There’s evidence that we may be on the brink of a humanitarian calamity in Burundi, a small central African nation that has seen waves of killings in its history. It has been unstable for months, but now the authorities are using language that recalls the run-up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, right next door. A few officials are blowing the whistle — including Samantha Power, who chronicled genocide in her brilliant book and yesterday as ambassador to the U.N. put out a statement on the crisis. But we need a much stronger reaction, immediately, from top U.N. officials including Ban Ki-moon and from African leaders.
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