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The Burundian Civil War was a civil war in Burundi lasting from 1993 to 2005. The civil war was the result of longstanding ethnic divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi ethnic groups. The conflict began following the first multi-party elections in the country since its independence from Belgium in 1962, and is seen as formally ending with the ...
The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History trans Scott Straus; Lemarchand, René (2009). The Dynamics of Violence in Central Africa. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-4120-4. Ngaruko, Floribert; Nkurunziza, Janvier D. (2005). "Civil War and Its Duration in Burundi". In Collier, Paul; Sambanis ...
Gilbert Tuhabonye (born November 22, 1974) is a Burundian long-distance runner, author, and motivational speaker. He was born in Songa, a town in the Commune of Songa, Burundi, where he survived a massacre during the Burundian Civil War. [1] He moved to the United States and wrote a book about his survival.
Burundi adopted a new constitution. [4] 1993: 2 June: Burundian presidential election, 1993: The Hutu Melchior Ndadaye won the election. 21 October: Burundi Civil War: Ndadaye was assassinated by Tutsi extremists, starting a genocide against Tutsis and a civil war. [1] 1994: 5 February: Cyprien Ntaryamira took office as President of Burundi. 6 ...
The 1996 Burundian coup d'état [1] was a military coup d'état that took place in Burundi on 25 July 1996. In the midst of the Burundi Civil War , former president Pierre Buyoya (a Tutsi ) deposed Hutu President Sylvestre Ntibantunganya . [ 2 ]
The regional dynamics of the Burundian Civil War was a driving factor for international intervention. Neighboring countries, including Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa were concerned that continued instability in Burundi could spill over into their own territories, triggering further displacement of refugees and armed conflicts. [4]
Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic quota system that shared positions between Hutus and Tutsis equally.
The Itaba massacre was, according to Amnesty International, the "massacre of between 173 and 267 unarmed civilians, many of them women, children and the elderly, who were deliberately and unlawfully killed in the Commune of Itaba, Gitega Province, Burundi on 9 September 2002". [1] The killings were carried out by members of the armed forces of ...