From bloodshed to hope in Burundi : our embassy years during genocide /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2007
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Focus on American history series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- The coup : Burundi's army kills its president
- Burundi's tortured history, its champion of democracy, and its legacy of assassination
- From Washington to Burundi
- The embassy and the countryside : massacres explored
- Government at a standstill
- Christmas in Bujumbura : grenades, gunfire, and curfew
- Quiet heroes
- No white hats for the Rwandan Patriotic Army
- Telling the truth draws threats of assassination
- Democracy eaten away : the crocodile is never satisfied
- The standoff
- A life of contrast
- The convent and the camp
- Burundi at War and at peace, and from the sky
- The dark curtain : a family divided
- Gasorwe : hundreds massacred and a reporter murdered
- Vortex of violence
- Ambushed on a mountain road
- Interlude : three missionaries
- Epiphany : going home.
