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| | Is Burundi's Slow-Motion Genocide Finally Over?-Global Policy Forum - UN Security Council |
 | | Burundi’s ethnic civil war is nearing a conclusion, according to the country’s president, Domitien Ndayizeye. |
 | | Speaking to journalists in Paris on Jan. 16, Ndayizeye said his country has reached “the point of no return on the road to peace and security.” He heads a transitional, power-sharing government that comprises both the majority Hutu and the minority Tutsi people. |
 | | Ndayizeye said his priorities are, above all, “peace and security.” The first step, already underway, is the demobilization and integration of rebel forces into the national army; the second step, also underway, is the revitalization of the economy to “cement the peace;” the third step will be “free, transparent, and democratic” elections. |
| www.globalpolicy.org /security/sanction/burundi/2004/0127genocide.htm (1199 words) |
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