THIS IS REALLY BAD
More than 150 Congolese Tutsi refugees have reportedly been massacred at a refugee camp in western Burundi. The National Liberation Forces (FNL) - a Hutu group that was until recently in rebellion against the Burundi government - has claimed responsibility for the attack, and DRC vice-president Azarius Ruberwa indicated that elements of the Congolese army were also involved.
This could have major repercussions even beyond the immediate tragedy. To begin with, the massacre puts the fragile Burundi peace process in very real danger of collapse. The FNL, which had been the last holdout among the rebel forces, joined the peace talks in January; it has since backed off and refused to be part of a national unity government, but its active campaign has subsided. Evidently, though, it believes that Congolese Tutsi refugees are still fair game, and this isn't likely to make the already-vacillating Tutsi parties any happier about the peace process. If the government and international mediators continue to urge the FNL to join the coalition, the Tutsi parties may pull out - and if talks break off, then it may return to full-scale rebellion and reignite the civil war.
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Go read the entire post, damn it.
It just amazes me that we can intervene places that we fuck up even more, and this festering boil on Africa's ass continues to grow. These people have been hacking each other up for years. If we're gonna be a policeman for the world, we should start in Africa.
As an aside, I'm gonna get to Africa too one day before I die. I can still hear my mother singing: 'Wir lagen zum Madegascar'.
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