Country: Burundi

Group: Tutsi

Date Finalized: 9/21/22

Team: Hajer Rahee (lead), Anthony Un, Samuel Kniery, Gabby Staker, Jhanz Marco Garcia, Zaida Yancy Arellano Reyes

Content Warning: Physical violence, ethnocide, war

Approximate Time Period: 1959 – 2015

Although Tutsi had lived in Burundi for centuries, a large inflow of Tutsi occurred in 1959, due to Hutu revolts occurring in the neighboring country of Rwanda (BBC, 2018). After years of tensions between Hutu and Tutsi, a 1993 coup attempt led to reprisals and counter-reprisals between the two ethnic groups, resulting in over 100,000 deaths.  Many Tutsi fled the the massacres and subsequent civil war.   Between 1993-1995, upwards of a million refugees fled to neighboring Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zaire to avoid such ethnic-based violence. As of April 2022, there are over 84,000 internally displaced persons in Burundi and over 70,000 returning refugees from neighboring states.

Data Quality: Data quality for Tutsi forced away is rated a 3/3 due to the strong amount of evidence gathered from both nonprofit organizations and peer-reviewed research.

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