ABSTRACT
Burundi, like its next-door neighbor Rwanda, has been wracked by genocidal conflict between the two dominant ethnic groups, the Tutsi and the Hutu. In Rwanda, at least half a million Tutsi died in a genocidal slaughter in 1994. Burundi’s mass killings came earlier: one in 1972, in which more than 100,000 Hutu were killed, and another in 1988, in which tens of thousands of Hutu were killed. Since 1988, ethnic warfare in Burundi has smoldered on, with the death toll approaching 200,000.
