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Burundi: The Killing Fields Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2021

René Lemarchand
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(Readers of the Summer 1975 issue of ISSUE — entirely devoted to a discussion of the 1972 killings in Burundi — had the opportunity to take the full measure of the tragedy then visited upon the country, 18 years before the latest outburst of ethnic violence. As René Lemarchand noted at the time, “anyone for whom the name Burundi evokes more than a Lilliputian entity in the heart of Africa must look back to the events of 1972 with a sense of horror and consternation: in a matter of weeks tens of thousands of human beings were systematically slaughtered in what, in retrospect, can only be described as the nearest equivalent offered by Africa of a ‘final solution.’”

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Focus: Issues in U.S. Policy Toward Africa, A New Administration in an Age of Transition
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African Issues , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , Winter 1989 , pp. 22 - 28
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1989 

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Notes

1. See Lemarchand, René, Rwanda and Burundi, London, Pall Mall Press, 1970 Google Scholar.

2. For an excellent illustration, see Chrétien, Jean-Pierre and Jeune, Gabriel Le, “Développement rural et démocratie paysanne, un dilemme? L’exemple du Burundi,” Politique Africaine, no. 11, September 1983, pp. 45-77Google Scholar.

3. Passing-By: The U.S. and Genocide in Burundi, Washington, D.C., The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1973, p. 14.

4. Claude Welch, “Human Rights in Africa: Issues and Prospects” unpublished manuscript, 1987, p. 8 ff.

5. Harry Scoble, “Human Rights Non-Governmental Organizations in Black Africa: Their Problems and Prospects in the Wake of the Banjul Charter,” quoted in Welch, op. cit., p. 10.