Burundi village attack leaves 26 dead ahead of referendum

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14. Yes. The history behind this is enormously complex.

A long time ago I tried to read beyond just an autobiographical book by a genocide survivor, and the more I read the less I "knew." The surprise here is that people are reading about 26 violent deaths in Burundi.

And, sure, Muriel, I'm guessing we can reasonably assume psychopathy will be seen in some who participated in this directed terrorist attack. After all, psychopathy is all too common in stable, advanced societies, probably 1 in 30 or more, so how much more likely is it to be found among people who lived through, and in some cases participated in, unspeakable horrors and never joined the many who returned to their communities and tried to resume normal lives?

But psychopathy alone doesn't even begin to explain why this organized group traveled many miles through very difficult, dangerous terrain to murder in Burundi. Recognizing that there is more than one factor involved is evidence of intelligence at work, cognition analyzing existing and new information.