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			<td>Burundi was traditionally a country with diverse social classes, where the most privileged were the Tutsis. However, its king was neither Tutsi nor Hutu. The Belgians that administered Burundi since the end of the first world war allied themselves with the high class Tutsis, discriminating against the Hutus, in areas such as education. At the end of the Belgian administration at the end of the 1950s the Belgians changed their position in favour of the Hutus, and this gave rise to the beginning of a social revolution from 1959 to 1962 where the king was defeated. Thousands of Tutsis were killed and even more left the country.<br />
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			In 1958 Prince Louis Rwagasore, who had good relations with the Hutus, established the political party UPRONA which was a bi-ethnic party. However, the Belgians reacted by establishing the PDC in 1961 for the aristocratic Tutsis, and afterwards the Tutsis were divided. When Rwagasore was assassinated in 1961 by agents of the PDC, all hope for non-ethnic politics disappeared. Since then there has only been space for ethnic extremism.&nbsp;<br />
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			Therefore the extremism led to an authoritarian low class Tutsi government that lasted from 1996 to 1993. During that period the Hutus were oppressed. In 1972 there was a revolt of Hutus and rebel Congolese. Reprisals from the Tutsis resulted in the death of 80,000 Hutus, and many more had to flee from the country.<br />
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			The Tutsi government remained very corrupt and plundered the country&rsquo;s resources. A Hutu militant movement called PALIPEHUTU was formed in Tanzania. This movement began to invade Burundi in 1988, followed by reprisals from Burundian troops. Afterwards the international community demanded democratisation, and in fact the president in power during that time began reforms leading to elections in 1993 which in principle included bi-ethnic parties, but in practice did not. This was to do with the FRODEBU party which was infiltrated by militants of the PALIPEHUTU, that wanted extremism to continue.<br />
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			FRODEBU won the elections, and a national unity government was formed. Even so, many Tutsis lost their jobs and this led to a failed coup three months later, where both the president and the vice-president were killed. This was the beginning of many deaths. Firstly, FRODEBU attacked all the Tutsis and the Hutus that collaborated with UPRONA. Afterwards, the army stopped the killings, but began to kill the Hutus. The violence continued until 2006 when the last rebel Hutu movement signed the peace treaty. An example of the violence during this period is that while Hutus were being killed in one village, in another village ten kilometres away Tutsis were being killed. Since 1993 a total of 300,000 Hutus and Tutsis lost their lives, 500,000 left the country for neighbouring countries and 800,000 were displaced within Burundi.&nbsp;<br />
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			The previously mentioned peace treaty was mediated in 2000 by the international community including many African countries. It claims that the conflict was a conflict of political classes, but gave a solution in the form of division of power according to ethnic lines. The new government now took a popular step: free access to primary education for the whole population. This is very much in favour of the previously oppressed Hutus. One difficult subject is the army into which the Hutus had to be integrated. However, it seems that this process is going well.<br />
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			The process of justice and reconciliation is not well organised, but in any case the majority wants to continue living with their neighbours. For them there is no other way. Poverty makes people need others around them, including those that gravely hurt their families.</td>
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