The Washington Post, September 1st, 1988
William Raspberry's "Burundi: Why No Outrage?" {op-ed, Aug. 25} has a tragically simple answer. Burundi is not fashionable. We have to be able to choose sides in order for an issue to become fashionable, or at least we must recognize clear differences between the disputants. The reports of the Burundi massacres involve no black-white, Jew-Arab, Christian-Protestant or communist-capitalist polarities. I am cynical enough to believe that, to be cultivated, national outrage requires feelings of support for one side or the other. How can we choose when two regional tribes are involved? There will ...
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