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230 students sent home for defacing portrait of Burundi president
A regional head of education has confirmed that at least 230 students of a rural school in Burundi were sent home on Tuesday for defacing the portrait of Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza on their text books.
Kwizera Guillaume, the provincial director of education in Ruyigi province, 200 km (124 miles) east of the capital Bujumbura, said they had sent home a total of four classes who were sitting an exam.
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“It is an option we took to push them to reveal the authors of the acts,” he told Reuters by phone.
It could be recalled that earlier this month, police clashed with students protesting at the arrest of other students for a similar offence of defacing the president’s portrait in Muramvya, which is 50 km east of Bujumbura.
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