Then on October 14, Julius Nyerere died. This upsurge in violence is also due to the larger political situation in the Great Lakes region. At the Great Lakes Policy Forum in Washington, DC, one speaker called this a state of neither war nor peace. They have attacked Uganda, killing the eight tourists in one incident and over Christmas killed 31 Tutsi at a returned persons camp in sight of Mutura Friends Church where the January delegation visited. As pressure is being put on them in the Congo, they are reported to be moving into Tanzania and attacking Burundi.
Otherwise things are as usual at least here in Bujumbura.
There is fighting in the Eastern part of the country. There is fighting there with rebels. Jimmy Carter has gotten the Ugandan and Sudanese Governments to agree to a cease fire and the end of supporting the opposing country's rebels. Let us pray that peace can return to that area. Nelson Mandela has been appointed to new leader of the Burundian peace negiotations, but two militant Hutu rebel groups do not accept him because they accuse South Africa of supplying weapons to the Burundian army.