Word: nyanza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burundi is one of Africa's most overcrowded countries, with a population of 325 persons per square mile, I saw almost no one during many miles of driving in the countryside. Every dwelling has been abandoned or burned down. Fields of coffee, cotton and beans stand overgrown. At Nyanza Lac, a once-bustling village of 3,000 people on Burundi's Lake Tanganyika, the only inhabitants are wild dogs...
...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...
Savage fighting spread throughout the country. In the south, armed bands of Hutus seized control of the towns of Bururi and Rumonge and killed hundreds of Tutsi. On the shore of Lake Tanganyika, a force of 600 rebels occupied the town of Nyanza-Lac and drove off low-flying military planes with cascades of fire. "Everywhere," reported one pilot, "you see dead bodies...