Burundi, Politics of Ego and Not Ethnicity?
Category: WORLDPOST
Ethnicity is a tool rather than the cause for the reappearance of discord in Burundi. As means to rationalize his grab for perpetual office, President Pierre Nkurunziza has reached into the bag of tricks of stoking fear of "the other." That is a zombie from the past that can rise from the dead.
By Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey, ContributorFormer Bosnian foreign minister and ambassador to the United N..., 2015-05-23