Product Description: Burundi, situated in the heart of the Great Lakes Region, is one of the poorest nations in the world. Beset by coups d états, presidential assassinations and genocide, the country has been caught in a cycle of violence and under-development whereby brief periods of peace have been followed by further state repression and armed conflict...read more

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Product 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)