Most Burundians are Catholic and the official church has distanced itself from the sect.
So Burundians now have a new government, but not what they crave most: an end to the war.
But many Burundians, including those among the Tutsi minority, are waiting see how the FDD will govern in practice.
International aid agencies are struggling to cope with the estimated 1, 000 Burundians crossing the border into Tanzania every day.
Top-spot Luxembourgers sport an annual income a hundred times greater than bottom-place Burundians.
More than 300, 000 Burundians are thought to have fled the conflict, in Central Africa's worst refugee crisis in three years.
AMISOM, which has a joint mandate from the African Union and the UN, consists of some 10, 000 troops, mainly Ugandans with some Burundians, soon to be increased to 17, 000.
"Burundians can be proud of the success of this electoral day which bodes well for the polls to come, " said Carolyn McAskie, chief of the UN mission in Burundi (ONUB).
The South African government sees faint echoes of its own situation before apartheid ended, and hopes that Burundians can be reconciled, as black and white South Africans have been, more or less.
Nigeria, Malawi and Ghana have shown no sign of honouring their pledges to send troops, nor is it clear that any other AU country has the logistical back-up the Ugandans and Burundians are asking for.
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