Article: Africa After War: Paths to Forgiveness - Burundi's own Romeo and Juliet story; When Haruna, a Hutu, and Anita, a Tutsi, fell in love, they knew it wouldn't be easy.(WORLD)

Byline: Abraham McLaughlin Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

KAMENGE, BURUNDI -- There's a simple reason why a luminous teenage girl named Anita and a strapping, square-jawed boy named Haruna shouldn't have ever fallen in love in this central African country: She's a Tutsi and he's a Hutu, and they come from opposite sides of an ethnic divide that has led to 300,000 deaths in the past 13 years.

Yet on a balmy afternoon last year, as they sipped orange sodas and smiled shyly at each other, they knew - with Romeo-and-Juliet certainty - they'd be together always. They also knew it wouldn't be easy.

After all, many of their own family members had been ...

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