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Article: New Omahan may be oldest refugee at 96.
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- Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2007
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Byline: Christopher Burbach
Sep. 9--In 1972, Lazaro Busuku, at 61, already was becoming an old man, by central African standards, when he fled from a genocidal civil war in his native country of Burundi.
He was in his 80s in 1994, when another genocide, this one even worse, struck in Rwanda, the country where he had taken refuge. He was forced to flee for his life again.
He then survived 13 years of refugee camp life in Tanzania. By this time, he had lived into his 90s in a place where people rarely see 60.
Then Busuku had to move again.
Burundi had been declared safer, and Tanzania and other host countries were about to send ...