WORLD IN BRIEF : BURUNDI : Massacre Prompts U.N. Call for Inquiry

The United Nations called for investigations by Burundi’s government into a massacre of Hutu civilians by mainly Tutsi troops. U.N. special envoy Ahmedou Ould Abdullah and the U.S. Embassy appealed for the government to establish a commission of inquiry into Wednesday’s violence and to publish the results. Up to 40 women, children and elderly people were reportedly killed when hundreds of soldiers from the mostly Tutsi army moved into the city districts of Kamenge and Gasenyi to flush out Hutu militias. Army spokesman Lt. Col. Longin Minani denied Tutsi troops were responsible.