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| | Guardian | Burundian princess seeks presidency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | An exiled Burundian princess who was among the pioneers of African women models on the Paris catwalks has returned home to contest the presidency for a new party, Abahuza, which wants to restore the monarchy. |
 | | Esther Kamatari, 53, who fled in 1970 in fear of her life, having seen her father and relatives killed in the years after independence, has promised to tackle the poverty on which she blames the conflict between the Hutu majority and Tutsi minority. |
 | | In 500 years of pre-colonial history in Burundi, "nobody killed anybody because of his or her ethnic group," she said yesterday. |
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