Word: burundi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Socialist predecessor and creator of Carrefour du Developpement, an organization designed to publicize Third World concerns. The state auditor has been unable to account for $1.4 million in the Carrefour budget. In addition, more than $6 million was spent by Nucci's agency on a two-day conference in Burundi...
...Australia, the U.S. and Europe. In the U.S., a "sting" set up by the Fish and Wildlife Service, an enforcement agency of the Department of the Interior, uncovered a huge, Atlanta-based black market in turtles, lizards, poisonous snakes and migratory birds. From the tiny African nation of Burundi, which has a known elephant population of one, hundreds of tons of ivory are shipped each year. The tusks, say conservationists, have probably been smuggled in from Tanzania, Rwanda or Zaïre, where virtually all ivory export is forbidden...
...fled in two waves: those escaping the brutal policies of former Dictator Idi Amin in the '70s and those who have recently left Uganda to avoid President Milton Obote's military "cleanup" operations. Zaïre supports another 335,000 refugees from upheavals in Angola, Rwanda and Burundi...
...20th century has been one of enormous tribal slaughter, much of it distant from the world's eyes. As many as 200,000 Tutsi and Hutu tribesmen massacred one another during tribal warfare in Burundi in the early 1970s, for example. Some 3,000 Bengalis were murdered in Assam, India, last February. More than 100,000 Iranians and Iraqis have been killed in their war, which is now three years old. And each slaughter enforces upon the survivors in the tribe the imperative to take revenge...
...surely qualify that entry (one thinks mordantly) for some genocidal hall of fame. Perhaps that is the sort of museum we need on the edge of the Mall: a home for all the great blood scandals: the Armenians slaughtered by the Turks, the Hutus slain by the Tutsis in Burundi, the Cambodians who have died in Pol Pot's haunting imitation of Stalin's barbarisms...