Burundi IkizaBurundi · 1972“Draw near — the atlas keeps this thread, and tonight the fire lends it a voice.”The candle is lit for Ikiza — 'the catastrophe.' After a Hutu uprising in the south, Burundi's Tutsi-led state answered not with justice but with selection: across some months of 1972, soldiers and youth leagues killed Hutu by the tens upon tens of thousands, taking first the educated — teachers, students, clerks — as if to behead a people's future.