Word: burundians
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...collective endeavor to figure out what we are or should be doing here. Flirting with ideas for four years in a liberal arts institution is not even justifiable to most citizens of the First World (in fact, it is a peculiarly American luxury), so to a Laotian or Burundian peasant the moral difference between working 80 hours per week at Goldman, Sachs and studying at Harvard or paying to participate in World Teach is negligible (or more likely still, completely irrelevant). As for the worth of business people, investment bankers and consultants may add to GDP and still...
...hell." The new military regime, Buyoya said, would bring a quick end to the massacres and "criminality." Meanwhile, President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, who headed a Tutsi-Hutu coalition government until Tuesday, remains holed up in the U.S embassy. The Organization of African Unity and the United Nations both rejected any Burundian government put in place by force. "A coup d'?tat will not solve any of Burundi's problems and is only likely to intensify violence on all sides," said U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. "The Tutsis are now prepared to enforce a military dictatorship," says TIME's Bruce Nelan...
...roofs and sending hundreds of Hutu men, women and children scattering for cover under rickety stalls. Suzanne Nyahimana, 45, was hit almost immediately, her forearm shattered. Frantically rounding up her five children--her husband had been killed in fighting several months earlier--she fled with them from the northwestern Burundian village of Nyabitaka into the hills, eventually crossing the Rusizi River to a refugee camp in neighboring Zaire. "I will never go back," Nyahimana said last week of her homeland, waving the stump that is all that remains of her right arm. "There is nothing left...
...wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with minimal strategic or commercial interests--and so far with few TV scenes of horror broadcast to prick the world's conscience. Western officials note, moreover, that the Burundian army and members of the coalition government oppose the idea. Even prominent Hutu moderates, including the country's President, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, concede that foreign troops "will not solve our problems." Talking to Time from his mansion in Bujumbura last week, he asked, "What will they do? Who will they work...
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...