Word: tribalized
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...unspeakable savagery triggered by the death of Rwanda's President ((RWANDA, April 25)) has a cause even more basic than the long-simmering tribal hostility between the Tutsi and Hutu. Rwanda, with low life expectancy, education and GNP, measures high on the index of human suffering. Deprivation, environmental degradation and desperation have exacerbated tribal rivalries and exploded into mass murder. What Rwanda really needs is family-planning educators and providers, along with equal rights for Rwandan women, because when women make the reproductive decision, family size declines. The influence in Rwanda of another male-dominated hierarchy, and an anti-choice...
...Tutsi reignited a month ago. But no one knows how many -- and we may never know. The bodies not rotting by the roads are buried in mass graves or floating down the rivers, far away from the arithmetic of history. With this latest tragedy in its long litany of tribal massacres, Rwanda joins Angola, Sri Lanka, Liberia, Bosnia and Nagorno- Karabakh in defining what barbarism means in the late 20th century, and defying the rest of the world to try to do something about...
...much hate accumulate in so small a country? Historians could point to Rwanda as a case study in what happens to a former colony when suppressed tribal rivalries are released into a power vacuum. It is a familiar lesson: an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims died in communal fighting after the British pulled out of India; the departure of the Belgians from the Congo set off savage ethnic-regional warfare; the collapse of the Soviet Union ignited a murderous rivalry between Abkhazians and Georgians for control of Georgia. Rwanda's preindependence history held special ironies: while colonial rule...
...years of colonialism essentially destroyed the social and political structures that had kept tribal peace for centuries. By 1959 the aggrieved Hutu majority rose up in rebellion; in some villages, machete-wielding gangs set upon the Tutsi and hacked off their feet, cutting them down to size. The Belgians, pushed by the wave of independence sweeping the continent, abruptly abandoned their Tutsi agents and sided with the Hutu majority. Having inflamed the Hutu's resentment of the Tutsi elite, the retreating colonizers left the minority to the mercies of the mob. Thousands of Tutsi fled into exile in Uganda, where...
...about her involvement with the Nazis throughout, but this film is not meant as a trial or an interrogation Instead, "The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl" examines her various occupations and interests. To emphasize his purpose, Muller opens the film with a curious montage of tropical fish, Nuba tribal dancers, and marching Nazis...