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...caretaker leader Sylvestre Ntibantunganya attempts to placate the Tutsi opposition and restless army, his perceived weakness has encouraged violence from extremists on both sides. Since the failed coup, neighborhoods in Bujumbura have split into ethnic enclaves where residents are forced to travel through enemy territory to go to work or shop. Buses had to be hired to move people around safely. Ethnic violence this month alone has left nearly 20 dead, including a United Nations staff member...
...protesting the arrest of an opposition leader jailed for inciting riots, Tutsi youths in Bujumbura organized a general strike and set up barricades of burning tires to prevent people from going to work. Quiet returned to the city a few days later but was quickly broken when grenades were lobbed into crowds. Hutu extremist groups, newly armed with Rwandan weapons coming into Burundi from Zaire, have reorganized to mount counterattacks...
Last week the U.N. offered peacekeeping troops to prevent further fighting. Burundi's ruling Hutu party and the Tutsi-dominated army both refused. Meanwhile, the economy is sinking fast. All international aid to Burundi has been suspended until a new President is named. As a result, industrial production has dropped 20%; by the end of November, the government may not even be able to meet its payroll...
When a group of cabinet ministers from the new Tutsi-dominated Rwandan government arrived in the town of Cyangugu in the French-protected safety zone last Friday afternoon, several thousand people flocked to the local stadium to hear their words. Amid the commotion, few remarked on the site from which the ministers hoped to persuade 100,000 Hutu refugees that if they return to their homes, they will not suffer reprisals for the massacres of up to 500,000 Tutsi. Barely four months ago, this same stadium was crammed with tens of thousands of Tutsi men, women and children waiting...
...French government last week ignored a plea by the U.S. to stay on until the situation stabilizes. The Hutu fear that the African troops of the United Nations force replacing the French will not be able to guarantee their safety. Also poised to move in are soldiers from the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front. "We want to occupy all Rwanda," Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu declared on Thursday. "Indeed, for the credibility of the government, we have to occupy all Rwanda." Although Twagiramungu pledged the army would not seek revenge, his remarks only deepened the alarm of Hutu inside the enclave...