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...primary targets of the government's continuing "pacification drive" are the Hutu "elite"-meaning not merely the five Hutu cabinet ministers who were summarily executed at the beginning of the rebellion but practically anybody who can write his own name or afford a hut with a corrugated-iron roof instead of a thatched one. At one school, 140 Hutu boys and girls were shot or hacked to death by soldiers. Though the rate of killings had diminished by last week, troops were still descending on isolated villages at night and murdering the local leaders. Writes TIME Reporter David Martin...
Corrupt Priest. Some of the confessions must have been sheer defiance: faced with a ruling establishment that was sanctified by the church, a resentful peasantry followed the only image of rebellion they knew?Satan. The satanic messiah became especially appealing in times of despair, such as the era of the plague known as the Black Death. Real or imagined, the pact with the Devil may have been the last bad hope for safety in a world fallen out of joint. Thousands died in the persecution, many of them probably guilty
...than once, it has more than one story to tell. First, it is a portrait of Pedro Diaz Cuscat, a Tzotzil Indian who, though educated by white Dominicans, became a visionary and rebel who led his people against the priests and soldiers of their white masters, in the 1870 rebellion known to Mexican historians as "The Chiapas War of the Castes." But in recounting Cuscat's story, Wilson also details how he, as novelist, tracked this story down, searched it out in historical documents and folk tales, came to understand it by studying social custom and innuendo, and finally realized...
...good measure, Tsiranana also imprisoned his own vice president, André Resampa, who was becoming uncomfortably powerful. Earlier this year, Tsiranana was re-elected unopposed to a third term. In Tulear province, where the rebellion had taken place, the official ballot counters solemnly reported that not a single citizen had voted against...
...army. Among other things, Mobutu wanted to get rid of a handful of onetime Congolese rebels-the notorious Simbas-who had paddled across Lake Tanganyika and joined in the fighting on the Hutu side. Mobutu's tough troops enabled the loyalist forces to put down the rebellion. Last week the Burundi radio announced that all leaders of the aborted coup had been captured-and appealed to the world for food and medical supplies...