Editor,

RE: "Burundi opposition official killed” (The New Times, September 9).

President Pierre Nkurunziza and his clique are clearly determined to rule Burundi against his country’s constitution and the Arusha Accords that had ushered in a promise of a peace, even if he has to reduce his country to an open graveyard (literary).

Rwandans, in the meantime, are grateful our government has refused to be drawn into the mess despite all the provocations from that clique and its supporters (especially their foreign allies, in the region and beyond, who are playing their usual double games) to drag our country into it.

Our role should remain that of continuing to receive our brothers and sisters from across our southern border who are fleeing the murder and mayhem in their country, and to bear witness to the entire world (as uncaring as usual) about what we are seeing being done against innocent Burundians on a daily basis.

For the rest Burundians are learning the painful lesson that we learnt 21 years ago that they are completely alone when they need the global community’s solidarity most.

That they alone will have to resolve their problem because there is no outside cavalry riding to their rescue; that, if anything, any cavalry riding in their direction is in fact almost guaranteed to be foreign reinforcements for those who are oppressing them.

Kagaju