NPR's Mike Shuster reports that the Clinton administration has taken a keener interest in the ongoing violence in Burundi, as fighting there between Hutus and Tutsis has escalated in recent weeks. Four senior administration officials have visited the central African nation in the past week, and the US is pushing at the United Nations for the creation of a peacekeeping force. Many fear that Burundi's conflict could escalate to the level of mass killing experienced in neighboring Rwanda two years ago.
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