E/CN.4/1991/56 page 64 were redirected for urgent goals; the system of allocating provisional housing was corrected while a data base was created for all citizens in need of housing; citizenship was restored to persons returning from Turkey. A purpose-oriented fund of 30 million levas has been set up to meet the needs in the solution of these problems. The issues related to the elimination of the consequences of these violations are the object of active public discussions. A special parliamentary commission on human rights and the national question is now studying all aspects of these problems. The Republic of Bulgaria reaffirms its readiness to implement fully and effectively all provisions of the Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief. Bulgaria considers further that this cannot infringe in any way on the right of the freely and democratically elected Bulgarian Parliament to examine these matters and to determine suitable legal and other means to implement them in accordance with the sovereign will of the Bulgarian people." Burundi 42. In a communication addressed to the Government of Burundi on 13 October 1989 (E/CN.4/1990/36, para. 31), the Special Rapporteur transmitted the following information: "According to information received, at a meeting of governors of provinces in February 1989 attended by the President of the Republic, it was recommended that the parochial activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Burundi should be limited and that Jehovah's Witnesses who were arrested should be severely punished. Since then, two Jehovah's Witnesses performing pastoral functions are said to have been arrested and one of them severely beaten in order to obtain the names and addresses of the other members of the congregation. They are alleged to be held at the security forces' police station in Gitega. According to the same reports, the authorities are looking for an itinerant pastor who visits the country's congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses and they want to arrest him. In the meantime they are said to have arrested his wife, Charlotte Nijimbere and to be holding her until her husband gives himself up." 43. In a communication dated 8 November 1989 (E/CN.4/1990/46, para. 32), the following information was transmitted: "According to information received, in March 1989 the Governor of the Province of Muramvya incited the local population to attack Jehovah's Witnesses. On 16 March 1989, the police burst into the houses of certain known Jehovah's Witnesses and beat both men and women for refusing to chant Party slogans. The next day, four women members of the congregation were beaten for having refused to renounce their faith. In addition, Pierre Kibina-Kanwa, headmaster of Nyabihanga primary school, is' alleged to have expelled pupils who were Jehovah's Witnesses and whom he wanted to force to salute the national flag.