Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite sure how many people have been killed in the small, overpopulated African republic of Rwanada since the beginning of the year. But it is clear that some kind of slaughter is taking place; one report estimates the toll at a thousand daily. Almost all the victims are members of the Tutsi (or Watusi) tribe, usually remembered for their great height--many Tutsi are seven feet tall. The people slaughtering the Tutsi are the Hutu, who make up 85% of Rwanda's population...
...technology that have revolutionized U.S. and Western European farming over the past 50 years. But for city dwellers, Volov-chenko's promised bounty came too late. After a winter of scarcities, they learned only two weeks before the meeting that fodder shortages last fall had forced farmers to slaughter 29 million hogs-more than 40% of Russia's entire swine herd-as well as record numbers of cattle and sheep, thus assuring that scarce meat will be scarcer than ever for the next few years...
...problem of Cyprus, where Greek and Turkish communities have been indulging in mutual slaughter, this week headed for the Security Council of the United Nations. The island's President, Archbishop Makarios, should certainly be a happy man, for that was where he has wanted the problem all along...
...darkening outside Cyprus as well. Turkey, furious at the slaughter of its outnumbered (4 to 1) compatriots, rushed an army division to the seaport of Iskenderun, only 125 miles from Cyprus, assembled naval units for what was described as "maneuvers." Greece, which could ordinarily be expected to counter any Turkish move, was preoccupied with a national election...
...weak is the Congolese control of its borders that last week 3,000 spear-wielding Watutsi tribesmen exiled in the Congo's eastern reaches mounted an attack on their neighboring homeland, Rwanda, out of revenge for the recent genocidal slaughter there of thousands of Watutsi by the ruling Bahutu tribe. They were driven back by the Belgian-officered Rwanda army at a cost of 300 Watutsi dead...