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.
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza addresses a news conference
attended by the visiting United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
(not seen in picture) in the capital Bujumbura February 23, 2016. x
(Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza addresses a news conference in
the capital Bujumbura)
A secondary school in rural Burundi sent home 230 students on Tuesday for defacing the portrait of President Pierre Nkurunziza in their textbooks, a regional head of education said.
Burundi
has been mired in a year-long crisis in which more than 450 people have
been killed since Nkurunziza pursued and won a third term. Opponents
said his move violated the constitution and a deal that ended a civil
war in 2005.
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.
"It is an option we took to push them to reveal the authors of the acts," he told Reuters by phone.
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.
Another 300 students were sent home by their school in Bujumbura for defacing portraits of the president.
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