Amnesty International has officially declared that both sides in the Burundi war were committing “human rights violations.” The whole point of guerrilla war is to commit human-rights violations. There are no battles in this kind of war, just massacres and ambushes. Like I keep saying, that’s what war is, most of the time, for most of the people in the world — and who’s to say that Gettysburg and Verdun are “good wars” and tribal chopfests are “bad wars”? — The War Nerd