Bahutu Manifesto

The Bahutu Manifest (French: Manifeste des Bahutu) was a document composed by nine Rwandan Hutu intellectuals on 24 March 1957 for submission to the Governor of Ruanda-Urundi. Its full title was Note on the social aspect of the native racial problem in Rwanda (Note sur l'aspect social du problème racial indigène au Rwanda) and was ten pages in length. It denounced the supposed exploitation of the Hutus by the ethnic Tutsi.

This document called for a double liberation of the Hutu people, first from the race of white colonials, and second from the race of Hamitic oppressors, the Tutsi. The document in many ways established the future tone of the Hutu nationalist movement by identifying the "indigenous racial problem" of Rwanda as the social, political, and economic "monopoly which is held by one race, the Tutsi."[1]

Notes
  1. Mamdani, Mahmood. When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda, Princeton University Press, 2001, pp. 43-44.

Further reading
  • Samuel Totten, Paul Robert Bartrop et Steven L. Jacobs, "Bahutu Manifesto", in Dictionary of Genocide: A-L, ABC-CLIO, 2008, pp. 33-34. 9780313346422
  • Saur, Léon (2009). "La frontière ethnique comme outil de conquête du pouvoir: le cas du Parmehutu". Journal of Eastern African Studies. 3 (2): 303–316. doi:10.1080/17531050902972956.
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