#hutu

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Rwandan Hutu refugees waiting for medical attention, Benaco, Tanzania, Gilles Peress, 1994

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Hutu Militia. Goma. DRC

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La Miséricorde de la Jungle [The Mercy of the Jungle] (Joël Karekezi, 2018)

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Mutilated By The Hutu 'Interahamwe' World Press Photo of the Year, prize singles

1994

Commissioned by: Magnum Photos for Time

Photo Credit: James Nachtwey

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Where do East African come from originally?

East Africa is a huge and highly diverse region of Africa.Kushites, Hamitic people, have always lived in East Africa. The Horn of Africa is also known as the Hamitic Homeland. Punt, present day Somalia, was known as the Land of the Gods or the Divine Land by ancient Egyptians. Nilotes have always lived in East Africa. They are indigenous people of the River Nile Valley. They are called Nilotes in order to stress that they have always been tied to the River Nile. Eastern Bantu people who are macro-linguistic group not a racial or ethnic group have various origins. Bantu speakers from the Great Lakes Region (Hima, Tutsi, Baganda) say that they migrated from Egypt (Misiri). Other Bantu speakers who are found in southern Somalia say that they have always lived there (the equatorial forest of Somalia). Somalia is also an Equatorial country. Hadza people of Tanzania, who were previously classified as KhoiSan people because they also use clicks are now regarded as an isolate group of people. They are a minority group of less than 5 000 people.

The Hadza, or Hadzabe, are a Tanzanian indigenous ethnic group mostly based in southwest Karatu District of Arusha Region. They live around Lake Eyasi in the central Rift Valley and in the neighboring Serengeti Plateau. There are, as of 2015, between 1,200 and 1,300 Hadza people living in Tanzania, however only around 400 Hadza still survive exclusively based on the traditional means of foraging.[1][5] Additionally, the increasing impact of tourism and encroaching pastoralists pose serious threats to the continuation of their traditional way of life.

Genetically, the Hadza are not closely related to any other people. Once classified among the Khoisan languages, primarily because it has clicks, the Hadza language (Hadzane) is actually thought to be an isolate, unrelated to any other.

The 18 countries of East Africa

East Africa is the most populous subregion of Africa, with a population of approximately 455 million people.

There are 18 countries and 2 dependencies in East Africa.

The Swahili language is widely used as a means of communication in several East African countries.

East Africa has some of the world's fastest growing economies, including Ethiopia, Rwanda, Tanzania, and South Sudan.

Most of East Africa's people practice either Christianity or Islam.

East Africa is a subregion of the continent of Africa, according to the United Nations Geoscheme. It consists of 18 countries and 2 dependencies. The subregion stretches from Eritrea in the north to Mozambique in the south. Off the coast of East Africa is the Indian Ocean. Middle Africa lies to the west of East Africa, while Southern Africa is situated to the southwest. The border between East Africa and North Africa consists of the borders separating the North African country of Sudan from the East African countries of South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. Three of East Africa’s countries, Mauritius, Madagascar, and the Seychelles, are island countries, as are the French dependencies of Mayotte and Reunion. Seven of East Africa’s countries are landlocked countries.

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Of the estimated 1.369 billion people who live on the African continent, 455 million live in East Africa, making it the most populous subregion of the continent. Most of East Africa’s population, nearly 70%, lives in rural areas, though the subregion does have several large cities with populations of in excess of 1 million. All but one of East Africa’s largest cities are national capitals. Mogadishu, for example, is the capital of Somalia, and has a population of approximately 2.1 million people. Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, has an estimated population of 3.5 million people. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, has about 3.4 million people. The most populous city in East Africa is the city of Dar El Salaam, located on the east coast of Tanzania. It used to be Tanzania’s capital, though that honor now belongs to Dodoma, a city located in Tanzania’s interior

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Ethnic Groups

Like most of Africa, East Africa is multiethnic, multicultural, multilingual, and multi-religious. There are very few countries in the subregion in which one ethnic group is the majority. The exceptions are Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, Rwanda, and Burundi. Somalis make up the majority of the population in both Somalia and Djibouti, though the Somalis are divided up into several clans, and disagreements among these clans have historically led to violence and bloodshed. In Eritrea, the Tigrinya make up 55% of the country’s population. Both Rwanda and Burundi have Hutu majorities.

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Barringtonia asiatica: est un arbre et appartenant à la famille des Lecythidaceae. Il est également appelé Badamier de l'Inde, Bonnet carré, Bonnet de prêtre ou Bonnet d'évêque. En Polynésie, cet arbre se nomme Hutu

Source: wikipédia

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Hutu dancer, Burundi, by Belan group

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Rwandan genocide

The 1994 Rwandan genocide was another disappointing case of how toxic tribalism can lead to death of many citizens by the hand of their fellow countrymen. During this genocide the Hutu tribe massacred people from the Tutsi tribe and in just 100 days about 800,00 people were slaughtered.

Lists of government opponents were handed out to militias who went and killed them, along with all of their families. Neighbors killed neighbors and some husbands even killed their Tutsi wives. Thousands of Tutsi women were also taken away and kept as sex slaves. Tutsi citizens were quite literally butchered as many were murdered by the "weapon of choice" which was a machete.

The western world had turned there back on the Tutsi as the UN and Belgium had forces in Rwanda but the UN mission was not given a mandate to stop the killing. A year after US troops were killed in Somalia, the US was determined not to get involved in another African conflict. The Belgians and most UN peacekeepers pulled out after 10 Belgian soldiers were killed. The French, who were allies of the Hutu government, sent a special force to evacuate their citizens and later set up a supposedly safe zone but were accused of not doing enough to stop the slaughter in that area.

The story of the Rwandan genocide was perfectly depicted in the movie (Hotel Rwanda-2004).

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Genocidio de Ruanda

El genocidio de Ruanda de el año 1994, fue otro caso decepcionante de como el tribalismo tóxico puede llevar a la muerte de muchos ciudadanos a manos de sus compatriotas. Durante este genocidio, la tribu Hutu masacró a las personas de la tribu Tutsi y en tan solo cien días, alrededor de ochocientas mil personas fueron masacradas.

A las milicias se les entregaron listas de los opositores del gobierno, fueron y los mataron junto con todos sus familiares. Habían vecinos que mataban a sus vecinos, y algunos esposos mataban a sus esposas Tutsi. Miles de mujeres Tutsi fueron secuestradas y las mantenían como esclavas sexuales. Los Tutsi fueron masacrados, muchos fueron asesinados con un “arma de preferencia”, la cual era un machete.

El mundo occidental le había dado la espalda a los Tutsi, ya que la ONU y Bélgica tenían tropas en Ruanda, pero la misión de la ONU no recibió mandato para detener las matanzas. Un año después de que las tropas estadunidenses murieran en Somalia, Estados Unidos estaba decidido a no involucrarse en otro conflicto africano. Los belgas y la mayoría de los conciliadores de la ONU se retiraron después de la muerte de diez soldados belgas. Los franceses que eran aliados del gobierno Hutu, enviaron a una fuerza especial para evacuar a sus ciudadanos y luego establecieron una zona “supuestamente segura”, pero fueron acusados de no hacer lo suficiente para detener las matanzas en la zona.

La historia del genocidio de Ruanda quedó perfectamente representada en la película (Hotel Ruanda-2004).