Word: watutsis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the Geneva headquarters of the International Commission of Jurists last week came a bitter indictment of justice, Burundi-style. The jurists charge that in the aftermath of last October's unsuccessful uprising by the underdog Bahutu tribe against the Watutsi monarchy, no less than 86 Bahutus, including all of the elected officers of both houses of Parliament, were executed without even the semblance of a fair trial...
...King of Burundi, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, does not take kindly to rebels. Fortnight ago, after crushing attempts to overthrow the Watutsi monarchy and kill him and his Prime Minister, the Mwami had 34 of the conspirators-all members of the Bahutu tribe-marched into the sport stadium and executed by a firing squad (TIME, Oct. 29). Another batch of Bahutu politicians was hustled off to jail on charges of complicity in the plot. Last week ten of them, including Emile Bucumi, President of the country's National Assembly, and Gervais Nyangoma, former ambassador to the U.N., were also taken...
...base for African subversion until Mwambutsa booted Peking's diplomats out last January (TIME, Jan. 29), international conspiracy apparently had nothing to do with last week's revolt. Instead, it was caused by the same thing that killed the other Premiers-the tribal rivalry between the towering Watutsis and the shorter but far more numerous Bahutus, who for centuries have served the Watutsis as virtual slaves. Fed up, the Bahutus now demand a republic-like the one their fellow tribesmen achieved in neighboring Rwanda after overthrowing a Watutsi king in 1959. But Burundi's Watutsis...
...earlier had ordered the Chinese Communists to leave. The Mwami had ample reason to be angry. No sooner had Peking established a mission in Bujumbura, in January 1964, than Chinese money began to flow into the pockets of Burundi ministers and politicians. The Reds quickly allied themselves with discontented Watutsi refugees from neighboring Rwanda, inflaming their irredentist cause with propaganda and even arms. Chinese sympathizers were soon so numerous in the 64-member National Assembly that they became known locally as "The Group." At one of the Mwami's diplomatic receptions, Ambassador Liu brazenly walked up to the monarch...
Behind his newspaper, the man in the train is having a fight with his face. First his mouth wambles in a wild Watutsi, then it gapes wide in a silent scream. All at once his eyebrows make a break for his brainpan, the tendons of his neck bulge in sudden constriction. Apoplexy? Withdrawal pains? Hangover? Not at all. Only a commuting executive giving himself his morning facial. Back home, blessedly unobserved, his wife is doing the same thing at the bathroom mirror...