Briefing from ROAPE Volume 15 Number 43
Background to the Massacres in Burundi

Recent massacres in Ngozi Province, Burundi where army units killed 20,000 people and drove 50,000 into exile. This briefing though rather incomplete is offered against the less-useful ‘tribal violence’ in the news coverage; neighbouring Rwanda; Tutsi supremacists; Hutu; Hamitic and Bantu; Kirundu; caste; UPRONA - Bezi dynasty; PDC - narrowly based on Batare dynasty; JNR (Jeunesses Nationalistes Rwangasore); selective genocide; Jean Baptiste Bagaza; Pierre Buyoya; Burundi Coffee Company; UBU (Burundian Workers' Party); military coup