Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide Contributor(s): Lemarchand, Rene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521566231 ISBN-13: 9780521566230 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1996 Annotation: This book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the roots and consequences of ethnic strife in Burundi, and provides the reader with an appropriate background for an understanding of Burundi's transition to multiparty democracy and the coup and violence that followed. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General |
Dewey: 323.167 |
LCCN: 96233050 |
Series: Woodrow Wilson Center Press |
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.09" W x 8.97" (0.81 lbs) 248 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book situates Burundi in the current global debate on ethnicity by describing and analyzing the wholesale massacre of the Hutu majority by the Tutsi minority. The author refutes the government's version of these events that places blame on the former colonial government and the church. He offers documentation that identifies the source of these massacres as occurring across a socially constructed fault-line that pitted the Hutu majority's use of ethnicity as an instrument for the achievement of majority rule in parliament against the Tutsi minority's use of ethnocide to gain hegemony. By analyzing the roots of ethnicity conflict, the author derives institutional and other formulae through which conflict among the primary groups in Burundi--and elsewhere--may be mitigated. Published in cooperation with the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD). |