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BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Ever since at least 500,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence...
...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 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...
BUJUMBURA, Burundi: Ever since at least 500,000 people were slaughtered in Rwanda's ethnic civil war two years ago, diplomats have been watching for similar tensions to boil over in its volatile Central African neighbor, Burundi. Now they have. Wednesday, Burundi President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya found himself holed up in the the U.S. embassy after what appeared to be a swift military coup led by ethnic Tutsis, the rival tribe that controls the military. Ntibantunganya, a member of the Hutu tribe, had led an unstable coalition government with the UNPRONA, a Tutsi-led party. "The president was a moderating influence...
...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 with? Other problems need to be resolved first...
...Perhaps most important, the West could take meaningful steps to increase pressure on extremists still serving in the government and the army. These are not new ideas. Yet so far, due to a lack of support from member nations, the U.N. has managed only a minimal response. Last year Ntibantunganya requested 127 human-rights monitors for the country, but the U.N. found funding for only 10. In September the U.N. set up a special commission of inquiry to identify those responsible for Ndadaye's assassination and for the massacres that followed. But that task too is being delayed by lack...