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...Group." As the plane winged off toward Cairo, Western diplomats in the tiny African mountain kingdom breathed a sigh of relief. So did Burundi's ruler, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, 53, who four days earlier had ordered the Chinese Communists to leave. The Mwami had ample reason to be angry. No sooner had Peking established a mission in Bujumbura, in January 1964, than Chinese money began to flow into the pockets of Burundi ministers and politicians. The Reds quickly allied themselves with discontented Watutsi refugees from neighboring Rwanda, inflaming their irredentist cause with propaganda and even arms. Chinese sympathizers were...
...alpine slopes of the former Belgian colony Ruanda-Urundi. Independence, in 1962, established a tribal equality of sorts, but both Bahutu and Watutsi quickly sought more than that. A Belgian-backed coup gave the Bahutu control of the new Rwanda government, while Burundi remained under a Watutsi king, Mwami Mwambutsa...
After this revolution, about 75,000 Tutsi fled to neighboring Burundi, Uganda, and Tanganyika. The victory of the Parmehutu (Parti d'Emancipation des Hutu) in elections of October, 1961, further weakened the Tutsi's position. The Tutsi king, or Mwami, went into exile. The number of Tutsi refugees in surrounding territories doubled by July, 1962, when Rwanda and Burundi gained independence...
Exports: Coffee. Per capita income: $35-50. U.S. aid: $7,500,000. Both countries are heavily overpopulated, heavily dependent on foreign aid. Rwanda looks to neighboring Uganda for trade outlet. Rwanda is republic with moderate austerity regime. Burundi is monarchy with moderate regime under merry Mwami (King) Mwambutsa...
...Russia, in and out of U.N., simply because they were vehemently anti-Belgian. But Bahutu numbers told. The Bahutu burned scores of Watutsi villages to the ground, cut scores of willowy Watutsi warriors literally down to size by slicing their legs off at the knees. Rwanda's Mwami Kigeri V fled into exile along with 142,000 supporters, and the Bahutu set up a republican parliamentary Belgium-backed government...