This cannot be stated with certainty at this stage, according to Armel Niyongere, a Burundian lawyer and human rights defender, outlining the racist nature of Burundi’s current regime and its implications. He warns of worrying signs in the country.
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1972: “Burundi put its hand into the cauldron and has never truly emerged from it” Interview with Jean-Pierre Chrétien.
Historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien reflects on Burundi’s early years of independence, up to the 1972 crime during which tens of thousands of people were killed.
“Burundi has returned to a party-state” Interview with Armel Niyongere
Armel Niyongere, Burundian lawyer and human rights defender, discusses the current situation in Burundi. Episode 2/4 While the domestic situation in Burundi is causing growing concern due to an unprecedented crackdown on civic space, unlimited repression, and a...
“The Imbonerakure militiamen have exorbitant power”. Interview with Armel Niyongere
Burundian lawyer and human rights defender Armel Niyongere looks back on the 2015 political crisis in Burundi and the subsequent blind repression that continues to this day.
From colonisation to the emergence of an African far right: interview with Jean-Pierre Chrétien
In this final episode, Jean-Pierre Chrétien discusses how colonisation had a lasting and negative impact on social relationships in Rwanda and Burundi, which continued until independence and the emergence of a local far-right movement.
Where does the “Hamitic” ideology originate from? Interview with Jean-Pierre Chrétien.
The belief in the false hypothesis of the existence of a "Hamitic" people lies at the heart of the reactionary and racist ideologies that have caused so much bloodshed in East Africa. In this exclusive interview, French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien explains the...
“The old Burundi and Rwanda were no paradise”. Interview with Jean-Pierre Chrétien
In this second exclusive interview with African Facts, historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien discusses the political and social organisation of the Great Lakes region’s kingdoms prior to colonisation.
The initial spark for Jean-Pierre Chrétien, pioneer of oral history research in the Great Lakes region
First episode in a series of exclusive interviews between African Facts and the French historian Jean-Pierre Chrétien. He recounts his early days in the region and the beginnings of his research.
April 6, 1994 attack in Rwanda: Aloys Ntiwiragabo’s role in the long poisoning of Justice
Colonel Aloys Ntiwiragabo was found in 2020 near Orléans in France after evading international justice for 26 years. He is the main architect of the denial of the Tutsi genocide. He was particularly involved in manipulating the French justice system in relation to the attack on 6 April 1994. Episode two.
Aloys Ntiwiragabo, the omnipresent spymaster in the plot of 6 April 1994
Colonel Aloys Ntiwiragabo was found near Orléans in 2020, having evaded international justice for 26 years. He was not in Rwanda when the president's plane was shot down on 6 April 1994. However, he and his subordinates were involved in every aspect of the plot. First...
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