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...outside fear could explode into full-scale genocide. Fresh and ominous spasms of bloodshed erupted in the capital as well as the Majuri refugee camp near the town of Ngozi, where armed men killed 12 Rwandan Hutu and wounded 22 last Monday. That attack, presumably carried out by Tutsi militiamen, followed a week of ethnic cleansing in the capital, Bujumbura: bands of Tutsi swept through mixed neighborhoods, driving out members of the other tribal group, fighting with Hutu militia, shooting stragglers, burning houses and shops. Families were shot in the street and left to die; mothers came home to murdered...
...Youths came with guns and took everything,'' says Ahmed Brown, a Hutu whose left eye is swollen from a blow with a club. He is still living in his old neighborhood but says, "I am so afraid. We have seen too many people gunned down.'' Bujumbura is now mainly Tutsi, its Hutu residents forced into a few ghettolike areas like the northern section of the city called Kamenge. Out in the countryside, Hutu gangs roam the hills around Tutsi encampments, preying on those who venture...
Rumors spread quickly last week that the Tutsi-dominated army was about to attack Kamenge and seven major refugee camps that provide shelter to 200,000 Hutu from Rwanda. Tutsi paramilitary groups may have spread the rumors themselves to help speed their segregation plan. Everyone in Burundi is still in shock after the massacres in Rwanda last year, in which more than 500,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi, were slaughtered...
...latest outbreak of communal violence was touched off by a pair of assassinations last month that have put extremists into power on both sides. First a Hutu government minister, a respected moderate, was shot and killed. A few days later Hutu vigilantes took their revenge by kidnapping a moderate Tutsi politician, a former mayor of Bujumbura. His body was found crucified and eviscerated...
...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...