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Word: subchiefs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Their Feet. Last week Belgium announced that it intended to do just that. And at almost the same moment, civil war broke out in Ruanda. A minor quarrel between a subchief of the Muhutus and a group of Watutsis sparked bloody incidents all over the country. Armed bands of Muhutus, feeling the strength of their superior numbers, turned almost every hill into a natural fortress. Though the Muhutus left the Watutsi women and children alone, they showed no mercy to the males: those they did not kill they maimed by chopping off their feet. They put banana plantations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUANDA-URUNDI: Revolt of the Serfs | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

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