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Gender & Genocide in Burundi : The Search for Spaces of Peace in the Great Lakes Region. African Issues. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35171-5. International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi: Final Report (S/1996/682), New York: United Nations International Commission of Inquiry for Burundi, 1996; Lemarchand, René (1996).
The Ikiza (variously translated from Kirundi as the Catastrophe, the Great Calamity, and the Scourge), or the Ubwicanyi (Killings), was a series of mass killings—often characterised as a genocide—which were committed in Burundi in 1972 by the Tutsi-dominated army and government, primarily against educated and elite Hutus who lived in the country.
The Burundian genocide may refer to: the Ikiza – the 1972 mass killings of Hutus; the 1993 ethnic violence in Burundi against Tutsis
Burundi genocide may refer to: The Ikiza in 1972; The 1993 ethnic violence in Burundi This page was last edited on 19 April 2021, at 13:41 (UTC). Text is ...
This act marked the beginning of the Rwandan genocide, while in Burundi, the death of Ntaryamira exacerbated the violence and unrest, although there was no general massacre. Sylvestre Ntibantunganya was installed to a four-year presidency on April 8, but the security situation further declined. The influx of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan ...
Name Date Location Deaths Notes Ikiza: April–August 1972 Nationwide 210,000 [1]Hutu Massacres of 1988 : 1988 Nationwide 5,000 to 25,000 [2] [3]1993 ethnic violence: 21 October to 31 December 1993
April 29 - An uprising in Burundi by the Hutu people against the Tutsi-dominated government, began with machete attacks that killed more than 3,000 Tutsi civilians and soldiers. [1] In the words of one observer, "the ferocity of the ensuing repression by the army was beyond imagination", with more than 100,000 Hutus being massacred over the ...
The Rwandan genocide in 1994, sparked by the killing of Ndadaye's successor Cyprien Ntaryamira, further aggravated the conflict in Burundi by sparking additional massacres of Tutsis. A decade of civil war followed, as the Hutu formed militias in the refugee camps of northern Tanzania.