TUTSI ARMY AIMS TO MAKE A MINORITY LOOK LIKE MAJORITY AFTER TAKEOVER, THE HOPE IS THAT BURUNDI'S HUTUS WON'T NOTICE THEIR OWN STRENGTH.(News/National/International)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | July 27, 1996 | Copyright

Byline: Nicholas Kotch Reuter

NAIROBI, Kenya -- The army that seized power in Burundi this week is a highly motivated ethnic corps whose central, if unstated, mission is to protect the Tutsi minority from annihilation.

``Don't think of it as a typical army,'' a Tutsi journalist in Bujumbura said recently. ``Think of it as the Tutsi Extermination Deterrent Force.''

The defensive spirit that has pervaded the army for decades was strengthened when extremist Hutus in power in neighboring Rwanda carried out a systematic genocide of Tutsis and moderate ...

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