Prior to the Belgian colonization of Burundi-Rwanda, the designation "Tutsi" was that of a class of people...similar to an upper class, however they still retained the same cultural consciousness as everyone else and considered themselves the same culture as everyone else. This all changed with the racial supremacy theories of the Belgians... under them, the Tutsis were pronounced a "race" which is superior to the common masses--labelled HUTU. From here, the germ of ethnic strife was to fester.
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Originally posted by Fletch XXX
The closer to the real target you get the more chaotic things become.
'An estimated 300,000 people have been killed in Burundi's decade-old civil war, in which rebels of the majority Hutu ethnic group are fighting to end the political dominance of the Tutsi minority.'
http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/s...n_wi re_story
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