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Such killing has become a kind of unofficial policy in the world. The statistics of mass murder in the past decade or so (at least 100,000 Hutus killed by Tutsis in Burundi, for example, or the million or three Cambodians dead under Pol Pot) somehow should make the deaths in the Palestinian camps seem less cataclysmic, less imposingly significant. Horrible, of course. But Lebanese Christians and Muslims have been trafficking in such mutual slaughter forever. Their blood feud in the past seven years has taken more than 60,000 lives...
...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 Tutsi massacre was in retaliation for a three-pronged Hutu attack on Tutsi strongholds near the Tanzanian border. An estimated 15,000 have already...
...volutlonnaire, the paramilitary youth groups who did most of the killing. The youth groups are run by the Tutsis' Party of Unity and National Progress (Uprona), which in effect rules the country. The job of the Jeunesse is to mop up after the soldiers, killing any Hutus the troops have missed in their savage campaign against the "rebels." Survivors have told stories of men, women and children being herded into straw huts and burned alive. Refugees arrived in Tanzania with their hands, ears, even their feet chopped off. This year the Tutsis are being more discreet, killing mainly...
Bujumbura, the seedy capital (pop. 75,000), where spacious villas dot rolling green hills overlooking the vast blue expanse of Lake Tanganyika, has become virtually a Tutsi town. The few Hutus left are keeping a low profile. "The Hutus will never stop grasping for power, and the Tutsis will fight to the last man to keep it." a Belgian businessman told me. "I honestly cannot see any end to the killing. I only thank God that they are leaving the whites out of it." Elsewhere, the Tutsis and Hutus seem to be living together without trouble-at least...
Burundi's handsome Tutsi President Colonel Michel Micombero, 33, who came to power seven years ago by ousting the decadent royal clan, denies any intent to exterminate the Hutus. He likes to point out that many of them belong to his Uprona Party, and claims that much of the killing has resulted from invasion attempts by Hutus living in exile in Tanzania. Seated in the summer house of his 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...