| “ | Cut down the tall trees! | „ |
| ~ A common Hutu Power rallying cry. |
Hutu Power is a racist and ethnic Tribal Supremacist ideology widely practiced by Hutu extremists and terrorists in various Central African countries, most notably Rwanda. The ideology pushes for the advancement of Hutu people, and the ethnic cleansing of Tutsis. The ideology was widely infamous after the Rwandan Genocide was initiated. It is the central ideology of terrorist factions like the Interahamwe and Impuzamugambi militias.
The ideology is defined by the Hutu Ten Commandments published in the December 1990 issue of Kangura magazine. They forbid Hutus to intermarry with Tutsis or do business with them, and call for Hutu dominance(reflecting Rwanda's demographics; Hutus are the majority) in the education system and economy. In addition, they demand that the military be exclusively Hutu, and call on every Hutu to unite against the Tutsi "enemy".
While there was a party dedicated to Hutu Power called the Coalition for the Defence of the Republic, most other major parties had a "Power" faction that supported the Hutu Ten Commandments in addition to their main ideology.
The Hutu Ten Commandments edit
- Every Hutu should know that a Tutsi woman, whoever she is, works for the interest of her Tutsi ethnic group. As a result, we shall consider a traitor any Hutu who:
- marries a Tutsi woman
- employs a Tutsi woman as a concubine
- employs a Tutsi woman as a secretary or takes her under protection.
- Every Hutu should know that our Hutu daughters are more suitable and conscientious in their role as woman, wife, and mother of the family. Are they not beautiful, good secretaries and more honest?
- Hutu women, be vigilant and try to bring your husbands, brothers, and sons back to reason.
- Every Hutu should know that every Tutsi is dishonest in business. His only aim is the supremacy of his ethnic group. As a result, any Hutu who does the following is a traitor:
- makes a partnership with Tutsi in business
- invests his money or the government's money in a Tutsi enterpriselends or borrows money from a Tutsi
- gives favors to Tutsi in business (obtaining import licenses, bank loans, construction sites, public markets, etc.).
- All strategic positions, political, administrative, economic, military and security should be entrusted only to Hutu.
- The education sector (school pupils, students, teachers) must be majority Hutu.
- The Rwandan Armed Forces should be exclusively Hutu. The experience of the October 1990 war has taught us a lesson. No member of the military shall marry a Tutsi.
- The Hutu should stop having mercy on the Tutsi.
- The Hutu, wherever they are, must have unity and solidarity and be concerned with the fate of their Hutu brothers. The Hutu inside and outside Rwanda must constantly look for friends and allies for the Hutu cause, starting with their Hutu brothers. They must constantly counteract Tutsi propaganda. The Hutu must be firm and vigilant against their common Tutsi enemy.
- The Social Revolution of 1959, the Referendum of 1961, and the Hutu Ideology, must be taught to every Hutu at every level. Every Hutu must spread this ideology widely. Any Hutu who persecutes his brother Hutu for having read, spread, and taught this ideology is a traitor.