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Article: 5,000 DIE IN BURUNDI FIGHTING.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- August 23, 1988
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Byline: Jane Perlez New York Times
The Burundi government said Monday that at least 5,000 people had been killed last week in ethnic clashes between the majority tribe and the minority group that rules the small Central African nation.
Burundi's foreign minister told diplomats that the fighting began when members of the Hutu tribe, the majority, attacked members of the Tutsi, the minority that controls the military and rules the country.
A senior Western diplomat who attended the briefing Monday in Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, said the army, supplied with modern weapons and helicopters, had put down the Hutu, who used machetes and spears in ...