Word: pepel
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...deaths could rip the country apart along tribal lines. Na Wai came from the large Balante tribe, whose members fought in the war of independence against Portugal in 1974, and who have dominated the military ever since. Vieira came from the far smaller Pepel tribe. Soldiers drove Vieira from the country in 1999, but he returned in 2005 after he won a presidential election. "This is the final reckoning of accounts between two personalities who always fought each other," Antonio Mazzitelli, regional director for West Africa for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, told TIME by phone from...