Burundi: Violence, Targeted Killings Consume Protests

28 June 2015

Shrouded in darkness, with the journalists and human rights monitors locked in their homes and hotels, unidentified men with machetes, stones, automatic rifles, and grenades mete out vengeance on their political opponents.

A dark and disturbing new chapter has begun in Burundi since police violently put down the street protests that denounced Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to run for a third and, as protesters believe, unconstitutional, term. They say the decision violates the sacrosanct peace agreement that ended the 13-year civil war.

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