Friday, 8 May 2015

Fear for a new genocide bubbling in Burundi

Seconde Nimenya worries every day about her family back in Burundi.
                                Soldiers disperse the crowd.
She's an author living in Seattle. But her brother Cyriaque is stuck in his home in Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, with his wife, their four children and two orphans for whom they care.

Also stuck is Nimenya's sister Terese, who came to visit and now cannot leave.
                          Soldiers surround Niyonzima as he pleads for protection.
The danger, Nimenya said, is that the police would mistake them for protesters. Police have been firing live ammunition, killing a dozen or more protesters in the last 10 days and injuring many more.

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