Word: fleeburundi
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...least 40,000 refugees are now trying to fleeBurundi, fearing the 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...
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