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*** 19-Mar-18 World View -- Burundi's Hutu 'eternal supreme guide' Nkurunziza to remain in power eternally

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Burundi's Hutu 'eternal supreme guide' Nkurunziza to remain in power eternally
  • Reports of Trump-Kim meeting in Finland unconfirmed so far
  • Finland is the happiest country in the world, Burundi the unhappiest

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**** Burundi's Hutu 'eternal supreme guide' Nkurunziza to remain in power eternally
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Burundi's Hutu president Pierre Nkurunziza has declared himself the 'eternal supreme guide' (AFP)

I keep telling the same story in country after country, particularly
African countries, but other countries as well. A leader stays in
office for years and decades, and takes steps to stay in office for
additional years and decades, and backs the step up by slaughtering,
torturing, raping and jailing even peaceful protesters in the
opposition.

Burundi's president Pierre Nkurunziza, who calls himself the "eternal
supreme guide" of Burundi, on Sunday signed a decree setting May 17 as
a date for a national referendum to change the constitution to permit
him to stay in office until at least 2034.

There's little doubt that Nkurunziza will win approval on the
referendum vote, because he will use violence and jailings of the
opposition, and probably vote-rigging as well.

Nkurunziza should have stepped down as leader in 2015, since the
constitution limits any leader to two terms. When Nkurunziza
announced that he would run for a third term, his police force used
bullets, tear gas and water cannons to control the protests.

Most people are familiar with the Rwanda genocide of 1994, the massive
genocide where ethnic Hutus killed close to a million ethnic Tutsis.
As I described in 2015 in the "Generational history of Hutu and Tutsi tribes"
, that
war also extended to the same tribes in neighboring Burundi and
Uganda. When the war ended, the Tutsis took power in Rwanda and
Uganda, and the Hutus took power in Burundi.

In all three countries, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda, the respective
leaders have ignored their constitutions and used violence to stay in
power. Africa News and Reuters

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**** Reports of Trump-Kim meeting in Finland unconfirmed so far
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There have been numerous speculative reports in the media in the last
two days that the much-discussed meeting between president Donald
Trump and North Korea's child dictator Kim Jong-un will take place in
Helsinki, Finland.

This speculation is occurring because a meeting has been scheduled
this week in Helsinki for three teams of diplomats, respectively from
the three countries North Korea, South Korea and the United States.

Apparently, this meeting was set up during a visit by North Korea's
foreign minister Ri Yong Ho to Sweden last week. That visit resulted
in speculation that the Trump-Kim meeting would occur in Sweden, but
now the speculation has moved to Finland. However, many analysts
believe that Kim Jong-un will not be willing to travel that far, and
that the meeting, if it occurs, will actually occur just south of the
DMZ in South Korea.

Some interesting news came out of a CBS News interview with South
Korea's foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha, recorded on Saturday and
broadcast on Sunday.

As we have suggested a couple of times in the past, Kim Jong-un's
silence about the possible meeting has been caused by being surprised
at Trump's quick acceptance of the invitation. Kang was asked whether
she has heard anything from North Korea about the meeting:

<QUOTE>"Well, nothing publicly. But there is a channel of
communication now established. So I'm sure there are back and
forth messages. But, I think the North Korean leader would also
need some time given the readiness with which President Trump has
accepted the invitation to talks. I think we were all quite
surprised by-- by the-- the readiness of that decision. I think it
was an extremely courageous decision on the part of President
Trump. We believe the North Korean leader is now taking stock. We
give them the benefit of the doubt, and the time that he would
need to come out with some public messaging."<END QUOTE>


I interpret this response to mean that she doesn't have a clue whether
Kim plans to go through with the meeting with Trump.

Another issue has to do with preconditions for the meeting. When
Trump first accepted, there were no preconditions. However, the next
day, Trump's spokeswoman said that some preconditions would have to be
met, namely some "concrete and verifiable actions" in the direction of
denuclearization.

So Kang was asked "What conditions do the North Koreans have to meet
before this conversation happens?", and she responded:

<QUOTE>"Well, in effect they already have. We have asked the
North to indicate in clear terms the commitment to
denuclearization, and he has in fact conveyed that commitment. ...

He's given his word. But the significance of his word is-- is
quite -- quite weighty in the sense that this is the first time
that the words came directly from the North Korean supreme leader
himself, and that has never been done before."<END QUOTE>


So let me get this straight. Kim Jong-un has not confirmed that there
will be a meeting, but he has "given his word" that he will meet the
preconditions of his "commitment to denuclearization." And, of
course, giving his word is quite different from "concrete and
verifiable actions."

Obviously this is all fatuous political nonsense, mixed in with a lot
of desperate wishful thinking on the part of the South Koreans.

Perhaps the coming three-way meeting in Helsinki will change things,
but right now the most likely scenario is that Kim is simply using the
meeting invitation as a ploy to gain time to complete his development
of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that can carry the nuclear
weapons to Los Angeles and other US targets. Yonhap News (Seoul) and Reuters and CBS News

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**** Finland is the happiest country in the world, Burundi the unhappiest
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A new United Nations report called the "World Happiness Report" ties
together the above two stories. It finds that, out of 156 countries,
the happiest country in the world is Finland, while the unhappiest
country in the world is Burundi.

The top ten happiest countries are: Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland,
Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, and Australia.

The ten unhappiest countries are: Malawi, Haiti, Liberia, Syria,
Rwanda, Yemen, Tanzania, South Sudan, Central African Republic, and
Burundi. AFP and World Happiness Report

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, Burundi, Hutu, Tutsi, Pierre Nkurunziza,
Rwanda, Uganda,
Finland, North Korea, South Korea, Kim Jong-un,
Kang Kyung-wha, World Happiness Report

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