Prunier
Proper noun
Meaning
Prunier (plural Pruniers)
A surname from French.
Synonyms
Examples
In contrast, Gérard Prunier accepts the theory that the Tutsi came from outside the Great Lakes region and were at the time of their arrival a distinct racial group.
"Hailemariam realized that Ethiopia had reached the end of the system of government born out of the 1991 TPLF victory,” said Gerard Prunier, former director of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa.
Prunier says 'on the causes of the mutiny, see Memorandum de la Communaute Banyamulenge a Son Excellence le President de la Republique Democratique du Congo, eut egard a la situation securitaire qui prevaut au Sud Kivu, Bukavu, 24 February 1998.
Gérard Prunier reported that when confronted about the genocide by a journalist, Mitterrand replied: “The genocide or genocides?
Prunier says that the instructors were still at the Kitona base when the Second Congo War broke out, and had to be quickly returned to Tanzania.
Prunier, 2009, p.176 Mixing these disparate and formerly warring elements together led to mutuny.