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Though the government of President Michel Micombero claims that the majority of the country's victims have been Tutsi, most foreign observers in Bujumbura believe the Tutsi dead number no more than 5,000 out of a total now estimated at perhaps 80,000. With their devastating pogrom, the Tutsi overlords have unquestionably bought themselves a few more years in power, but at a terrible price...
...books could be read where they might most be enjoyed, this one would be saved for a bleak day at Mont-St.-Michel, with the high tide rolling gray against the rocks and Gregorian chant echoing in the mind. ·Mayo Mohs
Such are the scenes of genocide in Burundi, where the Hutu tribal majority revolted last month against their traditional overlords, the Tutsi tribesmen,* and the Tutsi-controlled government of President Michel Micombero (TIME, May 22). The revolt was put down after two weeks of fighting, but not before tens of thousands of Tutsis had been slain. In the town of Nyanza-Lac alone, a single Catholic priest presided over the mass burial of 15,000 Tutsis...
...King was 25-year-old Ntare V, who had returned to Burundi in March after spending six years in exile. Ntare came home after receiving assurances from the man who deposed him, President Michel Micombero, who is also a Tutsi, that he would be free to live in Burundi "as an ordinary citizen." But as soon as Ntare reached the Burundi capital of Bujumbura, he was whisked off by helicopter to the old royal capital of Kitega and placed under house arrest in his former palace. When thousands of Hutu tribesmen revolted a month later, they stormed the palace...
Also on hand is an intellectual friend of Charles called Paul Regis (Michel Piccoli), who lacks the brains to get out while the going is good. Charles and Helene confess their passion to him, and Regis receives the news with equanimity. He even helps the lovers deal with a blackmailer and generally tries to ease a situation further complicated by the fact that Helene is also Papa's wife. It all leads to murder, which is only to be expected from a film that is adapted from an Ellery Queen novel...