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I Am So Glad I Don't Live There before/after
How strange an experience it would be to live in a country that is so ass-fucked, that the government gets overthrown, yet no one really knows for sure.
Think on it a minute...the gov't spokesman didn't even know. The people didn't know. Nobody really knew. A message came on over the radio, and that was it.
It'd be a life situation of permanent flux. Of constant ebb and change. Of chaos.
There will never be a revolution again in this country. Not in the classical bloodshed method, anyway.
A week or two of trash piling up on the curb, and it would all be over.
Burundi state radio says government overthrown April 18, 2001 Web posted at: 10:53 AM EDT (1453 GMT) BUJUMBURA, Burundi (Reuters) -- State radio in Burundi reported Wednesday that the government of President Pierre Buyoya had been overthrown, but gave no details . "The government which is killing people is over and the government of Buyoya is over now," the radio said in a brief announcement in the Kirundi language.
Residents reported some shooting briefly around the radio station a short while before the announcement but the streets of the capital were quiet.
Buyoya, an ethnic Tutsi soldier who came to power in a 1996 coup, is out of the country attending a meeting with ethnic Hutu rebels in Libreville, Gabon. A civil war between rebels and the army has cost 200,000 lives since 1993. Government spokesman Luc Rukingama told Reuters he had no definite information on the situation .
"I have heard the rumor but I have got no confirmation or details," he said. "I have heard the rumor and I am checking. I cannot tell you anything further."
"He (Buyoya) has traveled to Libreville. He is in negotiations."
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