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...dead last year, most of them civilians from both tribes caught between the warring parties. The killing continues: moderate government officials, students, foreign diplomats and aid workers have all been targeted. In recent months, as fighting intensified in parts of the north and around the capital of Bujumbura, even battle-hardened Western relief groups have been forced to withdraw...
...Madeleine Albright--have sounded the alarm in recent weeks. But once again international action--if it ever comes-may be too late to save Burundi from self-destruction. "What is happening here is like a poison gas," warns U.N. senior political adviser Hani Abdel-Aziz in Bujumbura. "You don't feel it because you don't have 100,000 dead at once. But people are dying every single...
...Youths came with guns and took everything,'' says Ahmed Brown, a Hutu whose left eye is swollen from a blow with a club. He is still living in his old neighborhood but says, "I am so afraid. We have seen too many people gunned down.'' Bujumbura is now mainly Tutsi, its Hutu residents forced into a few ghettolike areas like the northern section of the city called Kamenge. Out in the countryside, Hutu gangs roam the hills around Tutsi encampments, preying on those who venture...
...touched off by a pair of assassinations last month that have put extremists into power on both sides. First a Hutu government minister, a respected moderate, was shot and killed. A few days later Hutu vigilantes took their revenge by kidnapping a moderate Tutsi politician, a former mayor of Bujumbura. His body was found crucified and eviscerated...
Several hundred Hutu were killed by marauding Tutsi in a racially mixed neighborhood in the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, raising the specter of widespread ethnic violence. Last year in neighboring Rwanda, genocidal massacres killed 500,000, mostly Tutsi. In Burundi, tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees decided not to wait for help and began walking to Tanzania--a two-day trek...