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when i think of karma, i think of africa.

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda may have resulted in the murder of a million Tutsi and moderate Hutu, while the mass killings in Burundi, especially in 1993 when some 200,000 Hutu and Tutsi were killed, and the current ongoing war in the Congo appear to have the potential to escalate into another round of genocide in the region.

Burundi 1972 Genocide Resources - Prevent Genocide International

Burundi's first democratically elected president was assassinated in October 1993 after only 100 days in office, triggering widespread ethnic violence between Hutu and Tutsi factions. More than 200,000 Burundians perished during the conflict that spanned almost a dozen years. Hundreds of thousands of Burundians were internally displaced or became refugees in neighboring countries.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/by.html

But within months Ndadaye had been assassinated, setting the scene for years of Hutu-Tutsi violence in which an estimated 300,000 people, most of them civilians, were killed.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Country profiles | Country profile: Burundi

Burundi’s ethnic civil war is nearing a conclusion, according to the country’s president, Domitien Ndayizeye. Now entering its 11th year, the conflict has killed at least 300,000 people and forced more than 1 million to flee their homes.

Burundi - Genocide - Ndayizeye - Worldpress.org

INTRO: Burundi's army is forcing thousands of people
out of their homes and into resettlement camps. The
government says it is a necessary step to stop rebel
attacks, but international aid groups say the
resettlement is illegal and inhumane. Jennifer Wiens
has more from V-O-A's East Africa bureau.
TEXT: Tens of thousands of civilians living on the
outskirts of Burundi's capital, Bujumburu, are being
rounded up and moved into camps by the Burundian army.
Over the past three weeks, between 150-thousand and
250-thousand people have been trucked away from their
homes and into what the government is calling
"protected villages."
The resettlement operation comes in the wake of recent
attacks on Bujumbura by ethnic Hutu rebels that have
left several dozen people dead. Those attacks are the
latest in Burundi's six-year long civil war, in which
extremists from the majority Hutu ethnic community
have been battling the minority Tutsi-dominated army.
Thousands of people from both ethnic groups have died
in the conflict.

BURUNDI/REFUGEE CAMPS

The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack that took place on Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi on August 13, 2004. Armed elements, including the National Liberation Front of the Party for the Liberation of the Hutu People, participated in this vicious attack on an already vulnerable population of refugees, many of them women and children. We extend our condolences to the families of the victims and to the Congolese government and people.

Burundi: Massacre at Gatumba Refugee Camp