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[Adventurer]

10,000 refugees from Burundi coming to U.S.
POSTED: 1744 GMT (0144 HKT), October 18, 2006
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The United States plans to take in about 10,000 Burundian refugees -- many of whom fled their landlocked Central African nation as far back as 1972 -- from Tanzania, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.

"We are planning to offer permanent resettlement to a group of Burundian refugees who've been in western camps in Tanzania," State Department spokesman Tom Casey told reporters, saying an estimated 10,000 people would be offered residence.

Burundi has been plagued by civil strife since it achieved independence from Belgium in 1962. Thousands of Burundians from the Hutu majority fled ethnic massacres by the powerful Tutsi minority in 1972.

[I believe the U.S. took in other Africans - Bantus discriminated against by Somalis, and they took some Mashketian Turks.]

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/10/18/burundi.refugees.reut/index.html

[bucheon bum]

yeah, i tutored some Mashketian Turks refugees a year ago; interesting combo of turkish and russian cultures. The year prior, the US gov't took in several thousand liberians as refugees.

[Roch]

[bucheon bum]

uh sure.

[dogbert]

If only they were a little younger, we could give them to Madonna.

[Big_Bird]