Overlooked and Overshadowed: The Case of Burundi |
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Authors: | Kara Hoofnagle Dawn L Rothe |
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Institution: | (1) Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA;; |
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Abstract: | In east-central Africa, nestled between Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda is Burundi. From the onset
of independence in 1961, Burundi has had a history of internal armed conflicts, ethnic tensions and civil unrest in the form
of crimes against humanity, massive and systematic rape, and other gross human rights violations that have resulted in hundreds
of thousands of civilian deaths. Nonetheless, there has been relatively little attention paid to these types of crimes by
criminologists. Political discourse and subsequent media reports suggest that the cause of the violence in Burundi is rooted
in reappearing ethnic tensions between two ethnic groups. Yet, the origins and continued enactment of the conflict is far
more complex. In this paper, the authors draw upon the extant state crime literature to both conceptually frame, and theoretically
illuminate, the crimes against humanity and other gross human rights violations that have occurred. |
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