The following list is a list of massacres that have occurred in Burundi in reverse chronological order:

List of massacres

Name Date Deaths Involved Location – Circumstances2020 Bugarama attackAugust 23-24, 202011RED-TabaraBugarama, Rumonge Province2015 Bujumbura massacreDecember 12, 201587 (including 8 soldiers and policemen)Burundian security forcesBujumbura Mairie Province, Bujumbura, Nyakabiga district, Musaga, Mutakura, Nyakabiga, Ngagara, Cibitoke and Jabe – After three army installations in Ngagara, Musaga and Mujejuru were attacked, the security forces killed numerous people in predominantly Tutsi-inhabited neighborhoods.Gatumba refugee camp massacreAugust 13, 2004160Forces for National LiberationBujumbura Rural Province, Mutimbuzi commune, GatumbaBurundi massacre and the continuing conflict in the CongoItaba massacreSeptember 9, 2002267Burundian security forces and the National Council for the Defense of Democracy – Forces for the Defense of DemocracyItabaBurundi: No justice for victims of the Itaba massacre | Amnesty InternationalTitanic Express massacreDecember 28, 200021Forces for National LiberationBujumbura Rural – Bus attack by the Hutu-extremist group Palipehutu-FNL.Bungendana massacre20 July 1996320 - 648Hutu rebelsBungendana, Gitega - Between 300 and 648 people of Tutsi ethnicity, mostly internally displaced persons, including women, children and the elderly, were killed by Hutu rebels 1993 ethnic violence21 October to 31 December 199325,000 Hutu peasantsNationwide1988 Hutu massacres19885,000 to 25,000Hutu peasantsNationwideBarbara Harff. No Lessons Learned from the Holocaust? Assessing Risks of Genocide and Political MassMurder since 1955. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, No. 1 (Feb., 2003), pp. 57-73. Published by: American Political Science Association. Stable URL: Ikiza April–August 1972210,000Tutsi-Hima dictatorshipNationwideWhite, Matthew. Death Tolls for the Major Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century: C. Burundi (1972–73, primarily Hutu killed by Tutsi) 120,00019691965

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See also

Burundian Civil War Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Burundi) Burundian unrest (2015–2018)

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