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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting if not wholly accurate, October 23, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: Burundi: The tragic years (Hardcover)
I read this book in 1988 just prior to arriving in Burundi as a Peace Corps volunteer.
The author, the former US Ambassador to Burundi during the 1972 massacre, suggests that Burundi would be better served if they geographically divided the country along ethnic lines: part Hutu and part Tutsi.
I chuckled at the notion, and after 3 years living in Burundi, I felt that the mere suggestion was riduculous.
With violence ongoing in Burundi, it seems that on a certain level, perhaps sub-division is a valid idea, but that would be akin to the US being two seperate countries: North and South.
Peace will only come to Burundi when the various warring factions realize that power must be shared.
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