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...rumor gave way to fact, it became clear that the former Belgian colony had suffered a terrible horror. Last week the Burundian government confirmed that ten days of tribal massacres in the verdant, mountainous communities of Marangara and Ntega had left as many as 5,000 people dead and tens of thousands homeless. Western observers estimate that some 38,000 refugees have fled across the border into neighboring Rwanda, with more arriving every...
Hutu refugees in Rwanda said the latest clash began three weeks ago, when troops of the all-Tusi Burundian army started rounding up educated Hutu in the hills of the Marangara district. Fearing another massacre, the Hutu struck first, using machetes and spears to kill the soldiers and hundreds of unarmed Tusi. Hutu refugees reported that the ensuing army reprisals included such atrocities as the bayoneting of unarmed prisoners and use of helicopters and machine guns to fire on fleeing Hutu women and children...
...Burundian government attributed the unrest to Hutu activists in Rwanda, who it says incited fellow tribesmen to attack the Tusi. In a press conference last week, Burundi's President, Major Pierre Buyoya, who took power in a bloodless coup last September, said he regretted the need to use force but denied that the army used napalm...
...jurists had a special reason for outrage. Alarmed by reports of mass killings, they had received permission last November from the Justice Minister of the King, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, to send their own investigator to the Burundian capital of Bujumbura. Their man showed up in December, but he did not hear until later that 22 executions took place while he was actually in town...