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- For about a month, she and Charlie had been obliged to stay in safe houses, because of eruptions of factional violence near the university in Yola: some two thousand people had been killed.†
Chpt 2.11 *
- Eventually, a faction of Tutsis deposed the king and took control.†
Chpt 2.13faction = sub-group
- The mass killings of Hutus in Burundi reaffirmed long-standing fears and anti-Tutsi prejudice among Rwandan Hutus, further strengthened the position of the ruling faction, and inspired massacres of Rwandan Tutsis and more flights of Tutsi refugees into Burundi.†
Chpt 2.13
- Burundi's mass violence was an ethnic civil war between a minority government and rebels drawn from the majority, a war between two equally powerful armed factions.†
Chpt 2.13factions = sub-groups
- It appears that a faction of Rwanda's Hutu political elites began planning the extermination of Tutsis and Hutu enemies around 1992, two years after the expatriate and mainly Tutsi army, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, invaded from Uganda.†
Chpt Histfaction = sub-group
- The faction that controlled the government saw its power and privileges threatened — by discontent and anger among the Hutu population, by an economic decline that fed popular unrest, and by international pressure that Rwanda become a multiparty democracy, pressure that increased after the invasion by the RPF.†
Chpt Hist
- To the ruling faction, the agreement was anathema.†
Chpt Hist
Definitions:
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(faction) a sub-group with some interests not shared by the entire group
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)