Genocide Watch Alert: Burundi August 2015   Since its independence from Belgium in 1962, there have been sporadic bursts of ethnic violence between the Hutu majority and Tutsi minority in Burundi. Civil unrest erupted in Burundi this year, following the 26th of April announcement by the ruling party Conseil National Pour la Défense de la Démocratie - Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (CNDD-FDD) that President Pierre Nkurunziza would run

Burundi: Statement of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, on Opening a Preliminary Examination into the Situation in Burundi PRESS RELEASE 25 April 2016   Image: nternational Criminal Court prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda, is the winner of the  XXXV Peace Prize. The award is conceded by the United Nations Associaton of Spain (ANUE) since 1980. [28 of October 2014]   Since April 2015, I have closely followed

Burundian time-bomb The Economist 23 April 2016   Image: The killing of rebels in Burundi has ominous echoes of Rwanda in 1994. WHEN a Hutu politician says it is time to “pulverise and exterminate” rebels who are “good only for dying”, outsiders should sit up. When he talks of spraying “cockroaches” or urges people to “start work”, it is hard to miss the old codewords for massacring Tutsis. When the politician is not some obscure

UN police force proposed for Burundi Mark Caldwell, Deutsche Welle 18 April 2016   Image: Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at a meeting in Bujumbura in February 2016. Four members of the Burundi's ruling CNDD-FDD party were killed when armed men dressed in hoods and military fatigues stormed a bar in Buriri province. The attack was directed at ruling party supporters who had gathered for an environmental

Image: A Gathering of Bloggers – The Why About This, One United World. retrieved from www.thewhyaboutthis.com Burma/Myanmar: The first bill proposed by the incoming government of Myanmar’s new Parliament, led by the National League for Democracy, created a new position in the government for Aung San Suu Kyi, that of state counsellor. This position, one that has been compared to that of a Prime Minister, would skirt the constitutional ban

Image: Cultural Responses to Pain. How Is Suffering Expressed Around the World? Burma/Myanmar: The outgoing government of Myanmar lifted a curfew in Rakhine State this week, imposed in June 2012 after clashes that displaced over 140,000, mostly Rohingya.   U Htin Kyaw of the National League for Democracy was sworn in on Wednesday as the new president of Myanmar. In his speech, Mr. Htin Kyaw urged “patience in the pursuit of democracy”,

News articles posted on this website and the opinions of Genocide Watch do not express the views of George Mason University or its School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Burundi: 'A genocide is being prepared and the UN will be too late' Elsa Buchanan, International Business Times 29 March 2016 A forensic expert examines the skull of an unknown person killed and buried in a mass grave in Mutakura, north of Burundi's capital Bujumbura, February

Burundi Ruling Party Accuses Rwanda of 'Exporting' Genocide By AFP, Daily Mail  27 March 2016 Rwandan President Paul Kagame gives a press conference in Dakar, on March 8, 2016 ©Seyllou (AFP/File)   Burundi's ruling party has accused Rwandan President Paul Kagame of seeking to "export" genocide, as relations between the two neighbours deteriorate further. In a statement provided to AFP Sunday, the head of the CNDD-FDD party said Kagame had

“Let us be heard”: Burundi’s refugees tell stories of ethnic targeting Burundi’s crisis began as a political dispute, but testimony from refugees suggests that some parties to the conflict may be exploiting Hutu-Tutsi divides. Samantha Lakin, African Arguments 03 February 2016   Image: Burundian refugees gather round as artists and dancers visit Mahama Refugee Camp on Christmas Day 2015. Credit: Djamal Ntagara, Uburanga Art Centre, Kigali.

We Can't Ignore The Worrying Signs of Genocide in Africa Gregory Stanton, Mail and Guardian, South Africa 29 January 2016     How do we make sure there’s not a return to the horror of Rwanda or Biafra? I have spent a lifetime working on the study of genocide, what causes it and how we can prevent the kind of mass killing that haunted the past century. From Armenia and the Nazi Holocaust to the Soviet Gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution,

Burundi Security Forces Accused of Violent Repression BBC 22 December 2015 Image copyright 2015 AFP Image caption: The government says that those killed by the security forces (pictured above) on 11 December were responsible for attacks on installations  The security forces in Burundi systematically killed dozens of people during violent repression that took place in the capital Bujumbura on 11 December, Amnesty International says. It says