Commune of Rusaka

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The commune of Rusaka is a commune of Mwaro Province in central Burundi.{{cite book|author=United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service|title=Sub-Saharan Africa report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eBZBAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=20 April 2012|year=1982|publisher=Foreign Broadcast Information Service.}} The capital lies at Mwaro (Rusaka).In recent years forest development in this agricultural commune has resulted in arid soils in some parts.{{cite book|last=Mannion|first=Antoinette M.|title=Natural Environmental Change: The Last 3 Million Years|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zQdGuErNlR4C&pg=PA150|accessdate=21 April 2012|date=7 January 1999|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-13932-8|page=150}}

In June 2003, FDD combatants killed three civilians and burned local government buildings and a cooperative in the commune.{{cite book|author1=Human Rights Watch (Organization)|author2=Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges|title=Burundi: Everyday Victims : Civilians in the Burundian War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Kg8U8nrkH0C&pg=PA33|accessdate=21 April 2012|year=2003|publisher=Human Rights Watch|page=33|id=GGKEY:BQ9PFATBWBA}}