Word: tribalized
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Unfortunately, Liam Neeson's performance is sloppier on all accounts. From semi-artsy actor, he seems to be mutating into an Irish Kevin Costner. The plains of the Midwest may be far from the Scottish highlands, but sensitive tribal men vanquish all boundaries. Bekilted and long-haired, Neeson is only concerned with his honor and his woman. Embarrassing petal-strewn love scenes are only a little worse than Rob Roy's lifeless professions of integrity and honor. Neeson's pallid presence does more to ruin the film than anything else...
...months, sporadic tribal killing has been fracturing Burundi into tense ethnic cantonments, which many officials in the country and outside fear could explode into full-scale genocide. Fresh and ominous spasms of bloodshed erupted in the capital as well as the Majuri refugee camp near the town of Ngozi, where armed men killed 12 Rwandan Hutu and wounded 22 last Monday. That attack, presumably carried out by Tutsi militiamen, followed a week of ethnic cleansing in the capital, Bujumbura: bands of Tutsi swept through mixed neighborhoods, driving out members of the other tribal group, fighting with Hutu militia, shooting stragglers...
...Rawanda: 80% Hutu, 15% Tutsi. The difference is that in Burundi, the minority Tutsi have always controlled the armed forces, while in Rwanda the majority had the weapons. After the assassination of two Presidents in 18 months, the current government is a shaky coalition of the two rival tribal groups. Moderates willing to compromise are dumped by their own faction, and, says a senior foreign-aid worker, "the country has been taken hostage by the hard-liners...
Talabani's party is made up mainly of urban intellectuals and leftists, while Barzani, 48, is a parochial tribal chieftain wary of the West whose political base remains in the countryside. Over the years he has favored negotiation with Baghdad, while the 62-year-old Talabani wants confrontation. Talabani shares the dream of other Kurds of an independent Kurdistan that includes parts of Iraq, Iran and Turkey. When U.S. officials visit Talabani, he regularly serves them turkey for dinner so they will not miss the message that he wants to nibble at his neighbor...
Once they were warriors, indeed, and fought the British to a standstill. Today, in the city slums, Maori males are dispossessed chieftains whose search for manhood leads them to modern variations on tribal traditions. The film is a social tragedy, observed in love and pain. It's also a study of class animosities within a race. Beth was a princess of the Tainui tribe, and the elders disapproved of her marriage to Jake, who comes from "a long line of slaves...