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Title:Rwanda and Burundi: political and social preconditions for the economic development of dualistic societies
Author:Molt, PeterISNI
Year:1997
Periodical:African Development Perspectives Yearbook
Volume:6
Pages:305-319
Language:English
Geographic terms:Burundi
Rwanda
Subjects:ethnic relations
political stability
Abstract:In both Rwanda and Burundi the army, led by small Tutsi subgroups, at present constitutes the decisive political force. Security concerns are impeding political and economic reconstruction in both countries. The highly instable situation in Burundi currently excludes any serious reconstruction efforts. In Rwanda, the gap between the government, the army and the new ruling elite on one side, and the majority of the people on the other, is widening, as the ruling minority takes recourse to suppression, of which the high number of political prisoners is the most visible sign. The ethnical or racial element in the Tutsi-Hutu conflict increases the danger of newly provoked massacres, pogroms and genocide. It is to some extent also the key to ending the conflict in Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo). The elements of a peaceful settlement of the Tutsi-Hutu conflict in Rwanda and Burundi lie, against all odds, in promoting local participatory government and grassroots development, equal access to secondary and tertiary education, reconciliation through independent truth seeking into the history of the Great Lakes region, and economic rebuilding through industrialization and agricultural intensification. Bibliogr.
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