UN condemns Burundi killings

UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council yesterday condemned the killings in Burundi but failed to endorse a call from the UN Secretary…

UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council yesterday condemned the killings in Burundi but failed to endorse a call from the UN Secretary General, Dr Boutros Boutros Ghali, for standby troops to avert an ethnic bloodbath.

In a non binding statement the Security Council also urged that travel restrictions be imposed against extremists from the Huts and Tutsi communities held responsible for inter ethnic killings in the central African country.

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