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Article: Genocidal violence in Burundi: should international law prohibit domestic humanitarian intervention?(Conceptualizing Violence: Present and Future Developments in International Law)
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- Albany Law Review
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- March 22, 1997
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Nowhere else in Africa has so much violence killed so many people
on so many occasions in so small a space as in Burundi during the
years following independence.(1)
On July 25, 1996, leaders of the Burundian Army, which is comprised almost entirely of members of the Tutsi tribe, announced that they had staged a successful coup, ending the democratically established coalition government headed by a member of the Hutu tribe, and had installed a Tutsi, Major Pierre Buyoya, as the head of state.(2) Major Buyoya, who had been widely regarded in the West(3) and by the leadership of the United Nations(4) as a moderate committed to democratic ...