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Burundi ruling party accuses donors of destabilizing country

Xinhua, May 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Burundi's ruling party, National Council for the Defense of Democracy-Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) on Thursday accused some donors of funding non-governmental organizations whose aim is to destabilize the country.

The party's spokesman Gelase Daniel Ndabirabe particularly cited Marguerite Barankitse, the legal representative of Shalom House and Pierre Claver Mbonimpa who heads a local human rights organization.

They were respectively awarded 1.1 million U.S. dollars by an NGO for Armenian Genocide survivors and 10,000 euros by the Brussels Wallonie Federation.

"In these two cases, the donors only wanted to fund their activities which are aimed at destabilizing Burundi," Ndabirabe said in a statement.

He noted Barankitse spent about 1.3 million dollars to fund the first wave of protests against a third term bid by President Pierre Nkurunziza.

"This means that the protests were being funded as part of the process to overthrow democratically elected institutions," the government spokesman said.

Ndabirabe further accused the masters of some "rebel Burundians operating outside the country" of refusing to accept the existence of democratically elected institutions in Burundi and of violating the country's Constitution."

On April 24, Barankitse was awarded in Armenia for the role his NGO, Shalom House, played in saving lives in Burundi during the political crisis, while Mbonimpa is currently in Europe where he is currently receiving medical treatment. Enditem