UN Report On Mid-August Massacre of Refugees in Burundi Unable to Pin Blame
A United Nations team probing the mid-August slaying of Congolese Tutsi refugees in Burundi has not been able to identify the perpetrators and is recommending a further investigation of the brutal overnight massacre which left 160 people dead. Despite extensive research in both Burundi and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN investigators are “at this stage unable to conclusively identify who authored, financed, or carried out the killings” of the Banyamulenge at the Gatumba transit centre located just inside Burundi’s border. Full Story