Massacres in Burundi

thumb | right | Hippos in Gatumba Gatumba is a village in western Burundi, near the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The place is known for a massacre that took place at Gatumba refugee camp connected to the village.

The ' (variously translated from Kirundi as the Catastrophe, the Great Calamity, and the Scourge), or the (Killings'), was a series of mass killings—often characterised as a genocide—which were committed in Burundi in 1972 by the Tutsi-dominated army and government, primarily against educated and elite Hutus who lived in the country. Conservative estimates place the death toll of the event between 100,000 and 150,000 killed, while some estimates of the death toll go as high as 300,000.

1993 killings of mostly Tutsis in Burundi