Promoting endogamy during the Rwandan Civil War

[Suge Shot Me]

The following is from the "Hutu Ten Commandments", published in Kangura, a Hutu nationalist newspaper, in 1990:

Hutu Ten Commandments - Wikipedia

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1. Every Hutu should know that a Tutsi woman, whoever she is, works for the interest of her Tutsi ethnic group. As a result, we shall consider a traitor any Hutu who

• marries a Tutsi woman
• employs a Tutsi woman as a concubine
• employs a Tutsi woman as a secretary or takes her under protection.

2. Every Hutu should know that our Hutu daughters are more suitable and conscientious in their role as woman, wife, and mother of the family. Are they not beautiful, good secretaries and more honest?

3. Hutu women, be vigilant and try to bring your husbands, brothers, and sons back to reason.

4. Every Hutu should know that every Tutsi is dishonest in business. His only aim is the supremacy of his ethnic group. As a result, any Hutu who does the following is a traitor:

• makes a partnership with Tutsi in business
• invests his money or the government's money in a Tutsi enterprise
• lends or borrows money from a Tutsi
• gives favors to Tutsi in business (obtaining import licenses, bank loans, construction sites, public markets, etc.).

5. All strategic positions, political, administrative, economic, military and security should be entrusted only to Hutu.

6. The education sector (school pupils, students, teachers) must be majority Hutu.

7. The Rwandan Armed Forces should be exclusively Hutu. The experience of the October 1990 war has taught us a lesson. No member of the military shall marry a Tutsi.

8. The Hutu should stop having mercy on the Tutsi.

9. The Hutu, wherever they are, must have unity and solidarity and be concerned with the fate of their Hutu brothers.

• The Hutu inside and outside Rwanda must constantly look for friends and allies for the Hutu cause, starting with their Hutu brothers.
• They must constantly counteract Tutsi propaganda.
• The Hutu must be firm and vigilant against their common Tutsi enemy.

10. The Social Revolution of 1959, the Referendum of 1961, and the Hutu Ideology, must be taught to every Hutu at every level. Every Hutu must spread this ideology widely. Any Hutu who persecutes his brother Hutu for having read, spread, and taught this ideology is a traitor.[1][6]

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Nasty work

 

[MikelArteta]

Was crazy and crazy you go to Rwanda Hutus make up 90 percent of the population. Tons of folks who did horrible things are still alive and living and working .

 

[JadeB]

That was a shameful part of history

 

[invalid]

Weren't the Tutsis viewed as being higher status? I think I heard that according to their history, their ancestors migrated out of Ancient Egypt.

 

[Zime]

Tutsi are like the Jews of Africa. They ended up losing a lot of people but somehow managed to come out on top, and they run Rwanda now.

Ugandan president is also a Tutsi.

 

[88m3]

tough read

smh

 

[Premeditated]

Weren't the Tutsis viewed as being higher status? I think I heard that according to their history, their ancestors migrated out of Ancient Egypt.

they still are, they run the military, politics and media, despite being only 8-14 percent of the population

it's a reason why all their pageant winners have been Tutsis

but no, they are not from ancient egypt. part of their ancestry is southern cushyte from like Ethiopia. they traveled to modern day Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and mixed with the local "bantu" population

 

[Jean Jacket]

they still are, they run the military, politics and media, despite being only 8-14 percent of the population

it's a reason why all their pageant winners have been Tutsis

Somebody made a comment how the Tutsis have more beautiful women.

Is there truth to this?

 

[Premeditated]

Somebody made a comment how the Tutsis have more beautiful women.

Is there truth to this?

i don't know,

more beautiful compared to whom?

I'm not Rwandan. this is pretty subjective.

 

[3rdWorld]

The issue was the Hutu or Tutsi were considered to be of foreign or Arab stock from Somalia or something. Hence them being called the 'tall trees' that needed to be chopped down.
Sad state of affairs. Thankfully it was so bad everyone decided to bury the hatchet and move on.

 

[MikelArteta]

Somebody made a comment how the Tutsis have more beautiful women.

Is there truth to this?

Nah they don't

 

[MikelArteta]

The issue was the Hutu or Tutsi were considered to be of foreign or Arab stock from Somalia or something. Hence them being called the 'tall trees' that needed to be chopped down.
Sad state of affairs. Thankfully it was so bad everyone decided to bury the hatchet and move on.

Move on?

Look what Rwanda is doing to congo

 

[Wiseborn]

Was crazy and crazy you go to Rwanda Hutus make up 90 percent of the population. Tons of folks who did horrible things are still alive and living and working .

Now they are 90%??? I thought they all moved to the congo.

 

[MikelArteta]

Now they are 90%??? I thought they all moved to the congo.

Nope they are still 90 percent

There are only like 3.5 million Tutsis in the whole world