Tipping Point

: And the world should take the warning seriously, according to Toronto Star. The country is at an ugly tipping point. Hence the alarm the United Nations has just sounded about the political crisis that has engulfed Burundi, a small African nation of 10 million on Rwanda border. President Pierre Nkurunziza, a former Hutu rebel leader, and others in his government have been using incendiary language to energize an official crackdown that aims to stamp out violent protests against the president controversial re-election last summer to a third term in office, after a failed coup attempt. In recent months some 200,000 Burundians have been driven from their homes, and 250 have been killed, including opposition figures, journalists and rights activists. His rivals contend that this violates a two-term limit set out in peace accords in 2005 that ended a 12-year civil war between the country large Hutu majority and Tutsi minority in which 300,000 died. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.