| LC control no. | sh2011003175 |
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| Geographic heading | Burundi--History--Civil War, 1993-2005 |
| Variant(s) | Civil War, Burundi, 1993-2005 |
| Found in | Work cat.: Traditional institutions of peaceful resolution of conflicts, 2003: t.p. (1993 crisis) p. 3 (the war) Wikipedia, June 20, 2011 (The Burundi Civil War was an armed conflict lasting from 1993 to 2005. The civil war was the result of long standing ethnic divisions between the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes in Burundi. The conflict began following the first multiparty elections in the country since gaining independence from Belgium in 1962 and is seen as formally ending with the swearing in of Pierre Nkurunziza in August 2005. The estimated death toll stands at 300,000 killed) Col. gaz. of the world, June 20, 2011 (In June 1993, Melchior Ndadaye, a Hutu, became president in the countrys first democratic election, but a hoped for continuation of peace between the Tutsi and the Hutu ended in a military coup attempt on October 21, 1993 ... The resultant civil war between the Hutu and Tutsi left tens of thousands dead. A peace accord brought the main rebel group (Forces for the Defense of Democracy; FDD) into the government in December 2003. In 2005 the FDD won a majority in the National Assembly elections, and Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the FDD, was elected president of Burundi) BBC News, June 20, 2011 (Burundi is emerging from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war. In 1993 Burundi seemed poised to enter a new era when, in their first democratic elections, Burundians chose their first Hutu head of state, Melchior Ndadaye ... But within months Ndadaye had been assassinated, setting the scene for years of Hutu-Tutsi violence in which an estimated 300,000 people, most of them civilians, were killed. [In 2005] Burundians voted in the first parliamentary elections since the start of the civil war ... The government and the United Nations embarked on the lengthy process of disarming thousands of soldiers and former rebels, as well as forming a new national army) |
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