Word: bahutu
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...Better known outside Africa as the "Watutsi." the tall, legendary warriors of King Solomon's Mines. The Hutu (or Bahutu), a short-statured Bantu tribe, are the traditional peasants...
...presents a formidable problem. In Tanzania, for example, there are 120 tribal groups speaking at least as many distinct languages. Yet many African countries may be better off with many small, weak tribes than with a few strong rival groups. In the early '60s in Rwanda, the squat Bahutu literally cut the tall, stately Watutsi down to size by whacking their legs off. Thus ended the age-old Watutsi hegemony over the Bahutu. Two smoldering guerrilla wars are ethnic in origin: Black Africans are pitted against lighter-skinned Arabs in the Sudan and Chad. A tense situation that...
...atrocity scenes, strung together with a booming narration and a melodramatic score. Among them: the wanton slaughter of herds of hippopotamuses, zebras, elephants and other wildlife; the execution by a black and white firing squad of black Congolese rebels; mound of 54 amputated hands, the ghastly souvenir of Bahutu reprisals against their Watutsi neighbors...
Mwami Mwambutsa IV, the Watutsi ruler of the kingdom of Burundi, did not seem like a man who would easily part with his throne. In fact, when the rival Bahutu tribesmen attempted to overthrow him last October, the Mwami and his men struck back so ruthlessly that at least 86 Bahutus were executed, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament. Last week it seemed that the Mwami had lost his throne just the same. Not to the Bahutus. To his own son, Prince Charles Ndizeye...
From the Geneva headquarters of the International Commission of Jurists last week came a bitter indictment of justice, Burundi-style. The jurists charge that in the aftermath of last October's unsuccessful uprising by the underdog Bahutu tribe against the Watutsi monarchy, no less than 86 Bahutus, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament, were executed without even the semblance of a fair trial...