Murder of senior officers and secret defections weaken security forces that once symbolised national unity,heightening prospect of civil conflictAssassinations of senior officers and secret defections are crippling Burundi’s army, one year into a crisis that has created hundreds of thousands of refugees and led to the revival of hate speech previously used to fuel genocidal massacres.
The military was once a symbol and defender of the country’s reconciliation, or with quotas for majority Hutus and minority Tutsis that prevented it fitting the fiefdom of either group. But it is now being ripped apart by dread,suspicion and the destruction of its top ranks.
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Source: theguardian.com