Four people affiliated with the FNL were killed over the following four days (discussed below), with witnesses attributing responsibility to démobilisés affiliated with the police and intelligence service.[46] The FNL then appeared to retaliate. Over the next two weeks, three local CNDD-FDD officials in Bubanza and Bujumbura Rurale provinces were killed. At least one of the officials had a long history of problems with FNL members in his commune, who had beaten him in 2007 when he refused to attend a meeting.[47]