Burundi police fire tear gas, beat anti-president protesters

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By Edmund Blair and Goran Tomasevic BUJUMBURA (Reuters) - Burundi police fired tear gas and beat protesters who were demanding President Pierre Nkurunziza end his bid for a third term, in a resurgence of unrest that has stoked fears of ethnic conflict in Africa's Great Lakes. A Reuters photographer said at least eight of the flag-waving and chanting demonstrators were dragged off by police on Tuesday. Rights groups say at least 20 people have died in three weeks of clashes between security forces and protesters who say Nkurunziza's ambitions violate the constitution and a peace deal that ended an ethnically fuelled civil war in 2005.

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