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08/06/2004:

"Burundi's Peace Talks Fail Again"

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The two main sides in Burundi's peace talks failed again Friday to agree on a power-sharing formula, splitting along ethnic lines with Hutus accepting the proposal and Tutsis rejecting it.

Jean Baptiste Manwangari, leader of Uprona, the main party representing Tutsis, told The Associated Press that all 10 Tutsi parties at the talks rejected the deal proposed by South African mediators.

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