Posted on 04/29/2021 6:48:50 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1972, (former) King Ntare V of Burundi was summarily executed at the outset of the 1972 genocide of ethnic Hutus.
He was the son of Mwambutsa IV, whose half-century reign dated all the way back to the German colonial period which gave way (in 1916) to the Belgian colonial period and finally to independence in 1962. He had a job all the while to manage relations between the majority Hutus and the elite Tutsis: it was this conflict that would write the unpleasant end of this family’s dynasty.
In 1965, a Hutu coup attempt forced Mwambutsa to flee into exile — although the coup did not succeed, and our principal Crown Prince Charles Ndizeye succeeded him as Ntare V. Ntare was all of 18 years old, the only surviving son of his generation but a mere shadow of the half-brother who had seemed destined for this inheritance until an assassin‘s bullet struck him down in 1961. He was not equal to the tumultuous political situation.
Before 1966 was out, Ntare too had been chased into exile by a coup executed by officer-turned-prime minister Michel Micombero — Burundi’s military dictator for the subsequent decade. In 1972, Burundi lured the expatriate prince back to his homeland with a pledge of safekeeping — in the words of the note conveyed to Uganda, whose government arranged to helicopter him back to Burundi...
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I can’t tell a Hutu from a Tutsi, but THEY can..................
Tutsi lives matter.
You have to have a program. You can’t tell the Hutus from the Tutsis without a program.
Obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed if he bought the safekeeping story. Course maybe it was Uganda that wanted out of the middle and sent him back whether he wanted to go or not.
Maybe that’s why American blacks are so violent to each other...... they can’t tell one from the other, either!.........
First, they had government ID Cards giving the designation.
Second, the Hutus did a lot of pre-planning and drew up lists of targets.
Third, it was a lot of Hutu neighbors vs Tutsi neighbor killing in the towns & villages.
Fourth, at the road blocks, it was nothing like a science, lots got killed just by looks.
The Nazi's of Germany would have admired the organization of the Hutus and Joseph Gobbels would have loved the propaganda Hutu radio, Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), messages advocating the massacres; "Someone must…make them disappear for good…to wipe them from human memory…to exterminate the Tutsi from the surface of the earth."
Sounds a lot like Iran talking about Israelis...............
Exactly. When a government records a person’s tribal affiliation, brutality becomes streamlined.
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