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Transcript: Analysis: Burundi has new power-sharing government; new radio station hopes to foster better understanding between Hutus and Tutsis
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- NPR Morning Edition
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- January 2, 2002
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Analysis: Burundi has new power-sharing government; new radio station
hopes to foster better understanding between Hutus and Tutsis
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Few ethnic conflicts have taken a heavier toll than the periodic wars
between the Hutus and Tutsis of central Africa. In 1994, in Rwanda,
in the space of just three months, as many as a million people, most
of them Tutsis, were slaughtered by Hutu radicals. In neighboring
Burundi, over the past eight years, well over 200,000 Hutus and Tutsis
have been killed in a bloody civil war. Burundi has a new power-sharing
government. It's a tentative peace at best, ...