Word: bangala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mobutu's own survival has been the army and, specifically, the 5,000-man paratroop guard made up mostly of kinsmen from his own small Bangala tribe. Even today, Mobutu spends his nights at a luxurious villa in the paratroopers' camp outside Kinshasa. From the beginning, Mobutu has ruled with an iron hand. He dissolved the Parliament, the 44 political parties and seven trade unions, and cracked down hard on student dissidents and potential rivals alike. To charges of dictatorship he replies angrily: "It was the foreigners who taught Africans to boo their chiefs and who introduced...
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