burundi: Peace Talks Satisfy Burundi's Hutu Group

Burundi's hardline Hutu rebel group expressed satisfaction with its first round of peace talks with government and military representatives in Switzerland. "The meeting was very constructive, it laid a good start for the talks," Pasteur Habimana, spokesman for the National Liberation Forces, or FNL, said in Bujumbura. "Though it was only a first meeting, we truly discussed the historic causes of the Burundi conflict."