Army deployed to quell ongoing street protests

Описание: (18 May 2015) Heavily armed soldiers were deployed on the streets of Burundi's capital on Monday to quell persistent street protests against the president's bid for a third term that sparked a failed coup attempt last week.
In the Musaga neighbourhood of Bujumbura, soldiers faced off against hundreds of angry protesters who want President Pierre Nkurunziza to rescind his decision to seek another term in office, which many say is unconstitutional and a violation of the Arusha accords that ended a civil war here.
An Associated Press reporter in Musaga, where protesters put up barricades of burning tyres, saw two soldiers firing live rounds as they crowd repeatedly shouted, "Shoot us."
The soldiers who fired the shots were then ordered by their colleagues to stand down and leave the front line.
There was no police presence, signalling the army, which previously had acted as a buffer between angry protesters and the police, had now taken over street operations against demonstrators who have staged almost daily protests against the president.

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