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    In the 1970s, President Francisco Macias Nguema of Equatorial

    Guinea felt genocide was the best way to consolidate his power.  He

    established the domination of his tribal group, the Fang, by killing

    50,000 of his countrymen.  A third of the nation's population fled into

    exile.  Many who stayed behind died in forced labor camps.

    Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (a country far to the north of

    Equatorial Guinea), once said, "get rid of the vermin...there is no room

    for half measures."  The vermin he wanted to exterminate were

    primarily members of the Fula tribe, especially those whose last names

    were Barry or Diallo.

    From January, 1971 (when the Moslem military leader Idi Amin

    staged his coup) to 1981, between 100,000 and 300,000 black Ugandans

    were executed.  The majority of those who died were members of the

    Acholi and Langi tribes who had supported Amin's predecessor,

    President Milton Obote. The heads of black Ugandans were beaten in

    with hammers, their legs were chopped off, and they were forced to eat

    the flesh of their fellow prisoners before they were put to death.  To

    picture the nature of the event, imagine that when Bill Clinton won the

    presidency from George Bush in 1982, Clinton's followers had

    cemented their power by torturing and murdering registered

    Republicans.  In an ominous echo of Adolph Hitler's genocidal

    rhetoric, a former Ugandan civil servant explained that President Amin

    was simply pursuing a "final solution"  to the "Acholi and Langi

    problem."

    But Idi Amin was not just one isolated madman in an otherwise

    peaceful country.  When the bloodthirsty leader was deposed and

    Milton Obote returned to power, the newly restored president

    continued Amin's policy of slaughter.  Obote killed 100,000 more Black

    Ugandans.  He simply did it with less press coverage.

    Africanologist Ken C. Kotecha, in his book African Politics, calls

    the atrocities afflicting the continent, "a policy of annihilation."93  And

    that policy was rampant in the '90s in countries from Liberia to

    Somalia, the Sudan and Mozambique.

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