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Cold comfort from Human Rights Watch — France 24 – “Burundi’s worsening crisis ‘is political, not ethnic’”:
“It’s a different situation from the 1990s,” she said. “This is not an ethnic conflict but a political one, pitting a president who is clinging on to power against a variety of opponents.”
Tertsakian said a handful of politicians had indulged in some sort of ethnic rhetoric to whip up support, but that they had largely failed to ethnicise the crisis.
She added that people targeted by security forces included both Tutsis and Hutus opposed to Nkurunziza.
Nearly a hundred people were killed on a single day in capital clashes with security forces last week.
Last month:
“Burundi appears to be sliding into full-blown meltdown”
