From Bloodshed To Hope In Burundi

Author : Ambassador Robert Krueger,Kathleen Tobin Krueger
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292779907

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From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi by Ambassador Robert Krueger,Kathleen Tobin Krueger Pdf

In 1994, while nations everywhere stood idly by, 800,000 people were slaughtered in eight weeks in Rwanda. Arriving as U.S. Ambassador to neighboring Burundi a few weeks later, Bob Krueger began drawing international attention to the genocide also proceeding in Burundi, where he sought to minimize the killing and to preserve its fledgling democratic government from destruction by its own army. From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi is a compelling eyewitness account of both a horrific and persistent genocide and of the ongoing efforts of many courageous individuals to build a more just society. Krueger and his wife Kathleen graphically document the slaughter occurring all around them, as well as their repeated efforts to get the U.S. government and the international community to take notice and take action. Bob Krueger reconstructs the events of the military coup that precipitated the Burundi genocide and describes his efforts to uncover the truth by digging up graves and interviewing survivors. In straightforward and powerful language, Kathleen Krueger recounts her family's experience living amid civil war, including when she faced down a dozen AK-47-wielding African soldiers to save the life of a household worker. From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi shines a piercing light on a genocide that has gone largely unreported, and identifies those responsible for it. It also offers hope that as the truth emerges and the perpetrators are brought to account, the people of Burundi will at last achieve peace and reconciliation.

Author : Kristine Brennan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422294185

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Burundi by Kristine Brennan Pdf

Like its neighbors Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the tiny African country of Burundi has a long history of internal violence. Members of the Hutu and Tutsi tribes have often fought for control of Burundi. In 1993, the country's first democratically elected president, a Hutu, was voted into office; his assassination a few months later sparked a civil war that resulted in more than 100,000 deaths and a million refugees. In November 2003, a peace agreement was signed that many observers hoped would end the bloodshed in Burundi. But although the peace has held for a decade, the country is still struggling to recover from its history of ethnic violence.

Author : Rene Lemarchand
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521566231

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Burundi by Rene Lemarchand Pdf

This book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the roots and consequences of ethnic strife in Burundi, and provides the reader with an appropriate background for an understanding of Burundi's transition to multiparty democracy and the coup and violence that followed.

Author : Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004687080

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Armed Forces in Deeply Divided Societies: Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq and Burundi by Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif Pdf

Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif critically analyzes civil–military relations and the way armies are constructed in divided societies. To achieve that, the book looks at four case studies with deep divisions and whose armed forces have been reconstructed after civil wars. Lebanon and Bosnia-Herzegovina represent two examples of consociational power-sharing arrangements with functioning armed forces that enjoy wide popular support and neutral in internal affairs. Iraq and Burundi, however, have semi-consociational provisions that have politicized the army and made it a partisan military that has either led to disintegration (as in the case of Iraq) or politicization and loss of legitimacy (as in Burundi).

Author : Adam Jones
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000958706

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Genocide by Adam Jones Pdf

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. Designed as a text for undergraduate and graduate students from a range of disciplines, it will also appeal to non-specialists and general readers. Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field, this unique book: Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept, including the concept of genocidal intent and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes. Discusses the role of state-building, imperialism, war, and social revolution in fueling genocide. Supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide, each with a supplementary study. Explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences, including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science/international relations, and gender studies. Considers the future of genocide, with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth, justice, and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention. Highlights of the new edition include: New case studies of the Uyghur genocide in the People’s Republic of China, the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, and Muslims in India. The historical and archaeological legacy of genocide. New and vivid testimonies of survivors and witnesses to genocide. This significantly revised fourth edition will remain an indispensable text for new generations of genocide study and scholarship. An accompanying website (www.genocidetext.net) features a selection of supplementary materials, teaching aids, and Internet resources.

Author : Alfred Frankowski,Jeanine Ntihirageza,Chielozona Eze
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538150016

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Critical Perspectives on African Genocide by Alfred Frankowski,Jeanine Ntihirageza,Chielozona Eze Pdf

Genocide has become a part of the contemporary global expression of political violence. After all, every continent has had its genocide, but genocide in Africa and the African diaspora is distinctly different from those in Europe or the West. This text approaches genocide from within the context of Africa and the African diaspora to examine political and philosophical after-effects of global colonialism. As genocidal state violence has become prominent through colonialism, its appearance in Europe and the West have developed sharply against how it appears in colonized spaces within the African diaspora. This text argues that such a difference in orientation is needed to develop new concepts, critical approaches, and perspectives on the intersections between colonialism, political violence, and anti-black politics as a way of critically understanding global genocide and the presence of continual genocidal violence.

Author : Toyin Falola,Charles Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136662584

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Securing Africa by Toyin Falola,Charles Thomas Pdf

Africa has been and currently is the site of numerous conflicts and crises. Authors previously wrote of these as specifically African problems or the problems of Europeans in Africa, but newer scholarship on other aspects of Africa has come to stress the interconnectness of Africa and the wider world. Still, it has often been limited to studies of isolated instances within African countries, with little-to-no connection to greater patterns of international power and violence. This volume explores the historical and present local and international dimensions of the myriad security crises in Africa, from the role of international relations during liberation to multination efforts against piracy.

Author : Abou Jeng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015210

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Peacebuilding in the African Union by Abou Jeng Pdf

An extensive analysis of the norms and legal institutions of the African Union and their relevance to Africa's quest for peace.

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 870 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015066381453

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Mahmood Mamdani
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691193830

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When Victims Become Killers by Mahmood Mamdani Pdf

An incisive look at the causes and consequences of the Rwandan genocide "When we captured Kigali, we thought we would face criminals in the state; instead, we faced a criminal population." So a political commissar in the Rwanda Patriotic Front reflected after the 1994 massacre of as many as one million Tutsis in Rwanda. Underlying his statement was the realization that, though ordered by a minority of state functionaries, the slaughter was performed by hundreds of thousands of ordinary citizens, including judges, doctors, priests, and friends. Rejecting easy explanations of the Rwandan genocide as a mysterious evil force that was bizarrely unleashed, When Victims Become Killers situates the tragedy in its proper context. Mahmood Mamdani coaxes to the surface the historical, geographical, and political forces that made it possible for so many Hutus to turn so brutally on their neighbors. In so doing, Mamdani usefully broadens understandings of citizenship and political identity in postcolonial Africa and provides a direction for preventing similar future tragedies.

Author : Aidan Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499347

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Politics and Violence in Burundi by Aidan Russell Pdf

Reveals the neglected history of decolonisation and violence in Burundi through the political language of truth, citizenship and violence.

Author : Gilbert Tuhabonye,Gary Brozek
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061986130

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This Voice in My Heart by Gilbert Tuhabonye,Gary Brozek Pdf

Gilbert Tuhabonye is a survivor. More than ten years ago, he lay buried under a pile of burning bodies. The centuries–old battle between Hutu and Tutsi tribes had come to Gilbert's school. Fueled by hatred, the Hutus forced more than a hundred Tutsi children and teachers into a small room and used machetes to beat most of them to death. The unfortunate ones who survived the beating were doused with gasoline and set on fire. After hiding under burning bodies for over eight hours, Gilbert heard a voice inside saying, "You will be all right; you will survive." He knows it was God speaking to him. Gilbert was the lone survivor of the genocide, and thanks his enduring faith in God for his survival. Today, having forgiven his enemies and moved forward with his life, he is a world–class athlete, running coach and celebrity in his new hometown of Austin, Texas. The road to this point has been a tough one, but Gilbert uses his survival instincts to spur him on to the goal of qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Summer Games. THIS VOICE IN MY HEART will portray not only the horrific event itself, but will be a catalyst for people to understand real forgiveness and the gift of faith in God.

Author : Daniel Beamish
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982544768

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Truth, by Omission by Daniel Beamish Pdf

The first casualty is truth. A heart-wrenching saga set on three continents, over four decades, Truth, by Omission seamlessly intertwines factual events of recent times in Africa with a compelling set of contemporary fictional circumstances. After surviving a desperate childhood of lawlessness and violence, Alfred Olyontombo makes his way to a refugee camp while Rwanda’s genocide rages behind him. His knowledge of local languages catches the attention of an idealistic young doctor who opens the door to a whole new life for Alfred. Seizing the chance, he moves forward, embracing the American dream and becoming a respected physician married to a successful lawyer in Colorado. However, his new life comes to a screeching halt when the transgressions of his youth come back to haunt him. With his future hanging in the balance, Alfred is forced to face the misdeeds—and the nemesis—which he had hoped that time had buried forever. But is it too late for the truth to matter? And which version of the truth can save him?

Author : Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015043096984

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"Leave None to Tell the Story" by Alison Liebhafsky Des Forges,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

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Author : Timothy L. Gall,Jeneen Hobby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Reference
ISBN : PSU:000067311422

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Worldmark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life by Timothy L. Gall,Jeneen Hobby Pdf

Provides information on the cultures of the world, covering different areas of daily life including clothing, food, language and religion.