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CNDD-FDD asks UN to define 1965 and 1972 killings as genocide

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    The CNDD-FDD has asked the UN to “officially” state that the killings which took place in Burundi in 1965 and 1972 amounted to genocide. In a statement issued on the 29th anniversary of the 1972 Burundi massacre, the group’s spokesman, Gerome Ndiho, called on the citizens and the UN to remember Burundians who died then. “We based ourselves on the fact that observers said that more than 580,000 Hutus were killed. We mainly based ourselves on the fact that the UN carried out investigations and made a report in 1985,” he told the BBC Kirundi service. In that report, the UN had said that genocide had taken place in 1965 and 1972 in Burundi.

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