From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi

by Krueger, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780292714861
• ISBN10: 0292714866
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Pr

Summary

"The story of Burundi is our story: not simply the story of Africans, or Americans, but of all of us. This particular story takes place in Africa, and this is an important book about Africa. But the practices of tyranny, of ethnic and cultural division and oppression, and of unattended suffering and apathetic inattention, take place in various forms around the world. This account, written with pain and compassion, but with scrupulous specificity, makes that clear. After its searing report, it offers a hopeful vision of the budding green shoots of a democratic future for Burundi that even now seem to be emerging." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. IX
Preface	p. XI
Acknowledgments	p. XVII
Some Notes on the Text	p. XIX
The Coup: Burundi's Army Kills its President	p. 1
Burundi's Tortured History, Its Champion of Democracy, and Its Legacy of Assassination	p. 22
From Washington to Burundi	p. 43
The Embassy and the Countryside: Massacres Explored	p. 52
Government at a Standstill	p. 71
Christmas in Bujumbura: Grenades, Gunfire, and Curfew	p. 77
Quiet Heroes	p. 87
No White Hats for the Rwandan Patriotic Army	p. 104
Telling the Truth Draws Threats of Assassination	p. 113
Democracy Eaten Away: The Crocodile is Never Satisfied	p. 139
The Standoff	p. 145
A Life of Contrast	p. 152
The Convent and the Camp	p. 158
Burundi at War and at Peace, and from the Sky	p. 167
The Dark Curtain: A Family Divided	p. 175
Gasorwe: Hundreds Massacred and a Reporter Murdered	p. 184
Vortex of Violence	p. 204
Ambushed on a Mountain Road	p. 228
Interlude: Three Missionaries	p. 246
Epiphany: Going Home	p. 255
Conclusion	p. 266
Notes	p. 291
Index	p. 295
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