Addis Ababa 18 Ten (EFE) .- The Council for Peace and Security of the African Union (AU) authorized the deployment of a peacekeeping force to Burundi, where increasing violence led the country to the brink of civil war, told the Efe organization's sources on Friday.
The decision to deploy the African Mission in Burundi Prevention and Protection (MAPROBU) was adopted during the meeting yesterday of the Council for Peace and Security of the pan-African institution.
The meeting was chaired by Burundi, a country that holds the presidency of the AU rotating body which rejected the deployment of troops, the officials said.
However, the AU can send troops to invoke a clause allowing mobilize a peacekeeping force before genocidal situation or war crimes even without the consent of the country.
The AU warned yesterday that will not allow "another genocide" on the continent, referring to the deteriorating security situation in Burundi, where the UN is concerned that the situation degenerate towards massacres on a large scale after the murders recorded in recent months.
, "Urgent action to stop the killings required" warned the Council of the AU Peace and Security yesterday through the official Twitter account.
In April this year began a series of violent protests after President Pierre Nkurunziza announced its intention to contest the elections for the third time, which is prohibited by the Constitution.
The elections took place and Nkurunziza won the election in July with 69% of the vote, a result that the international community has not recognized the lack of guarantees for their realization.
At least 400 people have been killed in Burundi since April 26, although it is estimated that the real death toll is much higher, and more than 220,000 were forced to leave the country, according to the High Commissioner of the United Nations for Human Rights , Ra'ad Zeid al-Hussein.
The violence drags the country into a conflict that some qualify as ethnic, although the opposition claims that are dying Burundians of two major tribes, Hutu and Tutsi.
The history of Burundi was shaken by ethnic violence, including two events qualified as genocide: the Hutu massacre by the army dominated by Tutsis in 1972 and the mass murder of Tutsis by Hutus in 1993.
Both ethnic groups carried out the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda, where about 800 000 people, according to UN figures, were murdered, most of the Tutsi ethnic group.
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