BURUNDI: TENSION BETWEEN TUTSIS AND HUTUS

(21 Dec 1994) Eng/French/Nat
Mounting tension between Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi is threatening to plunge the small East African nation into a Rwanda-style civil war.
At least five people were reported killed after clashes broke out in the capital Bujumbura yesterday. But in the countryside, thousands have already fled for their lives as the rival ethnic groups vie for political power.
APTV has this special report .
In the squalor of this refugee camp more than 13-thousand Burundi Tutsi have found shelter from the violence which threatens to engulf this small East African nation.
With plastic sheeting provided by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (U-N-H-C-R), these Tutsis near Ngozi in northern Burundi have built shelters to ward off the cold and wet of the rainy season.
Chased from their small homesteads in the hills, the Tutsis survive on international food aid.
As in Rwanda, the Tutsis are the minority. But in Burundi they have long dominated the government and the army. That grip on power was broken when a Hutu president was elected in the country's first democratic elections.
But in October 1993, President Melchior Ndadaye was assassinated during an attempted coup by Tutsi soldiers. Enraged Hutus went on a killing spree, triggering retaliation by Tutsis and the army. Sporadic clashes have occurred ever since.
In the hills the charred ruins of small homesteads can be seen from the road.
The small village of Muhanga was once a thriving community of both Hutus and Tutsis.
Now the ruins stands as testimony to the orgy of violence that has split the country and now threatens to escalate.
It's only in the squalid refugee camps that the Tutsis feel some sort of security from the Hutus.
SOUNDBITE: (French)
"We were chased away by the Hutus for political reasons. There was the assassination of (President) Ndadaye and the Hutus then went and massacred Tutsis."
SUPER CAPTION: Evarist Rurihose, Tutsi refugee
There are countless similar tales of bloodshed and the fear of renewed fighting is ever present.
SOUNDBITE: (Kirundi)
"I tried to go back home after June but they killed more people so I came back here. When the president was killed October last year the killing started and my entire family was murdered. I can't go back"
SUPER CAPTION: Helmenegilde Kirimwinzigo, refugee
What happened in Rwanda is never far from the minds of the people. Less than 10 kilometres away at Magara, the
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[@jbamerican_usnavy]

This conflict goes back to the Europeans who used the divide and conquer tactics to rule and steal African resources. Simply tell one tribe that they're better than the other to create conflict.

[@alexb5812]

It goes further than colonization, it started when Tutsis used to rule certain Hutu villages as feudal lords.

[@tarunshukla163]

​@@gjrocknthedreamteam3065that's no ones fault when people are this much fool to believe 😂😂 others

[@salsal917]

​@@gjrocknthedreamteam3065Not Germany, more like Belgium. They were the ones who intense it.

[@user-im3xt2hf3l]

@@alexb5812 it only goes as far as colonisation because Hutu and Tutsi used to live in peace until the white people came the beligians

[@anthonywest4173]

NO MORE FIGHTING!

[@africanpatriot265]

end this wars go home

[@thadeousturuho9770]

why is media always against HUTUS, when they massacred in Burundi by Tutsi generals , Hutus were then acuused of killing tutis, when Kagamae massacred hutus and followed them in DRCONGO, still hutus were acuused of killings,

[@stevekaufmann8109]

Because the Hutus went a little too far

[@noelashaoona]

I have always thought the same too, they suffer more and nobody talks about it

[@georgemorebags]

They hate Bantu people and support Tutsi because they ain’t Bantu

[@Chika-ff6qs]

@@noelashaoona suffer more ? Did the Tutsi decimate the Hutus ?

[@RR-ri4vn]

Go back to Congo that’s where Bantus belongs

[@umojapress2857]

Kenya, tanzania, congo, and angola should stand with the hutu.

[@kingkamaro9442]

Are you burundian or rwandan?

[@RR-ri4vn]

And the Horn of Africa and the Cushitic people of Kenya and Tanzania must stand with Tutsi

[@umojapress2857]

@@RR-ri4vn Stand with your tutsi roaches so when we grind them again you can bark pan africanism in your deserts 😄

[@RR-ri4vn]

Never 👎🏽 Bantus don’t rule over those countries their also other ethnic groups Bantus are not even the majority in east Africa

[@umojapress2857]

@@RR-ri4vn The unity of the bantu is your worst nightmare 😆 From Central, East to Southern Africa, it all belongs to Bantu. We'll revisit the issue of our brothers in southern somalia and you'll see how it will end up for your starving kind.

[@JodiannWalker77]

We don't know if the real cause of this war between one one ethnic group and the next holding back precious resources, like food or water. We don't know for sure if the air-to-water maker (atmospheric water condenser or atmospheric water generator) which could have solved a problem like that was invented in 1902, 1915, 1862, 1962, 1955, 1975, 1985. We don't know for sure if the sitting presidents during the existence of this machine in the territory of the States, where the machine was invented, were privy to all of this information. We don't even know...we don't even know for sure....

[@Robby818]

This is waste of video change the caption.

[@francoistony5684]

Vive le hutu power

[@1wun1]

Non, vive la paix 🧘‍♂️

[@nkurikiyeserge5143]

Merci beaucoup

[@martinogarcia9762]

Plus personne ne vous laissera jamais refaire ça.

[@semuganzabicusulaiman2353]

Fuck you nigga

[@darttreeks250]

@@semuganzabicusulaiman2353 fuck you shit