Word: slaughterous
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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...
There appears to be no way to stop the slaughter. Despite extensive contrary evidence, the Rwanda government denies that the Tutsi are being massacred. A five-man UN mission investigated Tutsi raids, but was unable to discover much; presumably, the Parmehutu officials in Rwanda were uncooperative. Assemblies of African states, preoccupied with military revolts in Uganda and Tanganyika, have been reluctant to intervene...
...arson, and murder. It was not easy to assess the accuracy of all the atrocity stories being handed the press. One group said that it had been machine-gunned by Pakistani border guards as it tried to cross the frontier; the original claim of 200 refugees killed in the slaughter was later downgraded to two. The Pakistanis could retort indignantly that 35,000 Moslems in West Bengal had been uprooted from their homes by Indian authorities and deported to East Pakistan as treacherous spies. Even in India, that was an awful lot of spies...
What saved the rest of the mission from wholesale slaughter was the sudden arrival of a small U.N. plane, with Canadian Brigadier General Jacques Dextraze aboard. Buzzing the rebels, the plane succeeded in alerting a nearby band of Congolese regulars to their presence. When the government troops arrived, the rebels had vanished into the bush, doubtless to plot their next assault in terrorized Kwilu...
...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...