Ikiza information

Ikiza
Ikiza
	Contemporary United States Central Intelligence Agency map of Burundi showing areas of Hutu rebel activity and refugee concentrations from the Ikiza
Location	Burundi
Date	April–August 1972
Target	Hutus, particularly the educated and elite; some Tutsi-Banyaruguru
Attack type	Genocide, mass murder
Deaths	100,000–300,000
Perpetrators	Tutsi-Hima dictatorship
Motive	Retribution for Hutu rebellion

The Ikiza (variously translated from Kirundi as the Catastrophe, the Great Calamity, and the Scourge), or the Ubwicanyi (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.

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