Word: bujumbura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more mysterious was the assassination of Burundi's Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe, who was gunned down on the steps of a hospital in Bujumbura after a visit to his wife, who had just given birth to a baby. A moderate, Ngendandumwe had been in office only eight days, having replaced a pro-Peking regime headed by Albin Nyamoya. Burundi has been Red China's major East African base for subversion directed against the Congo, but with the assassin still at large, there was no way of knowing who had put him up to the deed...
...operate with the rebels "along the entire length of the Congo's northeastern frontier." Though Tshombe could produce no concrete evidence that the outsiders had actually crossed into the Congo to lead Simba troops, intelligence sources several weeks ago identified an Algerian officer in the Burundi capital of Bujumbura, where Congolese rebels long maintained their eastern headquarters. Some 40 "Arabs," who may be Algerian officers, are reported to be standing by at Juba in the southern Sudan...
...eager young Chinese Communist diplomat would have jumped at the assignment, and crewcut, bespectacled Tung Chi-ping was no exception. The place was Bujumbura, the cool, colorful capital of tiny Burundi (pop. 2,750,000) in the heart of subversion-ripe Central Africa. The embassy itself was located in an entire wing of the Paguidas-Haidemenos Hotel ("hot and cold running water"), and the job was nominally "assistant cultural attache." The duties were far more interesting than mere lecturing on Sung poetry and Ming pottery. Every night, for instance, exciting home movies were shown to select audiences brought in from...
...knew he would first have to convince his bosses of his complete dedication to the system. "I became very progressive," he says. And indeed, during four years at the Foreign Language Institute at Shanghai, where he excelled in French, Tung was a model Red. He was rewarded with the Bujumbura assignment...
...largely by local youths who nurse vague grudges against the government. But in Kivu at least-and perhaps elsewhere-powerful support comes from neighboring Burundi, where Communist Chinese diplomats are in close touch with Congolese refugee leaders who call themselves the "Committee of National Liberation for Eastern Congo." From Bujumbura, Burundi's capital, Liberation Committee "President" Emile Soumaliot and his "commissars" travel over the border to the rebels' Uvira headquarters at will, carrying supplies, money and orders to their field commanders...