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Burundi Rebel Group Claims Attacks in New Offensive

Agence France-Presse

   NAIROBI - A Burundian rebel group claimed responsibility Friday for a
   spate of recent attacks on security forces and the ruling party's youth
   league that it said had killed dozens.

   The RED-Tabara group said it had between Sunday and Thursday engaged
   soldiers and police as well as members of the Imbonerakure youth
   league, which is often referred to as a militia.

   Its spokesman Patrick Nahimana told AFP they had killed "28 soldiers
   and police and 15 militia members, and injured 40" in the western
   province of rural Bujumbura, southwestern Rumonge and southern Bururi.

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