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Events on Saturday 29 April 1972 1
1972Genocide of Hutus in BurundiGovernment crackdown kills an estimated 100,000-200,000 peopleFollowing a Hutu uprising against the Tutsi-dominated government, Burundian security forces carried out a mass killing campaign targeting educated and elite Hutus across the country. Estimates of the dead range from 100,000 to over 200,000. The massacre drove hundreds of thousands of refugees into neighboring countries.