After 15 Years, Hints Of Peace In Burundi

Soldiers and peacekeepers delivered food from a
German aid agency to rebel group members.

From The International Herald Tribune:

BUJUMBURA, Burundi: The hills around town do not ring with gunfire anymore. Terrified civilians have stopped trudging down muddy paths seeking shelter. Areas that had been cut off for years because of fighting are finally opening up. And a cautious optimism seems to be spreading across the land.

"It looks like peace," said Ama Hayyarimana, a father of eight. "But you never know."

After 15 years of off-again-on-again civil war, the last of Burundi's rebel groups has finally come to the negotiating table. A cease-fire signed in late May is still holding, and for the first time all the decision makers — including top rebel leaders who until recently had been demonized as terrorists and commanded troops from exile — are in the same place, here in the capital, Bujumbura.

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My Comment: All wars take a long time to wind down. There are too many personal vendettas and bitterness that cannot go away right away. But this is a start.