Burundi: Ethnic Conflict and GenocideThis 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). |
Contents
violence as discourse | 17 |
History as prologue | 34 |
The crystallization of ethnic tensions | 58 |
The 1972 watershed | 76 |
The restructuring of statesociety relations | 106 |
the anatomy of fear | 118 |
Toward a grand settlement | 131 |
Hegemony consociationalism democracy | 160 |
Epilogue | 178 |
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About the author | 194 |
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administrative army arrested assassination authorities Bagaza Banyaruguru Baranyanka Batare Belgian Bezi Bubanza Bujumbura Burundi society Bururi Cankuzo Chrétien Cibitoke civilians claims clan colonial coup crisis democracy dimension dominant elections emerged ethnic conflict ethnic identities ethnic violence extremists faction Frodebu ganwa genocide Gitega Hima history of Burundi Hutu and Tutsi Hutu elements Hutu elites Hutu masses Hutu populations Hutu refugees Hutu-Tutsi problem ibid involved Kayanza killed kingship Kirundi legitimacy Lemarchand majority Malkki Manirakiza massacre Melchior Ndadaye ment Michel Micombero Micombero military minister Mirerekano Mulelist Muramvya mwami national unity Ndadaye Ngozi Ntare Ntega and Marangara number of Hutu Nyanza-Lac official organization Palipehutu party peasants Pierre Buyoya precolonial president prime princely province question region repression Reyntjens role rule Rumonge rundi rural Rutana Ruvyiro Rwagasore Rwanda Second Republic Simbananiye sion social Tanzania tensions threat tion Tutsi elements Tutsi hegemony Tutsi minority Tutsi-dominated Uprona Zaire