In particular, the AU PSC’s threat of an African-led peace implementation mission in the event of further deterioration must be made more credible through member-state support and public pledges of donor support by the U.S. It should make clear that the current situation is unacceptable and that it will intervene if President Nkurunziza does not change course. Since independence in 1962 it has been plagued by tension between the. The AU PSC, with the active support of the U.S., UK, and European Union, should, therefore, follow through on the decision expressed in its communiqué and convene a meeting of Burundian government and opposition representatives in Addis Ababa, if such a meeting cannot be quickly convened in Kampala under the chairmanship of President Museveni. 16 January Burundi, one of the world's poorest nations, is struggling to emerge from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war. However, that regional body may be too divided, and its chief mediator, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, may be too preoccupied with forthcoming elections at home and the implementation of the struggling peace deal in South Sudan. The African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) issued a strong communiqué on 17 October but is still deferring to the East African Community. President Barack Obama’s 27 October decision to exclude Burundi from the “African Growth and Opportunity Act” is an important signal of his country’s growing concern, but it is not enough. More than 100,000 people have fled Burundi since mid-April, fearing that the unrest caused by the presidents bid for office could turn into a civil conflict. Not just Ariel Sharon, Bennet also committed massacres in the Lebanon war. Firm and decisive diplomatic intervention at a minimum is required to prevent a civil war and its inevitable massacres. The one national institution capable of arresting the slide, the army, is fracturing and nearing breaking point. De ideología conservadora, es una de las fuerzas políticas más populares desde su irrupción en el. The language is unambiguous to Burundians and chillingly similar to that used in Rwanda in the 1990s before the genocide. Últimas noticias sobre VOX, partido político español presidido por Santiago Abascal. Révérien Ndikuriyo, the Senate president, cryptically warned on 1 November that the police would soon go to “work” and asked district heads to identify “elements which are not in order”. The president made public an ultimatum giving the “criminals” seven days to lay down arms. According to Crisis Group’s sources as well as media reports, it appears that President Pierre Nkurunziza and those around him intend to use force to end the protests that have been held in Bujumbura since April. Escalating violence, increasingly hardline rhetoric and the continued stream of refugees (more than 200,000) indicate that divisions are widening, and the “national dialogue” is doing little to relieve the mounting tensions.
Burundi again faces the possibility of mass atrocities and civil war.
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