URGENT! HELP PREVENT GENOCIDE IN BURUNDI
Burundi is on the brink of genocide.
This summer, Burundian President Nkurunziza assumed an illegal 3rd term. Soon after his election, government-sanctioned ethnic violence and political violence skyrocketed and people began to flee en masse. The violence has since gotten exponentially worse. Rwandan President Paul Kagame has warned that the situation in Burundi is jut like it was in his country before the Rwandan genocide.
Government officials have been killing political dissidents
Government officials and radio shows have been encouraging people to kill ethnic minorities and political dissidents
Burundi has blocked social media, and Burundians are being jailed, tortured and killed for sharing about their situation on social media - the government is trying to make sure that the world does not respond.
I live in Malawi and work with Burundians, so I have been able to get some of their perspectives first-hand. They are terrified. Terrified to speak out, to draw attention to the situation in Burundi because it means putting themselves and their families at risk. Hell, given how they talk about it, I’m even a bit afraid even as far away as Malawi. People are being murdered for having opinions, for speaking out, and often, simply because of their ethnicity.
THE UN HAS ADMITTED THEY ARE NOT READY TO RESPOND TO THE CRISIS IN BURUNDI, AND HAVE WARNED “MASS ATROCITIES” ARE COMING
Sign the White House petition imploring President Obama to take diplomatic action to prevent genocide. If it reaches 100,000 signatures, President Obama can’t do what former presidents have done about genocides in Africa (which is to say, nothing). Link here: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-preventing-genocide-burundi-urgent-diplomatic-priority AND REMEMBER TO CONFIRM YOUR SIGNATURE IN YOUR EMAIL!
Make 3 phone calls. Call your representative and senators (http://www.house.gov/representatives/find,http://www.senate.gov/senators/contact). Ask them to support UN Ambassador Samantha Power and make preventing genocide in Burundi an urgent diplomatic priority. The country URGENTLY needs peacekeepers, observers, and mediated negotiations to prevent ethnic killings and broker peace. Not American? Do this at home, wherever home is for you.
TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS. Burundians who try to speak out about this situation are being jailed, tortured, and killed. The media is NOT reporting on this, and those that are are, for the most part, not reporting fully on these atrocities. If the media won’t report on it, we regular folks are Burundi’s best hope of receiving international attention.
Similarly - and I hate that I’m doing this, but it’s important - SHARE THIS POST. SPREAD THE WORD. PLEASE. NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT BURUNDI. SO TALK TO THEM ABOUT BURUNDI.
PLEASE, let’s prevent another Rwanda, Darfur, Myanmar, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Germany - sign the petition, contact your representatives, learn and share about Burundi, and TALK TO PEOPLE about what’s happening in Burundi.
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