From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi: Our Embassy Years During Genocide

by Robert Krueger, Robert Krueger, Kathleen Tobin Krueger

In 1994, while nations everywhere stood idly by, 800,000 people were slaughtered in eight weeks in Rwanda. Arriving as U.S. Ambassador to neighboring Burundi a few weeks later, Bob Krueger began drawing international attention to the genocide also proceeding in Burundi, where he sought to minimize the killing and to preserve its fledgling democratic government from destruction by its own army. From Bloodshed to Hope in Burundi is a compelling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292714866
• ISBN13: 9780292714861
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 3.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"