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Article: Hutus Suffer From Years of Repression Under Tutsis
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 16, 1994
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To understand how deep the ethnic divide in Burundi has become,
one must delve into the past of this tawny-colored, densely peopled
land astride the crest dividing the watersheds of the Nile and the
Congo.
Like Rwanda - where a bloodbath erupted after the Rwandan head
of state, along with Cyprian Ntaryamira, Burundi's acting president,
were killed in a plane hit by a rocket April 6 - the ethnic mix in
Burundi is 85 percent Hutu, 14 percent Tutsi and 1 percent Twa, or
pygmy.
The Tutsi-Hutu division - the legacy of colonial rule and
long-standing Tutsi economic, social and intellectual dominance -
gave this country a social order that Hutus have no problem labeling
"black apartheid."
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