Pierre Nkurunziza’s spokesman slammed “biased” media reports and downplayed the killing of Tutsis before a mostly Hutu audience in Quebec City.

What is happening in Burundi is not yet a full-scale civil war or ethnic cleansing, but it may well be a prelude to genocide.

Journalists and international officials keep insisting that the conflicts is about politics, not ethnicity. But in Burundi, much of politics is ethnic.