The United States is offering to permanently resettle up to 10,000 refugees from a 12-year civil war in the African country of Burundi
Barry Schweid:
The refugees would be brought to the United States over the next two years with refugee status, and will be given the option of applying for U.S. citizenship, said State Department spokesman Tom Casey.
The resettlement of the refugees, who have been in camps in Tanzania after fleeing from Burundi, is in response to a request in the past year from the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Casey said. He said other countries may take in refugees, as well.
More than 250,000 Burundians were killed in the civil war before a cease-fire was arranged last month.
Burundi long has been divided by tension between the majority Tutus and minority Tutsis, who dominated the government after independence from Belgium in 1962. The assassination of the country's first democratically elected president in 1993 ignited the civil war.
Burundi refugees to settle in US
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posted by Adam Lawson @ 5:11 PM
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3 Comments:
Perhaps this sets a precedent for accepting African whites.
if a refugee is in need of a new home, why should the colour of their skin matter?
I think its pretty clear that Islam is far worse then the media portrays it.
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