Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Golden Book. Led by Peking-trained Pierre Mulele, 34, Education Minister under the late leftist Premier Patrice Lumumba, the rebels-who call themselves the Jeunesse (youth), though many are over 50-count only a few hundred hard-core Reds. But they have incited thousands of local tribesmen to rise against the "profiteers of independence," as Mulele has labeled Premier Cyrille Adoula's government. The terrorists operate along classic Mao Tse-tung guerrilla lines, spout an unmistakable doctrine. For example, their interpretation of the United States AID agency's clasped-hands symbol is that the U.S. is "pulling...
...weak is the Congolese control of its borders that last week 3,000 spear-wielding Watutsi tribesmen exiled in the Congo's eastern reaches mounted an attack on their neighboring homeland, Rwanda, out of revenge for the recent genocidal slaughter there of thousands of Watutsi by the ruling Bahutu tribe. They were driven back by the Belgian-officered Rwanda army at a cost of 300 Watutsi dead...
...Watutsi tribesmen vowed revenge. Bands of night-time raiders called inyenzi ("cockroaches") began attacking Bahutu villages. The week before Christmas, thousands of Watutsi refugees suddenly invaded Rwanda from three countries. Although they advanced to within a few miles of the Rwanda capital, Kigala, the Watutsi were finally repulsed in a bloody battle...
Protected by the amnesty Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta had extended to all Mau Maus, Baimungi's men began by lopping off the ears of an African cop. Then they turned to the local Meru tribesmen, carrying off more than 50 men and women to their four forest camps. Baimungi's men administered oaths of allegiance to the new Kenyan flag - and charged their victims a month's wages for the privilege of swearing them. Women were treated to haircuts by barbarous barbers wielding razor-sharp, 18-inch pangas, then were summarily stripped and raped. The men were...
...Tuaregs twist the usual Islamic custom by insisting that their men go veiled while the women's faces remain bare. It is not a bad idea, since most Tuareg women are handsome-at least before marriage. Obesity is a sign of beauty among the Tuaregs, and many tribesmen force-feed their wives on macaroni and goat's milk just as the people of Strasbourg stuff their geese...