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  • noun Plural form of Burundian.

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Examples

  • There was old-fashioned trench warfare on the rolling savannas of Katanga province, where the Belgians once had sprawling cattle ranches: Rwandans and Burundians battling Hutus and Zimbabweans, hundreds of miles from their home countries.

    The Triumph of Fear Douglas Rogers 2011

  • Burundians and global guests collaborated on health, art, education, economic cooperatives, addressing gender-based violence, surgery, doctor-patient relationships and architecture.

    David Lindsay: Return to Burundi David Lindsay 2012

  • The despair of the Burundians, Angolans, Sri Lankans, and other representatives of the untouchable Indians, or of the Christian minority of the Moluccas, who must have resigned themselves to the fact that their suffering would be lost in a debate hamstrung by this declaration: "Either the debate will focus on the question of Islamaphobia, the offense of blasphemy, or the racist nature of Zionism, or there will be no debate at all!"

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: After Durban II, the Question of the United Nations 2010

  • I want Burundians to have a true choice in an election that is open and fair, not corrupt and fixed.

    Alice Nzomukunda: Africa's Other Contest Alice Nzomukunda 2010

  • In the first public presidential poll since the end of the civil war, Burundians placed their ballots in a white or black envelope to vote for or against another term for Nkurunziza, 46, who is expected to retain power comfortably.

    Burundi slow to cast verdict on Pierre Nkurunziza in vote-turned-referendum 2010

  •   Aronge says Burundians think their army is able to stop those attacks.

    Burundi Facing Many Challenges as President Begins New Term 2010

  • The despair of the Burundians, Angolans, Sri Lankans, and other representatives of the untouchable Indians, or of the Christian minority of the Moluccas, who must have resigned themselves to the fact that their suffering would be lost in a debate hamstrung by this declaration: "Either the debate will focus on the question of Islamaphobia, the offense of blasphemy, or the racist nature of Zionism, or there will be no debate at all!"

    After Durban II, the Question of the United Nations 2010

  • However, the long-term stability of the Great Lakes Region, so divided for too long as it has been between Hutu and Tutsi, is just as much in the hands of Burundians as it is Rwandese.

    Alice Nzomukunda: Africa's Other Contest Alice Nzomukunda 2010

  • About 1,600 Burundians live in this village, with its 300 identical two-room homes constructed of concrete with tin roofs.

    Burundi's Ethnic Groups Live to Reconcile 2010

  •   He added that now that East Africa has come into play, Burundians will have good things and cheap stuff, too.

    Burundi Facing Many Challenges as President Begins New Term 2010

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