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	The United Nations, ...Colossal Failure!
		Wars have been fought all over the globe, with at least one, and usually both, of the participants members of the UN.
		The much-heralded “end of the cold war” was primarily a struggle between the vibrant American economy and the failure of Communism.
		There was a Burundian Military Coup in 1996, the Liberian Civil War in that same year, and a Columbian peasant uprising.
	www.garnertedarmstrong.ws /GTA_Wordfroms/gtanews73.htm (4368 words)

	Social Science Research Report No. 28
		For instance, Henderson (1999) views civil war as a major, sustained, violent conflict between military forces of a state and insurgent forces composed mainly of residents of the state.
		Accordingly, there are three types of civil wars: those arising because of attempts to end colonialism; those resulting from the desire a state to break away; and those resulting from the desire of separated states to achieve reunion.
		Second, as most of the available studies on the impact of civil wars are highly general, the study has attempted to elucidate the authentic impacts of civil wars on basic education in Tanzania.
	www.ossrea.net /ssrr/no28/no28-01.htm (2053 words)

	Burundian president trying to advance stalled peace talks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye have concluded his brief working visits to Uganda and Tanzania where he discussed with his counterparts the current tension in Burundi and further efforts that should be made for achieving ceasefire in the war-torn country.
		Despite becoming the head of the transitional government for the second 18 months, Ndayizeye is still faced with a hard job in terms of the rigid position towards peace talks of two main Hutu rebel groups, the Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD) and the Forces for the National Liberation (FNL).
		The Burundian president said he had asked his Tanzanian counterpart to persuade the FDD and FNL rebels to lay down arms and join the transitional government.
	www.genocidewatch.org /BurundianpeacetalksMay2003.htm (776 words)

	Burundi - Country Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burundian women were assaulted, often by their domestic partners, with shoes, knives, bottles and machetes.
		Burundian women living in Tanzanian refugee camps are much more likely to suffer poor pregnancy outcomes as a result of scarce neonatal care, poor humanitarian conditions and bad sanitation as reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
		Burundian women, who provide the bulk of the agricultural labour in rural areas, have found tending their fields and flocks very difficult since the failure of the December 2002 ceasefire according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
	www.womenwarpeace.org /burundi/burundi.htm (10566 words)

	Civil War - History - Rwanda - Africa
		The civil war that erupted in eastern Zaire in late 1996 revealed that these camps contained small percentages of armed Hutu militias.
		As the civil war spread and the rebels gained territory, the Rwandan refugees were forced west, deeper into the jungles of Zaire.
		By the end of Zaire’s civil war in May, tens of thousands of Rwandan refugees had been killed in the fighting, or had died of disease or starvation.
	www.countriesquest.com /africa/rwanda/history/civil_war.htm (861 words)

	The History Guy: The War List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		These wars are placed in the Anglo-French category as an illustration of their placement in the pattern of wars between those two countries.
		-An uprising by the Palestinians in the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 War.
		Parts of the war saw the Muslims and Croatians cooperate against their common foe, but from 1993-1994, Bosnia saw a three-way war when the Muslims and Croats battled each other as well as fighting the Serbs.
	www.historyguy.com /War_list.html (4997 words)

	Rwandan Genocide information - Search.com
		This further exacerbated the divide between Tutsi and Hutu both economically and politically, and is speculated to be one of the root factors that lead to the extreme hostility between the two groups.
		Following World War I, Rwanda became a protectorate of Belgium, whose colonial policy over the territory followed the German example and is considered especially influential in priming the genocide.
		The RPF renewed its civil war against the Rwandese Hutu government when it received word that the genocidal massacres had begun.
	www.search.com /reference/Rwandan_Genocide (4767 words)

	The investigation
		The Burundian civil war is ongoing and vicious, and it continues to disrupt ordinary life.
		On March 2nd, The FNL attacked the funeral of a Burundian army officer, killing several of the mourners.
		It's tempting to think that Burundian civil war is simply about a number of anti- democratic armed groups struggling with each other for power, with ordinary civilians (both Hutu and Tutsi) caught up in the middle.
	members.aol.com /rcameronw/private/investigation.htm (2156 words)

	AEGiS-DMG: Women wake up to HIV/Aids
		As the 10-year Burundian civil war winds down, Kinama township, set against the hills of the capital, Bujumbura, is once more becoming the bustling place it was.
		Burundian women are twice as likely to be infected with the HI virus than men.
		Now that the war is drawing to a close and the country is opening up, Burundi has stepped up its response to the pandemic with the implementation of its US $233 million National Action Plan 2002-2006.
	www.aegis.com /news/dmg/2003/MG031111.html (1165 words)

	Analysis: Great Lakes, "We can't eat the constitution": Transformation and the socio-economic reconstruction ...
		The recent referendum on the interim constitution, demonstrated the Burundian people's war fatigue with an overwhelming ninety-one percent vote in favour of a constitution based on the principle of power sharing between Hutu, Tutsi and Twa constituencies.
		Nevertheless, while the current emphasis on power sharing, elections and the electoral process is integral to reforming state structures, premature celebrations should not divert attention from the broader letter and spirit of the Arusha Peace and Reconciliation Accords agreed to by the 19 participating parties in August 2000.
		The links between poverty, underdevelopment and civil strife are so closely intertwined that civil war reflects not just a problem for development but a failure of development.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVIU-6CSGGP?OpenDocument (999 words)

	Preventing Genocide in Burundi Lessons from International Diplomacy: Peaceworks: Publications: U.S. Institute of Peace
		And while the war has recently brought about a substantial amount of ethnic segregation, this has been at the local rather than regional level; therefore, any attempt at territorial division would entail truly massive population transfers.
		Of course, in the Burundi case, the achievement of a negotiated compromise is greatly hampered by the history of genocide.
		As the Burundian civil war intensified in late 1995, members of the international community undertook new approaches to prevent genocide and foster political reconciliation.
	www.usip.org /pubs/peaceworks/weissm22/chap2_22.html (3126 words)

	Burundian refugees return home to face new challenges
		The signs of Burundian refugees returning home after years of exile are vitally positive and signify an end to war.
		Although the Burundian government claims to have a strategy for addressing such issues as land rights, there is no evidence of any plans to offer employment alternatives to returnees, many of whom are farmers.
		As a result of the war, some women lost their husbands and/or other male family members and were left unprepared to assume major responsibilities to financially support their families.
	www.uusc.org /info/article062204.html (981 words)

	Burundi Civil War
		Hundreds of thousands of Burundians are in neighboring countries as a result of the ongoing civil war.
		At the conclusion of the meetings, the FNL delegation issued a statement in which it expressed the armed group’s intention to negotiate with the Government of Burundi, cease hostilities, and provide a written explanation for its involvement in the Gatumba massacre of 13 August 2004.
		Despite continuing, and sometimes worrying, delays leading to a second extension of the transition period, the Burundian parties, with the support of the international community, have continued to advance on the path of peace.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/burundi.htm (1955 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Burundi peace talks delay
		The country is in the grip of a nine-year civil war
		Most of the parties in the Burundian civil war - the Tutsi-dominated government and the two largest Hutu rebel groups - have arrived in Dar es Salaam, a Tanzanian official told French news agency AFP.
		The assassination of the democratically elected Hutu president, Melchior Ndadaye, on 21 October 1993, sparked off the war between mostly Hutu rebel movements and the regular army, which is dominated by the Tutsi minority.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/2345627.stm (362 words)

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		In his introductory remarks, he assesses that, comparing with what this war has cost and is costing in values outside the economic sphere- the focus of his book-the economic cost is trivial and insignificant.
		The autors 'idea was "to examine the cost, not only in terms of the deaths and casualties directly inflicted on the participants in conflict and their victims, but also the economic cost to the countries involved as well as to their trading and investment parties.
		Burundians have been obliged to take initiatives and implement creative measures to ensure the economy survived and the state continued to function.
	www.human.mie-u.ac.jp /~peace/ipra_papers/beuls.doc (5702 words)

	A History of Africa, Chapter 9, Part 2
		The EPRP began a guerrilla war known as the "White Terror," and the Derg responded with a "Red Terror"; an estimated 100,000 people were killed or disappeared in 1977 and 1978, as a result of this conflict.
		EO's soldiers were veterans of elite South African units that had fought in Angola's civil war; their financing came from the De Beers Mining Company (Chapter 7, footnote #24), which understandably made recovery of Sierra Leone's mines a priority.
		So far in the war casualties had been light, because soldiers on both sides were poorly equipped and usually under the influence of alcohol or marijuana, the result being that in a typical battle everyone would discharge a clip of ammunition and then run away.
	xenohistorian.faithweb.com /africa/af09b.html (19885 words)

	Burundi: Recent Documents
		Typically, the Burundian security forces and Tutsi militia and gangs received weapons overland via Tanzania, Uganda or Rwanda, by air into Bujumbura from central and southern African states, including Zaire and South Africa, and across the lake from Zaire.
		Whether motivated by profit or acting on a political agenda, governments and private weapons suppliers share responsibility in the Burundian civil war and the human rights abuses that it has engendered.
		Creation of national mechanisms to support an international arms embargo, including the establishment of offices by states neighboring Burundi whose tasks would be to monitor, implement and enforce the operation of the embargo on their own territory.
	www.africaaction.org /docs98/bur9712.htm (2088 words)

	Burundi civil war escalates
		At the end of February, the FNL launched their largest incursion into Burundi since the start of the eight-year civil war.
		The Burundian civil war began in 1993, after the first Hutu president since independence, Melchior Ndadaye, was assassinated.
		The escalation of the war in Burundi is a direct result of the recent Western-backed initiative to secure an agreement in the Congo war.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/apr2001/bur-a17.shtml (1079 words)

	UNHCR - "Angel of Burundi" to receive Nansen Refugee Award
		GENEVA, April 29 (UNHCR) – For the last 12 years, she's opened her house and heart to more than 10,000 children affected by Burundi's civil war and other conflicts in the region, providing them with safety, love and the chance of a better future.
		For her tireless efforts, Marguerite Barankitse, a Burundian humanitarian worker and founder of non-governmental organisation Maison Shalom ("House of Peace"), has been named the winner of this year's Nansen Refugee Award.
		Maison Shalom has also reached out to Burundian refugees returning from years of exile in Tanzania, helping the women and children to rebuild their lives.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=42722daa4&page=news (738 words)

	Burundian rebel group says it is committed to peace process (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Burundian rebel group says it is committed to peace process
		Burundi's main armed rebel group said Wednesday it was ready for the implementation of agreements on ceasefire and cessation of hostilities it has signed with the transitional government in December.
		The civil war in the landlocked central African nation was triggered by the assassination of the first Hutu democratically elected president Melchior Ndadaye in October 1993 and has since killed an estimated 300,000 people, most of them civilians, including women, children and the elderly.
	www.spacewar.com /2003-a/030611192254.gscng8sg.html (386 words)

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		The brutal 1994 civil war in Rwanda illustrates that a similar uprising in Burundi could have important ramifications for international peace and security.
		While the Chechnyan bid for independence may appear to be a straightforward case of internal strife, many observers view the war as the beginning of the disintegration of the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation, a grouping of ninety ethnic and religious regions.
		The war's victors, including the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China, were established, through the U.N. Charter, as the permanent members of the Council.
	www.cowac.org /allsc.html (6537 words)

	Common Folk Using Common Sense » The UN
		Oppressive dictators are to be left alone until, and after, you are forced into a purely defensive war.
		It has never, not will it ever, appoint any representative from The United States, Britain, or the Soviet Union to be appointed as its Secretary General, even though is has always been these countries that have born the brunt of supporting the body.
		There were coups in Chad in February and May. The Tajikistan Civil War broke out, and there were two coups in Venezuela, in February and November of 1992.
	www.commonfolkusingcommonsense.com /category/world/the-un (4924 words)

	MOPATORIUM FOR BURUNDIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS IN CANADA Petition
		An estimated 160 refugees were killed and 100 injured at Gatumba, nine kilometres northwest of the Burundian capital, Bujumbura, on the border with Democratic Republic of the Congo.
		Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye, who visited the camp on Saturday, said Burundi was attacked by forces from the DRC and was demanding justice.
		Ruberwa referred to Rwandan militias, known as the Interahamwe, based in the DRC and former Congolese rebels known as Mayi-Mayi though he expressed surprise that the Mayi-Mayi were responsible.
	www.petitiononline.com /19720417/petition.html (1202 words)

	World's Armed Conflicts: Burundi
		The civil war has been going on since 1993.
		More than 200,000 people have been killed in ethnic violence in the Burundian civil war since 1993 when Tutsi soldiers assassinated the country's first elected Hutu President, Melchior Ndadaye.
		In May Burundian human rights groups say more than seventy people have died in recent clashes, with thousands forced to flee their homes.
	www.jmk.su.se /global99/conflicts/africa/burundi.htm (250 words)

	Women wake up to HIV/AIDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BUJUMBURA, 25 Nov 2003 (PLUSNEWS) - As the 10-year Burundian civil war winds down, Kinama township, set against the hills of the capital, Bujumbura, is once more becoming the bustling place it was.
		In urban areas infection rates for women reach up to 13 percent, while only 5.5 percent of men are estimated to be living with the disease.
		SWAA began promoting it last year, after a survey found that 87 percent of women who had tried the femidom said it was useful, 63 percent preferred it to the male condom and 76 percent felt it empowered them to prevent HIV infection and unwanted pregnancy.
	www.irinnews.org /pnprint.asp?ReportID=2767 (1058 words)

	InterAction.org \| Media
		At least 3.3 million people in the DRC are estimated to have died because of the conflict.
		And, although sporadic fighting continues among various militias in the east of the DRC, peace agreements have been signed by all major parties to the conflict, and a power-sharing transitional government has been established to usher in political stability and democratic elections in two year's time.
		It was the first indigenous organization to bring Congolese, Burundian and Rwandan leaders together to call for unity and peace during war.
	www.interaction.org /newswire/detail.php?id=2362 (326 words)

	The West should step out of the United Nations - Free Blog Articles
		In 1945, after World War II, after the Holocaust, at a moment of extreme moral quality, the U.N. was founded.
		Both the First Congo War and Second Congo Wars trace their origins to the genocide, and it continued to be a reference point for the Burundian Civil War.
		The "war on terror" must be continued resolutely.
	www.freeblogarticles.com /politics/current-events/the-west-should-step-out-of-the-united-nations.html (1535 words)

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