Hutu
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Sep 14, 2026
Sanny NtayombyaHOST
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Sanny NtayombyaHOST
the Hutu, the Tutsi, and the Twa.
Fred Gateretse-NgogaGUEST
We also have a Baganga, by the way.
Sanny NtayombyaHOST
A Baganga, yes.
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Fred Gateretse-NgogaGUEST
They, they, they, they are, they are the ones who were screaming.
Fred Gateretse-NgogaGUEST
In 1988 in Burundi, I was young.
Fred Gateretse-NgogaGUEST
I, I remember a letter of some Hutu intellectuals writing to President Buyoya saying that there is discrimination in the country.
Fred Gateretse-NgogaGUEST
A- and, and there is nothing wrong in saying that, that this is wrong, let's address the issue.
Dru JohnsonHOST
Mm-hmm
Austin KnuppeGUEST
... and history is not the past, okay? So I, I took students last, uh, July 2026 to the genocide memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, and the state narrative around the genocide was this was the Hutu genocide against the Tutsi people, right? They said, well, there were some good Hutu, some, um, that resisted, just like there's some Germans that resisted the Nazis.
Dru JohnsonHOST
Mm-hmm.
Austin KnuppeGUEST
But by and large, this is the official narrative and, and by the way, the Rwandan Patriotic Front that liberated the country is remarkable in that they didn't engage in retributory violence.
speaker_1HOST
Right.
speaker_0HOST
And just for clarity, the FDLR is a separate Hutu led rebel group.
speaker_0HOST
But I mean, from an objective standpoint, how is Rwanda dictating security operations inside the DRC?
speaker_1HOST
Well, it comes down to perceived existential threats.
Bob MillsGUEST
One, which is, uh, a, a telegram that was sent to the State Department from the O- from the White House, presumably from the, uh, president chief of staff saying, uh, "Urgent, please advise.
Bob MillsGUEST
Is it Hutu and Tutsi or Hutsi and Tutu?"
Chris ScullHOST
[laughs]
Bob MillsGUEST
Because that's how, you know, weird it was to them.
PropagandaHOST
I cite the Rwandan genocide.
PropagandaHOST
These tribes, the two tribes that were, they were set up by the colonizer, the Hutu, like those were, you guys are this, you guys are this, you're in charge.
PropagandaHOST
Like, it's just, it is a Well-known tactic.
PropagandaHOST
I don't know if the organizers, the city planners of our city were that strategic, but more NIMBYs.
Emma DayGUEST
And this was partly through radio broadcasts.
Emma DayGUEST
And on the radio, they'd been stoking fear between two groups, the Hutus and Tutsis.
Emma DayGUEST
And once the genocide was underway, people were stopped at checkpoints and And they had to show a national ID card that recorded which group they belonged to, Hutu or Tutsi.
Emma DayGUEST
And that's really all it took.
Adam de PicotGUEST
What I think I've come to appreciate a lot since is that the Belge really put in this ethnic hierarchy.
Adam de PicotGUEST
where different groups, the Hutus and the Tutsis, were given certain, well, the Tutsis were given certain privileges because they were better, well, there were considerations of them being better operators of land, and as such, the Belge wanted to work more with them, and so they gave them a higher social class.
Adam de PicotGUEST
This led to a situation that, over a period of 60 years, boiled up into what ended essentially was culminating in a pre-civil war and then it was obviously kicked off when the uh the Hutu president of the day was killed with the Burundi president flying into Kigali um I think on the earlier early April 1994 which then incensed the Hutus as once again okay the Tutsis are trying to dismantle our power after having fought so long to be in it sorry, digressing here, but the whole point was I look back and I say, okay, it's hard to have one bold example to say where Europe has been an effective player in some of these sort of colonial history.
Adam de PicotGUEST
I think overall it's obviously, as history shows, there's been, I think, mixed responses to, I think... where some of these states now lie.
Adam de PicotGUEST
If you look what happened in the, I was in Liberia and Sierra Leone, these parts of the world in the 1990s had once again crazy civil wars.
NellaHOST
Not only would or could confession telling the truth and showing remorse help reduce a perpetrator's sentence, It had the effect of helping all of them heal, and obviously, especially the victims and the victims' families.
NellaHOST
There was also a movement called I Am Rwandan, which basically tried to remove discussions of Hutus and Tutsis from public discourse.
NellaHOST
The aim was a shared Rwandan identity over a divisive, more tribal one.
NellaHOST
The movement of I Am Rwandan and Gacaca and generally the movement of forgiveness and reconciliation has had enormous success, according to everyone I've spoken with about it.
PukeHOST
Kenya doesn't exist anymore.
BrettHOST
Who are the Hutus and the Tutsis? That's Ethiopia.
PukeHOST
Kenya's
BrettHOST
right
BrettHOST
Yeah.
BrettHOST
Oh, Rwanda.
BrettHOST
That's where the Hutus and the
PukeHOST
Tutsis were.
Wale BakareGUEST
He has been able to stabilize the country.
Wale BakareGUEST
He has been able to ensure that the three tribes, the Twa, the Hutus, and the Hutus are...
Wale BakareGUEST
Stepping down to say, okay, yes, develop this country.
Wale BakareGUEST
It's time to develop.
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