Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 15 No. 43 Background to the Massacres in Burundi

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	Background to the Massacres in Burundi
Author:	Francis Loft
Location:	Vol.15 No.43 (Winter 1988), pp88-93

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

See also...
	Organisation: JNR Abbreviation of Jeunesses Nationalistes Rwangasore.
	Political Party: UBU Abbreviation of Burundian Workers' Party.

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