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Article: Burundi Slipping Into Anarchy; Long Civil War Feared as Nation Buckles Under Ethnic Violence
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- The Washington Post
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- July 31, 1995
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Salvatore Nzirubusa will not go home. Any suggestion that he leave
the Bujumbura refugee camp that has sheltered him since November 1994
prompts ominous hand signals -- swift chopping motions, machete-
like.
Nzirubusa, 31, who fled his home in suburban Bujumbura, is
pantomiming how he believes he would die as a Hutu in this Tutsi-
dominated city. "I am afraid to be killed. If I walk in a Tutsi
neighborhood, the people will say, `You will be killed.' And I know
of many examples of Hutus who have died."
A few feet away, Solange Kabandarage, a 47-year-old Tutsi, has the
opposite fear. Her village, 25 miles from Bujumbura, is controlled by
Hutus. "If we go back home, the Hutus will kill all of ...