Who won the parliamentary elections in Burundi?

Back in 1993, civil war broke out in the tiny central African republic of Burundi. Hundreds of thousands were killed in a decade of inter-ethnic violence between Hutus and Tutsis. Yet these atrocities were eclipsed by the genocide in neighboring Rwanda. Earlier this month, Bumndi held its first parliamentary elections since the civil war. [26] The vote was won by a former rebel group from the Hum ethnic majority. For most of the time since independence, Burundi has been ruled by individuals from the Tutsi minority. Next month the new government will be sworn in. And as Robert Walker found out, survivors of the political and ethnic violence now hope that they’ll finally get justice and security.