UN Security Council visits violence-wracked Burundi
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Members of the U.N. Security Council are visiting Burundi to try to help end political unrest that sparked deadly violence.
France, the U.S. and Angola are leading the 15-member council delegation that will be in Burundi until Friday.
The visit follows U.N. human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein's report last week of gang rapes of women here by security forces, torture and signs of ethnic repression.
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His office cited growing signs that Tutsis were being targeted in the Hutu-majority country that borders Rwanda, where a 1994 Hutu-led genocide targeted Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
President Pierre Nkurunziza's decision to seek re-election last April touched off street protests that led to a failed coup in May and a rebellion that has left the country on the brink of civil war.