International community is playing double standards in Burundi

Editor, Refer to the story, “Burundi holds parliamentary vote amid opposition boycott” (The New Times, June 30). The problem is whether we should emulate the best or the less good. If the international community could correct whatever it did wrong in the past at best or did not at worst, starting with Burundi, then it would not be applying double standards to African countries.
Burundian refugees who fled the countryu2019s violence ahead of the elections  on arrival in Kigoma, Tanzania, after crossing Lake Tanganyika on May 23.  (Net photo)
Burundian refugees who fled the country’s violence ahead of the elections on arrival in Kigoma, Tanzania, after crossing Lake Tanganyika on May 23. (Net photo)
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