Burundi: The Obsession with Genocide

Jean-Pierre Chretien, research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris, is the author of Burundi: L'histoire retrouvée (Paris: Karthala, 1993), coeditor with Gérard Prunier of Les ethnies ont une histoire (Paris: Karthala, 1989), and coauthor of Rwanda: Les medias du genocide (Paris: Karthala, 1995). This article was translated from the French by Amy Billone.