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Burundi: Thousands of hand grenades destroyed in March
01 May 2009 10:41:00 GMT
 Source: MAG (Mines Advisory Group)
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Various weapons and ammunition are made safe in a police station in Cibitoke province before being destroyed.
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A total of 3,825 hand grenades were destroyed in Burundi last month by a joint MAG-Burundian Police mobile team.

The collaboration with Police Nationale Burundaise (PNB) focused during March on collecting and destroying ammunition and items of explosives and pyrotechnics.

This limits the risks of weapons falling into civilian or rebel hands, reducing the number of grenade attacks which harm Burundians on a daily basis.

Twenty-two per cent of armed violence acts registered by the United Nations in 2008 involved grenades (SAS-Ligue Iteka Report, Pezard et de Tessieres, 2009).

Also during March, 127kg of explosives and 1,254 detonators were destroyed, preventing an unplanned explosion in armouries.

Operations at the Weapons Destruction Workshop in Bujumbura continued, with the destruction of 379 obsolete weapons from the Force de Defense Nationale (FDN) stocks and 3,160 magazines collected in police stations.

Improvements to the physical security of the FDN Logistics Base were completed last month and the works officially handed-over to the FDN.

For more information about MAG's work in Burundi, please visit www.maginternational.org/burundi


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