Desturi

The Desturi are a criminal organization from Marvel comics and one of the main antagonistic forces in the Black Panther comics during the time that the title was being held by Shuri - debuting in the year 2009, making them a modern age threat in Marvel's overall publishing time-line.

History
The Desturi were born of the Wakanda nation, who had began to distance themselves from the traditional isolationist ways of their ancestors to enter the global community - angered at this the Desturi banded together with the goal of returning Wakanda to isolation and killing those they viewed as a threat to their ultra-conservative views : they were also deeply xenophobic and tribal, opposing everything the new leadership of Wakanda stood for.

Despite their violent desires the Desturi mainly worked from the shadows and employed assassins such as Ohyaku and Akeja to perform their misdeeds - despite their xenophobic nature the Desturi were also funded by Doctor Doom, who used them in his own plans of conquest.

Trivia
Desturi comes from the Swahili language and roughly translates into "custom" or "tradition" - a reference to the groups extreme conservative views.