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...Central African country's growing wave of genocide. The refugees, many of them Zairean expatriates, others members of the warring Hutu and Tutsi tribes, balanced mattresses, suitcases and sacks of food on their heads, crowding roads to see if the border reopens Saturday. Ethnic cleansing that has swept through Burundi in the past 18 months escalated last week when extremists on both sides killed hundreds of people in a purge. But TIME State Department correspondent Sandra Burton reports that U.S. officials do not yet believe the pogroms will reach last year's epic level of violence in neighboring Rwanda, where...
...other governments accelerated evacuations of their citizens from Burundi, the central African nation where ethnic violence threatens toduplicate last year's massive slaughter in Rwanda. Dozens -- possibly hundreds -- of people died last week in the latest conflagration in the 18-month civil war between majority Hutus and minority Tutsis. This morning, 15 relatives of U.S. diplomats flew to Brussels from Burundi's capital, Bujumbura, along with more than 250 others. The U.N. Security Council, meanwhile, said it might send troops to Burundi if the situation deteriorates and threatened extremists on both sides with a war crimes tribunal for committing atrocities...
...Drummers of Burundi. Dazzling drum and dance from the central African country of Burundi. Sanders Theatre, 4 p.m. $22, $18. Call 496-2222 for more information...
...Burundi: Another ethnic powder keg next door...
...they continue to be denied safety in Zaire, many Hutu may head instead across Rwanda's southern border into Burundi, where tensions between resident Hutu and Tutsi -- and the 230,000 Rwandan refugees already camped there -- are near breaking point. For now, each new arrival pushes Bukavu another notch closer to the horrors at Goma, where epidemics of cholera and dysentery have killed at least 25,000. To prevent a similar refugee crisis, aid agencies are rushing food, water and medicine into the vicinity of Cyangugu in hopes of forestalling a mass departure. But if the humanitarian diplomacy fails...