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Original Articles

Governing ethnicity after genocide: ethnic amnesia in Rwanda versus ethnic power-sharing in Burundi

Pages 263-277 | Received 11 Jun 2013, Accepted 03 Feb 2014, Published online: 14 Mar 2014

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