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The Question of the Protection of Minorities in Burundi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Barnabé Ndarishikanye
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The definition of ethnicity and its application in Burundi represents a key stumbling block in the resolution of the country’s political crisis. Since 1990, successive power holders have elaborated fundamental documents (Charter of National Unity, Constitution, Convention of Government) and created institutions (Government of National Unity, political pluralism, National Reconciliation Commission) with the explicit goal of resolving the question of power sharing between Hutus and Tutsis. In this paper I wish to present the ethnic dilemma that confounds the democratic process, as well as the limits of initiatives undertaken to date.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , 1998 , pp. 5 - 9
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1998 

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1. Lemarchand, René, Burundi, Ethnie Conflict, and Genocide (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996)Google Scholar.

2. Chrétien, J.P., Le défi de l’ethnisme, Rwanda et Burundi: 1990-1996 (Paris: Karthala, 1996)Google Scholar.

3. Constitutional Commission, Rapport sur la Démocratisation des Institutions et de la vie Politique au Buru-andi, Bujumbura, August 1991.

4. Guichaoua, André, ed., Les crises politiques au Rwanda et au Burundi (1993-1994) (Paris: Karthala, 1995)Google Scholar.

5. Uprona: union pour le progrès et l’unité nationale, PSD: parti social démocrate, ANADDE: alliance nationale pour le droit et la démocratie, ABASA: alliance burundo-africaine pour le salut, PIT: parti indépendant des travailleurs, PRP: parti royaliste parlementaire devenu parti pour la réconciliation du peuple, RADDES: ralliement pour le développement économique et social, INKINZO y’Ijambo signifie bouclier de la “parole,” FRODEBU: front pour la démocratie au Burundi, RPB: rassemblement du peuple burundais, PP: parti du peuple, PL: parti libéral.