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Article: Burundi's Majority Hutu Get Equal Cabinet Role
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- The Washington Post
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- October 21, 1988
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Burundi has named a member of the majority Hutu tribe to head its
Cabinet for the first time in more than 20 years, and the majority
Hutus have been given unprecedented equal representation with thethe
politically dominant Tutsi minority.
The new government, announced yesterday in the capital,
Bujumbura, comes in the wake of a tribal massacre two months ago in
which more than 7,500 civilians, mostly Hutu, were killed by Tutsi
government soldiers.
Burundian and western diplomatic sources described the new
government as a "revolutionary" and "courageous" step by the
country's president, Maj. Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi moderate who has
pledged himself to defusing tribal tension and building ...