Word: tribalized
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...worth asking these things in the face of the approaching winter in Kosovo: the genocidal impulses that led the Hutu to slaughter 1 million Tutsi (give or take) in 1994 are (allowing for a few regional differences, such as machetes and skin color) identical to the tribal bloodlusts at work in the Balkans. Eerily the same: the neighbors who suddenly turn a killing fury upon neighbors, the roving bands fueled round the clock on alcohol, the strange, dull light in the murderers' eyes, the sudden civic duty to exterminate the Other...
...hate to sound nostalgic for the cold war, but it did make reading international news a lot easier. During the cold war, when ethnic or tribal conflicts popped up in countries you didn't know from chopped liver, there was no need to go through the laborious task of trying to ascertain which side was marginally less beastly than its adversary. Whichever side the Red Menace was for we were against. Simple as that. And consider this: during the cold war, the meltdown of the Russian ruble would have been treated as good news...
...Indians are attempting to build housing within Everglades National Park, while Utah's Goshute are actively seeking a nuclear-waste dump. And last year Arizona's White Mountain Apaches, protecting their logging and cattle interests, declared that federal agents would be forbidden to enforce the Endangered Species Act on tribal land. Says Rosita Worl, a Tlingit anthropologist: "There has never been more tension between the need for resources and our reverence for nature...
...issue has split not only the tribe but also individual families. For example, Capitan, the grass-roots opposition leader, is the nephew of Arviso, the employee of Hydro Resources. And there is a generational clash as well: some younger Navajo accuse the landowners, many of them tribal elders, of selling out. "The older people always say human life is more important than material things," says LaJuanna Daye, a health-care worker, "but here they have the chance to prove it, and all we see is greed...
...more problems for his military jailers than any it might have solved. As if to underline the point, there were riots across southern Nigeria Wednesday and Thursday, in which 45 people were reported killed, and General Abdulsalam Abubakar dissolved his cabinet. "The military needs to arbitrate Nigeria's massive tribal and regional tensions by promoting national unity," says TIME reporter Clive Mutiso. "They desperately needed Abiola to renounce his immediate claim on the presidency, but also to start talking national unity and endorsing new elections...