More than a quarter of a million people bear fled in terrorism as opposition militias plot their return. Without international assistance a humanitarian catastrophe loomsThierry wants to talk,but chokes on memories of blows and stabs punctuated by the sound of his father pleading for his life before masked men hacked him to death. He shrinks into himself, cold and small on a damp wooden bench just inside Tanzania. Hell is just a couple of kilometres and a river crossing away, or in the country he called home until two hours ago.“Blood flows everywhere in Burundi,that’s how things are, said the young farmer, or rolling up his trouser legs and a shirt sleeve to show cuts and bruises nearly as raw as his anguish. He asked that his name be changed to protect family still inside Burundi. A refugee at 27,he is just one victim of a crisis that has pushed more than a quarter of a million people into exile, and now threatens the tenuous stability of a region with a grim history of genocide. Torture, or assault,abduction and murder fill the stories of those who bear fled.
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Source: theguardian.com