{"id":21918,"date":"2015-12-17T00:27:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-says-un-not-doing-enough-on-burundi-crisis\/"},"modified":"2015-12-17T00:23:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:23:56","slug":"us-says-un-not-doing-enough-on-burundi-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-says-un-not-doing-enough-on-burundi-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"US says UN not doing enough on Burundi crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

{UN – Washington’s envoy to the United Nations complained Wednesday that the international body was not doing enough to address the worsening crisis in Burundi.}<\/p>\n

Ambassador Samantha Power said there was “insufficient contingency planning” on Burundi, nearly five weeks after the Security Council adopted a resolution calling for such measures.<\/p>\n

“Many council members are eager to see the pace of contingency planning accelerated,” Power told reporters.<\/p>\n

UN officials have said they are drawing up plans including possibly rushing peacekeepers to Burundi from neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo if the violence gets worse.<\/p>\n

Burundi descended into bloodshed in April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced his intention to run for a controversial third term, which he went on to win in July.<\/p>\n

More than 300 people have died in the violence and 20,000 have fled their homes across borders to neighboring countries.<\/p>\n

Declaring that Burundi was on the brink of war, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said earlier that he was dispatching an envoy to push for urgent talks to end the crisis.<\/p>\n

“What we have seen over the past few days is chilling,” Ban said after fresh clashes left dozens dead in Bujumbura in the last week alone.<\/p>\n

“The country is on the brink of a civil war that risks engulfing the entire region,” he warned.<\/p>\n

UN envoy Jamal Benomar will travel to the region this week to meet with African Union and regional leaders before talks in Bujumbura on opening up a dialogue between the government and the opposition.<\/p>\n

The United Nations has repeatedly called for political talks between Nkurunziza’s government and the opposition to put a halt to the violence, but these appeals have fallen on deaf ears.<\/p>\n

The United States is pressing for a UN investigative team to travel to Burundi to report on human rights violations.<\/p>\n

Adama Dieng, a UN adviser for the prevention of genocide, last week warned that both the government and the opposition were manipulating ethnic tensions in Burundi, pitting Hutus and Tutsis against each other.<\/p>\n

The rise in hate speech has fueled fears of mass atrocities in Burundi, similar to the carnage in neighboring Rwanda in 1994.<\/p>\n

“I am not saying that tomorrow there will be a genocide in Burundi but there is a serious risk that if we do not stop the violence this may end with a civil war and following such a civil war anything is possible,” he said.<\/p>\n

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