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B. Burundi is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) to the west. In the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, an estimated 500,000–1 million Rwandans were killed, constituting as much as 70% of the Tutsi and 20% of Rwanda's total population.
A. Belgium took over the territory that is now Burundi from a defeated Germany after World War I. Burundi was an independent kingdom for more than 200 years before it was seized by Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. Belgium exploited rivalries between Tutsi and Hutu to maintain its colonial control.
C. The Democratic Republic of Congo has a Gross Domestic Product of $700 per person compared with $900 for Burundi. The African nations of Somalia and the Central African Republic rank at the bottom at $600 per person per year.
D. Massachusetts has about 6.7 million people living on 10,554 square miles, with most of its people living in urban areas. Nearly 90 percent of Burundi's 10.7 million people live in rural areas and most of them are subsistence framers. The poverty-stricken population is growing at the third fastest rate in the world.