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  Burundi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burundi is divided into 17 provinces, 117 communes, and 2,638 collines.
The Master Drummers of Burundi are the most famous performing group from the nation, and football (soccer) is the most popular sport.
This article contains material from the US Department of State's Background Notes which, as a US government publication, is in the public domain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burundi   (1637 words)

  
 Samantha Powers, "Bystanders to Genocide," Atlantic Monthly, September 2001
In the situation room on the seventh floor of the State Department a map of Rwanda had been hurriedly pinned to the wall in the aftermath of the plane crash, and eight banks of phones had rung off the hook.
The Defense Department was disdainful both of the policy ideas being circulated at the working-group meetings and, memos indicate, of the people circulating them.
A memo by one Defense Department aide observed that the State Department's Africa bureau had received a phone call from a Kigali hotel owner who said that his hotel and the civilians inside were about to be attacked.
www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/power.htm   (15705 words)

  
 Burundi encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Burundi politics and officials, Burundian History. Travel to Burundi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Its fertile and hilly terrain, which gives it the title "Land of a Thousand Hills" (French: Pays des Mille Collines), supports one of the densest populations in Africa.
It is best known to the outside world for the 1994 Rwandan genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people.
The eastern slopes are more moderate, with rolling hills extending across central uplands at gradually reducing altitudes, to the plains, swamps, and lakes of the eastern border region.
www.burundiiworld.com /wiki-Rwanda   (1560 words)

  
 Encyclopédie :: encyclopedia : Californie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Par exemple, les autoroutes et les ponts dépendent du ministère des transports (Department of Transportation).
Le ministère de l'éducation s'appelle State Department of Education.
Florence Lipsky, San Francisco, la grille sur les collines, Parenthèses, 1999, ISBN 2863640771
www.encyclopedie.cc /Californie   (2248 words)

  
 Judicial Responses to Genocide: International Criminal Tribunal
The three others are Andre Ntagerura (the former transport minister), Ferdinand Nahimana (a founder of Radio Television Milles Collines, which had been used to incite the genocide), and Colonel Anatole Nsengiyumva (former military intelligence chief and alleged death squad member)(83).
Other indictees being held in Arusha include Georges Rutaganda, a vice president of the national committee of Interahamwe ("those who work together"), the Hutu youth militia of the National Revolutionary Movement for Development, the political vehicle of former President Habyarimana's single party state(84).
(15) These and the following facts about the new government are based on U.S. Department of State, Rwanda Human Rights Practices, op.
www.africa.ufl.edu /asq/v1/1/2.htm   (6666 words)

  
 The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Administrative divisions
12 provinces; Alibori, Atakora, Atlantique, Borgou, Collines, Couffo, Donga, Littoral, Mono, Oueme, Plateau, Zou
7 departments (departements, singular - departement) and 1 capital district* (capitale district); Agadez, Diffa, Dosso, Maradi, Niamey*, Tahoua, Tillaberi, Zinder
none (overseas department of France); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are 4 arrondissements, 24 communes, and 47 cantons
www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2051.html   (4978 words)

  
 BABEL Main Page
Fitter, R. and A.Fitter (1984) Collins guide to the grasses, sedges, rushes and ferns of Britain and Northern Europe.
Fitter, Richard, Fitter, Alistair, and Farrer, Ann, Grasses, Sedges, Rushes and Ferns of Britain and Northern Europe, Collins, 1987
Le tome 1 de traite des plantes de "plaines et collines" et le tome 2 des plantes de "montagne".
homepage.ntlworld.com /a.n.gagg/babel/babel.html   (6214 words)

  
 Danwymanbooks
"Photographs with original captions of the Legal Identification Regional Department in Strasbourg"--Titlepage "May 8, 1985"--Titlepage presented and commented by Jean-Claude Pressac; edited by Serge Klarsfeld; [translated from French by Jan Green-Krotki].
Contents include: In the Financial Department of the Judenrat, Jewish Medical Resistance during the Catastrophe, Beginnings of the Jewish Partisan Movement in the Kaunas Ghetto, The jewish Underground in Auschwitz, on "Hehalutz" Resistance in Hungary, The "Hehalutz" Underground in Holland During the Nazi Occupation, Jewish Partisans in Yugoslavia, etc. A great collection of essays.
Lacks flimsy front cover, as often found; bit of edgewear to title page.
www.danwymanbooks.com /holocaust2.htm   (9087 words)

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