Some far-away observers have ominously warned that my country, Burundi, is on the brink of a genocidal ethnic conflict like the one that plagued our neighbor, Rwanda, two decades ago.
While it is true that civil unrest and accompanying violence have become prevalent in the past year, Burundi’s problems are political rather than ethnically based and therefore can be solved through political means.
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