Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and Genocide

by René Lemarchand

Book Overview

This book situates Burundi in the current global debate on ethnicity by describing and analysing 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521566231
• ISBN13: 9780521566230
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"