Burundi Government Banned Reporting on Massacre

Several radio stations and a television channel in Burundi had breached a government ban on reporting on the massacre that left 41 people dead.

Victims of a massacre carried out in a bar in the Burundian town of Gatumba on 18 September 2011. While the scale of this attack was unprecedented in recent years, killings are reported almost daily in Burundi.

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