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Article: Where Hope Might Lie: A Message from Burundi
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- Peacework
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright American Friends Service Committee, Inc. Dec 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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David Niyonzima is General Secretary of Burundi Yearly Meeting (Quaker). He made this report during an AFSC Fall 1996 public education and fundraising tour. For more information, AFSC/Burundi Peace Fund, Development Department, 1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102.
People hear of the two major ethnic groups in Burundi, as well as Rwanda, from different sources. Therefore the opinion and conceptions formed also differ. The historical background of the conflict between the majority Hutu and minority Tutsi is complicated. One can say, in short, that the two ethnic groups, whatever their origin, learned to live together. The question remains whether this "living together" was peaceful. It is ...