Burundi's president threatens to fight African peacekeepers

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: Reuters

Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza threatened on Wednesday to fight any African Union peacekeepers imposed on his country, in his most confrontational comments yet on a mounting political crisis.

The African Union said this month it was ready to send 5,000 peacekeepers to protect civilians caught up in months of violence, invoking for the first time powers to intervene in a member state against its will.

"Everyone has to respect Burundi borders," Nkurunziza said in comments broadcast on state radio.

"In case they violate those principles, they will have attacked the country and every Burundian will stand up and fight against them ... The country will have been attacked and it will respond," he said, in his first public response to the AU plan.



Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-burundi-politics-idUKKBN0UD0JR20151230

[nyabingi]

1. It would be interesting to note

what presence Western-based NGO's, AFRICOM, US State Department, and others have in Burundi and how they are spending money there and who they're working with. Burundi's president was sworn in for a third term with delegations from both Russia and China as he hopes to move closer to those countries economically.

The US obviously wants to ensure all of the African continent's leaders are pro-Western and subservient to Western economic interests, so it's no surprise the Western media is starting to refer to Nkurunziza's government as a "regime" and threatening aid delivery. If a foreign government tries to chart an independent course, we fund and encourage violent protests, arm "rebels", and eventually create and excuse to intervene under "humanitarian" grounds.

For all of the rosy-sounding rhetoric about "democracy" and "freedom", we seem to do nothing but undermine democracy and the will of the people around the world.

Here's a sample of the type of propaganda now spurting forth from the pages of Western interventionist rags like Foreign Policy magazine: http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/08/28/how-the-west-lost-burundi/

[jamzrockz]

2. Yea and when the UN are not busy

negotiating safe passage for terrorist,s they busy trying to help the US dominate countries. If I was president of any country, the first thing I would do is kick out of the country all the NGO (especially western backed ones), peace keepers etc etc. These people are more trouble than any benefit they provide.

[nyabingi]

3. Absolutely correct

These NGO's and State Department do the work that the CIA used to do (regime change) before they were reassigned the more military function of arms running to jihadists and operating drones in a handful of countries.

If I were the leader of a foreign country, I'd do the same thing you would.