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Article: Building from scratch; Peace in Burundi, almost.(Hutus and Tutsis are showing an admirable new neighbourliness)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 14, 2004
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Hutus and Tutsis get along better
ON EVERY corner, hopeful residents have piled building materials: clay and mud bricks, sand and cement. Amid the debris of a decade of war, new shops and huts are sprouting. Best of all, the men with guns are getting along well. Burundi's rebels used to hide in the shanty-towns of Bujumbura, the capital, prompting the army to unleash its indiscriminate wrath on the civilians they hid among. But now the rebels have swapped their khakis for government camouflage, and swagger through the streets with their former enemy. "Things have really changed," sighs a war-weary but happy Burundian.
After 11 years and 300,000 deaths, ...