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The Two Options Now Facing Burundi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Extract

Burundi politics is still preoccupied with the maintenance of Tutsi supremacy and therefore necessarily the continued subjection of the Hutu. There would seem to be substantial evidence for this view. Government spending on “national security” has risen from 13.2 percent of the total budget in 1971 to 22.6 percent in 1974; it is now the largest single item, having passed education for the first time; despite considerable recruitment to the army since 1972 there are no Hutu soldiers at any level of real responsibility; the army’s tactical priority is the waging of small-scale guerrilla-type operations in the border areas.

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Research Article
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1975 

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References

Notes

1 Flash-Infor, 28 October 1974.Google Scholar

2 See, for example. Passing By: The U.S. and Genocide in Burundi 1972, Carnegie.Google Scholar

3 IMF Survey, 18 November 1974, pp. 371-72.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Marchés Tropicaux, 8 February 1974, p. 340.Google Scholar