(Telegraph.co.uk) - Burundi's ruling party has accused Paul Kagame, the president of Rwanda, of seeking to export genocide, as relations between the two neighbours deteriorate further.
In a statement releaed on Sunday, the head of the CNDD-FDD party said Mr Kagame had previously "experimented" with genocide, referring to the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which about 800,000 people were killed, mostly ethnic Tutsis.
"The genocide laboratory is in Rwanda because President Kagame, having experimented there, (wants) to export it to Burundi (to) play a minor imperialist," wrote Pascal Nyabenda, party president.
Ties between the Great Lakes region nations are already at a low ebb, with Burundi and the United Nations both accusing Rwanda of supporting Burundian rebels.
Mr Nyabenda also claimed that some European governments supply arms and funds to the Rwandan leader, who he said was responsible for "recruiting and training young Burundians in refugee camps in Rwanda, so that they can return home to commit acts of genocide".
The ruling party chief went on to criticise the Catholic Church which recently called for a dialogue between Kigali and Bujumbura to help de-escalate the growing crisis.
Mr Nyabenda also condemned foreign journalists for taking up the cause of "terrorists", the term used by the ruling party to refer to opponents of the government, both armed and peaceful.
Burundi has been in political crisis since April last year when President Pierre Nkurunziza controversially decided to run for a third term, which he then won in a July election.
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