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Sinduhije, along with the 36 other founding members of the Movement for Security and Democracy—a new opposition party sympathetic to both the Hutu and Tutsi citizens who live in the country plagued by civil war and ethnic violence—was arrested on Nov. 3 for criticizing the president in a document found in his home, according to the global organization Human Rights Watch...
...founded an independent radio station in Burundi with the goal of encouraging reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi Burundians...
Sinduhije, who is in his early 40s, had been praised for his conciliatory work in Burundi, which like neighboring Rwanda was torn by ethnic strife between Tutsi and Hutu. The fighting resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Burundians over several decades. A Tutsi himself, Sinduhije adopted a Hutu war orphan. The independent Radio Publique Africaine, which he founded in 2001, hired both Hutu and Tutsi ex-combatants as part of its effort to foster peace...
...unresolved hostilities between ethnic Hutu and the ethnic Tutsi and their respective allies continue to play an important role in driving this conflict. Laurent Nkunda was a war-time commander in Paul Kagame's 1994 Rwanda Patriotic Front, the rebel force that routed the then-Rwandan government even as the genocide was taking place. While Kagame categorically denies that he is supporting Nkunda and his militia, the Rwandan president has done so in the past and most observers in the region believe that he still is . Similarly, Congo's president Joseph Kabila's army is widely believed to be working...
Both Kabila and Kagame are major recipients of Western aid - from the European Union and the United States. Even if Kagame is speaking the truth when he says that he is not supporting the Tutsi rebel commander Nkunda today, few observers doubt that as a major military player in the region he has the power to rein him in. Similarly the Congolese President can stop his own army chiefs from working directly the Hutu militias and rebel groups. Both say that they have nothing to do with the current fighting; they need to be forced to account by international political...