Word: rwanda
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Dates: during 1962-1962
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...week rolled a fleet of limousines delivering diplomats to an autumn rite as familiar and often as shrill as the first day of school: the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Settling down to business, the delegates welcomed the U.N.'s four newest members-Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Rwanda, and Burundi-whose admission boosted Assembly membership to 108; Algeria and Uganda will be up for admittance later in the session...
...RWANDA 21. BURUNDI ( Bel.) Pop.: 3,000,000. Pop.: 2,500,000. Size: 11,000 sq. mi. Size: 10,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 25%. School attendance: 30%. College graduates: 60 plus (excluding priests). Christians: over 50%. Fewer than 2% attend secondary schools. Savage customs prevalent; natives venerate cattle...
Political parties: Rwanda, 4; Burundi, 3. Voters: Rwanda, 75%; Burundi, 52%. Belgians restrained political awareness before granting independence last July, when territory split into two states. Rwanda's main political issue is bitter conflict between giant Watusi and Bahutu majority, who were their serfs. Tribalism not acute in Burundi, but people unready for self-rule...
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...
...Rwanda, meanwhile, Belgium successfully threw its support behind the long suppressed Bahutu, who immediately rose up in bloody revolt against their Watutsi overlords. Although for centuries they had practiced a sort of subfeudal oppression, the Watutsi were openly backed by 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...