Word: celestin
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Burundi's government, however, says it is concerned about security, and that Sinduhije is being treated justly. "I don't think that the reason they arrest him is to scare him or is in connection to the upcoming election," Celestin Niyongabo, the Burundian ambassador to the United States, told TIME. "Burundi is a country emerging from conflict," and given potential security threats, "the police had the right to go and look at what is happening in the house of any citizen." He emphasized that Sinduhije has access to a lawyer. He could not say when the trial would...
...says he was compelled to join the Hutu militia by government officials. "We just did what we were told. It was very hard on those who refused, some of them died." Of all the people he killed, Uwize knew only one man, and vaguely so. "He was called Celestin Yakaremi. We killed him. I do not know if anyone in that family survived - I think we killed all of them." Uwize knows that soon he will have to face his community and the families of those he killed. "It weighs heavily on my mind," he says. "They might even...