Research Catalog

Title

Stoking the fires : military assistance and arms trafficking in Burundi / Human Rights Watch Arms Project ; [written by Kathi L. Austin and by Joost R. Hiltermann].

Author

Austin, Kathi L.

Publication

New York ; London : Human Rights Watch, ©1997.

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Additional Authors

• Hiltermann, Joost R.
• Arms Project (Human Rights Watch), issuing body.
• Human Rights Watch (Organization), issuing body.

Description

xii, 105 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• "This report was written by Kathi L. Austin ... and by Joost R. Hiltermann"--Acknowledgments.
• "Since 1993, a vicious war of ethnic slaughter has raged in Burundi. The army has employed increasing violence against the Hutu population purportedly to counter attacks by Hutu rebel groups and protect the Tutsi minority. The majority Hutu population, organized by several political groups, have waged a steadily growing insurgency, with significant links to the Rwandan exile armies in neighboring states. In this conflict, a seemingly unstoppable flow of arms to all sides has greatly contributed to the serious abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law that have taken place, including the killing of tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, often solely because of their ethnicity, and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of others"--Back cover.

Subject

• 1993-2005
• Illegal arms transfers > Burundi
• Military assistance
• Illegal arms transfers
• Burundi > History > Civil War, 1993-2005
• Burundi

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Background to the conflict -- The flow of arms to Burundi -- The Western European hub -- The east and central African states -- Southern Africa's arms hypermarket -- The Chinese connection -- The United States -- The humanitarian dilemma.

ISBN

• 1564321770
• 9781564321770

LCCN

97080896

OCLC

• ocm38337249
• 38337249
• SCSB-574194

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library