Tutsi and Hutu
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Topic: Tutsi and Hutu
Posted By: Jay.
Subject: Tutsi and Hutu
Date Posted: 26-Nov-2005 at 12:51
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Which do you think were more agressive and powerful? The Hutu or Tutsi? ------------- Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava Only Unity Can Save the Serb |
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Posted By: Jhangora
Date Posted: 26-Nov-2005 at 13:07
N what was/is their religion.N is that their own religion or imposed by others. What I know is that the Guiness book of world record states one of these tribes has the highest average height in the world along with serbs/croats.N that women in Rwanda/Burundi have the highest birth rate.Average over 6 babies per woman {correct me if I am wrong}. -------------  Jai Badri Vishal
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Posted By: Maju
Date Posted: 27-Nov-2005 at 08:39
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Hutus (Bahutu) belong to the greater Bantu macro-ethnicity, that
migrated from Central Africa (Cameroon?) more than 1,000 years ago,
with the arrival of iron tech, colonizing both the Congo jungle and
most of Eastern and Southern Africa. They are about 85% of Rwanda and
Burundi peoples and they are basically peasants. Tutsis (Batutsi) belong to the Nilotic macro-ethnicity that came from somewhere near Sudan originally. They are a lot taller than Hutus and they are basically cattle-herders. They are also spread in Uganda and Ethiopia among other Eastern African countries. Before the arrival of Bantus and Nilotics, the region was inhabited by Pigmy Twa peoples, now just a tiny minority. I'm unsure about what roles both ethnicities played in the precolonial states but a dominance of the Tutsi minority seems rather clear. This aristocratic role was favored by colonial authorities in the typical policy of divide et vince. Yet, in Rwanda, the last Tutsi king fled in 1959 and Hutus held since then the power, due to being wide majority. Only in 1990, the Tutsi Rwandese Patriotic Front, supported by Uganda and Burundi, started to reverse the situation, leading to the civil war and the subsequent genocide. Burundi instead, despite the downfall of monarchy in 1966, was kept under Tutsi hegemony by a series of dictators. In 1993, Burundi finally held elections, won by the Hutu Front for Democracy in Burundi. Yet soon a civil war started as well. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwanda http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burundi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutu - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutsi - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutsi ------------- 
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Posted By: Jay.
Date Posted: 29-Nov-2005 at 16:18
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The Hutu and Tutsi were serperated by their nose shape, and the colour of their skin. (i.e. The Hutu were darker and had wider noses). At least that's what I've read. ------------- Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava Only Unity Can Save the Serb |
Posted By: JanusRook
Date Posted: 03-Dec-2005 at 15:44
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Just watch the movie "Hotel Rwanda" in it they have a scene that talks about the differences between Hutus and Tutsis, also I would suggest listening to the commentary. ------------- Economic Communist, Political Progressive, Social Conservative. Unless otherwise noted source is wiki. |
Posted By: Jay.
Date Posted: 05-Dec-2005 at 18:01
Yeah, I saw that movie, pretty good  ------------- Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava Only Unity Can Save the Serb |