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- Deo happened to be at home on Runda when the massacres in the north began.†
Chpt 1.7 *
- In the aftermath of 1988 — the massacres of Burundian Tutsis and counter-massacres of Hutus — there had been international condemnation of Burundi's military government.†
Chpt 1.7
- In the aftermath of 1988 — the massacres of Burundian Tutsis and counter-massacres of Hutus — there had been international condemnation of Burundi's military government.†
Chpt 1.7
- When he thought about what was going on, he thought the massacres must have been planned.†
Chpt 1.9
- She thought about her own father: she grew up knowing that he had narrowly survived the massacres during the partition of India, events just as cruel and bloody as most other ethnic and religious wars, and for body count even bloodier than the Rwandan genocide.†
Chpt 2.10
- Deo got word of the massacre at his uncle's house, in Bujumbura.†
Chpt 2.13
- The massacre lasted two months.†
Chpt 2.13
- 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
- Meanwhile, Hutu and Tutsi refugees outside Burundi and Rwanda became some of the principal and angriest keepers of the memories of massacre and injustice, and their camps became staging areas for opposition movements — most consequentially, settlements of Rwandan Tutsis in Uganda and of Burundian Hutus in Tanzania.†
Chpt 2.13
- If all this was true, no trace would remain of the massacre that he'd escaped all those years ago.†
Chpt 2.15
- I had seen a photograph of a hallway of this hospital taken after the massacre, with a burned body in the foreground, the whole picture dark purple in my memory.†
Chpt 2.15
- So for a while longer it remained wholly a place I imagined — a place where Deo had stood in tall grass on a hillside, looking across a valley toward a massacre.†
Chpt 2.17
- His wife and five children had all died in the massacre.†
Chpt 2.17
- There were a couple of videos in which survivors — Emmanuel, prominently — described the massacre.†
Chpt 2.17
- The fact that mass slaughters hadn't been prevented in places all over the world — and weren't being prevented now — didn't argue against these attempts to preserve the memories of former massacres and the hope they represented, that someday "Never Again" might seem like more than a pious, self-enhancing platitude.†
Chpt 2.18
- There has been considerable debate as to the nature of the violence that immediately followed the assassination of Burundi's President Ndadaye in 1993, particularly the massacres of Tutsis that occurred in many locales.†
Chpt Hist
- It is an incomplete account of the massacres, but its tone seems evenhanded.†
Chpt Hist
- The report states: "The ministers who made appeals for resistance could have used the same means of communication to call for an end to the massacres."†
Chpt Hist
Definitions:
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(1)
(massacre) crushing defeat or brutal, overwhelming attack — used figuratively in competition and literally for violent killings
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)