bush behaviors.”

But, Ngagara may also recall Soweto in some way, on the world watch! These people don’t have Representatives kinda Jon Tester, that I had the chance to meet.  I know, I dream, but I wished you dreamed like me because, when others think about get together and development, I am afraid while learned that “National isolation breeds neurosis.”

"Today is me, tomorrow's someone else" (Phil Rutaya)

 

HARD, BUT HERE IS THE VIDEO OF WHAT HAPPENED (by Teddy M.)