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...land of my fathers and my people," wrote Sir Edward ("King Freddie") Mutesa II in 1966, shortly after he escaped to a London exile. His land was Uganda (pop. 10 million), of which he was the first President, and his people were the 3,000,000 Baganda tribesmen, of whom he was the last Kabaka (King...
...herbicides in Vietnam to destroy crops has the secondary effect of creating refugees-displacing the people whose lives depended on the crops as a food source. Most of the crop destruction has been in the Central Highlands, where the population is largely Montagnard tribesmen, an ethnic minority in Vietnam. The crop spraying has a catastrophic impact on the Montagnard people; the story that follows tells of the Song Re valley in Quang Nai province, a highland valley Meselson's group looked at closely...
SQUEEZE LAOS in its more populous western provinces. Communist forces mounted an offensive on the Plain of Jars more than two weeks ago, began to surround Luangprabang, the royal capital, and maintained pressure on Sam Thong and Long Cheng, headquarters of the CIA-backed army of Meo tribesmen...
Perhaps he has trouble inspiring his soldiers Ironically, these tribesmen-the Meo-occupy a place in the hearts of their Laotion countrymen similar to the place in the hearts of white Americans occupied by the black and brown men who do so much of their country's fighting...
This is not to say that all Laotian generals are so corrupt and hypocritical. Some of them are quite fired up about "following orders" and contributing to the genocide of their countrymen. One has been faithfully utilizing CIA funds and personnel for eight years, training tribesmen to fight other tribesmen trained by the North Vietnamese...