BURUNDI - POLICY:
ORIGIN OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE BURUNDIAN STATE AND ITS CIVILS
SERVANT… THANK YOU MICOMBERO BAGAZA AND BUYOYA !
AGNEWS - DAM - NY, 24/06/2006
The heritage of the Burundian military dictatorship, and especially the
socio-economic criminalisation (*)
which it generated, are without any doubt at the origin of the
problem which live the Burundian civils servant.
These civils servant resulting from the socio-economic criminalisation
founded by militaro-policies MICOMBERO-BAGAZA-BUYOYA (*)
came with very great majorities from the families from the reigning REGIME.
The Burundian public office fell under the policy of ethnico-clano-regional
and local discrimination. In other words, the civils servant employed were
of origin, mainly, of following typology: Tutsi-Hima-Bururi- [Vyanda-Matana-Rutovu].
As of the end of the Eighties, gives it economic changing, because of the
programs of structural adjustments and of the forced democratization of the
institutions of the African states, the civils servant of the Burundian
state, who represented all the elite, started to understand that the wind
turned. From now on, there would be no more money to pay all this machine of
State. It was necessary having to resort to privatizations…
In 1993, one remembers great angers of the civils servant who had not been
prepared with the changes (v.in supra) during their confrontation with the
new democratic Regime of NDADAYE.
In 1998, under the military Dictatorship of - BUYOYA II -, the
demonstrations of civils servant of the State in fact required of the
Dictator to bring back the pendulums per hour like formerly under the
Welfare state (see Ière, 2nd and 3rd Republic). The civils servant of the
state forgot that BURUNDI had changed. Their State had become meanwhile the
3rd poorest country in the world. BUYOYA with its FOUNDATION for the UNIT
PEACE and the DEMOCRACY, started to seek funds to finance the leading heads
of the trade unions of the civils servant
(*),
by knowing that there was an unquestionable political future by controlling
these instruments of social protests: a bomb in prospect!
Today, one knows the “force” of these most frightening trade unions… are
those of teaching because they know that no government can be unaware of the
importance of education in a state… And then, if not the children (of the
leaders) are in the streets! You understand well that since the departure of
BUYOYA, the Burundian trade unionism must be today one of the most powerful
tools for the social dispute, with violent confrontations and handicapping
still a little more the future of the children of our State. The University
of Burundi is paralysed by the strike of the teachers in this end of the
year when the students must prepare their examinations…
AGNEWS 2006
