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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...
...civil war in the tiny central African republic of Burundi ended more than a month ago; but the systematic murder of the Hutu tribesmen, who account for 85% of the country's 4,000,000 people, continues. In a sense, it is double genocide: the approximately 2,000 Hutu rebels who briefly proclaimed an independent republic a month ago had set out to murder their overlords of the Tutsi tribe. The Tutsi-dominated army quickly put down the revolt (TIME, May 22). Ever since, it has been attempting to destroy the Hutu to such an extent that they...
...primary targets of the government's continuing "pacification drive" are the Hutu "elite"-meaning not merely the five Hutu cabinet ministers who were summarily executed at the beginning of the rebellion but practically anybody who can write his own name or afford a hut with a corrugated-iron roof instead of a thatched one. At one school, 140 Hutu boys and girls were shot or hacked to death by soldiers. Though the rate of killings had diminished by last week, troops were still descending on isolated villages at night and murdering the local leaders. Writes TIME Reporter David Martin...
After three weeks, the wrath of the Tutsis appeared to be waning. But the toll had been terrifyingly high. No fewer than 50,000 and perhaps more than 100,000 people had been slaughtered in the fighting and in the massacre that followed. The Hutu tribe, moreover, had been deprived of its leadership and left with a terrible lust for vengeance. In the words of a United Nations report, "Burundi has slipped back an entire generation in three terrible weeks...
...Better known outside Africa as the "Watutsi." the tall, legendary warriors of King Solomon's Mines. The Hutu (or Bahutu), a short-statured Bantu tribe, are the traditional peasants...