Ethnic rivalries have set off several devastating wars in this part of Africa, but none come near the deadly legacy of the Hutu-Tutsi divide, which plunged Rwanda into genocide in 1994, wiping out nearly a million lives. Though analysts caution that Burundi and Rwanda are very different from each other, that same politically manipulated fault line killed tens of thousands of people during the civil war here in Burundi as well, casting a shadow that continues to loom over the turmoil in the country today.
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