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...area fell under the control of the Pathet Lao and a small number of North Vietnamese army troops and advisers. For the next 5 ½years U.S. airpower bore down on the Plain of Jars, ostensibly to support the efforts of CIA-backed Meo tribesmen to recapture the province. Bombers flew daily and sometimes hourly attack sorties, a total of 25,000 missions, dropping an estimated 75,000 tons of napalm, white phosphorus, antipersonnel bombs and high explosives-more than a ton for every Pathet Lao guerrilla, NVA soldier and civilian in the area. The bombing was intended to harass...
Black Crows. Such testimony firmly establishes that of all the warring forces that raged around them - from al Pathet Laotian Lao to Army Meo regulars - tribesmen the and Roy peasants of the Plain of Jars most hated and feared the "black crows...
...civil war in the tiny central African republic of Burundi ended more than a month ago; but the systematic murder of the Hutu tribesmen, who account for 85% of the country's 4,000,000 people, continues. In a sense, it is double genocide: the approximately 2,000 Hutu rebels who briefly proclaimed an independent republic a month ago had set out to murder their overlords of the Tutsi tribe. The Tutsi-dominated army quickly put down the revolt (TIME, May 22). Ever since, it has been attempting to destroy the Hutu to such an extent that they...
Such are the scenes of genocide in Burundi, where the Hutu tribal majority revolted last month against their traditional overlords, the Tutsi tribesmen,* and the Tutsi-controlled government of President Michel Micombero (TIME, May 22). The revolt was put down after two weeks of fighting, but not before tens of thousands of Tutsis had been slain. In the town of Nyanza-Lac alone, a single Catholic priest presided over the mass burial of 15,000 Tutsis...
During the recent North Vietnamese advance on Kontum, two American Army advisers were ordered to pull out of nearby Fire Base 5, even though it had not been directly attacked. They simply left behind the base's garrison of 130 Montagnard tribesmen, who have long been among the hardiest and most determined troops on the allied side...