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...Tunnel led at least 75,000 refugees to try sneaking illegally into the U.K. since 2001. Six immigrants died and 100 were injured making the crossing. The camp currently holds about 1,500 people, mostly Iraqi Kurds and Afghans. BURUNDI Peace Out of Time Negotiations between Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya and ethnic Hutu rebels ended without a cease-fire deal. The talks followed fighting in Gitega province that forced 55,000 people to flee their homes. Leaders of East Africa's Great Lakes states - including Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania - will now decide which side was responsible for the deadlock...
...BURUNDI Coup Attempt Fails Soldiers loyal to Burundian President Pierre Buyoya foiled a coup attempt by junior military officers. Calling themselves the Patriotic Youth Front, a band of about 40 soldiers seized control of state radio and aired a taped statement that said, "The government that is killing people is over." But within hours the rebel troops had surrendered. Buyoya, who was in Gabon holding talks to end Burundi's civil war, returned home the next day without incident. Fighting between ethnic Tutsi and Hutu in Burundi has killed at least 200,000 people since...
Since the military coup in July, Burundi has been under economic embargo, an attempt by its neighbors to force the rulers to restore the constitution and begin peace talks between the tribes. Three days after Ruhuna's death, military leader Major Pierre Buyoya lifted restrictions on the parliament and political parties. The constitution, however, remains suspended, and Buyoya is balking at talks with Hutu rebels. Meanwhile, Rome mourned the death of the man Pope John Paul II called a "generous minister of God." The pontiff will send Cardinal Jozef Tomko, head of the Vatican's office for missions, to celebrate...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Killing to prevent more killing seems to make sense in Burundi. A day after the Tutsi-led military deposed the Central African country's Hutu president, the leader of the coup, Pierre Buyoya, said that was exactly what he was doing. "The change is not a classic coup," the Tutsi major said at a news conference Friday. "It is an action to save a people in distress and stop repeated massacres and killing all over the country." The overthrown president, Sylvestre Nitibantunganya, remains in the U.S. ambassador's home and maintains that he is still the leader...
...Central African country of Burundi has a bloody three year old civil war between the Tutsi and Hutu tribes climaxed yesterday with a military coup as the Tutsis, who control the military, took over the government. Today, in a radio broadcast to the nation, the new Tutsi President Pierre Buyoya, freshly-installed by the army, demanded that the international community respond to the coup as an action of salvation intended to stop Burundi's "descent into hell." The new military regime, Buyoya said, would bring a quick end to the massacres and "criminality." Meanwhile, President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, who headed...