Military Ruler Dismisses 3 Aides
From Times Wire Reports
Burundi’s military ruler, Maj. Pierre Buyoya, who came to power in a bloodless coup July 25, removed three key subordinates, including one officer implicated by a U.N. report in the murder of the country’s first democratically elected president. The departures of Col. Jean Bikomagu, Col. Pascal Simbanduko and Col. Didion Fyiroko are seen as an attempt to appease negative international opinion about Buyoya’s coup. A U.N. panel implicated Bikomagu in the 1993 murder of President Melchior Ndadaye in an abortive coup.
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