Word: hutu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atrocity that some observers described as a minor act of genocide, the ruling Tutsi tribe in the African republic of Burundi in 1972 put down a rebellion by massacring some 75,000 members of the country's Hutu majority. That same year, Uganda's burly dictator Idi Amin ("Big Daddy") Dada forcibly expelled 26,000 of his country's Asian residents and expropriated their possessions. Last week Burundi and Uganda-along with other notably humane nations like the Soviet Union-were among the 91 members of the United Nations that voted to suspend South Africa from...
Burundi is a land of luxuriant beauty and berserk violence, torn apart by one of those tribal conflicts that are so elusive to an outsider's understanding. Determined to uphold a centuries-old feudal hegemony over 3,000,000 Hutu tribesmen, the well-armed Tutsi overlords, who number no more than 600,000, unleashed a violent pogrom last year. At least 80,000-and perhaps as many as 250,000-Hutus were killed. In May this year the slaughter revived in the southeastern part of the landlocked hill country (area: 10,747 sq. mi., smaller than Belgium). The latest...
...Hutu Hunt. At Mabanda, where this year's fighting started, a band of spear-carrying Tutsi irregulars were clustered in a bar, drinking bottles of beer to get in the mood for the night's Hutu hunt. "We will kill as many as we have to," boasted one old man, "as many as it takes to make our families safe here...
...living together without trouble-at least for the moment-sharing the same hills and villages. But calm will prevail only as long as there is no effort to change the ages-old system of ubuhake (literally meaning servitude), under which the herd-keeping Tutsis lease their cattle to Hutu farmers for food and pledges of vassalage...
...lakeside palace while two crested cranes paced back and forth in a nearby cage, Micombero explained: "Just as in the U.S. and most other countries, it is the political majority that rules rather than an ethnic majority." Throughout the entire interview he did not use the words Tutsi or Hutu once, apparently in an attempt to emphasize his determination to eradicate tribal distinctions. "It is true that many have died in Burundi," he said. "My own people started the terrible troubles of last year, but they were stirred by outsiders. This year there is internal peace, broken only by external...