Word: bujumbura
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precisely the area of advising the busy foreign policy professional on the nature and content of foreign politics that the scholar can make his greatest substantive contribution. The professional diplomat is the man who knows where, in Paris or in Phnom Penh, in Bonn or in Bujumbura, to find the door to which diplomatic notes should be delivered. He has a pretty good idea of what will happen to the note after it is slipped through the mail slot in the door. But he cannot be expected to have a really deep understanding of the internal political and economic...
...announced that he had decided to chuck the monarchy altogether and rule the country himself. Fear immediately arose among his neighbors that he might invite back the Red Chinese, who were expelled by the old King in 1965 for meddling in Burundi affairs. Soon the capital of Bujumbura began to fill up with leftist emissaries from Nasser and from Guinea's ambitious Sékou Tour...
...exams, flew to Burundi, ostensibly to prepare for his father's return in late July. Instead, Charles fired off three telegrams to his father, announcing that he had seized power. Burundi's 2,750,000 inhabitants got the word through a radio broadcast from the capital of Bujumbura, in which Charles denounced the country's politicians for "dereliction of duty, stagnation, hesitation and nepotism," declared that he had dismissed the government and taken over as chief of state...
...jurists had a special reason for outrage. Alarmed by reports of mass killings, they had received permission last November from the Justice Minister of the King, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, to send their own investigator to the Burundian capital of Bujumbura. Their man showed up in December, but he did not hear until later that 22 executions took place while he was actually in town...
...Burundi's Watutsis are as determined as ever to continue in the ascendancy they now enjoy. Not surprisingly, the Mwami's men dealt harshly with last week's rebels. After a hurried court-martial, 34 Bahutu gendarmes were executed by a firing squad in the Bujumbura stadium. A bleak future probably also lay ahead for several leading Bahutu politicians, including the former president of Burundi's Parliament, who were clapped in jail and charged with complicity...