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Article: U.N. BRACES FOR TROUBLE IN BURUNDI BUT COUNTRIES ARE SLOW TO PLEDGE TROOPS FOR FORCE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- July 25, 1996
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Fearing that Burundi is on the verge of a political collapse, the United Nations is assembling an intervention force that could be used to prevent the country's ethnic Tutsi and Hutu from beginning a genocidal civil war, the head of peacekeeping operations said yesterday.
But Kofi Annan, the undersecretary general for peacekeeping missions, said that country after country has stalled at committing troops to the force, and there was a danger of repeating what happened when massacres began to consume neighboring Rwanda in 1994 and the Security Council, led by the United States, took weeks to react.
``We have to move very quickly before everything blows up ...