[2] Pottier, Johan. Re-Imagining Rwanda. Conflict, Survival and Disinformation in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge, 2002), p. 2.

[3] Lemarchand, René. Burundi - Ethnic Conflict and Genocide (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 8 and 108.

[4] Ibid, p. 8.

[5] Ibid, p. xii.

[6] Perlez, Jane, "The Bloody Hills of Burundi", New York Times Magazine, November 6, 1988.

[7] Lemarchand, pp. 9-14.

[8] Ibid, pp. 41-47.

[9] Ibid, p. 57.

[10] Ibid, p. 60-74.

[11] Ibid, pp. 74-88.
According to Lemarchand, of the seventeen members of the National Revolutionary Council in 1967, three were Hutu, one ganwa, one Swahili and the rest Tutsi.

[12] Ibid, p. 96.

[13] Quoted in Lemarchand, p. 98.

[14] Slachmuijlder, Lena The Rythm of Reconciliation. (Waltham, Brandeis University, 2005), p. 4.

[15] Lemarchand, pp. 101-102.

[16] Bahari, Maziar. Interview with Georgette Mahwera. Kinama, April 2006.

[17] Lemarchand, pp. xiv.

[18] Cited in Lemarchand, pp. xiv.

[19] Ibid.

[20] Bahari.

[21] Cited in Lemarchand, pp. xiv-xv.

[22] Human Rights Watch, Burundi - Human Rights Development 1994, (New York, 1995.)

[23] Ibid.

[24] Ibid.
See also: Slachmuijlder (2005), pp. 5-6.

[25] Kubwimana.

[26] Cited in Slachmuijlder (2005), pp. 6-7.

[27] Ibid, pp. 1-2.

[28] Ibid, p. 13.

[29] Human Rights Watch, Burundi: Work With U.N. on Justice and Reconciliation - Releases of Detainees Underline Need for Speedy Justice, (New York, 25 March 2006.)

[30] United Nations Security Council, Resolution 1606 (2005), (New York, 20 June 2005.)

[31] Niyoyita, Aloys de Gonzague. Email to Lena Slachmuiljlder, 26 June, 2006. [Niyoyita is the Associated Press correspondent in Bujumbura and President of Association Ijambo which runs Radio Isanganiro.]

[32] Human Rights Watch, 25 March 2006.

[33] Niyoyita, 26 June, 2006.

[34] Human Rights Watch, 25 March 2006.

[101] Slachmuijlder (2005), pp. 7-8.

[102] Ibid, pp. 5-6.

[103] Human Rights Watch, A Long Way from Home - FNL Child Soldiers in Burundi, (New York, 16 June, 2006.)

[104] Slachmuijlder (2005), p. 9.

[105] Ibid.

[106] Ningabira, Alyose and Dance, Rosalie, Making Peace in Kibimba - Healing and Peacemaking in Burundi, St. Louis, African Great Lakes Initiative.
See also: United Nations, Dept. of Humanitarian Affairs, Integrated Regional Information Network, Great Lakes: IRIN Update 222, 8/1/97.

[107] Lemarchand, p. 98.

[201] Slachmuijlder (2005), p. 22.

[202] Slachmuijlder, Lena. Email to David Shem-Tov, 26 April 2006.