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Rights group calls for pressure on rebels

    NAIROBI

    The Burundi human rights league, Iteka, has called on the international community “to exert strong pressure on all those still using violence as a means for political claims”. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the organisation warned that the country was “on the brink of a generalised war”, as had been the case in Rwanda in April 1994, and called on the international community to also “put pressure on subregional countries where rebels train themselves, forge alliances and get arms and ammunition supplies”.

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