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Article: Burundi Leader Flees to Home Of U.S. Envoy; Coup Fears Compel Hutu to Take Refuge
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- The Washington Post
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- July 25, 1996
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Fearing a military coup, President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya
has sought refuge in the U.S. ambassador's home here, plunging
Burundi into political confusion and raising the specter of more
bloodshed between the country's Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups.
The streets of Bujumbura, the capital, remained quiet tonight
despite conflicting reports concerning the future of Burundi's
fragile Hutu-Tutsi coalition government; the fate of Ntibantunganya,
a Hutu; and the role of Burundi's Tutsi-dominated military in his
flight to the guarded U.S. compound.
But amid the seeming calm, uncertainty over who is in charge
intensified concern that already inflamed ethnic tensions could once
again spill ...