31.   Burundian army forces have fighting Hutu rebels since Tuesday near the border with Zaire, an army spokesman told AFP Thursday.

32.   Burundian Tutsis and the Burundian army frequently accuse the Rwandan Hutu refugees of supporting the Burundian Hutu rebellion.

33.   Burundi authorities blame the attack on Hutu extremists, who say the victims were Hutus killed by soldiers of the Burundian army.

34.   Burundian army forces have been fighting Hutu rebels since Tuesday near the border with Zaire, an army spokesman told AFP Thursday.

35.   CNDD, whose leader is the former minister Leonard Nyangoma, also has an armed wing which is fighting against the Tutsi-dominated Burundian army.

36.   Diplomatic sources in Nairobi had said earlier that the Tutsi-led Burundian army was preparing a coup to oust Ntibantunganya and replace him with Buyoya.

37.   Ethnic massacres have continued as extremist Hutu bands keep up a fight against the Tutsi-dominated Burundian army.

38.   The reports of economic sanctions busting come after reports that the Burundian army has been involved in smuggling arms into the country.

39.   The Tutsi-dominated Burundian army has been accused of carrying out the violence in the past days in several districts of the capital of Bujumbura.

40.   The Tutsi-dominated Burundian army suspects Rwandan Hutu extremists blamed for the massacre are among them.